Southerners' All-Time Favorite Snack Calls For a Bag of Peanuts and Bottle of Coca-Cola

Southern Living ^ | 5/11/22 | Kaitlyn Yarborough

[Charles Martel]

Pro Tip: If you’re ever in a steakhouse in Muscle Shoals Alabama and ordering your dinner, don’t ask IF they have sweet tea.

Forks will drop on plates and you hear everyone whisper “They’s a Yankee in Heah”

I'll have to find that place (it's funny because it's true; I've experienced it elsewhere many times from Tennessee to Lower Alabama). Independent restaurants, mostly.

[catnipman]

“I thought it was pepsi, not coke.”

RC Cola, actually ... an ol’ timey carpenter i worked with said they used to call it “dopin” ...

[MayflowerMadam]

I thought it was RC Cola.

[GaryCrow]

I just made the same comment. My father was from Ellisville, Jones County (Free State of Jones), MS.

My family is from Jasper County, the next county to the north of Jones. I still have property and a house there, but I live in Florida most of the time.

[Jamestown1630]

That sounds like it would be really good on oysters.

[Jamestown1630]

I used to go whole summers eating tomato slices with mayo on toast for lunch.

Can’t get good tomatoes like that anymore...

[deport]

A couple of questions

Where they home grown or imported
What type tomatoes were they

[Jamestown1630]

I didn’t like pork rinds because every one I tried seemed to taste rancid. Then my husband found some called called ‘4505’, and those are great. They come seasoned in lots of different flavors.

[M Kehoe]

Yep.

Don’t do it anymore because we are boycotting Coca Cola and it doesn’t work with Pepsi.

5.56mm

[dfwgator]

Those are good, but so expensive.

[Jamestown1630]

Back in those days, we could get very good, big tomatoes at the grocery store - a slice would almost cover a whole slice of bread sometimes. Now you’d have to go to a farmer’s stall or grow them yourself, to get that kind.

My father-in-law would grow his own, and overnight us a box of the first good ones every summer. I haven’t had a decent tomato since he died.

[Jamestown1630]

Yes. I’m having to rein him in, these days, on steak and...pork rinds :-)

[deport]

Thanks. I was raised in the county and tomatoes was part
of the garden. I was just curious if you knew the variety.

[Jamestown1630]

I remember reading that the inventor of the 'Moon Pie' was inspired to create it because the coal miners wanted a desert that would fit nicely in their round lunchboxes:

[Jamestown1630]

I asked my husband which eating tomatoes his Dad grew, and he says ‘Early Girls’ - I think he chose that because of his latitude, and that there was a family contest to see who got the first tomato. I don’t know what the grocery stores sold back when I was growing up, just that they were big and very red.

I bought my FIL special seeds for a tomato developed at Rutger’s one year, but never heard how they did. It was close to a time when there was a blight year there.

[nandrew]

Try heirloom tomatoes

[Jamestown1630]

I’ve wanted to. No place to grow right now, but maybe we could do a balcony crop.

[GOPJ]

Boiled peanuts...

[Mean Daddy]

I must be a southern wannabe. Love PG & mayo sandwiches and definitely salt my watermelon.

[Svartalfiar]

A peanut butter-and-mayonnaise sandwich?

Wht in the hell is wrong with this chick...


Pineapple-and-cheese casserole?

Never heard of it.


Salt on watermelon

Some people do this, but it's not that widespread. Instead, freeze the watermelon, then add it to your margaritas. Tastes just like a pink Jolly Rancher!


peanuts and Coca-Cola. ...a dynamic duo to be guzzled straight out of a cold glass bottle. Together.

The classic combo is peanuts and RC Cola, but I've never seen anyone dump the peanuts into the bottle...