Did we put beans in chili to make it stretch the meal to feed 6?
She looked at me as if I’d just turned into a Martian. Her reply was interesting. We ate beans because your father loved beans. We had so much hamburger we gave it to neighbors. Your grandad would have a steer butchered maybe a roast and a couple steaks and 400# of hamburger in 1-2# packages. His freezer was always full of hamburger and he’d fill a sack for us often. Your dad would eat beans and hamburger or grilled hamburgers every meal. Beans and cornbread. Pintos,Navy,Lima he loved them all.
So I asked why didn’t we smoke. She thought a minute and replied. There wasn’t time. 4 kids, your Dad worked shift work and was finishing his degree.
So there you go. We fried, grilled because of time, and ate beans because Dad liked them. And even though I remember him sleeping in the car with a bottle of maalox, he always had time to take me fishing at Low Water Dam.
She looked at me as if I’d just turned into a Martian. Her reply was interesting. We ate beans because your father loved beans. We had so much hamburger we gave it to neighbors. Your grandad would have a steer butchered maybe a roast and a couple steaks and 400# of hamburger in 1-2# packages. His freezer was always full of hamburger and he’d fill a sack for us often. Your dad would eat beans and hamburger or grilled hamburgers every meal. Beans and cornbread. Pintos,Navy,Lima he loved them all.
So I asked why didn’t we smoke. She thought a minute and replied. There wasn’t time. 4 kids, your Dad worked shift work and was finishing his degree.
So there you go. We fried, grilled because of time, and ate beans because Dad liked them. And even though I remember him sleeping in the car with a bottle of maalox, he always had time to take me fishing at Low Water Dam.