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The Nankipooh Enquirer

The Nankipooh Enquirer "Covers the South like Sorghum Syrup"

P. O. Box 1849

Nankipooh, Georgia

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Editor in Chief: Colonel Bascomb Biggers

Ace Reporter : Scoop Biggers 

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"HOECAKE"

The first time I heard the term "soul food" I had no idea what it was.  Then one day I looked in the window of a soul food cafe, and when I saw the menu, I realized that I had been eatin " soul food" most all of my life.  Old country folks cooking, like what I grew up on, included fried chicken, turnip greens, black-eyed peas and cornbread, and sometimes the cornbread was hoecakes.  Hoecakes is about as Southern, and about as country as you can get. The origin of the name is the method of preparation: field hands often cooked it on a shovel or hoe held to an open flame. Hoes designed for cotton fields were large and flat with a hole for the long handle to slide through; the blade would be removed and placed over a fire much like a griddle."

Now when I was a young man, there was another young man who lived near Nankipooh called "Hoecake".  Now Hoecake was just about the meanest man I had ever known.  Some say he got his nickname because he was tougher than a three day old hoecake.  At any rate I was scared to death of him, and with good cause.  He had at one time cut off a man's nose with a knife for no good reason at all. 

Well there was a time when old Hoecake set his eyes on me and said he was gonna whip me like I ain't never been whipped before.  Well of course I was scared, and did not know what to do.  I had an old 16 gauge shotgun, but it never occurred to me to shoot him, I just hid out every time I saw him coming.  After a couple of months Hoecake found somebody else to be mad at, and he never bothered me again.

Now some may say I was a coward, but I knew I couldn't whip him, and I was not goin to shoot him, so the best plan seemed to be, not to be around where ever he was.  It seems like there is a lot of folks who would rather shoot than wait it out, but I don't think that's a very good policy, even for a country to follow.  By the way, last time I heard of Hoecake, he was in federal prison for bank robbery.

BASCOMB BIGGERS FOR PRESIDENT

 PLATFORM PLANK #9-Make Fried Catfish the National Dinner

 

 

"Now, that's the way I see it, and you can tell'um I said so!" 

 

Bascomb Biggers

 

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