What goes on in your neighborhood?

SWALKER

I thought it would be fun to find out information that you think we would not know about the area that you live in. Last night on the news I learned that London has been closing it’s pubs at 11 p.m. and they are about to change that…(I didn’t know that before)

I live in the South (USA) and here’s some things that you might find interesting:

If you come for dinner at my house, the normal southern meal might be….

Fried chicken, mashed potatoes/gravy, green beans, creamed corn, biscuits/cornbread, dessert, sweetened ice tea. (You have to sweeten the tea while it’s still warm…do not hand a southerner a pkg of Sweet & Low!)

Iced tea is served year round here!!!

This is a good link for country menus:

http://www.wsu.edu/~jmshaw/434/project2/html/roadkill.html

Some of the counties still have the “blue law” which means they can’t sell most goods from Saturday midnight until Sunday noon. It’s the Bible Belt and everyone needs to get to bed on Saturday night so they can get up for church on Sunday morning. A lot of bars (pubs to you guys across the ocean) get around the liquor sales by being private, but anyone can join!!! For a cover charge of say $10-$20 dollars you can get in and drink up.

Friday however, you can party all night long 'til the sun comes up!!!!

Swalker

juni

Hi Swalker!

Good Topic.

We live in a small town in Wisconsin. Here you see a lot of guys w/baseball caps, beer drinkers, trucks, NO SMOKING signs , hunters, busy bars open til 2am, old ladies wearing dresses to town, community gatherings all the time, friendly people, the town wierdos, graduation class of 50, people who are related to each other who have been born and have died here, church bells at noon and then music to fit the season also at 6pm, close down Main St. for the parades and throw out candy for the kids and dogs, a miniature Prom king and queen also attend the parade and dance, fund raisers for people who have fallen on hard times, free prescription delivery, free pickup and delivery of your car if it has to go in for anything - even an oil change.

Bratwurst, shaum torts, all kinds of cheese, Friday night fish fries. Our own language. I.E. "Bubbler" for drinking fountain, "come by me" for come over, soda or pop are both used. Juni :)

stillajwexelder

I shit you not but there are a few meth houses within a 1 mile radius

SWALKER

Juni...that sounds like a nice town to live in! Food sounds good too..

Still...I'll pass on your neighborhood. Does it worry you any to live so close? I heard that those meth labs can explode and are considered very dangerous.

Swalker

CountryGuy

We have a lot of police officers and alcoholics in our neighborhood. At least once a month, someone takes out the stop sign on the corner. Then there's the lady who lives next door, she has had to call an ambulance twice in the past three months because her son had drank himself almost to death.

He got mad at us for pouring out the bottle of vodka that he hid in our yard. I didn't know it was his, but I kinda figured. I would have liked to have kept it, but I wanted him to find the empty bottle so he wouldn't hide things over here anymore. I think it worked, he's always flipping us off now.

Other than that, we're a real quiet neighborhood.

kiddotan

Countryguy - not so keen on your quiet type of neighbourhood.

what fun this is...

I see horses, trees, red dirt. drive up the road to pub on every corner, alot open 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week. (mining town).

Western State ozzies definitly have a language of their own. Meals consist of Beer, steak, chips (fries), beer, fried onion (it's a bloody vegie ain't it), did i mention beer.

Tan

SWALKER

Hey Kid, we got the point on the beer. If I am ever over that way, I'll buy you one! What we really want to know (everyone REALLY wants to know this, but they're afraid to ask) is "Do you have a Roo for a pet?" Do you ever run into Steve Irwin?

Swalker

kiddotan

Swalker - nope no Roo for a pet, Neighbour had one, couldn't be pottie trained and liked tormenting the dogs. Was a little red, grew up to be a bloody big red. Has bought her joey back once.

Mostly the Roos get hit by cars, or run into them. Not particulary bright creatures.

Steve Irwin is creepy. Not sure i am that keen on really exxxcited people. Don't get many of his programs here, we get lots of his annoying ads on TV.

SWALKER

Steve is entertaining to watch! We watch his show just to get a laugh sometimes. He is on the late night talk shows here every few months and brings some of his animals on there. He was on The Tonight Show/Jay Leno 2 weeks ago and had Jay holding a 30 ft python! Then of couse you can catch him regularly on Animal Planet. Thanks for sharing your story with us.

So do you ride (horses) a lot there? Sounds like a good place to. Now go have a beer, you've worked for it!

Swalker

kiddotan

Swalker - Yeap, ride horses.

Steve's not so popular over here. But he does do a hellva lot for the native flora and fauna. Which is fantastic!

I'm not an ozzie(haven't been naturalised yet), never been much of a beer drinker, but it is the THING here.

Fried chicken, mashed potatoes/gravy, green beans, creamed corn, biscuits/cornbread, dessert, sweetened ice tea. (You have to sweeten the tea while it’s still warm…do not hand a southerner a pkg of Sweet & Low!)

Now that sounds like the southern USA we heard about. Sounds pretty good, coming over for tea. Had Iced Tea for the first time last week. Hmmm okay, think it might be an equired tasted.

I'll buy you that beer,

Tan

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