anyway
yes
so i'm
so like what did you eat the last time you went to a dinner party
well the last time i went to a dinner party was down at the lake and uh golly it was a dish uh from uh down in Panama
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and uh
i think the name of it was Paetha
and uh it was a delicious meal
what was it what was the dish
well the dish was composed was composed of uh steak and chicken and shrimp all cut up you know
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uh into uh bite size portions and it had rice in it and tomatoes and vegetables and uh
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onions and green peppers and what you do is prepare this uh in a a large uh oh it looks like a large uh uh
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garbage can uh uh lid you know only turned upside down
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and uh this particular particular this particular person that cooked this uh cooked it over a burner propane burner course down in Panama they cook it right out right over right over an open flame
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and
it's it's Paella is what it is because i've i've had that before
yeah Paella how'd you know oh oh you have i'll be darned
yeah
i've friends who are Cuban who well they're Cuban and uh i was in Miami one time and they fixed that dish and they used squid in it it it had all kinds of meats and
yeah well it
right and they omitted the squid and there's one other item too that they omitted i can't i can't recall what that was but uh
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uh we don't no we don't like squid it's too rubbery
it's sort of like the a version
it's sort of like a version of gumbo it's sort of like Latin American gumbo or something
yeah
but all this was cooked together they did serve French bread buttered uh bread and uh and uh it was delicious
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we had that in fact uh Saturday night of this last week
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down at Caney City
where's that
oh it's about sixty miles this side of Tyler and uh
and uh oh about a hundred uh let's see about seventy five miles from Dallas in between Tyler and us
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oh like near Canton or
yeah is Canton is north uh uh north of us
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what's the name of that lake down there
oh yes
yeah it's on Cedar Creek
oh okay well i know where that is
yeah
we have a lake house down there and jointly owned with another couple here in the neighborhood
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so we're always having parties and this particular time we had uh what we call our uh our our group here in uh in Richardson the uh what we're in we gather together and go out and eat at some restaurant or something of that nature
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or go to some event
well i'm having friends over this weekend
i'm from South Alabama originally
south huh
South Alabama way down there uh close to Mobile
what town
Mobile uh-huh
yeah Foley
uh and anyway so what what i one thing i like to do is i like to cook real Southern food
and so my friends um you know whenever i cook they usually like for me to really like cook Southern food so this weekend we're i'm doing like fried chicken i'm going to fry chicken and have turnip greens
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and like a blackeyed pea salad and uh uh corn bread so i mean
turnip greens with the greens too
yeah actually just the with the greens not much of the turnips
i don't like the turnip parts
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but
so i mean it's kind of you know weird because you think all your yuppie friends wouldn't necessarily want to eat like that but they do
do you like highly seasoned uh highly season it
the turnip greens oh sometimes like with pepper sauce you mean
yeah
yeah i like to eat those green peppers just uh uh whole you know with turnip greens
well i'm i
yeah
i i like seasoned food but i can it can get too much pretty quickly for me i i think but
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well did you go to Auburn down there just off the subject
yes
well good did you know a Spivey down there
i did
a Spivey in Auburn
yeah that went to Auburn
no we had neighbors whose names were Spivey uh Aubrey Spivey
uh what
no
they were neighbors of ours my parents live now live in Auburn my whole family my sister everyone lives in Auburn
no
Auburn
i have a niece and nephew that graduated from uh from Auburn and he played football for Auburn broke his leg in the uh in the bowl down there at El Paso
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oh goodness
Sun Bowl
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in their uh
in in oh that was a number of years ago he's probably oh probably pretty close to forty now
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well that's where i went to that's where i'm from
i'll be darned
but anyway
so uh you really uh like to entertain your friends uh and
