The "South" Thread

[Georgia Girl]

Even done wrong, they're good.

But, as for the rest, I'm not sure about that. I mean, whipped, cream and such, sure. But grits? There's a reason the word "gritty" exists.

Just imagine grits with "Special Sauce" oh yummy.

Dawn

 

[JazzManJim]

Yep, Southerner here too. From Granada.

(Oh, erm, does southern Spain count? )

Sure it does. It's not the location, but the attitude that counts.

Now where do you stand on the divisive "grits" issue?

It's good to see you again. All is well? I'm considering swiping part of your av for a tattoo. Of course, I'd have to get a still image. Animated tattoos are tough to do, so I've heard.

 

[huskie]

Borne and raised just north of Atlanta, GA. That makes me a Georga Boy, but you better put a Tech on the end of that. Die hard Yellow Jacket Fan.

I live in Central NC now. We have TONS of Yankies around here. They left thier familys and friends and moved down here to retire and play golf. Funny? Most of my work is up north though?

I know why the Yankies fault so hard not to let us leave. I would have done the same thing if the best part of America wanted to break away.

Huskie

 

[Hamletmaschine]

. . . It's like Jeff Foxworthy once said..Louisanna has the best cooking on this planet as long as you don't ask too many questions about what your eating...

True enough, SB, true enough!

I once overheard a couple of ol' Cajuns talking about the best way to cook owl.



And you can put me down as another grits lover, too.

 

[Pyper]

I´d have to say I´m a no grits person. I mean, I´ve got nothing personal against grits, it´s just that I don´t think that they taste like enough of anything to justify eating them. ::nods sagely::

All is crappy here. I´ve got crappy finals.

 

[JazzManJim]

I´d have to say I´m a no grits person. I mean, I´ve got nothing personal against grits, it´s just that I don´t think that they taste like enough of anything to justify eating them. ::nods sagely::

All is crappy here. I´ve got crappy finals.

That's why you add a little butter and some salt. It's the seasoning that makes them good.

Finals? Ugh. I finished mine a couple of weeks ago, thankfully. Can I help any?

 

[huskie]

How far do your southern roots go?

Mine go back further but heres a tell for you.

My Great Grandfauther was in the Red Neck Muffia. He used to run mone shine out of the north Ga. mnt. with the Elliots (as Bill Elliot clan). One day in the 1930's he was running rum up from Fl. and was killed in Atlanta by another rival Red Neck Muffia clan. I'm no like the Kennedys but hey I'v got some red neck roots storys to tell.

Huskie

 

[Pyper]

Finals? Ugh. I finished mine a couple of weeks ago, thankfully. Can I help any?

Not unless you happen to know alot about Spanish and Latinamerican literary movements of the twentieth century.

 

[cutie pie]

Gotta re-think my stand on the whole grits thing. . .

 

[JazzManJim]

Not unless you happen to know alot about Spanish and Latinamerican literary movements of the twentieth century.

Not nearly enough to be helpful. How about I just act as comic relief in between studying binges?

<tapdances>

 

[Pyper]

Not nearly enough to be helpful. How about I just act as comic relief in between studying binges?

<tapdances>

::claps appreciatively::

Oh and by the way, I do have actual Southern American roots. My great great great great (whew) grandfather and his family fled the Reconstruction in Atlanta and ended up in California, where we´ve been ever since.

 

[JazzManJim]

Oh and by the way, I do have actual Southern American roots. My great great great great (whew) grandfather and his family fled the Reconstruction in Atlanta and ended up in California, where we´ve been ever since.

See? That's enough to count!

So how'd you end up across the Great Water anyhow, hmm?

<encores!>

 

[Pyper]

See? That's enough to count!

So how'd you end up across the Great Water anyhow, hmm?

<encores!>

By the amazing process of...Exchange Student Program! (hehehe)

I´m actually a Californian, but I like to tell people that I´m granadina en mi corazon (Granadan in my heart).

 

[JazzManJim]

By the amazing process of...Exchange Student Program! (hehehe)

I´m actually a Californian, but I like to tell people that I´m granadina en mi corazon (Granadan in my heart).

Ooooooooooo! Magic!!

And I know a little Spanish. Enough to be dangerous (and to know what you said). And if you're studying in Grenada, does that make you a student of that estimable medical school (or do I have the wrong Grenada entirely?).

Oh, and we'd better utter YeeHaw or two or we're going to get tossed out of this thread.

 

[JazzManJim]

Gotta re-think my stand on the whole grits thing. . .

Let me just say that the way my social life has been, there's not enough grits you and GeorgiaGirl can bring that's keep up with me.

 

[Daddyslilpet]

I'm from the south too. Grew up in Alabama, currently living in Louisiana. Hope to get back to Bama some day, or maybe Tennessee. Maybe one day hubby will retire from the army and I can go home. LOL

As for the grits issue, I think they're ahight ( that's southern for alright btw), just gotta use butter and sugar in mine.

 

[Pyper]

Ooooooooooo! Magic!!

And I know a little Spanish. Enough to be dangerous (and to know what you said). And if you're studying in Grenada, does that make you a student of that estimable medical school (or do I have the wrong Grenada entirely?).

Oh, and we'd better utter YeeHaw or two or we're going to get tossed out of this thread.

Umm...there are lots of places named Granada, and we do have a big impressive looking medical school...so I´m not sure if you´re thinking of the right Granada! I happen to be in Granada ´Last Kingdom of the Moors´ ´Home of the Alhambra´.

Oh right. Yeehaw y´all.

 

[someplace]

I claim the best of both worlds

Texan here with family scattered from Texas to Georgia. Spent the second half of my childhood in Virginia.

Put me down on the I Love Grits team.

I know what you mean about Cajun cookin'. Seeing the pics Riff took with his new camera of his dad boiling crawfish reminded me that there's probably no better cooks than the men in Louisiana. I mean, they can make anything taste good (just don't ask what it is). Now on the crawfish, I can never remember. Is it "suck the heads and pinch the tails" or vice versa?

 

[Georgia Girl]

Peeking over my shoulder at the various Confederate and Union guns and swords, representing both sides of my family.

I am southern to my toes which are normally bare.

Dawn

 

[cutie pie]

Let me just say that the way my social life has been, there's not enough grits you and GeorgiaGirl can bring that's keep up with me.

Well, if your social life has been anything like mine, there would be no need for grits! Except for as an intermission snack.

 

[JazzManJim]

Umm...there are lots of places named Granada, and we do have a big impressive looking medical school...so I´m not sure if you´re thinking of the right Granada! I happen to be in Granada ´Last Kingdom of the Moors´ ´Home of the Alhambra´.

Oh right. Yeehaw y´all.

The Grenada of which I was thinking is an island. The United States had to sent some troops there a couple of decades ago.

You're ensconced nicely on the Iberian Peninsula.

See? I studied geography?

And YeeHaw.

 

[Pyper]

Time for me to run. The smoke in the internet cafe is starting to reach hellish proportions.

One more yeehaw for the road!

 

[Hamletmaschine]

Pinch the tails and suck the heads.

 

[JazzManJim]

Well, if your social life has been anything like mine, there would be no need for grits! Except for as an intermission snack.

We just know it'd be true.

 

[huskie]

Cajun cookin

aIt's the peppers.. Got to be the peppers????

Notice how southern talk ALWAYS leads to food?

Just one more reason why it's better to live in the south.