Serious Sport (High school football!)

[Ted Samsel]

Sport from my youth!

> 
> >If you want to be really authentic and dine on Frito Pie a la Friday Night 
> >High School Football Game (which does not, I must say, sound the least bit 
> >appetizing), you should serve the whole thing in the frito bag.  That is, 
> >split the bag down the side, ladle canned chili onto the chips, garnish with 
> >grated cheese.  And it MUST MUST MUST be washed down with Dr Pepper.  
> 
>      I don't think it's heretical to drink a CoCola with Frito Pie, amanda. 
>  However, you done gone and left out about the chopped raw onions, that 
> make sure you have a half-a-roll-of-Tums case a heartburn afterward.  And 
> it's even better if you eat it while sittin' on splintery wood bleachers in 
> a football stadium in the beginning of November, with a blue norther 
> howlin' down the neck of yer coat and tryin' to take yer hat off and send 
> it on to the next county.

> 
> >we make it with Wolf brand Chile.   served over corn chips, shredded
> >cheese and onions.  I guess one can make the chile from scratch, but I'd
> >rather eat homemade chile by itself without the chips and cheese.    The
> >kind of frito pies made at county fairs and fund raisers use Wolf
> > brand...at least the did in Texas way back when. 
> 
>      Only kind worth talkin about for the purpose, Anita--and it's gotta be 
> the no-beans kind of Wolf Brand, too.  Frito Pie is one time that *nobody* 
> wants beans in the chili, because if the beans are in there the whole 
> shootin' match is damn well impossible to eat with them li'l bitty spoons 
> they give ya at the concession stand.
> 
 Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net  *1996* Year of the Accordion~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I used to eat possum, 'till I saw one crawl out of a dead cow. -D.Barnes