# Name my hillbilly locavore food blog **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 21, 2009, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-hillbilly-locavore-food-blog/503760 "2009-07-21T18:54:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Yossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@Yossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yossarian)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-hillbilly-locavore-food-blog/503760/21 "2009-07-22T13:27:45Z")
As an Eastern(ish) Kentuckian and enthusiastic locavore, my vote should count triple. It’s GOT to be “Coal Miner’s Dinner”. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-hillbilly-locavore-food-blog/503760/22 "2009-07-22T13:30:41Z")
Oh Coal Miner’s Dinner is excellent! ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-hillbilly-locavore-food-blog/503760/23 "2009-07-22T13:34:06Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > on a practical basis, having an “accurate” name makes it MUCH easier to find on Google searches…cuter names can relegate your site to obscurity… [hijack]Doesn’t that depend more on the tags than the actual name, though? Spoken by someone who knows the cube root of f#@k all about google tags…[/hijack] I love the combination of hillbilly locavore and coal miner’s dinner! ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-hillbilly-locavore-food-blog/503760/24 "2009-07-22T14:45:19Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > [hijack]Doesn’t that depend more on the tags than the actual name, though? > > Spoken by someone who knows the cube root of f#@k all about google tags…[/hijack] > > I love the combination of hillbilly locavore and coal miner’s dinner! yes and no - you are talking about Search Engine Optimization within the context of how you tag the web pages. From my business’ experience, if you have a regional business and have your region included in your name - e.g., “Miami MD Specialist” vs. “MD Specialist” as the name of your specialty medical practice - you consistently get more hits. I bet folks interested in Locavorism (is that a word? Probably the Locavore Movement is better) would search under it - you just increase the likelihood of a hit…I am certainly no SEM/SEO expert - but I do hire 'em… ---
**Author:** ![mazirian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@mazirian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mazirian)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-hillbilly-locavore-food-blog/503760/25 "2009-07-22T15:35:07Z")
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Squirrel! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-hillbilly-locavore-food-blog/503760/26 "2009-07-22T15:41:35Z")
> [@CrazyCatLady](#): > > What do people think about Coal Miner’s Dinner: The Hillbilly Locavore Project ? Perfect. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-hillbilly-locavore-food-blog/503760/27 "2009-07-22T16:07:10Z")
> [@Yossarian](#): > > As an Eastern(ish) Kentuckian and enthusiastic locavore, my vote should count triple. > > It’s GOT to be “Coal Miner’s Dinner”. Your vote can count triple on two conditions. 1) You share your local sources with me, and 2) you tell me everything you know about drying shuck beans. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-hillbilly-locavore-food-blog/503760/28 "2009-07-22T16:41:42Z")
> [@CrazyCatLady](#): > > What do people think about Coal Miner’s Dinner: The Hillbilly Locavore Project ? Poifect. ---
**Author:** ![Yossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@Yossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yossarian)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-hillbilly-locavore-food-blog/503760/29 "2009-07-22T17:14:09Z")
> [@CrazyCatLady](#): > > Your vote can count triple on two conditions. 1) You share your local sources with me, and 2) you tell me everything you know about drying shuck beans. 1. For fruits and vegetables, what I don’t grow I get at (in order) the Good Foods Co-op or the Famers Market in Lexington. For meats, I usually rely on the Co-op for local buffalo and pork… and a colleague of mine knows someone in Berea who can hook us up with local chickens for five bucks each! (They’re a little tough, though–kinda ducky.) He also knows someone else in Berea that can hook us up with a side of beef, but I haven’t availed myself of that opportunity yet (mostly because I don’t have a large enough frezer and my wife is a vegetarian!) 2. My Kentucky Wonders rarely get dried. Shoot, they’re lucky to make it inside–my son will hover around the poles and graze on the raw beans before hopping it over to the blackberries or raspberries for desert. Theoretically, I’d string 'em, tie 'em up with needle and thread, and leave them hanging in the shade! ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-hillbilly-locavore-food-blog/503760/30 "2009-07-22T19:31:47Z")
