Pinto ie. SoupBean

I know why the bay leaf, but what about the pepper?

It's nice to hear them called "Soup beans"! I haven't heard that since we moved away from SE Kentucky 8 years ago!

We have always used pepper in our leather britches when we bagged them. Seems to help keep the bugs out. Yep about 20 years ago i was in Columbus Ohio and asked the store clerk to put my beer in a poke, i thought i,d slapped her, she didn't know what a poke was. He! He! All i heard as i left the store was dam hillbillies.

lol, about putting the beer in a poke! I still "pack" my groceries, plug up a cord, have a car that tears up, love shuckey bean, home-grown sorghum, and remember that the four food groups are beans, bacon, lard, and whiskey!

Ya'll sitck around!

And ta think i have a whole passel of kin in NewYork City. The Bronx i reckon even a few in jersey lol! it,s my mom,s side. They are quite a few. Spent two years up there i reckon, glad i was to small to remember that. ;D

Don't feel bad. Most of my kinfolk are in cities too. They think we're "quaint" out here in the sticks, but always say how much they envy us! lol