In the days of the "Yankee Invasion" our gray clad heros of the South used grits served at meal time to discover yankee spies. The yankees spies wouldn't know how to eat the "Georgia Ice Cream" (Grits).
You know you live in the South when...
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1morethan8
US Veteran, Absent Comrade
Watch what ya say about Tennessee...
Tennessee won its nickname as The Volunteer State during the War of 1812 when volunteer soldiers from Tennessee displayed marked valor in the Battle of New Orleans.
There were more National Guard soldiers deployed from Tennessee for the Gulf War effort than any other state.
Oak Ridge, TN was instrumental in the development of the atomic bomb.
Tennessee ranks number one among other states in the total number of soldiers who fought in the War Between the States.
Davy Crockett went to the Alamo.
... Because we love to fight! Ha!
jaykellogg
Absent Comrade
Don't over look that George Washington was hanging on by his fingernails until the British got their tails handed to them at King's Mountain. The Revolutionary war was won in the South.
1morethan8
US Veteran, Absent Comrade
But.. we also started country music and moon pie!
BUT----Do you have GRITS ??
1morethan8
US Veteran, Absent Comrade
Uh... Jimmy... Uh... I only live 35 miles south out you just off 411 highway.
It's been 43 yrs since I was stationed at Ft. Storey VA. But I still know the differance between a "poke" and a "tote". Still love grits (with lotsa butter) And sometimes when I'm getting ready to do something I'll say "I'm fixin to." Hush puppies? You betcha! I liked most everything about the South. Except the climate. Just too hot & humid for this yankee boy.
HAWKEYE10
Member
Don
keith44spl
Member
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Ha,
They's the ones that'll let ya have a pinch
.
Jimmy,
Folks ain't et nothin till they've had red eyed gravy and
country ham with em thar grits
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jaykellogg
Absent Comrade
No true Southerner would eat instant grits. Hey, if that is true, why do they sell them in the store here?
jwk
Member
Olive oil? Lard!
DeathGrip
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DeathGrip
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Terry C
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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.
#4 actually happened here in 1988.
'Course it's snowed here before, I think it was about 1973 or so . . .
A clever method to discover "Yankee Spies".
Is it proper to eat Grits with tomato gravy ?
Uh...close but not quite.
You use eggs all right...but you use buttermilk, instead of milk. Seasoned flour or white flour, either one. But you don't use olive oil! It's CRISCO!
Some good and fine and beautiful things from the South . . . . .
Dead Hawg cooked over hickory coals for 14 hours or so
That Dead Hawg in the process of becoming pulled pork BBQ
That pulled pork about to be consumed along with copious amounts of sweet tea, Brunswick Stew, and tater salad by Natural Born Southerners with The Stars and Bars in the background.
Just the sweetest tastin' peaches you ever ate . . . Red Globe variety, tree ripe-melt in your mouth.
Dead Hawg cooked over hickory coals for 14 hours or so
That Dead Hawg in the process of becoming pulled pork BBQ
That pulled pork about to be consumed along with copious amounts of sweet tea, Brunswick Stew, and tater salad by Natural Born Southerners with The Stars and Bars in the background.
Just the sweetest tastin' peaches you ever ate . . . Red Globe variety, tree ripe-melt in your mouth.
Roadtrash
US Veteran
Now that's a meal that makes my mouth water. Also I salute you for getting the real Stars and Bars hanging up. Most people don't know that's the real flag.
vigil617
US Veteran
Right you are, Road. The other flag is prettier, though, isn't it? Too bad it got co-opted by you-know-who and got ruined for everybody.
I'm glad, though, that we rightfully-proud Southerners have a non-controversial symbol for license plates, bumper stickers, and flags to hang up at barbecues.
Some good and fine and beautiful things from the South . . . . .
Dead Hawg cooked over hickory coals for 14 hours or so
That Dead Hawg in the process of becoming pulled pork BBQ
That pulled pork about to be consumed along with copious amounts of sweet tea, Brunswick Stew, and tater salad by Natural Born Southerners with The Stars and Bars in the background.
Just the sweetest tastin' peaches you ever ate . . . Red Globe variety, tree ripe-melt in your mouth.
HEY!
STOP posting these photos ! Them Yankees are goin see them and invade us again !
Straightshooter2
US Veteran
Some good and fine and beautiful things from the South . . . . .
Just the sweetest tastin' peaches you ever ate . . . Red Globe variety, tree ripe-melt in your mouth.
Some fine lookin' peaches there. Don't know where you get your peaches but my wife always gets hers for her peach jam from Carroll Farms in Woodbury.
(And yes Walking Dead fans, there really is a Woodbury!)
CW
Texas is as southern as any state, somebody has to guard the western front. It is said that Texas BBQ is beef. That is a big fat lie! We have no shortage of the porcine mammal, and we know what to do with them. There are bumper stickers here that read. "Love NY? Take I-30 East." There is no true Southern Fried Chicken served in fast food chicken joints.(notice the capitalization, a sign of respect.) A good peach is manna from heaven. The difference in my southern-western culture is I have no problem with unsweet tea, you all easterners need to lay off all that sugar.(probably why y'all talk that way.) I've never had a problem with the Union winning the war, it's that Reconstruction **** that sticks in my craw.
oldnavynukespook
US Veteran
Now here's Southern topic: Cornbread! (You Yankees call it "Johnnycake" I believe) Bein' from TN, I'm partial to cornbread fried in a skillet using white, stoneground meal, flat like a pancake. My wife, a good NC girl, likes hers yellow baked in a square pan. Her way is good, my way is "gooder"!
1morethan8
US Veteran, Absent Comrade
Cornbread cooked that way(flat like a pancake) is called a "Hoe Cake".
Just a note... A Hoe Cake is bigger than a Corn Fritter. A fritter can be small and flat.. round like a hush puppy.. or odd shape bite size.
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