# Southerners: Order your meat 'n three! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 27, 2006, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southerners-order-your-meat-n-three/346391 "2006-02-27T23:42:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southerners-order-your-meat-n-three/346391/21 "2006-02-28T02:57:53Z")
It all looks pretty good. From your choices: Entree: **Fried Chicken** Veggies: **Blackeye peas** ; **Pinto beans 'n ham** ; and special off-menu order of **lima beans** Bread: \*\*Biscuits \*\* and **Cornbread** Desert: **Apple pie a la mode** Drink: \*\*Tea \*\* (unsweetened, no fruit) Now if this Louisiana boy can expand the choices a bit, I’ll take \*\*fried catfish \*\* with **cole slaw** , \*\*french fries \*\* and **hushpuppies**. Or maybe a \*\*po-boy \*\* (fried **soft-shelled crab** , **crawfish** , or \*\*shrimp \*\* depending on the season). \*\*Banana pudding \*\* would be the dessert choice here. ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southerners-order-your-meat-n-three/346391/22 "2006-02-28T03:03:40Z")
I love a good catfish meal with cheese grits, baked beans, and hush puppies. Mmm. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southerners-order-your-meat-n-three/346391/23 "2006-02-28T03:18:14Z")
Fried Chicken Blackeye peas Collards (must have Tabasco) Sweet potatoes Biscuits Tea - as sweet, dark and cold as you can make it. My mother is from Alabama, and the food around our house when I was growing up could’ve all come from **Liberal’s** menu. It was quite unlike the ‘native’ Minnesotan Scandinavian/German fare. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southerners-order-your-meat-n-three/346391/24 "2006-02-28T03:25:54Z")
All these southerners and a few Cajuns thrown in, can someone remind me how to make sticky chicken? I made it once about 10 years ago, but forget how. Thanks. And **Sattua**? Can I eat at your house forever? ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southerners-order-your-meat-n-three/346391/25 "2006-02-28T03:35:05Z")
**Country Fried Steak w/ sawmill gravy** (Unless there’s catfish, with a lemon wedge.) **Green beans 'n corn** **Creamed potatoes** **Fried okra** **Cornbread** (I’d only have cornbread with catfish.) **Biscuit** If the pie is fresh baked and not under a heat lamp I’ll take: **Apple pie (a la mode, add fifty cents)** if it’s under a heat lamp I’ll go with: **Chocolate meringue pie** (I might ask if there was any strawberry rhubarb about though.) **Tea** please, I like it Southern style. ---
**Author:** ![Electrical\_Storm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac8455/32.png) [@Electrical\_Storm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electrical_Storm)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southerners-order-your-meat-n-three/346391/26 "2006-02-28T03:39:05Z")
Mm mm good! Here’s my menu: Country Fried Steak w/ sawmill gravy Green beans 'n corn Fried squash Sweet potatoes Biscuits / Cornbread Apple pie (a la mode) or pecan pie, if they’ve got it Iced tea, obviously. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southerners-order-your-meat-n-three/346391/27 "2006-02-28T03:40:54Z")
I’ll instead go to my mother’s house and have Smothered Pork Chops (originally fried then soaked in mushroom gravy for about three hours) =Fried corn (_NOT_ to be confused with deep fried corn=on=the=cob sometimes sold at fairs but corn kernels scraped from the cob and fried in butter with a touch of sugar until browned) =blackeyed peas with jowl and or pig tail (remember, it can be up to 49% pork and still be a vegetable) =pear salad (i.e. half a pair with mayo topped by a marischino cherry) Beverage: tea that with two more granules of sugar would be syrup dessert: blackberry cobbler topped with Bluebell and Marlboro Ultralight ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southerners-order-your-meat-n-three/346391/28 "2006-02-28T04:18:46Z")
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Fried Chicken Green beans 'n corn Creamed potatoes Fried okra Biscuits Apple pie (a la mode, add fifty cents) Tea (don’t even ask) ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southerners-order-your-meat-n-three/346391/29 "2006-02-28T04:32:11Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > pear salad (i.e. half a pair with mayo topped by a marischino cherry) Ooh! I had forgotten that! I’ll have that! ::: busy scribbling on shopping list ::: ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southerners-order-your-meat-n-three/346391/30 "2006-02-28T05:00:26Z")
country fried steak mashed potatoes (gravy on both of the above) slaw with a tiny bit of sugar added but only homegrown tomatoes in season with a dab of Kraft’s mayonnaise (If I can’t have these choices, I’ll take the all starch plate please! :)) Biscuits lemon _icebox_ pie made with Eagle Brand milk tea with lemon which I’ll sweeten with Sweet and Low, not Equal. And a to go box. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southerners-order-your-meat-n-three/346391/31 "2006-02-28T05:04:22Z")
