You know you live in the South when...

[Muley Gil]

I was at work the other day when I overheard two women talking. One was telling the other how pretty her purse was. She asked, "What pattern is that?" The owner replied, "RealTree".

Yup, the purse was camo.

Hur-ray for Dixie!

 

[jgh4445]

'bout 277 days till the Iron Bowl! About 40 days to Turkey season and about 249 until deer season opens! What else is there worth anticipating?

 

[Oldiron]

1/2 " of snow will cause a SNOW DAY.

 

[Class III]

The THREAT of snow will cause a SNOW DAY.

Fixed it for ya.

Class III

 

[DeathGrip]

Yankee, "Is that real tree?"

Southerner, "Nope, That's mossy oak. Got any maple syrup?"

Yankee, "I'll trade you for some oranges."

Southerner, " Where do you think I live? Florida?"

Yankee, "Do you guys have lobster?"

Floridian, just shakes his head.

 

[battlegraduate09]

G.R.I.T.S

Hands down the best thing about the south. Well, BBQ is a close second.

 

[A10]

Had this conversation before DG??

 

[keith44spl]

Grits...........Ya can't eat just one.............




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[jgh4445]

G.R.I.T.S. = Girls Raised In The South!!!!! How right you are!

 

[J Rich]

G.R.I.T.S

Hands down the best thing about the south. Well, BBQ is a close second.

They don't know nothin' about the real G.R.I.T.S!

 

[Alpo]

1/2 " of snow will cause a SNOW DAY.

What's "snow"?

 

[USAF385]

Grits... Is that the feeling you get in your trigger if you don't clean your gun properly?

 

[J Rich]

G.R.I.T.S.

 

[battlegraduate09]

I have a picture that will make you never question G.R.I.T.S meaning again, but im almost certain i will receive an infraction for it and i think the next one earns me some time off.

 

[A10]

uhhh...PM Battlegrad?

 

[vigil617]

Okay, back to the thread "you know you're in the South..."

1. When the girls carry knives in their bras. (No, I am not kidding.)
2. When you order a "Co' Cola" and nobody looks at you funny.
3. When the Civil War is known as "The War of Northern Aggression."
4. When 1/2" of snow shuts down the schools for at least three days because, after all, "the buses can't get to those kids out in the county."
5. When, when ordering iced tea, the question "Sweet?" is not only superfluous, but laughable.
6. When, if one is afflicted with diabetes, it is known as "sugar." As in, "I have sugar." (Also see # 5 above.)
7. When deer hunting season is the #1 cause of calls in "sick" to work.
8. When chatting up the person behind you in the grocery store line is "de rigeur," and not "nosy."
9. When "harvesting" a deer killed by a vehicle is not only legitimate (assuming one witnessed the event, and therefore knows how long the deceased has been...er...deceased) but is considered good stewardship of wildlife resources.
10. When "y'all" is used in the collective sense, and never in the singular.

I could go on.

 

[medxam]

My wife used to have a T shirt that read "Southern Girls Wear Flip-flops With Pearls"! God Bless Southern Women!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

medxam

 

[USAF385]

7. When deer hunting season is the #1 cause of calls in "sick" to work.

The school district I went to takes off the first day of deer. People were shocked in college when it wasn't a scheduled off day.

 

[battlegraduate09]

If you cant fix it with duct tape its broke
If your truck aint muddy you aint using it right
"aint" is acceptable in english class
Yall is singular, you yall is plural
Come november if your not in camo, you look out of place

 

[Roadtrash]

Not you yall it's you all and what does November have to do with it? Camo is considered proper dress all year long. Just go to the beach in the summer and you will see at least one sweet thing in a camo bikini.

