Posted: 7/14/2014 5:16:43 PM EDT
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| That looks great to me OP. That venison looks cooked perfectly to me (or at least the way I'd like it) and although I'm not an expert on boiled peanuts (ima yankee), the few times have had them, I really enjoyed them. You seem to have everything required and I for one would sit right down to that. Good job! |
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-3 for Vietnamese flag. 7/10 That is the Charleston Custom House Succession flag SC Succession Flags |
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Very good. 9.884/10, no butter on corn.
I have a US flag with a certificate stating the late, Honorable Sen. Strom Thurmond flew it for me for helping out one of his war buddies. I too need to get a display for it as well. Nice work getting the battle flag before we went pc. |
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Looks like you are having dinner in the middle of a yard sale. 3/10 Get Off My Lawn! http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/04/15/article-2604925-038E1555000005DC-58_634x419.jpg |
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-2 for no butter beans and sweet tea. Yea I was expecting some sweet tea from a southerner . I miss the sweet tea was stationed in nc would buy a gallon of it from Smithfields . send some up this way they don't know how to make it up here. 
Looks good op I'll say 8 just for lack of tea and a not into the skulls. |
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OP eats with a deer skull, there is no Mrs OP. Damn fine presentation for a single dude. Good thing Chamberlain held that hill. 8/10 This is GD I choose my words carefully...I know the rules Well played. 
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Agree but this is an Upstate spread... Gonna have to thaw some catches for a low country dinner pic... maybe a future project Quoted:
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Dinner fails without shrimps from a Shem Creek boat. Agree but this is an Upstate spread... Gonna have to thaw some catches for a low country dinner pic... maybe a future project You got to mix it up. SC is small enough to make a shrimp run and be back by supper time. |
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10/10. Looks good all the way around.
I'm not going to subtract anything for lack of syrupy sweet tea simply due to your flag. Had the flag not been there, that's a 5 point deduction right off the bat. As far as boiled peanuts, the best ever were the ones you got at the high school football games in SC and NC in the 50s through the 80s. Now, i never had them in the 50s, likely don't remember them in the 60s, would have been 2 years old, but I remember being knee high to a crippled grasshopper and still crapping in my cloth diapers, and eating them, along with the fresh popped popcorn. They used to boil them at the games. There was a certain company that delivered the peanuts to all the schools in the Carolinas and probably Georgia. They seasoned them, had a recipe and cook times and either leased or sold the equipment to the schools. Everybody had the same two flavors, one plain though it had a little seasoning, and one hot. Sometime on the late 80s or early 90s the schools either quit buying them, quit selling them due to allergies or the company went out of business, but the bags you get now at the games, well, last I went to around 2001 sucked. They started tasting bad in the early 90s if I remember right. There is a lady out my way that does them the same way as the old football game ones. She uses an old recipe and old equipment, like from the 40s , and they are fantastic. You can find them at some of the smaller convenience stores. She delivers them herself. I think she does Lancaster, Rock Hill, Great Falls, a few communities out this way. She has fresh pecans from her pecan trees that she brings in too, shelled and not shelled. She has a ton of trees, gets family and friends to help her with it. |
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I'd LOVE to give this a 10/10, but until your photography skills catch up with your hunting and cooking skills, I'm afraid it's gonna be difficult.
Ahem... Potato pics, -2 Kill & Grill. +1 Flag of some historical distinction, +.5 Best I can do for you is 9.5/10, and that, my friend, is an outstanding score. |
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I miss many things about SC....boiled peanuts are definitely one of those things. The best boiled peanuts always came from the guy on Hwy 11. My brothers had me convinced he seasoned them with possum heads. Yes sir. I know exactly the guy you're talking about, and he's been selling right there for decades. ETA: 10, plus 1 for Upstate SC for 11/10 |