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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

Only a true Southerner knows the difference between a hissie fit and a conniption and that you pitch one and have the other.

Nobody but a true Southerner knows how many fish, collard greens, Turnip greens, peas, beans, etc. make up a mess.

A true Southerner can show or point out to you the general direction of "yonder."

A true Southerner knows exactly how long "directly" is - as in "Going to town, be back directly."

Even true Southern babies know that "Gimme some sugar" is not a request for the white, granular sweet substance that sits in a pretty little bowl in the middle of the table.

All true Southerners know exactly when "by and by" is. They might not use the term, but they know the concept well.

True Southerners know instinctively that the best gesture of solace for a neighbor who's got trouble is a plate of hot fried chicken and a big bowl of cold potato salad. (If the trouble is a real crisis, they also know to add a large banana puddin').

True Southerners grow up knowing the difference between "right near" and "a right far piece." They know that "just down the road" can be 1 mile or 20.

True Southerners both know and understand the differences between a redneck, a good ol' boy, and trailer trash. <> No true Southerner would ever assume that the car with the flashing turn signal is actually going to make a turn. True Southerners know that "fixin" can be used both as a noun, verb and adverb.

A true Southerner knows how to understand Southern a booger can be a resident of the nose, a descriptive ("That ol' booger!") or something that jumps out at you in the dark and scares you to death.

True Southerners make friends standing in lines. We don't do "queues," we do "lines." And when we're in line, we talk to everybody.

Put 100 Southerners in a room and half of them will discover they're related, if only by marriage.

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

True Southerners know grits come from corn and how to eat them.

Every true Southerner knows tomatoes with eggs, bacon, grits and coffee are perfectly wonderful; that redeye gravy is also a breakfast food; that fried green tomatoes are not breakfast food.

When you ask someone how they're doing and they reply, " Fair to middlin.", you know you're in the presence of a genuine Southerner.

Southerners say "sweet tea" and "sweet milk." Sweet tea indicates the need for sugar and lots of it - we do not like our tea unsweetened, "sweet milk" means you don't want buttermilk.

And a true Southerner knows you don't scream obscenities at little old ladies who drive 30 on the freeway? You say, "Bless her heart" and go on your way.


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To: stand watie
"any southron KNOWS that "i'm fixin to" means in the next year or two.or next decade!"

That must just be you fellers, 'cause I'm fixin' to go to bed near 'bout any minute.

721 posted on 08/25/2003 10:25:39 PM PDT by sweetliberty ("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
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To: TexasCowboy
"There are only two really good cantaloupes in the world"

You ain't never had Rocky Ford cantaloupe have you?

722 posted on 08/25/2003 10:27:51 PM PDT by sweetliberty ("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
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To: yarddog
"Does anyone remember "Clabber Girl" baking soda?"

Yep. Does anybody else remember Golden Crown syrrup?

723 posted on 08/25/2003 10:37:04 PM PDT by sweetliberty ("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
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To: chuckles
"Ever had Mehaw jelly or Muskidine wine?"

My grandmother (who lived all her life in Georgia) used to make Muskidine wine. Of course, sometimes the deer would come and eat up all her grapes...

724 posted on 08/25/2003 10:37:13 PM PDT by Fraulein (TCB)
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To: Just_de_facts; dixiechick2000; WKB; Yudan; bourbon
Lusco's in Greenwood or the Crystal Cafe down the street.

Chez's Truck Stop on 45 north in Tupelo on weekend nights (rode hard divorcees drinking hard and chain smoking Kools).

Ruth and Jimmies at Abbeville (I know..cliche now)

The Rottiserie, the old Heidelburg, Al's Half Shell, and Otis's Bar B Que in Jackson....and the old Dennerys and Crechales....and Northgate brownies...sold but they still make em the same way. The Greek Guy and God Bless America!
Sunday buffet at the Downtowner 60s thru 70s. Ditto for the Sun and Sand hotel.

When my high school Jackson Prep beat everybody at everything and paid players without shame...lol

Ten Point deer camp near Steele Bayou, Kingspoint and Davis Island too. Duck Hunting at the Last Hope Hunting Club at Matthews Brake between Sidon and Egypt Planatation.

