My resolution for the new year is to take it easy. Etta and I drove from Chicago to Memphis, Memphis to New Orleans, New Orleans to Austin, Austin to Springfield, MO (third largest city in Missouri), Springfield, MO to Chicago. We ate a lot of meat.

On a pit stop in Houston we ate at Pizzitola’s Bar-B-Cue, where ribs have been smoked for over 70 years. I told the waitress they were the best I ever had. The waitress said I was a good because I didn’t use sauce.

Ingredients: fruit, water, sugar, unbleached flour, food-starch modified, shortening (beef fat and soybean oil), salt, sodium metabisulfate, sodium propionate and sorbic acid (preservatives).

When apple, contains apple and cinnamon. When coconut, contains coconut. When peach, contains peach. When pineapple, contains pineapple. When strawberry, contains strawberry. When lemon, contains eggs, lemon oil and citric acid. When blueberry, contains blueberry. When blackberry, contains blackberry. When cherry, contains cherry.

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