SOUTHERN ADVICE

Mason Dixon | long ago | common knowledge

[dixiechick2000]

"An' what's your Mama's name, sugah?"

No, mah Mama's name idn't Sugah. ;o)

[boothead]

Do not touch. You can't handle Tabasco. Don't even try.

Same with White Liker!!!!!!!!!! You can't stomach'it.

[TexasCowboy]

I hate the way Yankees pronounce Lafayette!
Instead of the correct way, "Laugh-e-ette", they say, "Laaa (short "a")-fay-ette".
That's a big red flag to South Louisianians!

[TexasCowboy]

"I can hear Jeff Foxworthy now!"

Yeah, and good old Lewis Grizzard, may God rest his soul.

[LNewman]

amazin' idiinit?

[RichInOC]

The North has Ted Kennedy...The South has Edwin Edwards.

Now I don't think that's true...Fast Eddie didn't kill anybody, did he?

The North has an ambulance...The South has an am-a-lance.

...as Dale said to the reporter....

[Yeti]

"fiddin to"

"fitnuh"

[Twinkie]

fresh turnip greens cooked with turnips and a bit of pork
or bacon. sigh. with pinto beans, more bacon and unsweet
cornbread. sigh.

[razorbak]

Right. Hollywood always has their fake Southern movie characters saying y'all for the singular use.

Shakespearean language used "Ye" as does the [King James Version Bible] to mean "you" in the plural. Southerners use y'all, a contraction of "you all" for the plural "you" as opposed to the singular.

[lowbridge]

THE SOUTH - LIKE IT OR WE'LL KICK YOUR A$$!

[bethelgrad]

I know Kentucky really isn't the south, but as a Michigan transplant, everything on that list applies. Yep, I'm a carpetbagger, but my heart belongs with the south--or whatever KY is. GO FLETCHER!!!!

[razorbak]

A true Southerner knows the difference between "aimin' to" and "fixin to."

A few minutes ago I was "aimin' to" post this reply on FR. Now I'm "fixin' to."

How many fellow Southerners also remember "poke salad."

And this Southerner, when he says he wants gravy with his biscuits, means white gravy made with flour and meat grease, not redeye gravy. The redeye is for the deep South. At breakfast I love that white gravy [sometimes called "sawmill gravy" or "thickenin' gravy"] on my biscuits, on my eggs, on my sausage or bacon, and on my pan fried potatoes. My grandmother at that kind of breakfast every day. It finally killed her when she was 98.

My Southern roots are in Arkansas [Ozark mountains]. I now live in the Daytona Beach, Florida area. I also lived for 8 years in Southern Illinois. It is a Southern culture there also. When you ask people from there where they are from they don't say Illinois, they say Southern Illinois, as if it is a separate state [and they wish it was]. It is south of the Mason-Dixon line.

Also, growing up we never called them "crawfish" or "crayfish," we called them "crawdads."

And please, any true Southerner knows that the noon meal is "Dinner" and the evening meal is "Supper."

He/she also knows the joys of eating cornbread in "sweet milk." [Southerners call regular milk "sweet milk" to differentiate between it and buttermilk.]

And one reason we have trouble with our weight as we get older is that we think we have something sweet to drink with every meal [soda, sweet tea, lemonade, etc.] and something sweet to eat for dessert after every meal. That dessert may only be a biscuit with some butter and jelly, but we have to finish our meal with something sweet.

[Yeti]

edible canned greens, canned by Glory Foods.

Coincidentally, I had some of those not too long ago, the only canned collards I have had in 10 years or so.

They really are good, for canned. Not as good as fresh but, like you said, edible.

[Yeti]

In the South, people who drive past one another, WAVE/NOD/ACKNOWLEDGE.

Especially in rural areas.

[oyez]

The North has perch...The South has Crappie.

[deport]

My wife buys a can occasionally,

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Yuck......... Take her over to HEB's Central Market in the 3800 blk of Westheimer and let her get some fresh collards..... Quite a store if'n you've never been there...

[oyez]

We passed a Bar-B-Que joint over on St Rt. 308 in Tunica County, today, called "Chez Bubba". However, the roof was burned out so we deducted that Bubba must a got drunk one night and burned the place up.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I agree about that gravy.......I love "cream gravy" as we grew up calling it...... I never had red eye gravy......

My Grandpa fished with crawdads.....and my cousin would put them on the lawn chair to "attack" me..... I still remember being shocked that someone ate those things.....lol.......to me they were fish bait.....

Sunday dinner was fried chicken or roast - then supper was leftovers......

Poke salad? Refresh my memory on that one.......

[deport]

"Geet?

Naw..... "Jew?"

"Wantu?"

[DeFault User]

That dessert may only be a biscuit with some butter and jelly, but we have to finish our meal with something sweet.

My father used to be fond of biscuits with butter and cane syrup poured over them, which he called "white mule". This was in East Texas. Have you ever heard the term? I haven't run across it anywhere else.