Ha! Dreadgeek has southern roots, too, and I've learned to cook a lot of southern food since we've been together. Before I met her, I was 30 years old and had never tasted grits, collard greens, or sweet tea. Now I make them all, and we just had some seriously good homemade from scratch biscuits and gravy for dinner. I'm stuffed.

I had no idea people put sugar on grits. I always eat them with cheese and Frank's Red Hot sauce. I tried them with maple syrup once, but that was kind of gross.

Boiled peanuts are the best. Especially when you buy them from the old guy in a little shack on the side of the road...:cheer:

Duchess

I had to satisfy my grits craving today. I cooked them in milk, never water, and added a little sugar, butter, cinnamon and a couple of peach slices..Yummm :eating:

Before I go to bed, I'll make my oatmeal raisin walnut pecan cookies.. You guys have me in the mood to bake..:cooking:

Duchess

First things first: Good to see you, darlin! *grin*
And you're totally right about the guy selling them on the side of the road. We've gotten lazy. There is a peanut guy who brings them to us at the paper. Alas, I rarely have cash on me.

Hi Sweetness....That's pretty highfalutin of y'all..Ok, it's just me gettin' jealous cause I don't get boiled peanuts delivered..:tease:


For those of you that don't know, highfalutin means............
[edit] Adjective

highfalutin (comparative more highfalutin, superlative most highfalutin)
Positive
highfalutin
Comparative
more highfalutin
Superlative
most highfalutin

1. (US, informal) Self-important, pompous; arrogant or egotistical; tending to show off or hold oneself in unduly high regard. It's only a matter of time before some highfalutin developer builds a huge hotel and ruins the scenery.

Good Morning Wicket,

My dad and his family listened to the old country music such as Hank Sr, Ernest Tubb, Kenny Rogers, Johnny Cash and Dolly. I turned to rock and roll when I was 13, but I do listen to the old country music from time to time. My roommate who is from New York, never had chili and one day I decided to make it and he nearly fell over. I make it with mild beans and chili mix, but the next day that stuff lit him up like a lightbulb, hehe...

Have a good Sunday,

Zimmy

food, specifically grits, as weapon. only in the South.

:heartbeat:

:ambulance:

Yummy, now I'm wanting cookies and oatmeal are my favorite.

Do you do cookie mail order?
Can't blame a boi for trying.

Hemingway did some of his writing in his barn studio at his second wife's family home in Piggott, AR. "Fathers and Sons", "A Clean Well-Lighted Place", "Wine of Wyoming", and part of "A Farewell to Arms" were written there. The house and barn are now a museum.


As for the topic of the thread... Anyone who knows me very well knows how proud and passionate I am about being born and raised in Arkansas and the south. I've traveled all over the country and have yet found a place I'd rather live. I can take a joke as well as anyone, but jokes about Arkansas and the south get really old. I find it interesting when people who get offended by other stereotypical jokes such as butch and femme jokes can make stereotypical jokes about certain states or regions and not realize they can be just as offensive.

Btw, if anyone is interested in a tour of Arkansas, I might know a good tour guide! ;)

Well, I'd have to utterly disagree with you on the good sweet tea in restaurants, honey. Even here in Texas they have good sweet tea. Find a McAllister's next time you are in this area. :) I actually bought a jug to take home.

My preference is to call them "SHRIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK" but I've found that many of my acquaintances prefer to have their ear drums left intact.

I'll take you up on that tour guide! :) I love your state. My best friend moved there so I visited a lot in my younger days. Of course, it was just up to Crossett and Hamburg. LOL

You are right about the stereotyping jokes. I honestly think that most of those types of jokes are fear-based. Whether that fear is a fear of the unknown or a real fear, I just wouldn't know. Have to be on an individual basis. :)

But I try not to categorize all Yankees as stiff and rude. I can only control what is in my hula hoop. :*

NC bbq, yummo

how I miss that bbq

You're such a sweetie pie I might consider it. :)

Duchess

LMAO! Wondering if she takes any other advice from Madea?!?!


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That was hilarious!

None that I can remember. I usually have to work on New Year's Day.

Have fun today!

Zimmy

I've always just done the black eye peas for luck thing - and will be doing it this evening of course. We're also having spinach, a tradition from my partner's family, which I'm thinking is probably - like the collards - for money.

Really looking forward to my wonderfully Southern New Year's Day dinner!!!!!

I was talking real sweet tea.........my Mother made sweet tea in a special pot.........it was only for tea and never ever did soap and water touch that pot. She put at least 6 tea bags in that pot (about a half gallon of water), brought it to a good boil, turned the heat off and dumped in at least a cup of sugar and stirred. Then you get a glass, fill with ice and pour that hot sweet tea in the glass and enjoy!

Everybody I know in NM makes sweet tea that way. You can actually buy a gallon jug of sweet tea in the grocery store in my hometown. It don't taste bad.........and will do in a pinch.

I just got back from a road trip (in my new to me car) to NM. I stopped at some truck stop in AZ and ordered iced tea and the waitress asked if I wanted sweet or regular. I said sweet of course and it was pretty good..........lots better than trying to put sugar in tea at the table.......

:riding2:

as to special food on new year's day........not in my family.....new year's day is when you take down the xmas tree and all the lights & decorations outside and stored them for next year........Mother usually made soup that day (beef soup.....chunks of stew meat, taters and spaghetti noodles....brown the meat in the soup pot, fill with beef stock, add taters, noodles and simmer for about an hour).......oh yeah and football on the tv........

Yup, my traditions for New Years are similar to everyone's thus far.

Black eyed peas, collards or turnips with ham... Oh, and I made homemade cornbread & bruschetta to swap with leftovers. Dessert was brownies--so, needless to say, afterward I wanted to take a nap [I call it "food drunk"] :linus:

Hope ya'lls New Year is off to a blissful start!

I had greens and delicious peas at a local Men's bar yesterday. Every year I am invited to go with my bestie/my gay.

Hey Shark,

I live in Orlando and it is going to be in the low 30's tonight...It is colder than hell right now.

Keep warm!

Zimmy

Who sent this Artic weather to us in the South? It is cold in my apartment right now...

I love how we southerners have short term memory... it's gets pretty danged cold here in VA.. but we forget that every year! Maybe the humidity in the summer knocks out a few cells!

This weekend christie and I went looking for a new LR suite. We have a great small but upper end furniture store in town. They do not have on hand the suite we want to purchase, but as it turns out the owner has it in her house.
At her insistence, she puts a "gone to lunch" sign in the door, we pile into her car and off we go to her house.
We purchased the set and an awesome distressed leather recliner at cost ( this is even sans shipping.. I have no idea how she makes a profit) and she came by our house later to see it. The house, that is. We had previously purchased a great loveseat for our upstairs den.
During our adventure with her we learned that her daughters Girl Scout troop does monthly backpacks of single serving foods for local kids. We stopped by the grocers and picked up 48 ct of about eight different items to donate. I will be trying to see about volunteering to help them out.

This is a small part of what I love about this backwards, hillbilly, lovely little town.

Yeah I hear ya! My company closed at 6pm today for the weather and it isn't even raining here yet! They NEVER close completely for anything. But they had a learning experience with Hugo, so if it looks for real now they shut us down.

I am sure that Wally World sold out of shovels and ice melt yesterday. The dogs sure loved it this morning!

What part of the South do you live in?