Regional Differences

[badblackpug]

Sorry, we get upset over our grits. And really you can say anything and put a laughing guy behind it, doesn't mean anything. Damn yankee.

Be sure and note the laughing guy.

...yes but we did win....

I will make myself sick on boiled peanuts. Also, love biscuits, black eyed peas, sweet potatoes, collard greens, corn bread, fried okra. Hey, anyone else hungry?

Boiled peanuts? Now that is just plain nasty!

I actually like grits, though.

 

[mhsjax]

...yes but we did win....



Boiled peanuts? Now that is just plain nasty!

I actually like grits, though.

Yeah, you did win, I am ok with that. My mom feels the same way you do about the boiled peanuts. But I love them.

 

[spacemountainmom]

I will make myself sick on boiled peanuts. Also, love biscuits, black eyed peas, sweet potatoes, collard greens, corn bread, fried okra. Hey, anyone else hungry?

I have never tried boiled peanuts, but have and will sit and enjoy all of the rest with you.

Man.......I really need a trip down south! If you added Corky's Ribs and some fried catfish, I would think I died and went to heaven!!!

 

[shine87]

In Western Ma we call "subs" grinders. A few years back a few of my friends and I were in DC and one of my friends really was craving grinders. We went to every place that we thought would sell grinders like sandwich shops, pizza places etc etc and asked if they sold grinders. Everyone looked at us like we were insane. Finally like 2 days later we found a subway and we were wicked excited that we could finnally end our search for grinders.

 

[badblackpug]

Yeah, you did win, I am ok with that. My mom feels the same way you do about the boiled peanuts. But I love them.

We can agree on sweet tea, though. I think that stuff should come with a side of insulin.

 

[WowLookAtThat]

Grits rock. With pepper and butter. Not at ALL like oatmeal or cream of wheat!

Now I'm hungry.

I'll admit ignorance here. I hadn't really seen grits until I went to South Carolina and saw them on a menu. I asked the waitress what they were and while she was trying to explain I (Westerner here) asked "So, its like cream of wheat?"
She looked at me scornfully "NO! It's nothing like that."

I live in a place where there is spam musibi now. It's basically spam sushi and I still give it a second "huh?" when I see it sold at the local 7-11

 

[mhsjax]

I have never tried boiled peanuts, but have and will sit and enjoy all of the rest with you.

Man.......I really need a trip down south! If you added Corky's Ribs and some fried catfish, I would think I died and went to heaven!!!

I love Corky's. Family is from Memphis. But my favorite BBQ is Interstate. Love catfish too.

 

[aprilgail2]

In Western Ma we call "subs" grinders. :

Thats so funny- I have never heard that until the Dis---you say that here and they will think you want a weird sex act.

...yes but we did win....



Boiled peanuts? Now that is just plain nasty!

I actually like grits, though.

Boiled peanuts are vile!

Grits rank right up there as one of the nastiest things I've ever eaten.

Grits are ok- they just remind me of plain cream of wheat--not much difference

 

[punkin]

I had grits once and I found them way closer to cream of wheat than polenta, personally. Polenta has more flavour, imo. Grits aren't much on flavour of their own. Least the ones I had weren't, and they did purport to be real, not instant, grits.

Not really polenta or cream of wheat. It's just different. I like it, though.

 

[NotUrsula]

Maybe when we are in Missouri in October I will tell the waitress at the restaurant that I am from the north and can I just sample some grits--just in case

If by Missouri you mean the STL area, don't bother; there are no decent restaurant grits here.

MHSJAX, I don't drink ANY tea. Raised in the deep South with Irish immigrant parents I should have tannin running in my veins, but I loathe and despise ALL tea with every fiber of my being.

I don't eat okra, either. (I leave tidy little piles of it in the bottom of my gumbo bowl if you serve me okra gumbo.) As a child my mother grew okra, and I cleaned bushels of it every dang year. The bleeding totally put me off eating the stuff for life.

 

[golfgal]

If by Missouri you mean the STL area, don't bother; there are no decent restaurant grits here.

MHSJAX, I don't drink ANY tea. Raised in the deep South with Irish immigrant parents I should have tannin running in my veins, but I loathe and despise ALL tea with every fiber of my being.

I don't eat okra, either. (I leave tidy little piles of it in the bottom of my gumbo bowl if you serve me okra gumbo.) As a child my mother grew okra, and I cleaned bushels of it every dang year. The bleeding totally put me off eating the stuff for life.

Yes, St. Louis area--ok, that idea is out

 

[KathyTX]

Yes, St. Louis area--ok, that idea is out

Grits are a Southern thing. Missouri is NOT part of the South.

 

[Imzadi]

Grits are a Southern thing. Missouri is NOT part of the South.

Hey, we had that thread already!

 

[kkacar]

I grew up on the Gulf coast of Florida and we drank unsweet tea (a lot of our friends did) and everyone I knew would rather go to a soccer game than a football game, and Coke was the brand, "soda" was the generic term. But we did eat a lot of seafood, in fact many weekends were spent off Anclote Key catching scallops off the sailboat (that we would eat later accompanied by our unsweet tea )

Ok you live further south on the gulf coast than I do. I live on Northwest portion of the Gulf Coast. We are in a little place called South Walton. Little more than 50 miles to the Alabama line. And sorry sweetie if last night was any indication, I saw 3/4 of both my town and the town in between me and the Alabama line at the football game. And as for soccer, none of the schools in my county even had a soccer team until just a few years ago. My portion of Florida football is king and tea is sweet, unless you are diabetic or something. And I have lived here my whole life. Oh! and the only girl I know that calls "coke" SODA, is a chick at my office originally from North Dakota. And yep we go scalloping too at Port St Joe.

