Posted on 01/14/2005 11:10:39 AM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs
Milk on grits is a sin!
This is one thing that makes me northern.
Tea better not be sweetened, and it better be ice cold.
Anything other than butter, salt and pepper on grits is sinful.
Any idea what a man can do with cold grits, though?
Yeah, I think that was the Eleventh Commandment to Moses.
I think there might be a law on the books somewhere in the South outlawing sugar and milk on grits. If there's not, there should be.
It gets fun talkin' about the ancestors sometimes...like my gganduncle Gladis Donaldson, (who I think may have gone by the name Don), who got kilt by being knifed by three irate husbands who thought this musician guy was being too friendly with their wives. Story says this happened in Pecos, TX...but I haven't confirmed the nasty rumour yet...
They should have offered 'aint' as the pronunciation for aunt. I had to compromise with 'ant', which I use on occasion for an aunt I'm not too close to.
Fry 'em!
Ice cold unsweetened tea makes you northern?
53% Dixie. Born in Ohio, raised in California and Hawaii...
I think Mississippi uses the Aint pronunciation more...but I think we, being removed about 80 years from MS, had degenerated to saying Ant. In New Orleans, though, you're as likely to here Ahhnt as Ant, or Aint.
Ya'll were hurting for literature back then if the lingerie pages of the Sears and Roebuck catalog were exciting. No wonder so many old Southern guys have eyestrain problems. It was always so dark in there.
I used to cut paper doll families out of the catalog. Only the sizes never worked out quite right. When I found a Mama and a Daddy I wanted to ride around in my matchbox car with their son and daughter, the Mama always turned out huge and the Daddy I cut out was little bitty, same for the kids, they never matched. This playtime activity was done in the middle of the living room floor, though. When a catalog was promoted to the status of toilet tissue, it was no longer paper doll material.
You're right, though. The slick pages were rejects in the Charmin category. - We did graduate to real toilet tissue at some point. I think it was about when we moved halfway across the state and rented an apartment with an indoor toilet. The catalog didn't fit on that little toilet tissue holder on the wall.
I'll try that. I did fill a hole in the road to my daddy's pasture once.
I got 70% (Dixie). That is a pretty strong Southern score!
How did that happen? I'm Irish! *L*
I like grits with milk/sugar AND butter/salt/pepper. In fact, I never met a grit I didn't like....
I've got a book you would love to read about the wild, bizarre things that happened in West Texas in the old days.
The Arizona Territory and West Texas were the last places to be "civilized", and a man had better be a man if he wanted to survive.
Like Clint Eastwood said when he was accused of shooting an unarmed man:
"Well, he shoulda armed himself!"
Damn! I was born too late!
96% Southern or Dixie
Is General Lee my Father?
No he isn't, but I wouldn't mine if he was.
99% Dixie. Raised in Cuba by a good Appalachian couple.
83% Dixie for me. 'Course, I already knew that I'm Southern!
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