Flapjacks or Pancakes

[PK]

What's the difference?
Does anyone know?

P.S. I buy the "just add water box stuff"--usually from Dollar General cuz it's cheap. ;D

[Angie]

Hm… well, considering these books were fiction - this part may or may not have been true. But in a Western series I read, “Cookie” - the wagon team cook - made Flap Jacks and these were actually fried corn cakes. He would take the leftover corn mash (or pone) from supper the night before, add some flour, and fry it into Flap Jacks. They were stronger than flour pancakes and the men could grab one and ride off. They could even put them in their pocket. LOL But, like I said, this was a fiction series of books - so who knows if this part was actually true. I do remember when I was kid and Gran Sally made Flap Jacks, they were different from pan cakes, I wanna say she used leftover mashed potatoes? Could that be right? LOL

Another breakfast food I remember from childhood was called “Red Eye Gravy”… ever heard of that? I know it sounds crazy - but I’m thinking this was made from scalding hot fried ham drippings and coffee. And if I recall right, it wasn’t thick, it was almost like a broth. (Is it any wonder us Southerners have high cholesterol? LOL)

While I’m on the food subject - chicken farmers. Did you know they raise them chicks from babies to table in less than 6 weeks? If you’ve ever raised farm chicks, you know it takes quite a bit longer than this - naturally. So what’s the deal? Are they giving them genetically altered feed full of growth hormone or what? And have you ever had a chicken show up in the yard that escaped from the people loading a chicken truck? They die. They all die, no matter what you do, within 3 weeks they are dead. I wonder if this rapid growth formula that goes down their throats to make Tyson rich also shortens their natural life span? Of course no one in Arkansas is going to bitch - Tyson is God here. Gotta ask yourself tho, if the food we eat has been grown with growth hormones - what’s it doing to us?

Even though I do it, organic gardening is pretty much a farce too. The seeds have been genetically altered throughout time so severely - it’s dang near impossible to get “from the earth - pure” seeds to start with. So, if you go buy your seeds - you’re starting with an altered foundation crop. If you harvest seed from this and re-plant the next season - again - altered crop. I see no way around it, unless you can start out with pure seed. If you use any type of chemical pesticide or herbicide - you just shot yourself in the foot. Forget fertilizer - I mean, think about it - that chicken manure is from chickens fed genetically altered feed, same with cow poop and horse poop. No mater what you do, there’s no way around it - some chemical compounds are going to go into your crop. And if you water with “city” water, hello! Chlorine, Fluoride and Gods know what else. So… how “organic” are we?

~Ang

[PK]

Flap jacks may be more of a corn cake...we'll have to look that up.
Yep, I know red-eye gravy. Not my fave though, I prefer the good ole thickening grease and flour variety myself, or just a can of mushroom soup in your pan drippings with some water works wonders. It's also quick and easy.

Chicken farmers huh? Well Chris used to haul stuff for Con Agra--they make this chicken feed. He even brought some home. Yes they are full of growth hormones. We fed a chicken on it for a long time. Damn chicken got as big as a turkey.

Yes, these growth hormones are going into us as well. I think it's the Bovine Growth Hormone..that's the one that's in milk anyway. If you knew about milk...you'd probably throw it out. In fact we didn't buy milk for years. But somehow it's managed its way back into our house on a regular basis.

All the preservatives, might be preserving the food we eat, but they are killing us, making us sick, giving us diseases. And there is no way around it. Like you said, even if you grow your own food (actually have the time to grow it and can it anyway) if you fertilize it you have contaminated it, the seeds are contaminated. And by contaminated I simply mean it's been altered by genetics at some point.


How many crops would you have to grow without any type of fertilizer to get good seeds again. It could take years. You'd have to burn off your end of season garden every year. Plus probably use some ash throughout the season on it by burning trees and stumps and stuff.
Keep your own chickens in hen houses to shovel poop from to put on your garden--if you wanted some kind of poop on them. Grow your own corn and grains, mill your own corn and grains to feed the chickens with. Have plenty of dry storage area for this grain. Well you get the idea.

Off topic sortof---but remember in one of my posts I mentioned how much water I drink? Well Erin bought one of those scales that reads your body fat and hydration levels. Seems I am still under hydrated. I'm wondering how much more I can drink. Granted, it's not that amount every day, but I did think I was decently hydrated.

To be healthy, we'd have to move out to the middle of nowhere like Grizzly Adams, start our own community next to a stream so we could mill, and never purchase anything from a store again--except maybe some material so we ain't butt naked...LOL