Delmonico is muttering back at the chuck wagon as only a cosie can mutter.
"Durn unrepented rebs don't want no sweetner in their cornbread, damn yankees do, rebs want white meal, yankees want yaller. They wants beef, don't know nutin' bout cow camp cookin, but what they seen on the silver screen, to dumb ta know old time cowboys wanted the beef very well done, well that is what they gonna get."
"Try ta teach them that the 4 b's (beef, bacon, biscuits and beans) ain't what they have ta eat and they whine. Then the durn ramrod don't even want anchovies on his peeeza."
"Next thing ya know that Norveegion that owns this ranch is gonna show up and want me ta fix Lutefisk and fruitsoup."
"That durn reb is gonna make that hide inta a soogun, the last one he did that to one, it wasn't done right, a chinook came through and we had ta bury his bedroll and all his clothes. I hope he has spare ones this time, it got cold fore we could get him some ta replace the ones we buryed and he froze his................"
"Worse thing is he wanted ta dance necked with a snake round his neck, said it would protect us from Injuns."