You know you live in the South when...

[Alpo]

And on that subject, that green (sometimes black, sometimes yellow) rubbery/plasticy tube used for getting water from the spigot on the side of the house to the sprinkler in the front yard is a "garden hose", even if you ain't got no garden. Not just "hose" (that's women's stockings) - garden hose.

What y'all call it up north?

 

[shouldazagged]

"Don't even get me started on the virtues of granite vs. quartz."

I'm a geode man myself, but DAMN they're gettin' pricey!

Originally I come from the part of the East Tennessee mountains where until recent years folks still suggested you "vote the way your great-granddaddy shot" in the Civil War. Of course, back then if you were a southern supporter you were a Democrat.

I make wonderful cornbread and fried green tomatoes, and remember thinking that what got to be called "soul food" in the '60's was just good old East Tennessee country cookin'.

I was raised to say "Yes ma'am, no ma'am, thank you ma'am, please", and still do. It's not totally unheard of here in Louisville, but the young'uns don't bother. I do sometimes talk to people in line at the grocery. A couple of days ago I was in an "express" line that was moving at about the speed of tectonic drift. I wear a full (white) beard, and I turned to the lady who had just come up behind me and said, "Ma'am, I hate to tell you this, but when I got in line I was clean-shaven." We had a nice conversation after that.

 

[keith44spl]

Copenhagen, what a wad of flavor
Copenhagen, you can see it in my smile
Copenhagen, do yourself a favor,
Cheeew Copenhagen, drive them purty girls wild.

Yup,

Even them ol cowboys write songs about it..........

Chris Ledoux-Copenhagen - YouTube


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[jimmyj]

At a Public Gathering when the band plays "Dixie" everyone stands

 

[Lost Lake]

Here in Wisconsin I always hold a door for a lady, and most often even men hold the door until the next man can grab it coming behind him. Midwesterners have very good manners I think, as do northwesterners from what I have seen. Southern folks have exceptional manners in most cases, and I am shocked at the time they will spend politely chatting or helping others.

I just love the south and the southern people.

Cornbread (my dad calls it Johnnycake) for me is something that goes great with pork chops, pork roast, ribs, pulled pork, BBQ chicken etc., and I love to smother it in butter and honey.

If any of you southern pit masters want to share your secret for BBQ I'm dying to learn how to do it right.... y'all make it seem so easy but I can't get it right no matter how I try....

 

[snowman]

And on that subject, that green (sometimes black, sometimes yellow) rubbery/plasticy tube used for getting water from the spigot on the side of the house to the sprinkler in the front yard is a "garden hose", even if you ain't got no garden. Not just "hose" (that's women's stockings) - garden hose.

What y'all call it up north?

It's usually called a garden hose; but when in use it is often shortened to "hose"; e.g. "Honey, would you bring the hose around front so we can water the hanging baskets?"

Andy

 

[JFootin]

Southern Country Accent

In the Southeast, especially in SC, there is a country accent that is exaggerated in children. They add a 'y' and a vowel to almost every syllable, making 2 syllables. For example, Cowpens, SC becomes Cayopayuns. Quite amuzing!

 

[dewey]

Well, after 15 years married to a Georgia Peach Now who just truned 55, she says 'Hose Pipe" everytime all the time. I'm a yankee from OHIO and just say hose. Right after that she'll say"hose pipe". After 55 years she's hard to retrain but makes GREAT biscuts and gravy. After 2 hours sitting out the biscuts turn into hockey pucks.

I lived in Texas and the locals say
"Fixin' to get ready"....and just when do you think you'll BE READY ? ? ?

My Texas thru+thru sister in-law was an hour and 15 minutes late for her wedding, letting the 250 folks sit in the church in 105 degree weather. The church had NO AIR. The folks still talk about it 35 years later...."fixin' TO GET READY....?" :O
DAN

 

[dewey]

JFootin from NC

Not sure about the Y Thing. There is a town on the NC/SC border, it's in NC, called RUTHERFORDTON....

