Posts Tagged With: Grit

What Won the West?

Posted on February 3, 2025 by pauldelancey

Settlers, railroaders, stagecoach drivers, school marms, hard-working plowers, tenacious women farmers, gamblers, and soldiers wrested control of the Wild West and made it their own. What made their victory possible? Grit? Endurance? Faith?

None of this.

It was beef as this sign I picked up in Dodge City demonstrates.

Proof you cannot deny,

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

Categories: Wild West | Tags: beef, cowboys, Dodge City, drivers, faith, farmers, gamblers, Grit, railroaders, salad, school marms, soldiers, stagecoach, West was won, Wild West | Leave a comment

Grit Magazine And Chocolate-Bacon Muffins Recipe

Posted on January 12, 2013 by pauldelancey

Grit magazine is still around. I saw hundreds of their ads in darn near every comic book that came out when I was growing up in the 60’s. But they never gave any indication of promoting culinary adventuring. Until now. Please enjoy the following pictures. The first one is from Sad Sack and the Sarge magazine, July, 1969. The second is from Grit magazine’s website. Enjoy.

Categories: book reviews and excerpts, cuisine | Tags: American, bacon, chocolate, chocolate-bacon muffins, comic book, Grit, Grit magazine, know-how, muffins, recipe, rural, Sad Sack, the 60's | Leave a comment

Little Sad Sack Comics

Posted on December 20, 2012 by pauldelancey

Whenever I was small and sick for a while, my mother would sometimes buy me a comic book to cheer me up. My favorite comics were: Sad Sack, Little Sad Sack, and Dennis the Menace. Read the adventure below and enjoy it as I once did and still do. This story is from Little Sad Sack Comics, November, 1967, Vol. 1, No. 19. I included the issue’s advertisement for Grit, “America’s Family Newspaper.”