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No to grits but my mom loves them, yes to greens, no to chitlin, yes to cornbread, fried chicken and biscuits and milk gravy, pecan pie, chicken and dumplings, baked beans, succotash, coconut cake, pineapple upside down cake and fried cakes (doughnuts). All pre-IBS, of course!!

Speaking of southern humor, have you ever read any of Fannie Flagg's books? I get a real kick out of them because it's like she's describing my mom's family!!

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You mentioned Fanny Flagg's books before, and I'd been meaning to order them. Glad you brought it up again. Well, my MIL, 98 years old, is the typical "Driving Miss Daisey", and sooooo southern baptist!!!

If you haven't yet, read the Sweet Potato Queen's books...hiliarious............but you better be over the age of 45 to appreciate them.

Oh my, the food you talked about........yes, all PIBS (pre-IBS). I tell you, there is nothing in the world like southern fried chicken. No one west of TX knows how to cook the stuff............that and BBQ as well. (Love the "big Pigs with slaw right on top"......) Greens, collard yes, turnip no. Yes to succotash and rutabagas...and all their overcooked veggies. And dumplin's........well, aren't dumplings.........they're noodles as far as I'm concerned..........and don't ever sweeten cornbread, (right?) only tea. When I first married hubby asked for cornbread. I knocked my brains out trying to make his request only to find out later what he wanted was a type of "hoe-cake", made like a corn pancake in a cast iron skillet.........sigh. I still don't make them.......not those blasted grits either that take years to cook (only instant in this house). I don' like them, unless eaten in Yankee fashion...........milk and sugar. And what's this thing with cocomut cake..? Is that a southern thing........? Hubby loves it. And fry pies.......like turnovers as far as I'm concerned. I do like boiled peanuts though!!!

Good thing I lived in Virginia a while........

Ok, since you are familiar with the south......you do know a bit about North Carolinians don't you? And how they talk? (Beaglelover, are you listening?)...anyway.....do you think you could translate this? It's two tar heels speaking to each other.

"M R Ducks"
"M R Not Ducks"
"OSAR Ducks, C'm Wings"
"L....I....B,... M R Ducks"!!!


Kandee

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Make sure you read the SP Queens books in order. It will have more meaning...........but you'll be laughing your A* in no time. Forget the last........the Financial planner and recipe book........that is unless you want an attack just reading the recipes.

Nope, you're not crazy...........dumplings are DIFFERENT in the north........but with all do respect to the south there are BRANDS of dry noodles out there that call them dumplings on the pkg. Go figure!

Fried pies? Never could figure out why you had to use dried fruit only........but I'm sure there is a logical reason.

"CRISPY?, CRISPY?, CRISPY around the edges, YOU SAY?" I tell you, if I've heard that once I've heard that a THOUSAND times.......from hubby, from MIL and from everyone else even remotely related to the south and and that D* cornbread!!! You've got me confused with someone that actually makes the stuff............I'm a northerner, remember? I like cornbread sweet!!! (ducking) That or gobs of some sweet syrup on it...........perferably not sorghum!!! LOL.......

Eww, crumpled with buttermilk??? not this chick...

No, really, in this household we compromise.......I make a cake like, but more heavy and dense, low-fat GF cornbread, with a can of cream corn in it, no sugar. Hubby likes it, and I dump rice sryrup all over mine, and everyone's happy. If he wants hoe-cakes, he has to go home....

Anyway, I love the history of the "hoe-cake". It was made in the fields, during lunch time (or rather dinner). A thin batter of cornmeal and water and salt was poured onto the hoes heated from a small field fire. If they had it, a small amount of fat-back was added and that was often the only thing they had for the meal. Times were tough!
I know you knew that, but was just adding for northerners that may not.


Man oh man are you good Baby .............you can tell you've had that southern influence around you........You were almost right on it.........

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Okay, translation time, first into vernacular, then into the Queen's English:
"M R Ducks" = "Them are ducks" = "Those are ducks"
"M R Not Ducks" = Them are NOT ducks" = "Those are NOT ducks"
"OSAR Ducks, C'm Wings" = Those ARE ducks, comeon, WINGS" = Those are ducks, come on, they have wings."
"L....I....B,... M R Ducks"!!! = "Well I'll be, them ARE ducks" = "Well, goodness gracious, those ARE ducks."

Am I close? (Sounds just like my mom's Uncle Clyde talking to her Uncle Ben!)

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The first two lines...absolutely correct!!

The OSAR is "oh yes they are"
C'm Wings is "See 'em wings?" or see them wings

But with the L I B, you were RIGHt on the money!!!!

I can tell, You took notes when Uncle Clyde talked to Uncle Ben didn't you? (When are you going to write YOUR book?)

I too talk to Uncle Ben sometimes .........when he's in my pot cooking......I say, "hurry up, d___it"!!!

Kandee

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