Pork and boiled maize: accounted poor fare.
1816. [If a man] can be content with hog and hommany, he can live easier in Ohio.—Mass. Spy, Jan. 10.
1834. Plenty of hog and hominy at all times, and we don’t want for other and better things, if we please.—W. G. Simms, ‘Guy Rivers,’ i. 99 (1837).
1842. One of the rich States of the valley of the Mississippi could keep all the manufacturing establishments in New England in hog and hominy for three years.—Mr. Kennedy of Indiana, House of Repr., June 21: Cong. Globe, p. 663.
1847. I can give you plenty to eat; for beside hog and hominy, you can have bar-ham, and bar-sausages, and a mattrass of bar-skins to sleep on, and a wildcat-skin, pulled off hull, stuffed with corn-shucks, for a pillow. That bed would put you to sleep if you had the rheumatics in every joint in your body.—T. B. Thorpe, ‘The Big Bear of Arkansas,’ p. 21 (Phila.).
1848. My niggers has got plenty of hog and hommony to eat, and plenty of good comfortable clothes to wear, and no debts to pay, with no more work than what is good for ther helth; and if that ain’t better than freedom, with rags, dirt, starvation, doctor’s bills, lawsuits, and the five thousand other glorious privileges and responsibilities of free nigger citizenship, without the hope of ever turnin white and becomin equal with ther superiors, then I ain’t no filossofer.—W. T. Thompson, ‘Major Jones’s Sketches of Travel,’ p. 105 (Phila.).
1853. Miserly landlords charge enormously high for hog and hominy, during Court week.—Daily Morning Herald, St. Louis, April 27.
1861. [The inn at Georgetown, S.C., supplied] hog, hominy and corn-cake for breakfast; waffles, hog and hominy for dinner; and hog, hominy and corn-cake for supper.—Knick. Mag., lviii. 316 (Oct.).
1869. The transition from the luxurious tables of the East to the “square meals” of the West is, fortunately, gradual, and by the time the traveler reaches Omaha he is prepared for “hog and hominy,” or whatever may be presented.—A. K. McClure, ‘Rocky Mountains,’ p. 30.
1876. They had not been accustomed to such hard fare as “hog and hominy,” and the poor fellows did suffer fearfully from it.—‘Southern Hist. Soc. Papers,’ i. 179.
1885. White man an’ colored man two different tings; one eat turkey an’ de odder hog an’ hominy all he bo’n days.—Admiral D. D. Porter, ‘Incidents of the Civil War,’ p. 91.
