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Wow, Bev, I can't believe you are just discovering the Georgia State  
Sandwich,
my inlaws make incredible perminner sandwiches and have several  variations
on the recipe. A lot of Georgia golf courses offer hot dogs and perminner  
sandwiches
as the staple items in the clubhouse, and it is the premier item at the  
Augusta 
National. Enjoy your newfound foodstuff,
 
Drew
 
 
In a message dated 8/12/2009 4:19:13 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
erthnsky AT bellsouth.net writes:

One of  Skyguy's coworkers gave us some little cherry peppers, AKA
pimento  peppers.  I decided I would make some homemade pimento cheese,
or as  we say in these parts, "perminner cheese", and attempted to google
a  recipe.  Lo and behold, it appears that pimento cheese is a  Southern
thing.  I had no clue.  Who would have thunk that and  why would that be
so?  Surely pimentos grow other places in the  country, and surely others
eat sharp  cheese?

http://www.answers.com/topic/pimento

I had to pause and  look around the web to try and answer my own
questions and found this site  which states that Georgia is the only
state that really grows  pimentos.  That is just amazing to me.  I have
never grown these  little peppers because I thought they were sweet
peppers and I am a chili  lover, but I know tons of people that grow
these things in their  backyard.  Who knew they were pimentos???  Not I.
Who know  it was a Southern thing?  Not I.

I grew up disliking the stuff,  even though I LOVE cheese.  My folks
would spread storebought pimento  cheese on their white bread and I would
gag.  It wasn't until a year  or so ago that my friend from LA (Lower
Alabama) introduced me to homemade  pimento cheese from her grandfather's
recipe.  It is really  simple:  sharp cheddar cheese, grated fine, a jar
of pimentos, mayo,  (I also add a dash of garlic and onion powder), and a
dash of  tobasco.  Oh my...whiz that around in the food processor and it
is  heavenly.
So now, I have the real peppers, not a jar, and I scour the  internet
looking for a recipe and cannot find one.  How weird is  that?  So I took
the peppers, removed the seeds and the insides ---  saved those
seed!!!--- and cut the peppers into strips.  I threw them  in a small
frying pan with just a splash of olive oil and some garlic and  salt.  OH
MY GOD, they were to die for!! I can't wait to make real  pimento cheese
in a bit.  I don't think I will need the tobasco as  these fresh peppers
have just the right amount of heat.  I simply  cannot wait until next
year to grow these  peppers!

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6877304

I  did find this NPR page, which gives a bit of cultural background in
the way  of stories. Apparently, it is popular in the Philippines and in
Hungary,  too, or at least they eat something similar.

But yeah, before summer  wanes, I want a big tall glass of milk, a
homemade perminner cheese  samwich, a huge dill pickle, and some tater
chips<g>.     Good eats.

I keep reminiscing about summers past and wondering why I  would eat only
cheese(Cheez Whiz was my childhood favorite, but I don't  like it now)
and not pimento cheese sandwiches.  Man, that was  crazy.

-- 
Duct tape is like The Force:  There's a Light Side,  a Dark Side, and, of
course, it holds the universe together.
EarthNSky  Farm, NW Georgia,  USA

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