Preponderance of Southerners! (Page 3)

Oh, y'all are makin' me so homesick I could cry.

Honey, you come on over here and you'll ALWAYS find a pitcher of sweet tea in the fridge.  I don't get enough of the rest of the home-cookin' that I'd like, but that's partly because I can't eat it all by myself.  I found myself a good-lovin' man, but one that doesn't like cornbread. 

Now, I'd like to say that in my part of Louisiana, we ate salty cornbread.  That sweet stuff don't taste right.  Martha White's Cotton Pickin' Cornbread, to be exact.  Sadly, I can't buy it out here, and have to ask my mama to send it to me.

Did any of y'all see Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard on TV on Sunday?  Meet the Press, I think it was.  My South has grown men who cry like babies when they talk about their "mamas" or anyone else's mama.

In my South, hugs and tears are always close at hand.

Family always comes first, even when you disagree.  You may fight with your sister in the morning, but you'd defend her to the death that evening.

My South has carports, not garages.

In my South, catfish and hushpuppies are standard fare.  Red beans and rice on Mondays, fish on Fridays (even if you're not Catholic).

In my South, everyone is called "honey," "sugar" or "babe" regardless of how long you've known them.

In my South, people don't take down their Christmas tree after New Years, they just change the decorations to Green, Gold, and Purple to signal the start of Mardi Gras season (from Jan 6 through Fat Tuesday).

And, in my opinion, having lived in both Louisiana and East Texas, parts of Texas are considered the South.  I think the westernmost border of "the South" would be Dallas.  Houston is certainly in there.  As is Port Arthur and Beaumont.  But, then again, I'd think parts of Virginia would be too.  Certainly West Virginia is. 

macfights - 2005-09-05 9:56 PM i don't know about all you blasphemers speaking about texas but the TRUE south is south of the MASON/DIXON... EAST of the mississippi.... being raised in southern VA and coastal carolina teaches you those kind of geography lessons...

yeah, but that would leave out half of Louisiana and Arkansas.  I can tell you right now my Aunt Dot in Lake Charles is about as Southern as they come!  That woman will feed you till you burst!

Belgium, huh?  No, I suppose they don't have much in the way of cornbread, greens, fried chicken, grits or anything else like that.

But, some damn fine chocolate. 

Yeah, the trick is... you put the sugar in while the tea is still warm from steeping.  People in the South take iced tea very seriously.  It's considered the "house wine of the South" afterall. 

All Southerners I know who live out here are almost always certain to ask a waitress, "Do you have 'real' iced tea?  Without any froo-froo flavors?"

Funny story, I went in to a local fast food restaurant once to get a drink and asked the guy behind the counter, "Do you have 'real' iced tea?"  Meaning, not that fake stuff that comes out of the fountain machine. 

His response was, "No, all we go is that brewed stuff."  Uhhh.. ok.