I dip them in egg, then in flour, then fry them in shortening. I salt & pepper them right after I flip them.

I don’t know why they don’t sell green tomatoes at the grocery store. People don’t know what they’re missing.

I fry up my crookneck and zucchini the same way. Yum!

Welsh and Bavarian, too? And Anglo-Irish? Wow. And Native American, of course….are you sure we aren’t cousins?

You will not regret trying the fried green tomatoes. You want to make sure to get flavorful tomatoes, though. They should be nice and sour. If they are bland–they won’t be good fried. They should be very tart.

LOL, I remember that scene now.

Jimmy Doohan was actually first generation Irish-Canadian, not American, though he spent decades in the USA. Scotty’s accent was 23rd century Scot, which is surprising Lancashite.

Funny… my Dad’s folks were Welch and Bavarian. The Welch drawn by the coal to Pennsylvania and the area. I’ve still got cousins down in West Virginia, I suppose. My Mother’s side was Anglo-Irish-Scot. Both sides got a touch of Native American.

Bringing this back on topic, I have never actually tasted fried green tomatoes. When little, I was a picky eater. Later on no one I knew cooked them. I had forgotten all about them until now. You make them sound so wonderful, I’ll be keeping an eye out for green tomatoes this season. Thanks!

Finally, Scotty is forced to dig out his last bottle–a dust-covered, baroque looking thing that he drags from under his bunk.

“What is it?” the alien guy asks.

Scotty holds it up to the light, “I dunno lad, but it’s green.”

Scotty was supposed to be–surprisingly enough–Scottish, though in truth, sometimes his accent, as done by the American actor, Jimmy Doohan, came across as broad Lancashire, too.

As for who settled Applachia–Dan, you got that right–the hills of West Virginia were mostly settled by Scotch-Irish immigrants. We also, by virtue of the coal, have a high percentage of Welsh immigrants as well, and later, waves of Germans, particularly, Bavarians, came through.

So, the earlier hillbillies are primarily Scotch-Irish, mixed liberally with Native American, with some German and English thrown in for fun and good measure.

So, now you know my own geneological background–on my mother’s side, Anglo-Irish and Welsh, with a goodly chunk of Cherokee from Mom’s mother, and on my father’s side, his dad’s family was all recent Bavarian immigrants, and his mother’s side was a mixture of Irish, and Dutch, though there is said to be a lone Frenchman lurking somewhere in her family tree.

As far as I know, there is not a bit of Scottish blood in me, which may account for why I cannot abide the flavor of Scotch, but can freely drink Irish whiskey with no ill effect.

One of the predominant groups settling in Appalachia were 18th century Scots. That too left a Lancashite sounding flavor.

‘Course Barbara may tell me I’m utterly wrong.