Mr. Lanham's Diary: March 8, 1926

Liquor bust goes to police court

Mr. Lanham oversaw a large police court this morning, due to arrests made at a “chitterling party put on by a bunch of Negroes. Whisky and chitterlings were much in evidence,” he wrote.

Chitterlings, commonly called “chitlins” in the South, are the small intestines of animals, usually pigs in the Southern soul food version. They are cut into pieces, bat…