You know you live in the South when...

[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.

 

[wbraswell]

Lost Lake, it's all about a tasty rub, low and slow, and don't be looking at it. Sauce optional.

 

[timn8er]

One time I asked my step son(my ex was from Arkansas)if he
had taken out the trash & was told "I done did it!" .

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

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.

I thought that that was mandatory everywhere. But what do I know? I was raised in North Carolina.

 

[Muley Gil]

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.

This was my room in Afghanistan. My 1st National flag is referred to as the "bread of life" version, due to the loaf shaped star pattern. This was the banner that General Robert E Lee had for his headquarter's flag.

 

[Roadtrash]

Another real flag thank you for posting this, it's good to see some people know the difference between the Stars and Bars and a Confederate Battle Flag or a Naval Jack.

And thank you for your service sir.

 

[Fishslayer]

Another real flag thank you for posting this, it's good to see some people know the difference between the Stars and Bars and a Confederate Battle Flag or a Naval Jack.

And thank you for your service sir.

I'll buy that but...

...a lavender desk lamp?

 

[1morethan8]

This was my room in Afghanistan. My 1st National flag is referred to as the "bread of life" version, due to the loaf shaped star pattern. This was the banner that General Robert E Lee had for his headquarter's flag.

Aka: "Headquarters Flag" and "The Ark and the Covenant".

 

[JFootin]

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.

Northerners think Southerners speak (and think) slowly, but I disagree. I live in WNC and get TV stations from East Tennessee. I watch commercials from car dealers in Johnson City where they speak so fast and abbreviate words so much, you have to pay close attention to understand them. 'Johnson City' comes out as 'JohCy'.

 

[blujax01]

My Dad (who was from Warsaw New York) and met my Mother (who was from Clinton North Carolina) when he was in WWII basic training in Georgia. Well they got married and both families had a problem with it so they did the only logical thing.

Move to West-By-God-Virginia!

So I'm a hillbilly (oops sorry, "Appalachian American") - with some insight on both sides. And You'uns is all crazy!