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Never let it be said that Yorkers are squeamish people. Hey, we eat pig stomach. And we also play games with animal droppings!

I've heard of plenty of games of "cow patty bingo." You divide a field into squares; each person gets a square; and wherever the cow, uh, goes, whoever has that square wins.

Well, not to be outdone, Northeastern High School's Bobcat Foundation has taken that favorite and jazzed it up.

As part of a large fundraiser event on Sunday, Oct. 4, they will hold a Baby Buffalo Patty Drop and golf shoot-out.

At 1 p.m., they'll set a baby buffalo loose in the field; wherever her "patty" drops, the person who bought that square will win $500! Members of Northeastern's golf team will then hit balls into the field, and the squares those land in will give their owners $250 (for second place) or $100 (for third place.)

Want to buy a square? Call Kim Brenner-Zirkle at 266-3667, ext. 10274, or visit www.nesd.k12.pa.us. Anyone can play, and you don't even have to be present to win. Commenter friend Mark might even be able to play from Austria! :)

Other events during the day include a car show and exhibition autocross, in partnership with the York County Corvette Club, in the parking lots at Northeastern High School and Northeastern Middle School. That event is 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 4, with car registration from 9 a.m. to noon and award presentations at 3 p.m., according to the school's news release. You can register in advance by calling Joanne Gohn at 577-3133 or e-mailing Iam4marlin@aol.com.

Brenner-Zirkle adds that the high school marching band will also perform, and food will be served throughout the day (though hopefully not bison burgers!!)

Proceeds will benefit The Bobcat Foundation, the nonprofit organization that supports the Northeastern district.

So who's in? Grab your square and wait for the other "eww" to drop!

This is one I've had in the files for a while but kept forgetting to post! From the Pennsylvania Dutch Heritage Group's newsletter comes this recipe that I know my loyal readers will love.

Pigs Stomach Recipe
1 well-cleaned pig stomach
1 onion, cut fine
1 green pepper, diced
2 stalks celery, cut fine
3 cups diced potatoes
Minced parsley
Black pepper
1 tsp. salt
Smoked sausage and spareribs (cut into serving pieces)

Mix onion, green pepper, celery, potatoes, parsley, pepper and salt before adding cut smoked sausage and spareribs.

Stuff pig stomach with above mixture and close with cooking clips.

Place pig stomach in kettle and add water until stomach is covered. Cook 45 minutes. Remove and place in frying pan, add butter and fry both sides until lightly browned. Cut into slices and serve with contents.

This may also be roased, same as beef roast.

So what do you think? Is that an acceptable hogmaw recipe? If not, what should be changed?

Just proving that York County food - despite its tendency toward possibly questionable animal parts, such as stomachs - isn't as, pardon the pun, stomach-turning as you would think at first, check out this site, which lists the weird things people eat around the world.

To be fair, just because some of those things listed sound "gross" to me, I recognize that it's all in what you are raised eating, and in some cases, if you can get past the idea of what you're eating, it isn't half bad.

For example, my friend Blake decided once in college to fry some crickets; he said that if you didn't think too much about them being crickets, they were pretty tasty.

No, I didn't try them. Sorry. I'm a wimp!

And if you liked this post, you should check out the McLocal post, which features McDonald's specialities around the globe..

It's also a local band!

In case you missed it, FlipSide did an interview with them in March. Check it out here. And read more about HogMaw at their Web site.

My favorite part? Entertainment reporter Erin McCracken asked guitarist and vocalist Matt Baldwin, 30, how the group came up with the name. (As a side note, this Matt Baldwin is about the right age and has the same interests to be a guy who was in the band with me in high school. Can't tell from the photos. If so, how "Only in York County" is that?)

Anyway, back to the band name. Baldwin said, "We actually went around and around for months and months. Hog maw was one of those things that just . . . sounded like we're from York."

Sure does!

If you're going to eat hogmaw... which I'm the first to admit I am NOT lining up to do... I've long contended that there's a big debate over whether you actually eat the pig stomach or not.

I finally got my first response to my original post from July 2007 - last month!

New commenter Jamie said her grandmother used to make hogmaw when she was growing up in Stoney Creek Mills, near Reading. "The crispy side of the stomach was always fought over. We ate the whole thing in my family," she said.

I'll ask again: Is that the York County way? I don't know if I could ever manage to eat what I know is a stomach, but if that's the authentic eating method... who knows? Maybe I'll get brave.

Also, I finally found a decent hogmaw picture online, and by decent, I mean slightly scary-looking.

It's from a thread on the Sentinel newspaper's message boards on eating Pa. Dutch.

I had some neat guesses for yesterday's what's missing from the picnic quiz.

Joe (a new commenter - hi, Joe!) said "some sort of potato? i.e. chips?"
He gets credit, though it's not the magic answer. My photos didn't show the end of the table with several bags of Martin's Chips or the potato salad. So, he's right that those are staples that are missing.

Beth went a little more down-home. Her guesses? "Pepper slaw or chow-chow?"
Good guesses, and we didn't have any to start with, but it's not the amazing disappearing food.

Hubby, who knew the correct answer, but was just kidding, said there was no hogmaw.

But loyal reader Jo got it in one with her guess. What was it?

This discussion has given me some good starting points for my "should I eat the hogmaw" experiment!

So one of the things I promised when I started this blog (see my bio at left) was a post on the proper way to make hogmaw.

But first, you have to put up with a little reminiscing about how I came to learn about this local delicacy...