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Things only people from the South know
8-27-03 | Unkown

Posted on 08/24/2003 7:38:34 PM PDT by WKB

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To: WKB
True Southerners never refer to one person as "ya'll."

True Southerners can spell "y'all". :o)

441 posted on 08/25/2003 8:35:25 AM PDT by PleaseNoMore
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To: mhking
mmmmm...cheese and garlic grits and a mess of fried shrumps!

a glimpse of heaven on earth!

442 posted on 08/25/2003 8:35:59 AM PDT by sweet_diane (Philippians 4:12-13)
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To: KC_for_Freedom
"I am a newcomer in these here parts, can you tell how to get to the lake?"

Ya cain't git thar from here...

443 posted on 08/25/2003 8:37:10 AM PDT by bankwalker (If I have to explain, then you wouldn't understand.)
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To: nopardons
I have a hard time eating a nice watermelon with no salt.

I have been fortunate enough to have a dozen or so really nice ones this summer. In fact, you've got me thinking about getting another one.

(they just take up so damned much refrigerator space)
444 posted on 08/25/2003 8:37:23 AM PDT by wardaddy
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To: yarddog
"it came up a cloud"

I rarely hear that anymore. My grandfather is the only one I know that says it anymore.

445 posted on 08/25/2003 8:38:14 AM PDT by PleaseNoMore
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To: JoeFromCA
Its one of them yankee bastard-I-zations of Southern culture...
446 posted on 08/25/2003 8:39:11 AM PDT by HenryLeeII
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To: JoeFromCA
43 years of living in Louisiana, Texas and Alabama and I've yet to meet someone called 'Cooter'...except that feller Cooter Brown and his dog, but that's a way different story of unknown origin.

I do have an Uncle Bubba, by marriage.... a fine, hard working family man.

447 posted on 08/25/2003 8:39:39 AM PDT by sweet_diane (Philippians 4:12-13)
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To: MEG33
"We are trying to find out if this is southern,Texan or just part of our family language. The cook in the kitchen says"I'll 'let' you set the table while I finish cooking dinner".Any one know?"

I let my kids unload the dishwasher... I let them bring the trash can in from the road. Just last night I let my Husband take out the trash!

I dew declare, don'tcha know, that letting one do a chore is so much gentler then making them do it. While I did grow up in Texas, all my people come from Mississippi, Alabama and Tenn...so it's not a Texas thing (where they don't even serve sweet tea in restaurants!).

448 posted on 08/25/2003 8:46:36 AM PDT by sweet_diane (Philippians 4:12-13)
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To: dixie sass
That thread just keeps popping (sodaing? tonicing?) up! <|:)~
449 posted on 08/25/2003 8:48:03 AM PDT by martin_fierro (A v v n c v l v s M a x i m v s)
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To: CindyDawg
"You got a cook? wow!"

The cook always worked for pay and tote.

450 posted on 08/25/2003 8:49:15 AM PDT by sweet_diane (Philippians 4:12-13)
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To: Porterville; nopardons; dixie sass
In Brasil, breakfast at times and the big Sunday meal called Fejoada (fe-joe-a-da) comes with ground dried cassava (yucca) called farinha (fa-rin-nyha).

It is fairly grits like too and can be made into a gruel as well.

My own tatse for gruel has never been grits oddly. I prefer sweetened cream of wheat with milk or cream or stone cut oats in the same manner.

Little morsels of info everyone simply must have..lol
451 posted on 08/25/2003 8:50:30 AM PDT by wardaddy
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To: Eagle Eye
UCLA...Unknown College of Lower Alabama. ie Troy State University!
452 posted on 08/25/2003 8:51:19 AM PDT by sweet_diane (Philippians 4:12-13)
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To: brianl703
In the south you don't ask if someone wants a soft drink, you ask if they want a coke. Then maybe you will let on that you have sprite or maybe another choice, but every soft drink is a coke.
453 posted on 08/25/2003 8:56:07 AM PDT by kcat
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To: dixie sass
I promise to try, since I have been sounding more like a sailor of late ;)
454 posted on 08/25/2003 9:03:08 AM PDT by Libertina
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To: dixiechick2000
Crumpets??

Yeah you can just buy them now like English Muffins.

You must have been raised "uptown"...lol
455 posted on 08/25/2003 9:16:36 AM PDT by wardaddy
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To: WKB
Knee high to a grasshopper. Just a piss ant. Git gone.

Directions usually include landmarks that no longer exists - Drive down thar, go around the bend a ways, and a bit past where the Brown's ol' barn used to be...

Southern dawgs know when and why it's time to co'mon and git in the truck.

Not to get folks all in a tizzy, there are still old Southern black women who refer to themselves as Negras.

The best way to eat tomatoes, other than fried, is to pick them ripe and warm straight off the vine, take a bite and let the juice run down your chin (same with a peach). Or slather some mayo on a couple slices of soft white bread, add a couple thick slices of homegrown tomato and salt and pepper, and stand over the sink to let the juice run off your chin.

Scrambled eggs and brains for breakfast. Smooth gravy is gravy w/out flour lumps, not that any good Southern cook would make lumpy gravy. Fried salt pork. Pigs feet and pinto beans. Fried rattlesnake and fried armadillo. And watermelon rind is pickled. Actually, anything that will sit still long enough will get pickled.

The state tree of Texas is a pecan which is pronounced pu-con not pee-can. A pee can is an empty coffee can one takes on long car trips.
456 posted on 08/25/2003 9:28:15 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn
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To: sweet_diane
My daughter buys sweet tea by the gallon from Chick fil a!When I was young..sweet tea was always served in cafes and it was unsweetened that was the "option".(small towns had cafes not restaurants).My mother in law made a sweet tea more like a tea punch.It was big hit at family gatherings.I do declare,I think it's all those yankee franchises that moved in and messed things up! .Thanks for the answer on "let you".
457 posted on 08/25/2003 9:36:27 AM PDT by MEG33
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To: dixiechick2000
DC2k--thanks for the ping! I enjoyed the list.

WKB--You are the king of the long threads are you! 450+ posts?!? Do you drink a secret potion first thing in the morning or something?
458 posted on 08/25/2003 9:51:05 AM PDT by bourbon
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To: WKB; dixiechick2000
WKB--post #458 was for you too. I screwed that up.

Also, "You are the king of the long threads are you" should read "You are the king of the long threads AREN'T you?" My vacation has adversely affected my typing/posting skills. Sorry!
459 posted on 08/25/2003 9:56:00 AM PDT by bourbon
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To: WKB
I love this.... the only thing I see wrong in the posting is the "ya'll". It's "y'all"... contraction for you all. True Southerners know the difference, lol. We know the differnce between "all y'all" and "all y'alls", too! lol
460 posted on 08/25/2003 10:00:14 AM PDT by N8VTXNinWV
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