Posted on 01/14/2005 11:10:39 AM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs
Potluck once a month. Fried chicken is good, but the specialties of the congregation are Bishop's pie, tacos and chili.... Oldest member is 102. Believe me, it's still around.
The quiz is off. Everyone in New Jersey says Root 39, for example.
Well, I guess we were at that. We had a chamber pot for the nights. One good thing about it, my kidneys were better then, so trips were minimized.
Now, I would have to just camp out in there. Sigh.
BTW: Do you notice on this thread how many Yankees envy us Southern kids? Everybody wants to get over the percentage hump toward being Dixie!
50% "barely into Dixie"
As a Canadian, I may be largely influenced by American talk radio.
She always said wood cooked better. About the only thing I can recall is how she would take a piece of wood and bump something to open the oven.
I don't think Mother even knew how to make light bread. We had to get ours from the store. She could make extremely good cornbread, although I think it was technically cornpone as it was flat and cooked in a skillet.
My Nephew once asked her for the recipe for her cornbread and I was surprised to learn it had nothing in it but cornmeal water and salt. Hard to believe such a simple recipe could turn out so tasty.
We called those, "bed pans".
Can you imagine anyone using one of those now?
Or emptying it the next morning?
Did you ever live in a house that had nothing for light except kerosene lanterns?
And nothing for heat except the wood stove and fireplace?
Good grief! We have gotten so soft!
It surprised me how often an answer I gave zeroed in on either the Great Lakes area or Indiana.
Funny. After we moved to town, my mother hated the gas stove. She always said her wood stove cooked better.
When I was a kid I said that if I ever got grown I'd never eat another red bean or piece of cornbread.
Today if I had to live on two things it would be red beans and cornbread.
My dad was from Ark. However, I do say a lot of stuff that is in the Great lakes area.
oh, come on now.... That's pride talking. Californians don't identify or envy neither yankees nor rebs. We're weirdo nutcases and proud of it.
Surf's up!
Egads. I lived in Lake County for two years cooking on a wood stove. You could make me do it again, but you'd have to have a gun.
I smell a war a' brewing.
-good times, G.J.P.(Jr.)
I live in Michigan, and I got 36%.
Jeez.............
when I think about the choices........
Yankee = Massachsets or NYC liberal
Dixie = Arkansas redneck
Here in Ohio we're proud to be Buckeyes.
Depends on where you're from.
I have never heard a Californian bragging about his/her roots.
I mean, really, now, what could they say?
"Oh, I remember those fun filled gay pride parades in San Francisco!"
"As a kid I loved those brush fires in Malibou that showered everything with ashes and soot."
"Boy! Didn't we have fun playing on I-5 jumping from bumper to bumper of cars that had been sitting in the same spot for two hours?"
"It was a lot of fun trying to outrun the mudslides coming down the hills around Simi Vally."
"Earthquakes always opened up some new worlds we kids could explore in the cracks in the earth."
79% (Dixie). That is a pretty strong Southern score!
Heck yeah!
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