I guess you just have to be brought up on pimento cheese. I don’t understand pulley bones or boiled peanuts, either. I did bring moon pies and RC cola to a picnic last week (as a joke). I was astonished: everyone piled into them!
The legend of the South is they add peanuts to their
cola.
I was born in Ohio, husband on Staten Island. We’ve lived in Mississippi for 26 years. I missed your pulley comment & had to look it up. When I was young we had a wishbone pull in my family. If you got the wishbone you pulled it with another person & whoever got the bigger piece got to make a wish. I think the tradition came from my mom.
Boiled peanuts look like they came out of a horse’s hind end. No thanks.