Photo provided by Jay Williams
Chicken Bog Tale Teller: Jay Williams
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Chicken Bog Tale Teller: Pepper Lilly
The Local Farey Tale of Chicken Bog
I conducted my first interview for this episode in September 2022 – prior to attending that year’s Loris Bog-Off Festival. At that point, I had no idea a Historic Marker was in the works. Had I completed the episode by the end of 2022 as intended I would have completely missed including it. So although it took much longer than I would have liked to get this episode out I guess I’ll chalk it up to everything happening for a reason!
That typed, when you listen to the episode you may hear people saying “this year” regarding the Festival. Just know they are actually speaking of last year. The 2023 festival is happening this Saturday, Oct 21. (So listen to the episode and quickly plan a visit!)
Much like my last episode (The Local Farey Tale of the Garbage Plate), I had some patient Tale Tellers waiting for it to arrive and I thank them for their contributions. A special shoutout to Jay Williams for being a Tale Teller for a second time on my podcast! Happy he wanted to be a part of another episode.
You can listen to the episode here or anywhere you stream podcasts.
Note: The top photo is from my stack of 2 oz samples at the 2022 Loris Bog-Off Festival. As you can see, I didn’t clean out each sample but I was STILL full! I was excited that the Chicken Bog cook I voted for won People’s Choice – Rico Bellamy. Even before he won, I had handed him my card as I had hoped to interview him but we didn’t end up connecting.
See more photos from my Festival visit here. And check out the bonus photo below of (Fried) Chicken Bog Balls – a creation from Chicken Bog Tale Teller Samantha Norris’ Brother at Ritchie’s. They were delish!
Listen: The Local Farey Tale of Chicken Bog
Episode Notes:
The Local Farey Tale of Chicken Bog is told in 3 chapters (averaging 18 minutes each) stirring together the voices of the following Tale-Tellers… Singleton Bailey (Original Chairman of the Loris Bog-Off Festival), Pepper Lilly (2022 Loris Bog-Off Champion), Samantha Norris (Executive Director of the Loris Chamber of Commerce), Susan Platt (Current Chair of the Horry County Historic Preservation Commission) and Jay Williams (Retired Museum Curator and previous Tale Teller on “The Local Farey Tale of Burgoo“)
Credits: Music by Anisha Thomas, Artwork by Jonathan Reich, Narrator, Concept, Production and Editing by Nora Vetter
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Find out more: Perloo, Hungry for History Chicken Bog Marker, Pomeroy Foundation Hungry for History Program, Taste the State Cookbook, Murrells Inlet, SC, South Carolina Rice Industry, Tobacco Farming in Horry County, Little River, SC
2022 Photos of the People’s Choice portion of the Loris Bog-Off Festival
Garbage Plate Tale Teller: Mike “Thunder” Warren
Garbage Plate Tale Teller: Rachel Laber
Garbage Plate Tale Teller: Matthew Backlas
Photo provided by Matthew Backlas
The Local Farey Tale of the Garbage Plate
Remember that pivot I mentioned in my blog entry for the Coffee Milk episode? Welp, this was the episode I had initially intended to complete. I began conducting interviews in March 2022 and was able to record my final interview by August 2022. The snag? My schedule had less time for podcast episode editing at that point. BUT I kept chipping away at it and FINALLY have a finished episode to share!!!
I have missed researching, conducting interviews and putting episodes out more frequently and I’m hoping to pick the pace up again! (Another episode is already slowly but surely in progress….)
Back to the Garbage Plate… when I pursued this episode I didn’t know all the details regarding the trademark. It was important to me to speak to Alex Tahou of Nick Tahou Hots so he could “tell it like it is” rather than have it be hearsay. I’m incredibly thankful and honored that he trusted me with properly sharing this tale.
And thanks to ALL of the Tale Tellers who have contributed to this episode and have patiently waited for it to arrive!
You can listen to the episode here or anywhere you stream podcasts.
Note: I’m embarrassed to type that when I was in Rochester years ago, I unknowingly ate a copycat…and had it without meat sauce! Thankfully, Mike “Thunder” Warren shared a photo from Trash Plate Central of an actual Garbage Plate for me to use. Learn from my mistake by listening to this episode to know what and where to order!
Coffee Milk Tale Teller: Christopher Martin
Photo provided by Christopher Martin
Coffee Milk Tale-Teller: TJ Delle Donne
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