good morning my name is Jean
hi
i'm Tina
oh where you from Tina
i live in Garland Texas
oh Garland Texas i'm in Pennsylvania
oh my lands you're the farthest person i've ever talked to yeah
really
do you work for Texas Instruments
my husband does yeah probably most people you talk to do huh
uh-huh huh
most of them do now i don't have anybody that works for TI but uh
huh
my son works for a computer company the National Institute of some something i don't know what
i see well that's neat
so i guess we're supposed to talk about foods today
yeah i guess you have to push one though okay yeah
yes uh-huh you ready okay
uh foods like you would plan for a a dinner party or something like that yeah
yeah i guess so it may be interesting because probably here in Texas we may eat a little differently than you do up there
well i don't know my brother lives down East of us down there and i don't think they ate all that much different
oh really
uh i think as long as you plan your basic foods course for a dinner party you fancy things up a little bit more
yeah that's true
uh
well uh the thing that i found interesting my husband and i lived up in Washington state for awhile
um um-hum
and up there of course they ate a lot of sea food and that kind of thing and down here sea food is pretty expensive because you have to ship it a long way to get it
oh uh-huh
right
yeah and it's not as good as if it's fresh it
right and and uh and but here we eat a lot of like Mexican foods and um up there there was no no place that we went tasted like real Mexican food to me
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is that right yeah
yeah it tasted like they were trying to do the best they could but it just didn't taste right
well they probably were trying to do the best they could yeah
yeah
and uh down here we eat a lot more fried foods i think like chicken fried steak is a real big thing and up there uh it was hardly ever heard of and
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we drink ice tea with every meal and
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up there hardly anyone drank ice tea
yeah well they do in the summertime i think that tea big in the summertime mostly of course you have warmer weather most of the time
really
yeah
right yeah it never gets real cold so
so uh
yeah so i
yeah but when when we have a dinner party around here i think a lot of the time a Mexican menu is something real popular
is that right
yeah
i know that um i do a lot of planning with our church and a lot of the times when we get together well everybody will bring a Mexican dish or and Italian food is real big too
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uh-huh uh-huh
uh-huh more like covered dishes for those type of dinners
uh-huh yeah yeah how about you what is real popular up there
well i don't know just about anything
oh really
yeah we we really uh use most anything i uh
i think are like parties and that though are well like we had a dinner party here here not too long ago with a mystery dinner party but basically we tried you know included all the basic uh foods that you are supposed to have in a meal here
oh
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your uh
bread family and your or least what it used to be the regular menu followed and ham and bake potatoes and uh
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uh something from each each area that you're supposed to choose from
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and uh we we we ourselves are into the wok cooking you know they been advertising that and we've really been enjoying those uh meals
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well that's good
they have a lot of vegetable to them and uh they really are very good
um-hum right
oh yes i i love that kind of cooking my uh unfortunately i am married to a man and have two children that eat about four things
is he a meat and potato person well all our family is is gone they are out on their own and uh
right
they
uh-huh
that probably makes it easier but
it it's much different and uh
yeah we find ourselves eating a lot of macaroni and cheese and uh and of course
uh-huh uh-huh well my husband didn't like that so we as kids we had five children and we ate that when he he wasn't going to be home for supper that's what we had
uh
right yeah well that's pretty much what we do if dad's not coming home we have macaroni and cheese or something
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but they like uh spaghetti you know that's one meal i can fix and the whole family eats but there are several things that well as a matter of fact i keep chicken nuggets handy all the time because
uh yeah
yeah yeah
oh those always go good
yeah the children love them and uh they are real easy to cook and that way whatever meat we have if they don't like it well and my girls don't like beef i don't know
yeah
yeah
oh really well maybe that's good the way way the things are going
i guess
well yeah it could be because they don't i think it's the texture of it but it takes more chewing and
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right children usually they like the ham and the hamburgers and that and it is easier to chew
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right
right so they're not too much into beef and my husband and i eat more beef than we should but at least we keep our chicken nuggets handy for them
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right
we don't really have uh you know entertain too much
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i don't know if you do or not but we we don't a whole lot we're more once in a while but mostly family activities
yeah
well most of the entertaining we do is church associated we have a real tiny little house we don't have room really to have people here but we do get together for what fellowships at our church and
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my husband and i do a lot of the planning in that and
yeah well that's good
yeah it is and it's fun to uh i like just having a pot luck meal where everyone brings their favorite dish
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yeah we do a lot of that type thing at church and our homemakers meet at the church also and uh that's what we do mostly most of the time for that
yeah
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yeah
yeah
so you don't really include any certain food groups you just bring what you like
right
that's right
sometimes you have all desserts sometimes you have all vegetables
yeah
yeah that's truth that's the only problem with just letting you bring whatever you uh like best
yeah but it doesn't happen very often usually you get a pretty wide variety and you can you can have a pretty good meals from one of those
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yeah
yeah i remember one time we had a progressive dinner it's the only time that ever yeah they are
oh those are fun
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but the it's the only time that i can remember that i can't remember what food it was i it might have been the main dish that hardly anyone showed up with
uh
several people were supposed to bring you know each like uh a an appetizer and a main dish and a dessert and we had tons of desserts and tons of appetizers and
uh uh-huh uh
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oh
but when we came to the main main dish plate there was only like two or three
oh
is there enough to go around
well not really you know we all took real tiny little portions and uh were kind of angry with whoever it was we weren't sure who didn't show up with the food
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they were suppose to keep uh
yeah that's kind of irresponsible but that what upset you because they are grown adults usually and they know they know better even if they can't do it they can always need to get somebody else that could
yes
right
right either either go ahead and fix your dish or call someone that can i know it
right right
well that sounds neat i can't uh believe you're so far away but you sound so close
they said that we could share we share a recipe but i'm up at my daughter's i don't even have any of my recipes with me uh you know
it sounds like you're here in Dallas
oh
i don't know if i have anything handy we were just about we were getting ready to go swimming and we're waiting on my sister
oh
oh great
Cara hold on just a second
as a matter of fact my little one is hollering
they're ready to go well i we probably have we talked long enough i'm i
yeah
i i think it probably has been so i've enjoyed talking to you
okay so i'll let you oh same here you have a good day
thank you thanks for calling bye-bye
uh-huh bye-bye