- waving at my neighbors \* Continuing the Loretta theme, you could always call it Van Lear Locavore. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-hillbilly-locavore-food-blog/503760/31 "2009-07-22T19:36:44Z")
Hillbilly Locavore is excellently euphonious, in a way that only two starkly contrasting word-sounds can be (even ignoring the apparently contrasting semantics.) Sort of like how once playing boardgames with my friends, a friend opined that “Bovine Morons” would be a great Band Name. I replied that yeah, it’s not a _bad_ name, but even better would be “Bovine Idiots” because the two words sound even more dissimilar than “Bovine Morons”. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-hillbilly-locavore-food-blog/503760/32 "2009-07-22T19:51:07Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Hillbilly Locavore is excellently euphonious, in a way that only two starkly contrasting word-sounds can be (even ignoring the apparently contrasting semantics.) > > Sort of like how once playing boardgames with my friends, a friend opined that “Bovine Morons” would be a great Band Name. I replied that yeah, it’s not a _bad_ name, but even better would be “Bovine Idiots” because the two words sound even more dissimilar than “Bovine Morons”. I like similar sounds like “Bovine Opines”, it’s even deeper because who cares about a cow’s opinion? It’s just a moo point. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-hillbilly-locavore-food-blog/503760/33 "2009-07-22T20:35:10Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > Ramps and Pone > > (I like it for its word texture and brief descriptiveness, as well as it’s reference to local staples that have been around forever) Actually, ‘Pone and Ramps’ is more euphonious. Bet the French and especially the Belgians could relate to it. It’s the equivalent of “Bread and Leeks”. Be a nice name for a bistro. ---
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-hillbilly-locavore-food-blog/503760/34 "2009-07-22T22:02:21Z")
Vittles and Grog ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-hillbilly-locavore-food-blog/503760/35 "2009-07-23T01:29:06Z")
I like the _Coal Miner’s Dinner: The Hillbilly Locavore Project_. I not only would read this blog, but likely visit some of the places mentioned when visiting the kinfolk in Eastern Kentucky. An aside: for more info about how to preserve what can be grown in your local growing season, check out _Foxfire_ books. Even though I grew up on the northern end of the Hillbilly highway, I learned a lot from them when my ex and I were doing the live-off-the-land hippy thing. But you probably already know this. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-hillbilly-locavore-food-blog/503760/36 "2009-07-23T12:03:33Z")
Coal Miner’s Dinner is AWESOME! ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-hillbilly-locavore-food-blog/503760/37 "2009-07-27T04:08:33Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > Actually, ‘Pone and Ramps’ is more euphonious. **Bet the French and especially the Belgians could relate to it**. It’s the equivalent of “Bread and Leeks”. Be a nice name for a bistro. [Or maybe it’s more like the Britanny Onion Tinkers that traverse the Channel to Wales.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=11380599#post11380599)The Brittaneuse and the Welsh… They actually share some linguistic similarities. Probably indicative of a long trade and immigrant heritage. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-hillbilly-locavore-food-blog/503760/38 "2009-07-27T04:15:06Z")
Strike that last post please, Mr. Moderator. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-hillbilly-locavore-food-blog/503760/39 "2009-07-27T05:05:34Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > [Or maybe it’s more like the Britanny Onion Tinkers that traverse the Channel to Wales.](http://www.imagesandwords.co.nz/Writing/Travel/Pirates+smugglers+and+pink+onions.html) The Brittaneuse and the Welsh… They actually share some linguistic similarities. Probably indicative of a long trade and immigrant heritage. > > Strike that last post please, Mr. Moderator. I dare ya, Bourdain. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-hillbilly-locavore-food-blog/503760/40 "2009-07-27T05:14:54Z")
… as in, I really hope he does cover the Onion Johnnies indepth, purely as a fanboy. He doesn’t seem like the type to turn down a dare. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-hillbilly-locavore-food-blog/503760.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-hillbilly-locavore-food-blog/503760.md?page=3)