Things you need to know if you move to the South

[Kevin J.]

Serving with an old southern Sgt. the conversation goes “him… boy you need to put alll on that weapon. Me…put what? Him… alll, as he picks up the can. Me…. Oh..oil. Him… damn only a yankee makes a one syllable word into three.” I am thinking three syllables??? … key word there is thinking.

 

[ZGrand]

A conversation between two southerners:

Jeetjet? (Did you eat yet?)
Naw. Jew? (No, did you?)
Naw. Lesgweet! (No. Let's go eat!)

 

[meaneyedcatz]

What I don’t get about the south is
If you want a Pepsi you say coke.
If you want an RC COLA you ask for coke.
If you want a coke you say coke.

 

[Jon651]

One time, I thought I was going to be strung up for ordering a plain tea at a BBQ joint down south. Waitress said "ya'll mean sweet tea, right". I told her not sweet, just plain. I still cringe when thinking about the look she gave me.

It's OK to order unsweetened tea provided you tell them you've got "the high sugars"...

 

[Jon651]

Has anybody mentioned deep-fried food yet? Doesn’t matter, can’t be mentioned often enough.

I think the South could have won the Civil War if, instead of firing on Ft. Sumter, they had just kept delivering deep-fried food.

I took the picture of my dinner plate below in Tennessee a few years ago. I’m not exactly a hummus-and-lettuce guy, but this got me to surrender.

I don't understand what you mean by "yet". If it ain't smoked, barbequed or pickled, then it's fried!

 

[Dfish1247]

We’re getting more folks who want to tone down the sugar in the tea. As mentioned, most places rot your teeth and stir up type II diabetes while your drinking it. Plus, that syrupy texture is plum turrible not terrible. Whoever said honey goes in tea, honey goes on biscuits and gets warshed down not washed down with sweet tea.

Oh, why has none of you’ns mentioned frying up a mess of crappie, now that is awful good.

 

[biku324]

I like wartarmellon, Black Diamond or rattlesnake.

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

Here's a few personal favorites:

1. All bodies of water in the South have horrible deadly monsters hiding in them - some of them are 12-foot long but others are microscopic.
2. Florida is not "the South". Florida is the only state in the Union where you have to drive 8 hours NORTH to get to THE SOUTH.
3. Yes we have seasons, but they go by different names - baseball, basketball and football.
4. The basic laws of mathematics are different in the South - everybody knows pies are round and CORNBREAD ARE SQUARED.
5. (Actually from the movie "My Cousin Vinny") - "If you didn't want grits then how come you ordered breakfast?"

(Pause here for groaning... )

Ya wrong on #3.......We have fall hunting season. Spring Turkey season. And summer fishing season.......Taint no balls involved.....EVER.

 

[Kevin J.]

I always heard there were five southern season. The three you mention and NASCAR and college football season.

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

What I don’t get about the south is
If you want a Pepsi you say coke.
If you want an RC COLA you ask for coke.
If you want a coke you say coke.

Nope. The above doesn't happen.........Don't know if ya'll are making fun of us or just jealous.

 

[Kevin J.]

Kind of does. When in NC I have been ask numerous time if I wanted a coke, when I said yes the next question was “ what kind”?

 

[Absalom]

Tater tots?!? Where on earth in Tennessee did you get served Tater tots with catfish? That had to be in northern Tennessee, or maybe downtown Nashville.

Actually southern Tennessee. Don’t remember the town, but we stopped there for the night after visiting both George Dickel and Jack Daniel’s distilleries. We were still munching on cold tater tots while touring the Shiloh battlefield the next day

 

[tops]

We were out west touring some cliff dwellings and I saw some large squirrels that were different from our grey squirrels. A couple of guys in uniforms (BLM, Park Rangers?) came by and I asked what kind of squirrels and they stated just squirrels. I said I had never saw squirrels that big and one of them would make a mess. They hesitated for a minute and looked at me like I was crazy and one said yes they could do some damage. I didn't try to educate them on a mess. Larry

 

[C3Ranger]

Years ago and after many years in the Boston area, I moved to Annapolis, MD to start a new job.


On the way to the first day of work I stopped at a convenience store to buy a coffee. The woman behind the counter gave me a cheery good morning. I was actually startled and looked around to make sure that she was talking to me.


She was.

Are you suggesting Maryland is Southern?

 

[Alton]

I don't think most people realize where chicken fried came from. In our family of nine you had two pounds of deer back straps and it had to feed everyone. It was battered in flour, egg/milk and then back in flour to fill people up since you didn't have enough meat. Same thing with fried chicken. I didn't get beef until I was old enough to buy it myself. And you guessed it, it was chicken fried steak, gravy, creamed corn, and mashed tators. The first time I saw a tator tot was when Sonic Drive ins came to town.

 

[bigwheelzip]

Are you suggesting Maryland is Southern?

Mason and Dixon thought so.

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[Greyman50]

Well, we can discuss seafood once posters here have eaten at O’Steen’s in St. Augustine and Corkey Bells in Palatka. Well worth the drive. nuf sed.

 

[jeffrefrig]

I looked it up: an okra is NOT a beached whale, it's some kinda plant that grows South of the Mason-Dixon Line! So there!! Yinz can't fool this Yankee (Very long.)
I like our 4 seasons in PA: almost winter, winter, still winter, and road construction.
(And I was gonna ask what kind of rig you use for something almost as big as a Mississippi catfish.)

 

[PALADIN85020]

In 1950 my parents and I set off in our 1950 Chevy to travel from Arizona to Kentucky, where my dad was born. We were driving through Alabama, and my dad decided to stop at a little country store in the middle of nowhere to get directions.

After going into the store, he got back in the car laughing. He said to my mom and me "Do you know what a 'Cow-shun-lie' is?"

We both said no. Dad was still laughing and he said it had been a long time since he had heard words spoken like that. He then explained that she had told him (3 times) he had to turn left at the "caution light."

...and it was on that trip that I learned what a hushpuppy is!

John

 

[gregintenn]

Okra=a hairy, slimy, green seed pod that should be sliced, salted, breaded with corn meal, and fried until it's crunchy.

Here's a true southern treasure. If you've never had one, don't cheat yourself.