# Damn Yankees kill another Southern institution: White Lily flour

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [June 23, 2008, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-yankees-kill-another-southern-institution-white-lily-flour/453939 "2008-06-23T17:15:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jaade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@Jaade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaade)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2008, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-yankees-kill-another-southern-institution-white-lily-flour/453939/261 "2008-06-30T21:57:30Z")

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[QUOTE=Sampiro]  
Hijack:  
Damn- I thought the Iron Bowl (Auburn/Bama) was bad, but UGA and UTenn are evidently both even more hardcore.  
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Continuing the hijack:

Honey, I don’t know that anyone is more hardcore than UGA fans - we live all the way down in South Georgia - less than an hour from the border and I think some of our friends are driving all the way up to Athens for Uga’s funeral.

And we don’t even want to talk about Georgia/Florida. :eek:

For my part, I will miss White Lilly Flour as well. I guess I can use Martha White instead but change is never easy for cooks who are using a traditional family recipe. My Nanny would have been upset.

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2008, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-yankees-kill-another-southern-institution-white-lily-flour/453939/262 "2008-06-30T22:08:21Z")

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[QUOTE=eleanorigby]

\<runs away, yodelling Dixie\>  
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I’m picturing Helena Bonham Carter running through the Ministry of Magic chanting “I killed Sirius Black…”.

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2008, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-yankees-kill-another-southern-institution-white-lily-flour/453939/263 "2008-06-30T22:13:04Z")

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[QUOTE=Jaade]  
Continuing the hijack:

Honey, I don’t know that anyone is more hardcore than UGA fans - we live all the way down in South Georgia - less than an hour from the border and I think some of our friends are driving all the way up to Athens for Uga’s funeral.

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I went to the Barnes & Noble in Athens at Christmas one year and was astonished to see a line literally wrapped around the side wall, out the door, and about 20 yards down the sidewalk. I was wondering who in the hell was signing- I hadn’t seen _that_ many people in line when I went to a David Sedaris signing there.

It was- I kid you not- Uga. He had… ahem… written [a book](http://www.uga.edu/gm/902/FeatUga.html) and was “signing” it (they’d dip his paw on an ink pad). I’m not sure if [Sonny Seiler](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Seiler) was with him or not. (I think he signed them for free with purchase but you had to pay something like $20 extra [it went to some UGA charity] for Uga’s signature- and most people were paying it anyway.)

Of course Uga always makes me think of Lewis Grizzard’s “That dog’d bite youuuuuuuu!” joke.

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