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Confederate Cush (Cooosh)

The dish likely originated in the Southern United States sometime shortly after the start of the American Civil War. The name is likely a corruption of couche, related to the Cajun dish couche-couche (fried cornmeal mush).

..chop up a small quantity of fat bacon into a frying pan, get the grease all out of it, put in a quart of water, when it boils crumble in cold corn bread and stir until dry, and you are ready for a dinner of ‘CUSH.’

— Texas Sergeant William W. Heartsill, October 1863

When fried, it became the Confederate alternative to the Union Hardtack, as it could be carried in the haversack and eaten at a later date.

or sing in front of some corny backdrop…

R&B groups used to dress in all black in the middle of the hot ass desert…

or be beggin’ in the rain…

male R&B singers would give those longing looks out the window…

or be sitting alone at the piano and shit…