Budgies
Thanks kyredneck - my Mother's grandfather's people were Trimbles from, well, Trimble County over to the southwest of Cincinnati.
A family legend relates how they raised parakeets and sold them to the folks out in places like South Dakota (Repent-or-Burn's momma for one) but the Sodaks didn't understand that parakeets plus snow equals chick-on-a-stick. Their tragic demise gave rise to Repent-or-Burn's unhappiness in life (they were his only friends) but the family did all right, finding a market for the birds back east in - you guessed it - SALTCITYBAPTIST's New York, where they're considered a delicacy to this day.
Kind of a thing.