TEST YOUR SOUTHERNISM

01/17/01

[mlo]

The Waffle House rules. They should go national, I want one here :)

You can keep Shoneys though.

[2Trievers]

"I am no longer a Rodeo Cowboy, bordering on the insane!"

So all this stuff you've been telling me about being Michael Shumacher's twin brother aren't true? Well I'll be ...

[Mamzelle]

Blue Ridge=pollen...??

A lifetime on the Parkway, but this *must* be explained to me. I am skeptical, indeed. These mountains used to be covered in chestnuts which flowered regularly, now there are none, and the hills are still blue.

[Taxman]

You have me confused with some other bloke. I am a retired Naval Aviator (onna them evil Tailhookers!), not a Formula I Gran Prix driver. LOL!

But I always figured if I could land on an aircraft carrier at night, I could drive a race car. Someday, I might even try it! LOL!

[stainlessbanner]

My favorite is when Elle Mae (who loves animals) has a jaguar for a pet. A family friend asks Elle Mae where the jaguar came from and she replies "South America."

Granny pipes up and says, "Yeah, you know like down Lousiana-way."

Pretty funny!

[KentuckyWoman]

They obviously wrote this test for Southern MEN. Too many fishing and football questions for most of us gals (although, I got the Bill Dance is for TN, the Evinrude boat motor and the Paul "Bear" Bryant ones correct). Geez...guess I'm soaking up sports stuff by osmosis!!! LOL

[Alabama_Wild_Man]

"...guess I'm soaking up sports stuff by osmosis..."

Whatever works Honey...
...whatever works...

Next thing ya know...You'll be able to pronounce the name of that River that Joe Namath grew up near.

[Brookhaven]

"Hard peanuts are roasted. One boils peanuts to soften them in brine."

Maybe someone can conform this but I think "Hard Peanuts" may be a localized term for "boiled peanuts". I've always heard them called them "boiled peanuts"

I've always heard "hard boiled". As in hard boiled eggs, or hard boiled peanuts, or hard boiled potatos. When you call something "hard boiled" it just means you boiled it until there isn't any point in boiling it anymore.

I've never heard someone use hard without boiled right behind it.

I'm suspect this test was written by a transplanted yankee. It seems to confuse the idea of rural (or country) and southern. Not everything that is rural is southern.

I've always heard the therm muscadine grape. I don't think I've ever heard anyone refer to them as scuppernog grapes in conversation.

Scrapple is not a southern food (unless you count West Virginia as a southern state, but I wouldn't list it as a southern state.) Scrapple is found in rural Penn. or Indiana. It is a country food, but not a southern one.