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"Jimmy Crack Corn" or "Blue-Tail Fly" is an American song which first became popular during the rise of blackface minstrelsy in the 1840s through performances by the Virginia Minstrels. It regained currency as a folk song in the 1940s at the beginning of the American folk music revival and has since become a popular children's song.
The exact history and origin of the term is debated. [6]The term is "probably an agent noun" [7] from the word crack. The word crack was later adopted into Gaelic as the word craic meaning a "loud conversation, bragging talk" [8] [9] where this interpretation of the word is still in use in Ireland, Scotland, and Northern England today.
(The Southern stables grits and corn meal are essentially finely-cracked corn). So, the meaning of "Jimmy crack corn"---as I was told--- was a shortened version of , "Jimmy's in the cracked corn", meaning that the mule had found a way, or broken a way, into where the cracked corn was stored, and was having a treat.
What Haneul remembers most about his time in the North Korean military is the gnawing, continuous hunger. He lost 10kg in his first month of service, due to a diet of cracked corn and mouldy ...
Put out cracked corn, she adds. Clean Feeders. Putting up a feeder requires buying food, filling it up, hanging it in a safe place (away from predators, such as cats and squirrels), and cleaning ...
As with broken and cracked kernels, mold damage is usually graded on a visual inspection basis, which can be subjective and have a large variation. Ng et al. used a machine vision method of evaluating mold damage by calculating the number of pixels in an image of grain that included mold, and representing that as a fraction of the total surface ...
Crack open a bottle of Whole Foods's own Italian Sparkling Mineral Water and tell us it isn't the most refreshing thing you've ever tasted. Whole Foods/Amazon 365 Mac & Cheese
Pashofa, or pishofa, is a Chickasaw and Choctaw soupy dish made from cracked white corn, also known as pearl hominy. [1] The dish is one of the most important to the Chickasaw people and has been served at ceremonial and social events for centuries. Pashofa is also used in specific healing ceremonies. [2]