FoxFire Project
The Foxfire Project, begun by Eliot Wigginton and his students in the 1960s, was designed to save from oblivion the local color of a particular Southern region: the dialect, customs, recipes, antiques, manners, clothes, games and rituals of a particular area.
As a class, the students enrolled in Ms. Rojo's AP English Language and Composition class have compiled their own stories for their own version of a “Foxfire E-Magazine” renamed "Leafing".
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
"Food"
During summer vacation, my eldest sister would invite a couple of our cousins over when our parents were working. We had a few games to play, things to talk about, and TV to watch. We always had something to do to keep us busy, but one day, we got bored of the same thing every day.
We didn't have much for and didn't know what to eat. After we decided in cooking fries, we noticed the ketchup date read overdue. When we thought of eating an apple, they had turned brownish. Our parents hadn't gone shopping for food yet and almost everything we had turned spoiled; had to be thrown out.
We had taken out all the rotten food, placing it on the table to throw away when one of our oldest cousins had an idea. He dared my sister to drink what he mixed- without her seeing what it turned out. He knew my sister never backed out of a dare so after saying that we all had to do it to, the dare began.
We mixed any liquids that had gone bad including anything drinkable. When my sister dark of the yucky green mix, she almost threw it up, saying how nasty it tasted. She didn't finish the drink and one by one, all of us took the turn in drinking.
When my mom came back from work and our cousins had left for the day, she said we had together up and help her clean the fridge for when she went to buy more food. "You already cleaned the fridge?" she asked when she opened the door. We were laying on the couch as she approached us and gave us one of her narrowed looks. My two sisters and I nodded with a small groan, telling her we did clean the fridge.
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ewwww!
ReplyDeleteAWESOME!
Your little experiment is something that I thought only existed in books, or on TV.
heck, I would've blown chunks after just hearing what you guys could have used as "ingredients".
I hope none of you got anything bad from drinking that poison.
Cool Story!!