And if they didn’t understand your map or directions, you’d get in your car and let 'em follow you to wherever they need to go.
I think it’s safe to say that if you are within driving range of a “cracker barrel” resteraunt… you are southern 
I should mention that I am not southern. Though I have relatives in KY and I thoroughly enjoy every visit I have there.
I only mention the cracker barrel because i found it odd that there was an entire resteraunt called cracker barrel… here there is only cheese.
A couple other odd things i noticed… and liked.
- A lack of fencing around houses…
- Roads with no shoulders.
- You can order BBQ anywhere… not bbq chicken, or bbq steak… just BBQ.
- What exactly is a “hot brown”?
- Louisville is all one syllable “louvel” and not “lewy ville” as i mistakenly called it
- For some reason I found the word “kentuckyanna” pretty funny!
Oh, BBQ.
I get out back home about once a year and on the other side of the teeny tiny town I grew up in is a BBQ place. The sandwiches come wrapped in wax paper and ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
I’m gonna buy about a dozen when I go out there next month.
Mmmm, Cracker Barrel. Now where did I put my keys…
Generally, if you order “just BBQ”, you’re getting pork.
And Bambi, I did that just a few weeks ago. I went to pay my rent a few weeks ago, and there was this poor family sitting outside the leasing office, which was closed on Sunday. The son had gotten locked out of his apartment, and they didn’t know what to do, who to call, blah blah blah. They were just sitting there like nincompoops hoping someone who worked there would show up. What did I do? I told them to get in their car and follow me, and I drove them to the home of the Maintenance guy, who unfortunately was not home, so yet again I drove them to a locksmith. That’s just common courtesy, in my mind.
How about feeding workers and maintenance men as well? I don’t know how my pest control guy keeps from weighing 300 pounds. Every time he comes to my place, I feed him. I imagine everyone else in this area probably does the same.
You’re too sensitive. I didn’t criticize you or anyone else.
Mine are fine. 
- Louisville is barely Southern. It’s holding on, despite the YankeeBorg closing in. I’m recovering from Living there nearly two years. It’s holding on, and a nice place to live if you can afford it.
- There is tea, and that Unsweetened stuff you serve Yankees.
- Sadly, it also means that from time to time, people will assume you might be racist, despite not having actually talked to you. Happened to me a few times.
Yep…that has happened. I work retail pharmacy, and a black lady from ‘up yonder’ came in and tried to fill a two year old prescription for oxycontin. Naturally, we refused (we do not fill prescriptions on controlled substances more than 6 months old). She called me a backwards racists hick, and claimed the only reason we wouldn’t fill it was becuase she was black. Probably more than 65% of our customers are black, as is many of my friends, and coworkers. But, according to her logic, I just looked at her, and decided I wanted to piss that black woman off. Moral of the story is, I reckon not all southern stereotypes are true
My wife insists she’s from the south, she’s from WV. I point out that…
A: It was part of the Union during the Civil War
B: If you draw a line midway through the country, it’s on the Northern half.
Actually, I don’t care, I just like being right.
Are all southerners so strange about food?
When I have people over I ask them if they’d like anything to eat or drink, or if they’re over for dinner I always ask if they want something else.
If the answer is “No thank,” I reply, “Ok, let me know if you need anything.”
My inlaws…
“You havn’t eaten enough, what else do you want?”
My mother in law will actually put food on my plate after I tell her I’m full. The first time I ate at my sister in law, she served me a plate with 3 pork chops on it. When I only ate one (my usual amount) she asked me why I didn’t like them.
1. Louisville is barely Southern. It’s holding on, despite the YankeeBorg closing in. I’m recovering from Living there nearly two years. It’s holding on, and a nice place to live if you can afford it.
I agree. It’s like we have Kentucky, and then Louisville, a state unto itself, is stuck in the middle somewhere. My cousins lived there for years and they STILL talk funny.
Lexington, though, is solidly in the “southern” camp from what I’ve observed while visiting my family there.
I think might have been true in the past, but a quick look at the Cracker Barrel directory shows that they now have restaurants in all the Mid-Atlantic states as well as southern New England.
That being said, mmmm…Cracker Barrel (drools).
Me too.
I’d be happy to spot you a few 'taters if you need 'em.
Ahh…if only life was that simple. Actually, almost as many men in what is now West Virginia fought for the Confederacy as did for the Union. 'Specially in the southern half of the state.
Err…sorry.
Southern is a state of mind. My Mom’s folk are all from Texas and Arkansas, so despite being born and raised in California, I consider myself to be “Southern.” I have most of the aforementioned characteristics, save the accent.
Did anybody notice how many of the distinguishing characteristics involve food? Southerners and Jews have a lot in common that way.
“Born in California, yes. But it was By-God SOUTHERN California!”
Does Texas count as southern? Should I be studying this thread more closely? As I am about to move there??
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