 

[s1mp13m4n]

you keep doing reenactments of a war that they lost
football has become a religion
going two miles down the road is "all the way over there"
you see old police cars, cabs, and grandma-mobiles on 26 inch rims
Crown Vics & Chevy Caprice are painted like candy bars

 

[Alnamvet68]

You know you're in the rural south when you stop for gas in a one stoplight town and realize you have to pay with cash since the gas pumps are from the 60's and are mechanical; oh, the guy with the dirty snot rag who cleans your windshield adds a nice touch to your already splattered with bug juice and guts glass.

But wait, there's more...you are definitely in Deliverance country if you ask for a Dr. Pepper, and they all look at you like you're from Haides; it's Mr. Pibbs.

 

[williamlayton]

I have arguements with myownself all the time. Sometimes i tell myownself I am a Southerner and sometimes myownself tell me i am wrong--I am a Westerner.
I think there is a telling difference---try telling a Cajun he is a Southerner and you might get an arguement---well at least from the Cajuns I know.
Let's get back to the riddle---or digress, if you prefer.
I was raised in East Texas---most folks of this area identify with Georgia and Alabama cause there their roots begin.
I have a hard time with this concept because my roots began at the Alamo---and live with the Texas rangers today---not to be confused with baseball (where there is no crying).
Myownself cannot agree with myownself so how in the world can anybody tell me what I am.
Am I bi-polar or out and out schizophrenic--If so, I don't care how it is spelled.
I most normally act more Western than Southern, though I do like grits & my western swing says that there aint no such thing as BBQ in the South---only in Texas, by GOD.
Having said all of that , my short term remembering disability has taken over and I must ask----what the hell is the question?
Blessings

 

[Steely Dan]

G.R.I.T.S

Hands down the best thing about the south. Well, BBQ is a close second.

What about crispy southern fried chicken?

We have that at least once a week!

 

[Alnamvet68]

You know someone is from the north when they think southern fried chicken is Popeye's Chicken.

 

[Steely Dan]

You know someone is from the north when they think southern fried chicken is Popeye's Chicken.

The key to good fried chicken is:
Eggs
Milk
Seasoned flour

Dip the uncooked chicken in the egg/milk mixture then cover in seasoned flour.

Immediately place in pan with olive oil and fry.

Goodness gracious.......heavenly.

 

[Capt. Bob]

I love G.R.I.T.S so much I married me a Georgia peach. I forgot about all peaches have pitts. I am still dealing with it after almost 46 years of marrage and loving it.

 

[mudcat100]

You know you're in the South when you attend a party and boiled peanuts are on the hors o'derves table. And beach music is played and the shag is the dance.At least in SC.

 

[M3Stuart]

From the South?

Three things come quickly to mind:
1. I was sitting in London's Heathrow airport this time yesterday and snapped this picture. See how many things you can count wrong with this picture. (note; that whitish stuff on the left side of the bowl is whole grain rice.) I almost wet myself from laughing so hard.

2. While snapping the pic above, I observed a lady with a young boy and girl. The young boy was landing full arm-back-slugs into the face of this young girl (I'd say they were both about 7ish). I had to leave the area lest I cause a scene by trying to explain that, in western culture - especially the southern U.S., men never, ever, at any age, strike a woman. I am, even now, rattled by that image.

And finally; 3. The State food of Texas should be double-battered chicken fried steak with at least a full pint of cream gravy on it accompanied by 'cat head' biskets (not chili as it is now). I've often thought of tying up a full biennial session of the Texas legislature by opening up this debate.

 

[Muley Gil]

"Immediately place in pan with olive oil and fry."

Uh, that should be lard, or at the very least, several ladles of Crisco.


"I most normally act more Western than Southern, though I do like grits & my western swing says that there aint no such thing as BBQ in the South---only in Texas, by GOD."

I have numerous good friends from Texas and this has been debated on this forum many times before-BBQ started in Virginia and North Carolina long before Texas was ever settled by Anglos.

The South used the meat that was cheap and available-the mighty pig. Texas, which most of my Texan friends agree IS part of the South, had more cattle and that became the meat of choice to BBQ.

It's all good.