Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 13:24:44 -0400

From: Cathy Ball CBALL%GUVAX.BITNET[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uga.cc.uga.edu

Subject: Re: ISO STANDARDS



Keith - there are lots of linguistics-related mail lists on the

internet!! I can send you a list if you like - it includes LINGUIST,

CORPORA, NL-KR ... Anyhow, a good place to get an answer to your

question would be on the Text Encoding Initiative list (TEI-L), though

questions about language and software will also get responses on

HUMANIST and NL-KR. Let me know if you'd like a list of these with

directions - I can e-mail you a handout I give to the linguistics

students.



-- Cathy Ball (Georgetown)



Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 21:14:13 -0600

From: Dan Goodman dsg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]STAFF.TC.UMN.EDU

Subject: do borders matter?



Most studies of American dialects I've seen assume that the northern ones

stop at the Canadian border. How accurate is this?



Dan Goodman dsg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]staff.tc.umn.edu



Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 20:01:00 -0400

From: "Terry Pratt, UPEI" TPRATT[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UPEI.CA

Subject: Re: do borders matter?



In Atlantic Canada, very accurate.



Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 19:58:00 EDT

From: "James_C.Stalker" STALKER[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MSU.EDU

Subject: corn meal mush



Did any of yall, you guys, youns, yous, depending on where you now live, eat

this particular food, and if so, would you please describe what you ate and

how it was prepared, or as I would say, how it was fixed.



Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 20:01:00 EDT

From: "James_C.Stalker" STALKER[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MSU.EDU

Subject: follow-up to corn meal mush



Sorry, I forgot that not all of you get headers that reveal where the message

originated. I asked about corn meal mush.



JCStalker

stalker[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]msu.edu or stalker[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]msu.bitnet



Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1993 10:05:13 EST

From: "Warren A. Brewer" NCUT054%TWNMOE10.BITNET[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uga.cc.uga.edu

Subject: Corn meal mush



RE: Corn meal mush



Back when my family had meatless Fridays, my mother used to make

a pan of corn bread, which was put in a bowl of warm milk. Itar

seemed somewhat penitential, but mm-mmh-good. I guess it was called

corn meal mush; but for me, that's the only function of corn bread

anyway, so I just call it corn bread.



Warren A. Brewer



Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 21:38:18 -0500

From: Natalie Maynor maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU

Subject: Corn Meal Mush



The question about corn meal mush sounded like a good topic for WORDS-L,

a list always eager to discuss food. So I sent this posting to the list:



Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 19:06:10 -0500

Sender: English Language Discussion Group WORDS-L[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UGA.BITNET

From: Natalie Maynor maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU

Subject: Corn Meal Mush?



Somebody on another list just asked whether anybody was familiar with

corn meal mush. Sounds like a WORDS-L question to me. Are you? I'm

not.

--Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu)





Here's one answer to it, forwarded to ADS-L with permission:



Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 21:35:04 EDT

Sender: English Language Discussion Group WORDS-L[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uga.cc.uga.edu

From: Frank ST403231[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU

Subject: Re: Corn Meal Mush?

To: Multiple recipients of list WORDS-L WORDS-L[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uga.cc.uga.edu



Natalie, I'm surprised. And you call yourself southern? ;-)



My mother (from Florida) fixed me some corn meal mush once or

twice for breakfast. The theory is similar to that of making

grits; you boil the stuff in enough liquid to make a cereal

out of it. Except here the main ingredient is not hominy but

corn meal.



Mom says that you let the leftover corn meal mush sit in the

pan, then slice it into pieces and fry it for the next day's

breakfast. Tried that too.



Of the two cereal products under discussion, Mom and I both

vastly prefer grits. With a little butter and salt. We add

a dash of pepper, too. But butter and salt is the way we

prefer to eat Cream of Wheat as well. (For Carolyn and Akio

and other gleaners, C of W is the name of the most popular

brand of hot cereal made from farina.)



Frank, ersatz Yankee





--Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu)



Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1993 05:43:17 -0500

From: Natalie Maynor maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU

Subject: More Replies re Corn Meal Mush



Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 23:18:24 -0500

Sender: English Language Discussion Group WORDS-L[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uga.cc.uga.edu

From: Doris Smith dorisann[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]TENET.EDU

Subject: Re: Corn Meal Mush?

To: Multiple recipients of list WORDS-L WORDS-L[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uga.cc.uga.edu



[...]

When I was a child and stayed with a great-aunt and g-uncle, my aunt would

many times cook what she called "fried mush" for breakfast. I remember

that she cooked the stuff (looked like grits to me) in a saucepan,

stirring almost constantly. When the stuff in the pan was the consistancy

she wanted it to be, she would pour it into a loaf pan, where it would

stay until the following morning. She would then slice it - about as

thick as a piece of bread - and fry it until it was lightly browned. It

was good eaten "as is" or with syrup or with butter. I've never seen it

anywhere except in my Aunt Catherine's kitchen.

doris



Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1993 04:14:43 GMT

Sender: English Language Discussion Group WORDS-L[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uga.cc.uga.edu

From: Neal Traven traven[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]PITT.EDU

Subject: Re: Corn Meal Mush?

To: Multiple recipients of list WORDS-L WORDS-L[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uga.cc.uga.edu



Frank (ST403231[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU) wrote:



: My mother (from Florida) fixed me some corn meal mush once or

: twice for breakfast. The theory is similar to that of making

: grits; you boil the stuff in enough liquid to make a cereal

: out of it. Except here the main ingredient is not hominy but

: corn meal.



If you want to get real chic , you can call your cornmeal

mush 'polenta.'



: Mom says that you let the leftover corn meal mush sit in the

: pan, then slice it into pieces and fry it for the next day's

: breakfast. Tried that too.



This is done with polenta as well. I like my fried cornmeal mush with

lots of butter and maple syrup. *Real* maple syrup. I like leftover

Cream of Wheat this way also.



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