Coffee VS Energy Drinks

[Seamus Fermanagh]

I should say corn products more generally, anything with corn. Biscuits, corn mush, hoe cake, johnny cake, hominy grits, etc.

Slathered in maple syrup, molasses, pork fat, butter, whatever. We've always been greasy.

Washed down with whiskey. Or cider. Beer and wine were never too popular in the antebellum days.

You're really talking about the Old South with that particular list. Northerners tended toward wheats and ryes or potatoes for their starches. Rum was also a favorite, especially in the NE given the triangle trade, and beer not uncommon. Wine was for people wealthy enough to import it, so....

They did drink a lot of cider given their trust of the water in those days.

Hmm, I guess it does sound better than potatoes and cabbage.

Indeed. And BOILED, not even fried or usually even roasted. Boxty was a veritable example of haute cuisine by traditional Irish standards.