Hillbilly Hiking

Well as any good hillbilly knows why walk when you can drive and why drive when you can drive really really fast! Enjoy

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Woman jailed for testicle attack

A woman who ripped off her ex-boyfriend's testicle with her bare hands has been sent to prison.

This woman should have been burned at the stake as a witch, 2 and a half years in prison does not come close to being enough.

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This is cool.

It's just too easy to make fun of some people.
Nothing clever today just something that made me smile :)

Ode to my favorite regional dishes....Me and my brother 'Fat Josh' are from a sleepy little town nestled along side the Wabash River in the heart of the Midwest (Indiana). The town is called Terre Haute which comes from the French meaning "Fine Ass Cuisine".

So without further ado I present some of the favorite dishes of mine for all to see.

1) Pea Salad - Ok, calling this thing a salad is like calling Fat Josh "big boned". It's just really not fair to real salads everwhere but with it's two main ingredients: Sweet Peas and Helmans Real Mayonnaise no real salad could possibly hope to compete for that special place in my heart or my cholesterol level.

2) Mac N' Cheese and Spam - This dish, known for its aphrodisiac properties, is a bit of a folk legend in my Mom's family.

It's the way God intended powdered
processed cheddar and pasta to be served.

Anything else is downright Un-American. I mean, honestly? Isn't this why we really are fighting the terrorists?

Damn, just when you thought you've seen everything. I stumbled across this this morning. Talk about things that make you say WTF? 1500 inmates at a prison in the Phillipines re-enact "Thriller".

Jason Isbell

This man is a God, gutted he left the truckers but his solo stuff is amazing

I have had some amazing food this past week while spending a bit of time with my girlfriend and her family. They are from PCB (Florida). This place is beautiful. I didn't know beaches where still this nice in the US; and the local food is amazing.

It got me thinking about some of the local food back in the Dub-V. Some foods export well. We brought some Pepperoni Rolls with us and everyone likes them. They are a food that WV is known for. There is however another food that WV is known for. The Ramp. The ramp is an onion like and a bit garlicky tasting leek, that is one of the first green things to pop out of the ground in the spring. I do not like them. Guess that makes me not quite full hillbilly, but these things smell awful, and taste very strong, but people seem to love them. These things are so strong that they stay on your breath for a couple days, and even after that, you sweat the smell of ramps for at least 2-3 days after eating them. My dad calls it getting your sprint tonic.

There are ramp festivals, ramp dinners, and ramp digs all thru the spring. People really do like them. I do not like to eat ramps, but have been to a few ramp dinners in the past. There is plenty of other food at these; kinda like a covered dish dinner; and who doesn't like home cookin, all you can eat home cookin.

This is one custom I am glad is not wide spread in the US. What do the rest of you all think. Any foods from the home town that you hated, but the home town or area was known for?

Not a good use for beer

Well here is a little something that should appeal to the man in all of you (and I don't mean the big guy in the showers where you are R-Dub)

In response to the pep roll I give you:

The Chip Buttie

The chip buttie is a Newcastle favourite that goes perfectly with the "Bottle 'o Broon" it consists of chips, (like fatter steak fries in the US of A) in a roll soaked in gravy, a better way of Carbo loading has never been found!

Today I want to tell you all about something near and dear to my heart. It’s something near and dear to every Hillbillies heart; even though it is definitely not good for your heart per say.

I'm tellin you all about the Pepperoni Roll. Now for all you Dub-V readers out there. 'Nough Said. You already understand completely what I am talking about. The perfect snack, meal, drunk food, and even mood altering sustenance.

First conceived in Fairmont, West Virginia (only about 20 mins up I-79 from where I grew up) The Pepperoni Roll Capital of the World. This little bit of goodness is made up with a fairly soft white yeast roll with pepperoni baked in the middle. Sometimes this is in the form of a stick and sometimes in the form of slices stacked together in the center. The greasier the better. They are good both warm and cold, although warm seems to release more of the greasy goodness locked up in the pepperoni. The original contained no cheese, but you can find them now with Mozzarella, and Hot pepper cheese. They do not, however contain tomato or pizza sauce. This is an abomination of the original found outside of the region. There is a restaurant down the road from The D, selling these, which are nothing more than a rolled up pizza. Don't be fooled.

There is a bit of legend with the pepperoni roll as well. You will hear some people talk of them being illegal in some states. There is some crazy law about baking meat in bread that is not visible. This is a Virginia law, which is not surprising. Even the USDA tried to shut down bakers of pepperoni rolls back in the 80's until good ol Rockefeller helped them out by lifting the stricter regulations placed on bakers classifying them as meat packing plants.

I always look forward to one when I get back over the mountain. What do you all think? To the rest of the crew, some of which have the hillbilly title as either a transplant or be in honorary. You all grow up with any region specific food or drink. Well aside from DCBrit, who had a nipple stuck on a bottle of New Castle Brown.

Ok folks, sorry for neglecting cap-hillbilly for so long. Been busy with a few things around here. I found out how serious the DC DMV is about someone registering their vehicle and getting DC tags. As it turns out once they figure out that I live in DC, but do not have DC tags; (which took about 12 months by the way); they start ticketing you $100 dollars per night. After two nights of that I had to get the old truck out of DC and start parking in VA until I could get my tags straightened out.

I still don't have DC tags but a different car now, so I am tempted to try it all again for another twelve months, but will probably just go legit. If you think about it though 200 dollars is way cheaper than paying tax, tags, and fees for one year. :)

I wonder if I could just do what people in the Dub-V do when they don't want to register their vehicle. They just get out an old bucket of paint, or a spray can, and paint "Farm Use" on the side of their car. Then they can say it is for work only and can drive without tags. Hmmm. Might have to consider that.