MEMBER BLOG TAG: ruben's
| Tuesday, December 22, 2009 12:08PM | | | | Christmas Means Tamales | Tags: tamale man, food pyramid, Baylor, North Carolina, Floore's Country Store, Ruben's
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Vernon, the county seat, was 12 miles from my father’s farm. In addition to the courthouse, it had 2 or 3 grocery stores, a library, 3 picture shows and “Snuff Street” where men met over and around tobacco products while the kids went to the library and then the picture show and women sat in cars and remarked about women who walked past on the sidewalk.
Whenever we went to Vernon I begged Mother and Dad to buy tamales to take home with us. A tall, slender, elderly African-American made tamales and stood on a street corner and sold them out of a steaming, red and white two-tone, two-wheeled cart. Tamales were my favorite food, even more than my mother’s fried chicken or fried steak... | | | | | |
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