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My dad had a very large family, one of his brothers had a big farm in Metter Georgia. When we went to visit they would feed us. I remember one day we sat down to eat and I asked mama, what is all of this? She laughed and told me to eat. There kitcken table would sit 14 people and my aunt would put the food out in very large bowls, everyone sat down and had grace and them started to eat like pigs. Here is a few items they had on the table that day. Chiltins, pig ears, fried chicken, fried pork strips, mostly fat. Butter beans, corn, mac and cheese, greens, must have been mustard, rice with gravy, potatoes, different pickles, they made. Cornbeard and biscuits, sweet tea and for desert she had pir, two kinds, and differet types of cake. Everyone on daddy's side of the family all weighted well over 200 pounds and all of them had at least 6 kids, these people ate like hogs. My aunts job was just to cook. Three big ass meals a day and she always fead 10 or more at each meal. These were very hard working people and they owned thousands of acres of land and worked all of it. They grew there own veggies, raised hogs, goats, chickens and cows. They butchered there own stock and ate of gave it all away. Have you ever eaten a pig ear? The bowl they were in looked like big dumplings, but they had no taste, just tough, the more you chewed, the bigger they got.