Things only people from the South know

8-27-03 | Unkown

[janetgreen]

(some people berl, others bile)

I think my Grandma berled (Arkansas).

[Fraulein]

She would say "it came up a cloud"

LOL! I say that. That's the past tense for: "Looks like a cloud's a coming"

[Oorang]

Before the food police came along we never threw grease away

Thank heavens the food police wouldn't get far in the South. My grandfather never used butter. Every meal he put bacon drippings on his biscuits and corn pone. He lived to be 97.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Cracklin'

[Rose in RoseBear]

My family, from San Antonio and points south, always called that fizzy soft drink in bottles "soda water." I married a man from about 1500 miles north of San Antonio, who calls it "pop." I'll be going up yonder soon, and will have to steel myself to "pop."

<shudder>

[CindyDawg]

Mine lived to be 96 doing the same but he also served fried squirel(not going to worry if a ms on this thread lol)

[LRS]

A true Southerner knows the proper pronounciation of the word "carrion" is NOT "kar-e-an", but "kee-yorn", as in "Pee-yew! Sumtins died cheer, 'cos I smell keeyorn!"...

[DeFault User]

Ice tea. I asked for it in a Toledo restaurant and was informed they did not serve ice tea after Labor Day. Culture shock!

[night reader]

A true Southerner knows that after Jesus Christ, the greatest men in human history are Junior Johnson and Richard Petty.

Not so: Bob Lee & Stomewall take second and third. Junior and Richard round out the top five.

[CindyDawg]

And it's Pacans not peecans

[yarddog]

I wonder if anyone remembers the "Rolling Store". I remember it used to stop by our farm about once a week. Mother would always get something. He would also take chickens etc. in trade.

[Fraulein]

most southerners have two first names

My grandmother's name is Willa Bell.

[B-Chan]

I put sugar and cream on my grits. I thought it was a hot cereal like Malto meal.The waitress asked me if I was from up North.

LOL! I'll just bet she did!

(Here in Texas, they'd've asked you if you were from Russia.)

FYI: Grits are made from parboiled and lye-soaked hominy (corn), so you were correct -- it is a hot cereal. The correct way to eat grits is with crisp-fried bacon crumbled into it, along with butter (and salt, if desired). Corn is already a “sweet” flavor, so adding sugar is gilding the lily. Oklahomans, Kansans, and folks from Missouri eat cheese grits -- here in Texas it's usually just bacon and butter.

I eat grits for breakfast almost every day, by the way.

[Rose in RoseBear]

We did grow okra one year, as I recall, when I was small.

That may be the year I learned to despise it.

<laughing>I can remember when she would try to tempt me with it! I would run in the opposite direction!

[Fraulein]

Do they eat tomato sandwiches up north?

[yarddog]

My Mothers was Cara Belle.

[Oorang]

Yum. I still have a little bit of cracklin left in the freezer that one of my Aunt's sent me home with last year. Also found a local butcher that will save me leaf lard so I can now make my own. Life is gettin pretty sweet!

[DeFault User]

Fried squirrel? We always ate it roasted. An aunt always wanted the brains. Only person I ever knew who wanted to eat squirrel brains--not much there.

[Fraulein]

I order tea in New York and they brought me hot tea! I was dumbfounded.

[yarddog]

I noticed when reading Sir Walter Scott's novel "Quentin Durward" that the head of the Scottish guard pronounced it Quarn, just like we did.