Pinto beans simply seasoned with a chunk of fatback and a little salt and pepper bubbled inside a large cast-iron pot.

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Pepper cut outs that came inside, there was the cut-out mustache, the stripes and badges of the Sgt.

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Once the noodles are coated in that glorious sauce flecked with red pepper flakes, chopped parsley and scallions, seal them inside their parchment packets.

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