I love songs. I love food. I love songs about food!! Well, not as much as I love food I guess.
I bet you didn't know that the U.S.Civil War spawned (Which leads to new fish, which then leads to a real tasty fried meal any night of the week) a whole lot of songs; from rousing patriotic tunes such as "The Bonnie Blue Flag" and "Battle Cry of Freedom," to songs of home as in "Just before the Battle Mother" and "Aura Lea." There were even songs about food, one of my favorite topics.
A Civil War food song I really like is "Goober Peas." Goobers ya ask? Yes, Goobers and I don't mean the store bought, chocolate covered candy treats either. I'll give you a hint to what Goobers were. The lyricist's name was P. Pindar and the name of the composer was P. Nutt. Haha, funny huh. Not as funny as seeing me try to run anymore, Did ya know I used to be a triathlete? Yup. I did those swim, bike, run, races once upon a time. I lost over 55 lbs and started competing. I wasn't too bad at it either. There I would stand at the beginning of each race about to do the swim portion, me in my speedo.... (I guess that sight would be even funnier or sickening depending on yer point of view.) But, once again I digest. Actually the song was not published until after the Civil War and the publisher with tongue in cheek used those two names. Pindar you ask? That was along with goober, another name for the peanut. Interesting hey!
Another song was "Hard Crackers Come Again No More." This song was a parody of the song "Hard Times Come Again No More." Now I like crackers, especially with soup or slathered in butter, or with cheese, but these crackers, known primarily as hardtack, were also named teeth dullers because they got so hard after sitting for a long while before getting to the soldiers. These were mainly Union fare as the Confederates were usually supplied with corn meal. I'm not sayin they were too hard to eat, but it was often said that if the yanks ran out of minnie balls, (No not small meatballs! Sheesh, get real folks. This is a serious work of literary note and not a place for foolish and inane commentary!!) they would just throw hardtack at the enemy.
Yet another piece about food from the Civil War was a song called "John Harrolson, John Harrolson." This song talks about how the South due to shortages of saltpeter or nitre in making gunpowder, took to using woman's pee collected from chamber pots and poured into a wagon pulled around town and........ well......, I guess this is more of a song about the aftermath of food during the Civil War. Nevermind.
That being said I hope ya learned something about songs and food in the Civil War. Next topic, Civil War Toilet Paper!
I bet you didn't know that the U.S.Civil War spawned (Which leads to new fish, which then leads to a real tasty fried meal any night of the week) a whole lot of songs; from rousing patriotic tunes such as "The Bonnie Blue Flag" and "Battle Cry of Freedom," to songs of home as in "Just before the Battle Mother" and "Aura Lea." There were even songs about food, one of my favorite topics.
A Civil War food song I really like is "Goober Peas." Goobers ya ask? Yes, Goobers and I don't mean the store bought, chocolate covered candy treats either. I'll give you a hint to what Goobers were. The lyricist's name was P. Pindar and the name of the composer was P. Nutt. Haha, funny huh. Not as funny as seeing me try to run anymore, Did ya know I used to be a triathlete? Yup. I did those swim, bike, run, races once upon a time. I lost over 55 lbs and started competing. I wasn't too bad at it either. There I would stand at the beginning of each race about to do the swim portion, me in my speedo.... (I guess that sight would be even funnier or sickening depending on yer point of view.) But, once again I digest. Actually the song was not published until after the Civil War and the publisher with tongue in cheek used those two names. Pindar you ask? That was along with goober, another name for the peanut. Interesting hey!
Another song was "Hard Crackers Come Again No More." This song was a parody of the song "Hard Times Come Again No More." Now I like crackers, especially with soup or slathered in butter, or with cheese, but these crackers, known primarily as hardtack, were also named teeth dullers because they got so hard after sitting for a long while before getting to the soldiers. These were mainly Union fare as the Confederates were usually supplied with corn meal. I'm not sayin they were too hard to eat, but it was often said that if the yanks ran out of minnie balls, (No not small meatballs! Sheesh, get real folks. This is a serious work of literary note and not a place for foolish and inane commentary!!) they would just throw hardtack at the enemy.
Yet another piece about food from the Civil War was a song called "John Harrolson, John Harrolson." This song talks about how the South due to shortages of saltpeter or nitre in making gunpowder, took to using woman's pee collected from chamber pots and poured into a wagon pulled around town and........ well......, I guess this is more of a song about the aftermath of food during the Civil War. Nevermind.
That being said I hope ya learned something about songs and food in the Civil War. Next topic, Civil War Toilet Paper!
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