And I eat grits regularly. Nothing like a good breakfast of tomato gravy, biscuits, bacon and grits. YUM! Love them. If my family eats fish (them not me) we have cheese grits as a side dish and french fries and hush puppies. So good, except the fish.

And I wear heels with jeans if I wear jeans. I rarely wear them. As a PP said jeans are hot. I stick to sun dresses. Oh and I am not much of tennis shoes person either. Yes I will wear them but I would much rather have a pair of heels or flip flops.

kelli

 

[Rekenna]

That "please" in SouthWest Ohio means anything from "excuse me" to "could you repeat that?"

Ha! This is the one I was going to write down-I am from Northern Kentucky and most natives of the Greater Cincinnati region say "please?" instead of "beg your pardon?" or something similar.

 

[Rekenna]

I have lived in Alabama all my life, and when I was growing up, we always gave actual gifts when we were invited to weddings.

When I married an Italian guy from Connecticut, he thought it would be funny not to tell me about the "envelopes" that he knew we would receive at our wedding. Later on that night, I thought it was kind of tacky that no one had given us a gift...until he handed me the envelopes. I thought I was going to pass out! Come to find out, they were very (VERY!!!) generous!

Your name isn't Karen Hill is it? (from Goodfellas) Sorry, I couldn't resist.

 

[golfgal]

Grits are a Southern thing. Missouri is NOT part of the South.

It is when you live in MN

 

[Magic Mom]

Ok you live further south on the gulf coast than I do. I live on Northwest portion of the Gulf Coast. We are in a little place called South Walton. Little more than 50 miles to the Alabama line. And sorry sweetie if last night was any indication, I saw 3/4 of both my town and the town in between me and the Alabama line at the football game. And as for soccer, none of the schools in my county even had a soccer team until just a few years ago. My portion of Florida football is king and tea is sweet, unless you are diabetic or something. And I have lived here my whole life. Oh! and the only girl I know that calls "coke" SODA, is a chick at my office originally from North Dakota. And yep we go scalloping too at Port St Joe.

And I eat grits regularly. Nothing like a good breakfast of tomato gravy, biscuits, bacon and grits. YUM! Love them. If my family eats fish (them not me) we have cheese grits as a side dish and french fries and hush puppies. So good, except the fish.

And I wear heels with jeans if I wear jeans. I rarely wear them. As a PP said jeans are hot. I stick to sun dresses. Oh and I am not much of tennis shoes person either. Yes I will wear them but I would much rather have a pair of heels or flip flops.

kelli

I apologize for insinuating someone in Florida might like something different than you. My mistake, those were all football games we went to and we all drank sweet tea....I guess.

 

[Swan4Me]

Grits are a Southern thing. Missouri is NOT part of the South.

And you wont find good grits in Texas either-that is the Southwest

Grits-LA,MS, AL, Georgia, North & South Carolina-or at a Cracker Barrel

 

[Michelle67]

Again another gross generalization but I think lots of people on the west coast wear sneakers with just about everything. After all the PNW is home to the shorts wool socks sandals look so high fashion isn't usually a consideration. DW and I both work in the medical field and we wear sneakers to work and everywhere else. If it's a fashion crime to be comfortable than come take us away.

OMG< I know that I didn't read socks and sandals. Pleas for the love of GOD, say it isn't so. That isn't even high fashion, that is just common sense.

Sadly I gotta vouch for that one. It's the absolute truth. It is specifically Birkenstocks and wool socks. It's because they wear them year-round, and this is NOT a place that is sandal friendly year round. Wool socks are warm, no matter how wet they get. I've never seen anyone do it in summer, but I've seen in many times during fall and winter, and into spring. We have nicknames for the folks that do it...including tree-hugger, and "Greener" which means someone who graduated from Evergreen State College. I'm probably about to get slapped down for that last comment....it was a JOKE!

I have never been guilty of that one...but then again I'm not a Greener. I graduated from UW (which, by the way, around here is pronounced U-Dub). My mother is a Greener...but she just wears tennis shoes (not sneakers) with her jeans, and no socks with her sandals.

BTW tennis shoes with jeans is extremely common here. People do wear heels with "dressy" jeans too, though.

I will make myself sick on boiled peanuts. Also, love biscuits, black eyed peas, sweet potatoes, collard greens, corn bread, fried okra. Hey, anyone else hungry?

YES, the grits thing was already killing me and then you had to go and say fried okra. Sadist! Then I was starving to death, and it's very hard to even find decent okra here! It's not easy to find okra here at all, for that matter.

I'll admit ignorance here. I hadn't really seen grits until I went to South Carolina and saw them on a menu. I asked the waitress what they were and while she was trying to explain I (Westerner here) asked "So, its like cream of wheat?"
She looked at me scornfully "NO! It's nothing like that."

I live in a place where there is spam musibi now. It's basically spam sushi and I still give it a second "huh?" when I see it sold at the local 7-11

Are you in Hawaii? I ask because a friend is from there and she makes that stuff. I think it's odd, but she got me to try it and it's actually not bad.

Hey, we had that thread already!

I've noticed that if they last long enough without dying or being locked...all threads eventually converge.