You know you live in the South when...

[redlevel]

Some fine lookin' peaches there. Don't know where you get your peaches

My brother and I leased the farm we grew up on to the largest grower in Georgia. He has about 100 acres in three different varieties on our place. His first peaches of the season, and his last of the season are on our place. We have "grazing rights." I usually take a little "flat latch protection" when I am grazing for defense against four-legged varmints, no-legged creepy crawlers, and two legged peach poachers.

Blooms in the Spring . . .

Late peaches, picked in August, but practically green. They were going north, and Yankees don't know any better than to eat green peaches, I guess.

 

[1morethan8]

That is one beautiful sight!! The trees are unreal!!

I'm not a big peach eater...
But, I would bet your peaches would make an awesome brandy!?

Uh.. just wondering.
If a guy wanted to buy a "few" of your peaches...
what area of Georgia do you live?

 

[keith44spl]

Well Boys,

I'm a fixin to start flyin the Bonnie Blue

.

 

[Stephanie B]

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.

I lived in Vermont for a spell. You can't get nothing done by anyone during whitetail rifle season. Some idiot once scheduled a sheep farming seminar just across the river in NH on Opening Day. My dad went because he had given up hunting, the presenter wondered where everyone was from VT. My dad told him he should have checked the calendar.

1/2" snow there doesn't even qualify as a "dusting". "Ayup" and "nope" were acceptable responses for almost any question. "Flatlanders" were anyone from CT or MA. "New resident" was anyone whose great-grandparents weren't born in the state. The two southernmost counties were known as the "banana belt" because they didn't often get snow until mid-November. "Tain't" season was the time between after the leaves had fallen and the ski resorts opened up-- restaurants that were usually filled with tourists offered special pricing so the locals could afford to eat there.

Cutting maple syrup with anything, especially corn syrup, was a capital crime (or it should have been). Being seen buying Aunt Jemima imitation syrup in the store would brand you for life as a Flatlander, even if your ancestors fought with the Green Mountain Boys.

And all real Vermonters knew that the state had been an independent nation for much longer than those upstarts in Texas.

 

[nawilson]

Man, y'all are making me hungry with all this talk of pork BBQ, corn bread, biscuits, and fried chicken.

Host to guest- "Are you thirsty? Want a Coke?"

Guest- "Sure. What type do you have?"

Host- "Let's see... Coke, Sprite... uhhh, one Dr Pepper..."

It doesn't matter what it is, it is all "Coke!"

 

[FishingPilot]

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

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

I could go on.

We close schools on the first day of deer season. Just say'in is all......

 

[Lost Lake]

As much as I love the south, I can't eat grits no matter how hard I try. Oh, I can barely get them down if I load them with butter and sugar, but I figure that's not really eating grits now is it?

I love southern cooking, I even ate possum sausage and raccoon. Real southern women can cook something delicious out of anything they have on hand.

I find it odd that all soda is called Coke. The waitress will ask "Y'all want Coke? What flavor?"

I'll take a Sprite please.

Up here it's pop. We drink pop.

We may stop someone and ask where the bubbler is. I have my kids do this when we travel so they can see the differences in language across this country.

We eat bakery for breakfast and brats for dinner. We eat hot-dish for supper as the last meal.

We have golden birthdays. Does anyone else celebrate a golden birthday? This may be very regional.

We played duck, duck, goose when we were kids.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Man, y'all are making me hungry with all this talk of pork BBQ, corn bread, biscuits, and fried chicken.

Host to guest- "Are you thirsty? Want a Coke?"

Guest- "Sure. What type do you have?"

Host- "Let's see... Coke, Sprite... uhhh, one Dr Pepper..."

It doesn't matter what it is, it is all "Coke!"

That happened down here a few years back. we were hunting and at the end back at the truck it went
"Hey Boudreaux( the guy's name was really Boudreaux)-you want a coke?"
"Yea"
"What kind?"
"Doctor Pepper"
I swear to Gawd! I about busted my gut laughing.

 

[Stephanie B]

Now here's Southern topic: Cornbread! (You Yankees call it "Johnnycake" I believe)

There was even a Johnnycake Airport, near Torrington, CT. Closed down about 20 or so years ago.

 

[redlevel]

That happened down here a few years back. we were hunting and at the end back at the truck it went
"Hey Boudreaux( the guy's name was really Boudreaux)-you want a coke?"
"Yea"
"What kind?"
"Doctor Pepper"
I swear to Gawd! I about busted my gut laughing.

We had folks working on the farm who wanted me to bring them a "R'erC Co'Cola" when I went to town.

RC Cola (Royal Crown) for those of a northern persuasion.

 

[oldnavynukespook]

Talkin' 'bout grits reminds me, in addition to good eatin', it's an excellent ant killer. Just leave a small pinch (uncooked, of course) on the counter, they eat it, take it to the nest...and then it swells up, killing them!

 

[1morethan8]

Has it ever accrued to you Yanks that you've been wrong all this time?

Wouldn't you think the Southern people could call a soft drink anything they choose?
Do you really need to belittle us poor dumb backwoods people...all the time?
All the things we've made down here for your enjoyment... then you and go and poke fun at the way we talk and do things.

So.. the next time you pick up a bottle of "Coke"... say "Thank you, Rebs!!

Oh.. that "Coke" can be a Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, or even R C Cola... they are a "Southern Thang"!!

 

[Marshwheeling]

I lived in Vermont for a spell. You can't get nothing done by anyone during whitetail rifle season. Some idiot once scheduled a sheep farming seminar just across the river in NH on Opening Day. My dad went because he had given up hunting, the presenter wondered where everyone was from VT. My dad told him he should have checked the calendar.

