The iron stove had a cast-iron warmer on the top, and in that warmer would be pork roasts and pork chops and fried chicken, two gallon pots of butter beans with salt pork, navy beans with ham bone, rattlesnake beans glistening with bacon fat, pans of chicken and dressing, macaroni and cheese, cornbread and cathead biscuits, mounds of mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes, skillets of fried green tomatoes.

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These products are market leaders and include Biskuat biscuits in Indonesia, Tang beverages in Brazil and Eden cheese in the Philippines.

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For dinner, Karzai joined the first family for some all-American fare: fried chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans, cheese and garlic biscuits and pineapple upside down cake.

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The offerings are as vegetarian-friendly as can be, given it is a Southern buffet brunch, with creamy jalapeno cheese grits, delicious cheddar and broccoli casserole and biscuits with a smoked chipotle sauce.

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Cubes of cheese, scraps of luncheon meat, bread crusts, Peperami, dog biscuits and tutti-frutti balls all came down invitingly through the water.

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