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The 'Stuff' Johnny Cash Ate Made Veggies Taste So Much Better By Karen Hart Oct. 29, 2025 5:39 pm EST

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The foods we grow up eating influence our preferences later in life, especially when it comes to that culinary category known as comfort foods. Johnny Cash's son, John Carter Cash, revealed to NPR in 2018, that this was certainly the case of the "Folsom Prison Blues" artist, who grew up in rural Arkansas. The Man in Black, as Johnny Cash was known, loved Southern food, and his wife, June Carter, certainly knew how to make vegetables taste better with one magic ingredient: hot pepper cheese.

The vintage Southern dish Johnny Cash enjoyed is simply known as "stuff." Carter Cash explained that it starts with fried potatoes and carrots as

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