Weiny roasts?

[GoodOlBoy]

Anybody else remember these great traditions?

The fire.
The food.
The good times.

The best ones where when we would have them out at the stock tank or down on the river so ya could fish too!

GoodOlBoy

[skeet]

We used to take a boat down the river and take a bunch of hotdogs mushmallers and I'd go catch a fish or two and find me some soft crabs in the grass beds in the river...make a fire on the beach an cover it over and throw some ol shoepeg corn on top and let her steam for a while til we got done cooking the fish and crabs and weinies. Heck my mom really liked them ol softcrabs. The paper shelled soft crabs I'd use for fish bait. Didn't get to do that hardly half e'nuff!! Heck I used to get a quarter a piece for them good ol soft crabs..it was a shame to eat 'em when they was worth that much!! We was poor...but we wasn't poor white trash! Everybody was poor where I grew up!!

[Gunslingergirl]

We used to roast the little brown and serve sausages with biscut dough wrapped around them. You would usually get burned biscuts and half raw sausages, but it still tasted good.

And, of course, s'mores. Chocolate, marshmallow and graham crackers. What could be better?

GSG

[Aim to maim]

Originally posted by GoodOlBoy

The best ones where when we would have them out at the stock tank or down on the river so ya could fish too!

GoodOlBoy

Bear in mind that only a few of us on this forum know what a stock tank is.:) ;) :D

Hint to Yankees: It has nothing to do with the Dow-Jones, fuel or military armored vehicles.

[Jonesy]

Here in Western South Dakota, cattle ranching is still very much going strong. We still use stock tanks and many of them. If you're talking water tanks for livestock. But for the life of me, what in the world would you be doing hanging out roasting hot dogs by a stock tank? Or are you talking about a stock dam?

I have a large fire pit outside my house, so we have bonfires periodically, and we do the whole roasting of marshmellows and hot dogs. We also do that quite a few times in the Summer and sometimes the rest of the year when camping or fishing.

Soon as we get a little more moisture I'm going to spark up a big pile of brush and trees I have piled up on the fire pit. You are all welcome to come. So the tradition lives on...

[Dan Morris]

Stock tank???????????lessee, on 4th of July, thas what you swam the horse through and lissened while the owner freaked out bout the $1000 saddle.......yup must be the same thing ya broke ice in the winter from...a "blue norther" what came from the north country....not often, but did happen.
Dan
:D

[skeet]

Dan Dan Dan..don'cha know they ain't never had no ice down around where ol GOB is from. The only ice them people see is in the ice tea glass...or an adult beverage that is on the rocks! Heck they be lucky to even have water in the stock tank sometimes in the summer!!:D :D

[Dan Morris]

Lol, I grew up in west Texas, my cowboy days were in high shool...stock tanks were stocked with catfish n bass n crappie.
Grew up with ranch n oil families. At that age, we worked cheaper than the hired uns.Weenies, BBQ n in the fall....fresh calf fries.
Still got scars on the back of hands from stock knives.......come to
think of it, life was a lot simpler then!So was the dove huntin around those tanks...quail huntin was good too!
Dan
:D

[BILLY D.]

Originally posted by skeet
We used to take a boat down the river and take a bunch of hotdogs mushmallers and I'd go catch a fish or two and find me some soft crabs in the grass beds in the river...make a fire on the beach an cover it over and throw some ol shoepeg corn on top and let her steam for a while til we got done cooking the fish and crabs and weinies. Heck my mom really liked them ol softcrabs. The paper shelled soft crabs I'd use for fish bait. Didn't get to do that hardly half e'nuff!! Heck I used to get a quarter a piece for them good ol soft crabs..it was a shame to eat 'em when they was worth that much!! We was poor...but we wasn't poor white trash! Everybody was poor where I grew up!!

OK. You got my interest piqued. What are soft crabs? Are you talikng about craw dads? There used to be two kinds of those, soft and hard. They were good eating once you cleaned them. Boiled or fried, it didn't make any difference.

[skeet]

Soft crabs are just regular ol blue crabs like they catch all over the east coast and down around loosianna. When they outgrow their shells they slough them off and for a few hours are in a soft shell stage. Bout like a crawdad. Anyway they are supposed to be really good eatin after ya cut their face off and get rid of the devils fingers(like their gills). My momma was really fond of soft crabs. I caught lots of em...and had a live box to put the peelers in(the ones getting ready to slough their shells. I caught hard crabs and sold em. caught eels to salt and use for bait and when we ran outta them I'd go out and use a bow and shoot cow nosed rays with fish arrows and a string with a bleach bottle on it...cut the wings off and use them for my trotline bait for crabs. My first boat that I had when I was 11 had a Palmer hit and miss engine and was 24 ft long. Great crab boat but it was really slow. After I burned that engine up...forgot to put water in it(;) ) I put a Wisconsin in it. Really went then...but it used a whole lot more gas. Growin up around the Chesapeake was a real experience...but we were still money poor. Rich in other ways though...as I look back on it now!!

[GoodOlBoy]

Yeah we were certainly money poor, but about as rich in life as ya could get. I really miss those days. Even as a young man if I wasn't huntin, or fishin I was tendin crops, tendin cattle, tendin chickens, er pickin somthin. Be it crops, er wild crops (persimmons, muscadines, pecans, black walnuts, hickernuts, dewwberries, blackberries, wild onion, wild plums, peaches, etc etc etc) We had fun doin it all. Wieny roasts, coon hunts, and I will never fergit the music the older folks useta play out in the yard just about ever time the sun set. All the granparents, uncles, and cousins old enough ta play er sing got together and made the dangdest racket ya ever heard while us kids would play chase, er Lord knows what all.

Ya know lookin back on it even as a kid I use to add quite the supplement to the pantry and deep freeze from what the good Lord give us. Been slowly migratin back thataway. . . . looks like I got alot a work in front of me afore spring.

GoodOlBoy

[Aim to maim]

Originally posted by Aim to maim
Bear in mind that only a few of us on this forum know what a stock tank is.:) ;) :D

Hint to Yankees: It has nothing to do with the Dow-Jones, fuel or military armored vehicles.


From "How to Talk Border Patrol" - an unpublished manuscript by J. Byrns Long

tank - This word had more than one meaning but in general usage was short for stock tank, a man-made water-filled depression intended to provide water for livestock. In the rest of the English-speaking world, this feature would have been known as a pond, but for unknown reasons, pond was never used for this purpose in Texas. To complicate matters further, there were also numerous oil tanks related to the petroleum industry.