by WildHorses 35 Replies latest jw friends
Y'all are indeed missing out by not trying grits. And I mean the food. I like mine with butter and a pinch of sugar, and some bacon and biscuits on the side.
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I went to Kroger this morning and didn't buy any grits. Now I'm wanting to go back, buy some grits and bacon, brew another pot of coffee, and eat yet another breakfast.
Mike.
I like mine with butter and a pinch of sugar
and here I thought I was the only one who ate them that way.
should know, I'm a damn yankee.
Actually it's damnyankee. One word. And only a Texan knows the difference between fixin' and makin'.
I'm fixin' to go take a shower. While my wife is makin' lunch.
And now you know.
Hi Wildhorses: You have pegged Southerners very well. My entire family is from the south. I was the only one raised in California, but Southern ways were bred into me. My Grandma taught me to love black-eyed peas, and not just grits, but homney grits with lots of butter, salt and pepper. We always had cornbread on the side. We often had biscuits n' gravey for breakfast. She more often referred to African Americans as Colored Folks than as Negros. And she often talked about the South rising again. And it has in a way. I can add that Southern hospitality does not just mean having a simple nice and polite dinner with good friends. It can often mean half the neighborhood coming over for breakfast and staying for three meals or even the night during the summer, playing lots of games. Where everyone gets bloated on watermelon, the only true social bonding food. Last but not least, the forbidden topics of religion and politics get discussed and debated anyway. All in all, the Southern way and talk is a softer style, in fact is: "Just right nice peachy keen." - Jim W.
Hearing a Southerner use the word "taboo" was one of the funniest moments of my admittedly pathetic life.
Expatbrit
Hearing a Southerner use the word "taboo" was one of the funniest moments of my admittedly pathetic life.
Hearing a Brit mispronounce Margarita was one of mine
Wildhorses,
Put 100 Southerners who don't know each other in a room, and half of them will discover that they are related
from both the paternal and maternal sides of the family
Js2
LOL @ Jst2, you got that right.
Big Tex, no, I am a Damn Yankee. ie. Damn, Yankee, go home!!!
Amazing, i'd love to take the credit for this but, I got it in an email last night.
WH,
My sister (a fellow Arkansan) sent me this yesterday
If you ain't Southern, you may not understand:
1. Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit.
2. It's been hotter'n a goat's butt in a pepper patch.
3. He fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.
4. Have a cup of coffee; it's already been saucered and blowed.
5. She's so stuck up, she'd drown in a rainstorm.
6. It's so dry, the trees are bribing the dogs.
7. My cow died last night so I don't need your bull.
8.. He's as country as cornflakes.
9. This is gooder'n grits.
10. Busier than a cat covering crap on a marble floor.
11. If things get any better, I may have to hire someone to help me enjoy it.
12. It's hard to pump out the swamp when you're up to your butt in alligators.
NOTICE TO THOSE MOVING SOUTH
The following is a pre-approved posting whose purpose is to offer insight and advice to people moving to the South from The North or anywhere else.
1. Save all manner of bacon grease. You will be instructed on how to use it by someone.
2. Just because you are able to drive on snow and ice does not mean Southerners can. Best stay home the two days of the year it snows.
3. If you do run your car into a ditch, don't panic. 3 men in the cab of a four-wheel drive pick-up with a six pack of beer and a tow chain will be along shortly. Don't try to help them. Just stay out of their way. This is what they live for. Their names will be Billy Bob, Virgil, and Roy.
4. You can ask Southerners for directions, but unless you already know the location of local hills, trees and rocks, you're better off trying to find it yourself.
5. Remember: "Y'all" is singular. "All y'all" is plural. "All y'all's" is plural possessive.
6. Get used to hearing, "You ain't from 'round here, are you"?
7. Don't be worried that you don't understand anyone. They don't understand you, either. Yer even.
8. The first Southern expression to creep into a transplanted Northerner's vocabulary is the adjective; "big ol", as in: big ol truck, or big ol boy, big ol dog etc..
9. As you are cursing the person driving 15 mph in a 55-mph zone, directly in the middle of the road, remember: ALL Southern folks learned to drive on a John Deere tractor, and this is the proper speed and lane position for that vehicle.
10. If you hear a Southerner exclaim, "Hey, y'all, watch this!" Stay out of his way. These are likely the last words he will ever say, or worse yet, that you will ever hear.
11. Most Southerners do not use turn signals; they ignore those who do. In fact, if you see a signal blinking on a car with a Southern license plate, you may rest assured that it was already turned on when the car was purchased.
12. If it can't be fried in bacon grease, it ain't worth cooking, let alone eatin.
13. The wardrobe you always brought out in September can wait until December to git drug out.
14. If there is the prediction of, or the slightest chance of, or even the most minuscule accumulation of snow, your presence is expected at the local grocery store. It does not matter if you need anything from the store. It is just something you're spos'ed to do.
15. Satellite dishes are very popular in the South. When you purchase one, it is positioned directly in front of the house. This is logical, bearing in mind that the dish cost considerably more than the house, and should, therefore, be prominently displayed.
16. Be advised that in the South, "He needed killin'!” is, in fact, a valid defense.