Like I said earlier Windsor Ruins and the old ferry near Port Gibson.

Labor Day dove hunt at Bozemans farm near Gluckstadt when that was in the country.

The gold finger pointed skyward on the church in Port Gibson. My grandfather's best craftsman broke his back working on that in the 50s.

The Dock on the weekends in Jackson...what an amazing gathering of beauty (feline).

Camp Mondamin (YMCA) on the Strong River.

Camp Kickapoo (Boy Scouts) near Jackson.

The military park at Vicksburg when you could drive there in the middle of the night to park or look for the ghost by the old trestle.

Mynelle Gardens

The old Southern Tea Room at the Downtowner in Vicksburg

Sullivan's Hollow (spawned me in part)

Riverside Park in Jackson when they had real hippies (yep, guilty)

The old Jackson Zoo and the cotton candy and the chimp that would smoke or throw feces at you depending on his mood.

PJ's last chance liquors across the old narrow river bridge at Vicksburg where they would sell to a 9 year old..lol

Busby's service station....the only stop on the trace between Tupelo and Jackson.

That restaurant in Meridian with the German name?

The roundtable in Mendenhall.

All the strip joints and slots and behind the doors gaming in Biloxi before gaming was legal.

Janes Maynesfeild's wreck on 90. Skynyrd's crash.

Hurricane Camille....I was about 12 miles inland.

The old Edgewater before the mall on the coast.

The Sub Deb ball in Jackson...got tossed from that one..lol

Now....as a Tennessean, I mainly remember an even slower pace, slower less nasally speech, better food, Spanish oaks and moss, taller magnolias and muddier water and just an overall smell of earthy deacy you miss here unless near freshly turned soil near some development.


as was said before...I could go on and on..
725 posted on 08/25/2003 10:37:40 PM PDT by wardaddy ("when shrimps learn to whistle")
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To: CindyDawg
My Mom was incurring some scolding a while back for throwing away a couple of frozen squirrel heads my Grandfather was saving for a "treat"...

BTW, I'm into the hundred level posts here and have yet to see a reference to scrapple...
726 posted on 08/25/2003 10:38:40 PM PDT by Axenolith (Scratch and sniff here -------> <--------(This really works))
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To: 4ConservativeJustices
And a TRUE Southerner gives directions like this, 'Drive a fer piece down the road, keep going past my cousin Billy Bob's house [insert lengthy discussion of Billy Bob, his family, their relations etc], then turn left just past where the old Wilkes place USED to be, ...'

ROTFLMAO! So true! You've described my grandmother to a T!

727 posted on 08/25/2003 10:38:45 PM PDT by Fraulein (TCB)
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To: wardaddy
You brought a tear to my eye.

Do you remember "The Wind Mill" on North Side Drive.
You go in durning the day and it was so dark it was 15 minutes before you could see?
728 posted on 08/25/2003 10:46:30 PM PDT by WKB (3!~ ( You can hear it anywhere but only here can you tell the world what you think about it))
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To: wardaddy
" That restaurant in Meridian with the German name?"

Weidmann's

729 posted on 08/25/2003 10:56:36 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Consiousness: That annoying time between naps.)
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To: WKB
I guess it's true then, Oklahoma isn't part of the South!
730 posted on 08/25/2003 10:59:32 PM PDT by I'm ALL Right!
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To: WKB
I'm 45. Bars on Northside?

I remember BJs and later The Rathskellar over near Northside and Delta Drive. Was it near there or over closer to the Power Plant or I-55/North State?

When I went juking, we usually went to Big Mikes or the Dutch Bar or if feeling Preppie, then Poets or later Fridays....and the resevoir after midnight.

For black jukejoints...The Kings Lounge on Fortification near Farish st...they would serve a 14 year old and had great blues and black jump and shout stuff and they treated snotty nosed white boys fine....all money is green you know.

