My mom is a very good cook when it comes to old country recipes. Her being from Germany makes me very lucky.

That being said she thinks her skills with German food translates somehow to Southeastern US fare.

For example, she will chop up a pork butt, throw it in the crock pot with BBQ sauce and let it simmer for several hours and claim it is SC BBQ. No, it's not. It's some type of mushy pork that doesn't even resemble BBQ.

She also thinks she can cook fried chicken. She can't.

She buys the cheapest steaks possible, marinates them in Teriyaki overnight and cooks them on the grill until they are burnt. She insists that is they way steak should be eaten.

I just asked Mrs. Gamecock about her mom, who is a terrible cook, for something that was really bad. The DW laughed and said "fried spinach patties." Ketchup was added to taste.