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Re: Hushpuppies - was Ahem! (blush)



I checked the archives here at Arnold AFB, here in the South,  and much to
my surprise, there is no mention made of doing impact studies with hush pups
here. We do all sorts of aerodynamic testing, both civil and military
aviation. We evaluate projectiles of various sorts, notably 4# chicken
carcasses which are zinged, at subsonic speed, into high performance
aircraft canopies. Gets a bit messy and smelly in hot weather. This is to
determine impact characteristics of birds into aircraft, always a very
serious problem. Large commercial aircraft engines actually ingest birds
sometimes, which can cause the plane to crash (I think FAA guidelines now
call for engines to be able to ingest a 14# bird without a hiccup to the
engine). Anyway, our famed 'chicken gun' here could probably heave those
little dogs into oblivion really quickly. I can envision a salvo of the
weight equiv to a 4# bird of hush pups splattering into the canopy now...
The hypersonic range would do even better; they'd definitely be beyond the
smithereen stage.

Sharon Lee Butcher
Reference Librarian
AEDC Technical Library
100 Kindel Drive, Suite C212
Arnold AFB, TN  37389-3212
Phone:  931-454-4430
Fax:  931-454-5421
e-mail:  sharon.butcher@arnold.af.mil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trim, Carol [SMTP:Carol.Trim@COMPAQ.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 1:34 PM
> To:   ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject:      Re: Hushpuppies - was Ahem! (blush)
>
> Alas, I have to add to the hush puppies "tale".  I am from south and was
> raised to have them every New Years Day with our mustard/collard greens &
> hog jowl, black-eyed peas, and ham.  They sopped up the juices.  You were
> thirsty all day.  I improved our tradition by providing mimosas to the
> chef's that day.  Made the entire cooking process fun.  The reason we had
> hushpuppies when frying fish is that we used the hush-puppies to "clean"
> the
> oil when deep frying fish.  I don't know...that is what my dad said.
>
> Carolyn Trim, CRM
> Records & Information Manager
> Global Records Management
> Compaq Computer Corporation
>
>                 -----Original Message-----
>                 From:   Charles Schultz [mailto:CSCHULTZ@LIB-GW.TAMU.EDU]
>                 Sent:   Wednesday, March 22, 2000 1:13 PM
>                 To:     ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
>                 Subject:        Re: Hushpuppies - was Ahem! (blush)
>
>                 Here is a bit more information on the topic of extended
> discussion.
>
>                 In this part of the world, hushpuppies are most commonly
> served with french fries and fried fish.  Thus one gets a triple dose of
> cholesterol.
>
>                 "The Late Unpleasantness" is, of course, not the only
> expression for that event.  In some parts of the South it is called simply
> "The Waah."  [That is the best spelling I can provide for the expression.
> To some contemporaries and even later historians it was known as "The War
> for Southern Independence."
>
>                 Charles
>
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