I left out foot long hotdogs at the Redwood Inn on Terry road near Battelfield park....and what a gun collection that guy had!!..and the old Hullabaloo dance club from the 60s behind the Alamo Inn across 80.

And all the bootleggers across the river from Dennerys on the old Pearl river bridge in Flowood. I'd ride over with my grandpa or dad when MS was dry (sans beer) and you'd drive to the front and pay your money and tell em what you wanted and drive to the back and they'd place the whiskey (for egg nog ...seriously) in the crook of the tree..lol

And all the bordellos north off of Delta Drive in the county ...The White House and Rocky's....whew..
731 posted on 08/25/2003 10:59:39 PM PDT by wardaddy ("when shrimps learn to whistle")
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To: dixiechick2000
Thank you....I think it is still there.
732 posted on 08/25/2003 11:00:15 PM PDT by wardaddy ("when shrimps learn to whistle")
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To: wardaddy
What an awesome post.

It brought tears to my eyes and made my cheeks tingle.

Thank you so much.
733 posted on 08/25/2003 11:00:33 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Consiousness: That annoying time between naps.)
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To: dixiechick2000
There are still Northerners, who put salt on watermellon. My entire family always did so;; I just never cared for it that way and yes, I tried and tried to enjoy it that way, but never did.

Of course sweetened condensed milk is put into sweet potato pie. I doubt it can or is made anyother way. LOL

734 posted on 08/25/2003 11:05:13 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: wardaddy
The wind Mill was about 2 blocks east of what is now Medgar
Evers on NS Drive

...The White House
I know a guy who slept in the back seat of a car from Baton Rouge to Jackson and woke up in front of The White House and knew where he was.
735 posted on 08/25/2003 11:06:26 PM PDT by WKB (3!~ ( You can hear it anywhere but only here can you tell the world what you think about it))
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To: wardaddy
Yes, it is. I was friends with Shorty McWilliams girls. After he passed on, one of the sons-in-laws took charge. He couldn't make a go of it.

Sela Ward was a prime mover and shaker getting investors in to redo it. She did yeoman's work...and, it's now open for business again.

Their Black Bottom pie is to die for!
736 posted on 08/25/2003 11:07:23 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Consiousness: That annoying time between naps.)
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To: mtbopfuyn
Oh yes, I do know what I'm missing and I'm NOT " missing " it. I grew up with EVERYONE putting salt on watermellon. I just don't and never have liked it that way.

My grandmother made THE best pickled watermellon rind pickles ever. YUM indeed. I'm salivating at the thought. :-)

737 posted on 08/25/2003 11:08:08 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons
There are two kinds of sweet potato pie in the south.

One is spiced like pumpkin pie, and the other is not. The latter has a lot of eggs in it.

I grew up with both, and I prefer the latter.

As I told sweetliberty, it is so sweet and fattening you may as well just go ahead and apply it to your butt!
738 posted on 08/25/2003 11:16:54 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Consiousness: That annoying time between naps.)
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To: wardaddy
I don't like grits, but then, I don't like cream of wheat nor oatmeal either; never have done. My mother LOVED grits.She and everyone else in the family also liked cream of wheat and oatmeal too. I was just odd man out/have a different taste, concerning this matter.

I love watermellon though, even though it takes up far too much room in tyhe ice box and have one in there now. :-)

739 posted on 08/25/2003 11:18:07 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: dixie sass; snopercod
I'm loving this thread. Have good friends down in Baton Rouge, and my friend (the Belle of Red Stick) tells me that where she lives, y'all is singular, and "all y'all" is plural in her neighborhood. Don't know if she's pulling my leg, but she makes a mean chain-saw margarita under the wing of their Twin Beech.

(snopercod: Walt and Pat alert)

OK, having the unfortunate luck of having NOT been born in the South despite a nice Southern name (Coralie) and family that comes from Charleston, SC, would someone be kind enough to tell me the REAL way to season a skillet? I have a nice, OLD cast iron skillet that I want to get back in service the RIGHT way! I thank you. ;-)

740 posted on 08/25/2003 11:18:46 PM PDT by bootless (Never Forget)
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