> [@Casey1505](#): > > All these southerners and a few Cajuns thrown in, can someone remind me how to make sticky chicken? I made it once about 10 years ago, but forget how. Thanks. The best sticky chicken recipe I know of is Emeril Lagasse’s. That guy bugs the bejabbers outta me, but he sure can cook. Please promise that you won’t holler **BAM!** while cooking this: [http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD\_9936\_29096,00.html](http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_29096,00.html) ---
**Author:** ![lokij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@lokij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lokij)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southerners-order-your-meat-n-three/346391/32 "2006-02-28T06:19:10Z")
Pork Chops Blackeye peas Collards Fried okra Biscuits Chocolate meringue pie Tea And uh, could you throw in a couple of those deviled eggs and some blackberry jam? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southerners-order-your-meat-n-three/346391/33 "2006-02-28T13:16:22Z")
Fried Chicken Creamed Potatoes Collards Pinto beans 'n ham 1 Biscuit 1 Cornbread Muffin Banana pudding Tea **Liberal** if I had seen this tomorrow, Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, I would have hunted you down like a dog! Good thing for you this is Fat Tuesday and I can indulge. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southerners-order-your-meat-n-three/346391/34 "2006-02-28T13:20:52Z")
:eek: Okay. Today, seconds are on the house! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southerners-order-your-meat-n-three/346391/35 "2006-02-28T14:08:54Z")
Country Fried Steak w/ sawmill gravy is what I would order if I weren’t a vegetarian. Green beans 'n corn Creamed corn Sweet potatoes Cornbread Red velvet cake Coffee If I can substitute two more veggies for the meat, I’ll take creamed potatoes and black-eyed peas. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southerners-order-your-meat-n-three/346391/36 "2006-02-28T14:33:00Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > :eek: Okay. Today, seconds are on the house! WOOHOO!!! For round two I’ll have: Pork Chops Blackeyed Peas Fried Squash Fried Okra 2 Biscuits 1 Cornbread Red Velvet Cake Tea ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southerners-order-your-meat-n-three/346391/37 "2006-02-28T14:53:38Z")
It’s CHICKEN fried steak. Not country fried. You see, you make it like you make fried chicken, so the style is chicken-fried. And it comes with a mound of mashed 'taters and WHITE (sawmill) gravy. Anyone who would serve brown gravy on a chicken fried steak must be taken out back and shot. **'luci** will be around to fill out the warrant later. For the other two sides, corn and green beans (cooked to within an inch of their lives with bacon and butter of course) are my favorites. These, however, are optional and the other choices are okay. Yeasty dinner rolls are a must. With real butter on the side. Banana pudding is the ultimate dessert following such a sublime meal. Bread pudding, chocolate pie or pecan pie are acceptable alternatives. Red Velvet is meant to be armadillo shaped and served as a groom’s cake. Sweet tea, of course. Like **Lib** has mentioned before, it must be properly aged for best results. None of that instant or just made stuff. Alternately, CHICKEN FRIED STEAK is a nice breakfast with eggs over easy, hashbrowns, grits, cat-head biscuits and gravy. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southerners-order-your-meat-n-three/346391/38 "2006-02-28T14:57:55Z")
Ah, the agony of choice. Curse you, **Liberal**! From your Menu: -Meatloaf (w/gravy of course) -Rice 'n gravy, Creamed Corn (fried corn would be better), and Creamed potatoes (again w/the gravy) -Biscuits -Red Velvet Cake (But I’d prefer Key Lime Pie or a Peanut Butter cake) -Pepsi (Served in a mason jar) I second those deviled eggs, even though that’s a special occassion item. Do you make the cornbread sweet or not? I’ll be back again for a different combination. It was menus like this that put an extra 20 pounds on me. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southerners-order-your-meat-n-three/346391/39 "2006-02-28T15:03:06Z")
Today we will have: Meatloaf Greens Smashed Potatoes Pintos Biscuits Some of that cobbler hiding back there More tea…keep pouring. **Homebrew** , I’d like to order two helpings of your breakfast there. In a nob to our British cousins, could I get a couple of broiled/fried tomato slices with that? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southerners-order-your-meat-n-three/346391/40 "2006-02-28T15:19:38Z")
Country fried steak - hopefully cream gravy can be substituted, unless that’s what you mean by “sawmill gravy”. Fried squash Pickled beets macaroni and cheese (which I’ve always seen on the “3 sides” part in the south) Banana puddin’ Peach Nehi VCNJ~ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southerners-order-your-meat-n-three/346391.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southerners-order-your-meat-n-three/346391.md?page=3)