Word: buttermilk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first of the presidential wives to keep regular, working office hours, and the "lunch with Rosalynn Carter" that shows up on the President's schedule between Prime Ministers and Senators on Wednesday or Thurs day at 12:30 is a unique institution of the modern presidency. Jimmy drinks buttermilk. Rosalynn has coffee. They nibble at salads and sin wildly when they plunge into a dollop of flan with ice cream. They ponder things like advice about Son Jack's grain-elevator business and the guest lists for approaching state dinners; then Rosalynn inevitably asks for the latest information...
Fatigued by his trip, Carter chatted with the Diehls, their son Ted, 41, and his family. After a nightcap-a glass of buttermilk-in the kitchen, the President retired to the Diehls' bright turquoise master bedroom. His hosts bunked in a guest room. Then at 6 a.m. Woody Diehl knocked on his guest's door. Said he: "Mr. President, there's something I forgot to tell you last night. The knobs on the shower are reversed. Hot's cold and cold...
...deductibility may have taken root right in downtown Plains. Charles Dennis thinks that most of his Back Porch patrons are tourists. But now and then he sees a table of men looking suspiciously like businessmen. Dennis serves up his baked ham and red-eye gravy, grits, green beans, carrots, buttermilk biscuits and coffee, passes out the tabs ($2.50 a head) and asks nary a question...
...short, it was the milkman. He was a strapping fellow with two quarts regular, four skim and a pint of buttermilk. In the ensuing tumble they made a gallon of egg nog and two ice cream bricks. Another result of the wrangle was a fine little boy who was born speaking high-school French. For respectability's sake Cheryl has always tried to claim that I was in some way responsible for little Andre's occurrence, but I know this to be a falsehood. For one thing, no one in my family has ever been interested in picking up empties...
Judy economizes wherever she can. The family's grocery bill averages a mere $25 a month. "We never buy meat," she explains. "LG hunts deer, squirrels and wild rabbits I make everything I can: butter, buttermilk, cream, preserves catsup and applesauce. We have all the fresh vegetables we want...