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
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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 ?