1/2" snow there doesn't even qualify as a "dusting". "Ayup" and "nope" were acceptable responses for almost any question. "Flatlanders" were anyone from CT or MA. "New resident" was anyone whose great-grandparents weren't born in the state. The two southernmost counties were known as the "banana belt" because they didn't often get snow until mid-November. "Tain't" season was the time between after the leaves had fallen and the ski resorts opened up-- restaurants that were usually filled with tourists offered special pricing so the locals could afford to eat there.

Cutting maple syrup with anything, especially corn syrup, was a capital crime (or it should have been). Being seen buying Aunt Jemima imitation syrup in the store would brand you for life as a Flatlander, even if your ancestors fought with the Green Mountain Boys.

And all real Vermonters knew that the state had been an independent nation for much longer than those upstarts in Texas.

Where I come from, Vermont is southern state.

 

[ladder13]

Has it ever accrued to you Yanks that you've been wrong all this time?

Wouldn't you think the Southern people could call a soft drink anything they choose?
Do you really need to belittle us poor dumb backwoods people...all the time?
All the things we've made down here for your enjoyment... then you and go and poke fun at the way we talk and do things.

So.. the next time you pick up a bottle of "Coke"... say "Thank you, Rebs!!

Oh.. that "Coke" can be a Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, or even R C Cola... they are a "Southern Thang"!!

What's your problem?

 

[vigil617]

I always found the girls with the Copenhagen in their back pocket a bit of a turn off,but thats just me.

But you were lookin' at their sweet Southern derrieres, werentcha?

I rest my case.

 

[vigil617]

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"!

"They" (them up there, Nawtherners) call it 'Johnnycake' for the same reason they hollered back "Johnny Reb" at us when we hollered "Billy Yank" over at 'em. Somewheres along the way -- prob'ly around Chancellorsville maybe -- they got aholt of some of our'n cornbread and then they took it back up there with 'em when they all fin'ly went home. That's when they started calling it "Johnnycake" -- 'cause that's who learned 'em about it t' start with.

They shore dint bring none of it back with 'em when they packed up them carpetbags and re-invaded us, though. I guess it's OK though, 'cause they did send us their lobsters, and I do love me some lobsters.

Oh, and you could look up this stuff if you wanted to. Would I look you in the eye and lie to you about sumpthin' as seryous as cornbread?

 

[vigil617]

Well Boys,

I'm a fixin to start flyin the Bonnie Blue

.

Hurrah, Hurrah, for Southern Rights, Hurrah!
Hurrah for the bonnie blue flag that bears a single star!

 

[Ruger Nut]

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.

Wait a minute there. Even though the village (too small to be considered a town) I live in only has (2) of those type pumps, don't be picking on our flashing caution light; that's hi-tek for us!

 

[1morethan8]

What's your problem?

I don't have a problem... I live in the South!!
Let me guess.. you don't live in the South, do ya?

Just joking BACK at the Yanks for making fun about us calling everything "Coke" and not "Pop".

 

[Ruger Nut]

Immediately place in pan with olive oil and fry.

Goodness gracious.......heavenly.

I see you've become all upidy and city-fied! We still scoop our oil from a big ole Crisco bucket.

 

[mjr]

The immortal song "Dixie" contains lines about

"Buckwheat cakes and Injin batter,
Make you fat or a little fatter"

What exactly are the foodstuffs referenced? ("Injin" batter may be "engine" batter, especially in these PC days.)

 

[keith44spl]

We had folks working on the farm who wanted me to bring them a "R'erC Co'Cola" when I went to town.

RC Cola (Royal Crown) for those of a northern persuasion.

Red,

Did ya get 'em a Moon Pie with that RC cola?


.

 

[Ruger Nut]

Popeyes was founded in Louisiana in 1972. Then bought out by AFC in 1993 which is in Atlanta.

That's correct. Al Copeland of 'Nawlins founded Popeyes.

 

[Ruger Nut]

We have many things here in Louisiana that are craved for all over the world. But of all those things, this is at the very top!

 

[1morethan8]

The immortal song "Dixie" contains lines about

"Buckwheat cakes and Injin batter,
Make you fat or a little fatter"

What exactly are the foodstuffs referenced? ("Injin" batter may be "engine" batter, especially in these PC days.)

Buckwheat cakes is made with buckwheat flour and made into a pancake.
Injin batter is corn mush made into cornbread(of some type).

 

[Alpo]

mjr, if that's a legitimate question -

"Buckwheat cakes" is one of the gazillion names for pancakes. Hotcakes, griddlecakes, flannel cakes, stack o' wheats, etc. Specifically pancakes made with buckwheat, which, unlike wheat, is not a grain but is a fruit.
Buckwheat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Injun batter is hoecake. Injun meal is corn, so ground corn, water salt and grease is Injun batter.

Look at post #4.
Dixieland

 

[nawilson]

This thread has been a wonderful break from the 2nd Amendment and "can you believe the price" threads... Thanks for the laughs!

 

[kcode]

I can't believe that with all of the talk about southern foods and cooking, ain't nobody mentioned fried okra....

 

[mjr]

I can't believe that with all of the talk about southern foods and cooking, ain't nobody mentioned fried okra....

Well, fried okra goes without saying. That's why.

 

[J Rich]

You know your in the south when.

You see a man open the door for a complete stranger.


I was in Maryland for a day. We stop at a gas station. As I walked to the door a noticed a lady walking behind me. So, in my true gentlemanly fashion I pulled the door open and stepped aside. The lady stopped and looked me up and down. Then say got a superized look on her face, and said "oh thank you".

I guess that sort of thing isn't common in those parts.