LACALS SAY...."RUF'TON".

Town in northern SC called Clinton. To locals it's CLIN'N.

 

[1morethan8]

I haven't heard a water hose ever being called a hose pipe?
Must be a local thing?

Something many may not know is the many different ways people from the South talk and sound. Most states has two or more depending on the area. Georgia has four basic "sounds". If you've lived here long enough you can tell.

dewey..
Got a friend that lives near Rutherfordton, NC, he lives on Pinnacle Mountain.

 

[dewey]

ImoreTHAN

Awesome place BUT the actually have Snow up there ! ! ! !

 

[Ruger Nut]

You should really let those lobsters grow up a little before you eat them.

That thar's funny rot thar!
You know, when we eat crawfish, we suck the juices from the head first and then eat the tail meat, or vice versa. It's a turn on when you see a woman suck the head until the eye balls cave in!

 

[Fishslayer]

It's grits that fall from the sky.
Oh and I do remember the grease can
I consider myself cajun first, then southern (when I'm in New Orleans) I have been given honorary Texas status when visiting out west.

I grew up in Southern California & I don't recall we ever considered Texas "The South." Maybe "Southwest" but more kinda it's own thing. Growing up when we thought of Texas we thought of The Alamo, Cowboys, Texas Rangers (One riot, one Ranger. ) and all that sorta thing.

Spent a year in Southern Jawjuh (AKA Mayport, FLA). Loved it. I never knew you could actually cut filets off a catfish. Grandpaw never taught me that.

But my wife is from Tejas and lives on sweet sun tea during the summertime.

 

[LazyKB]

Yup,

Even them ol cowboys write songs about it..........

Chris Ledoux-Copenhagen - YouTube


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"I've used Copenhagen for fifteen years and never had a problem with worms or long relationships."

 

[wbraswell]

I have a cousin from Georgia, who calls a town or county named Lafayette, Lafit.
Is it just my imagination, or does Chris Ledoux look kind of like Walt Garrison, the original "pinch" man.

 

[Muley Gil]

"Hose pipe" is British. First time I came across it in a Harry Potter book, I had to ask someone. It's a garden hose.

Anybody here in the states use the term?

Most everybody in Alabam' uses that term.

 

[Muley Gil]

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"!

Did somebody say "cornbread"??

Cornbread baked in a cast iron skillet and served with mustard greens:

Fried cornbread served with chili:

 

[Alnamvet68]

....when having a mouthfull of rotting and broken "chicklets" is a fashion statement.

 

[vigil617]

If any of you southern pit masters want to share your secret for BBQ I'm dying to learn how to do it right.... y'all make it seem so easy but I can't get it right no matter how I try....

LL, we would, but then we'd hafta kill ya.

And we like you too much for that!

 

[vigil617]

Well, after 15 years married to a Georgia Peach Now who just truned 55, she says 'Hose Pipe" everytime all the time. I'm a yankee from OHIO and just say hose. Right after that she'll say"hose pipe". After 55 years she's hard to retrain but makes GREAT biscuts and gravy. After 2 hours sitting out the biscuts turn into hockey pucks.

I lived in Texas and the locals say
"Fixin' to get ready"....and just when do you think you'll BE READY ? ? ?

My Texas thru+thru sister in-law was an hour and 15 minutes late for her wedding, letting the 250 folks sit in the church in 105 degree weather. The church had NO AIR. The folks still talk about it 35 years later...."fixin' TO GET READY....?" :O
DAN

My wife, born and bred in Robeson County, NC in southeastern North Carolina, has been saying "hose pipe" all her life. Where she comes from, a lot of folks say "tooth dentist" too.

Another expression I enjoy from living down here is, when starting a conversation with a friend, especially one you haven't seen in a while, to say "How's your mama and them?"

As to your Texan sister in law being so late for her wedding, while a Southern Lady doesn't EVER have to explain herself, I would bet you next week's paycheck that, somewhere in that storyline, an armadillo was involved.