# Tell me you're southern w/o telling me your southern **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 24, 2023, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690 "2023-01-24T01:19:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tarataratara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Tarataratara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarataratara)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/21 "2023-01-24T03:51:25Z")
Blue Plate ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/22 "2023-01-24T04:10:14Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > And, one word: Grits! One of the more disgusting food items I’ve encountered was during my AIT in Indianapolis. The mess hall served cold grits with milk and sugar. That is definitley not the way to make grits! ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/23 "2023-01-24T04:16:11Z")
Every recipe I know starts with: Soften 1 stick of butter. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/24 "2023-01-24T04:38:01Z")
“We’re goin’down to the Wal-Mart” ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/25 "2023-01-24T04:51:35Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I like cheese! No, Beck. You’re supposed to say something like “I like possum pie”. To which many of us would react “Acky, acky, acky!” ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/26 "2023-01-24T04:53:27Z")
Y’all want some sugar with your sweet tea? ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/27 "2023-01-24T05:13:30Z")
For New Year’s, I always make a Co’Cola Ham. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/28 "2023-01-24T05:14:53Z")
The North starts at Watford Gap services \* - - probably not the kind of Southern the OP was looking for. ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/29 "2023-01-24T11:00:22Z")
I know you have diabetes, but Aunt Flo made her special pie. A little bit won’t hurt you. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/30 "2023-01-24T11:04:28Z")
SEC football, mint juleps and Type-2 diabetes ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/31 "2023-01-24T11:24:22Z")
Mash the numbered elevator button for the floor you are going to. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/32 "2023-01-24T11:31:19Z")
Weeeell, doggies, I took to y’alls posts like a cold hog to warm mud! ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/33 "2023-01-24T11:42:43Z")
I’ve cooked skillet fried chicken since the age of 12: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51864616501_853fd512b3_k.jpg "JohnT\_15 has shared 3 photos with you!") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/68782016@N08/shares/C5954864a4) My southern corn recipe has three ingredients: corn, butter, bacon. As God himself intended: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51865268505_e0f5cdf616_b.jpg "Chicken dinner") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/68782016@N08/51865268505/) ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/34 "2023-01-24T11:51:09Z")
Right this way for fat back and corn likker ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/35 "2023-01-24T12:26:40Z")
Sorry, suh, this is a Southern Baptist picnic. Take your devil’s hooch somewhere away from all the ladyfolk. Praise Jesus! ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/36 "2023-01-24T12:31:53Z")
WDIA, the soul sound of the Mid South… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/37 "2023-01-24T13:21:37Z")
Sugar in cornbread? That’s barbaric! ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/38 "2023-01-24T14:04:25Z")
Yew talkin’ to me? But I hates sweet tea. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/39 "2023-01-24T14:15:38Z")
I agree: Sweet tea is nasty ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/40 "2023-01-24T14:17:22Z")
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