# Your favorite southern foods? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 29, 2003, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-southern-foods/178178 "2003-05-29T03:02:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![XJETGIRLX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9fc29f/32.png) [@XJETGIRLX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XJETGIRLX)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-southern-foods/178178/1 "2003-05-29T03:02:40Z")
Reading [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=186961) thread got me to thinking about some of my favorite Southern delicacies. There are so many to choose from: boiled peanuts, tupelo honey, fried okra, country-fried steak, fried green tomatoes, squash and fresh butterbeans just to name a few. So what’s your favorite southern dish? One my mom (and grandma) used to make that is my absolute favorite is fried salmon served with peanut butter and syrup, buttermilk biscuits (or if you’re really poor, wonderbread) and milk. You mix the peanut butter and syrup together until you get a gooey paste, and then you dip the salmon and the biscuits in before you eat them. Absolutely delicious! My yankee husband thinks I’m insane, but he doesn’t mind some every now and again 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-southern-foods/178178/2 "2003-05-29T03:17:22Z")
Well, this isn’t exactly a “Southern standard,” but one of my absolute favorite restaurant dishes is called “Chicken Pontalba.” It’s cream-cheese grits topped off fried chicken, sausages, and hash browns. ---
**Author:** ![jesleigh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@jesleigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesleigh)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-southern-foods/178178/3 "2003-05-29T03:21:45Z")
Chicken and dumplings, bisquits, butter beans, corn bread, pecan pie, fried okra. Dude, I could go on forever ---
**Author:** ![MustangSpirit\_WildnFree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@MustangSpirit\_WildnFree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MustangSpirit_WildnFree)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-southern-foods/178178/4 "2003-05-29T03:25:01Z")
fried green tomatoes with a green tomatoe relish that’s just spicey enough. That and a good peach cobbler with some homemade ice-cream ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-southern-foods/178178/5 "2003-05-29T03:41:40Z")
Black-eyed peas and stewed tomatoes, turnip greens, any version of a pecan pie, spoon bread(batter bread), butter that you churned yourself and homemade biscuits(you need Souther flour; don’t kid yourself), country ham(Smithfield, preferrably). ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-southern-foods/178178/6 "2003-05-29T03:51:25Z")
Grits, of course. Eggs ‘n’ rice is also nice. Eggs scrambled with rice, with coffee (chicory) poured over’em. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-southern-foods/178178/7 "2003-05-29T03:57:57Z")
That is, of course, the apotheosization of the Pacifac Rim fried rice. ---
**Author:** ![TexGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9d8465/32.png) [@TexGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-southern-foods/178178/8 "2003-05-29T04:21:20Z")
Chicken fried steak and fried pickles. ---
**Author:** ![MustangSpirit\_WildnFree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@MustangSpirit\_WildnFree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MustangSpirit_WildnFree)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-southern-foods/178178/9 "2003-05-29T04:33:55Z")
ooo didn’t think of those fried dill pickles YUM! and we can’t forget tomatoe gravy and homemade (cathead) biscuits ---
**Author:** ![MustangSpirit\_WildnFree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@MustangSpirit\_WildnFree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MustangSpirit_WildnFree)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-southern-foods/178178/10 "2003-05-29T04:35:04Z")
(don’t say yuck if you’re a southerner you know what cat head biscuits are) ---
**Author:** ![MustangSpirit\_WildnFree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@MustangSpirit\_WildnFree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MustangSpirit_WildnFree)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-southern-foods/178178/11 "2003-05-29T04:40:32Z")
(don’t say yuck if you’re a southerner you know what cat head biscuits are) ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-southern-foods/178178/12 "2003-05-29T05:08:12Z")
I third the fried pickles. Fried stuffed jalepenos. Pork roast with apricot/horseradish sauce. Fried catfish with fried potatoes. And pretty much any kind of **barbequed** meat. ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-southern-foods/178178/13 "2003-05-29T05:25:19Z")
Grits–nothin’ fancy but butter and salt. Pecan pie. Country-fried steak with cream gravy. Hot links (although my husband has now forbid me to eat them ever again). Peach cobbler. Fried green tomatoes. Black-eyed peas. ---
**Author:** ![Peach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@Peach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peach)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-southern-foods/178178/14 "2003-05-29T05:36:09Z")
how do i get my hands on some of these fried pickles??? my mouth is watering just thinking about that magic combination! ---
**Author:** ![SweetLucy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@SweetLucy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SweetLucy)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-southern-foods/178178/15 "2003-05-29T05:52:28Z")
Creamed corn, fried okra, fried catfish, fried alligator tail, chicken n dumplings, red velvet cake, divinity.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-southern-foods/178178/16 "2003-05-29T06:02:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Peach \* > \*\*how do i get my hands on some of these fried pickles??? > my mouth is watering just thinking about that magic combination! \*\* **Peach,** get thee to a _Razoo’s_! Do you have those in your area? If not, maybe some other cajun restaurant will have them. Actually, I think maybe the Sonic Drive-In’s around here have fried pickles, but I haven’t tried them from there so I don’t know if they’re any good. Maybe the best route would be finding a recipe online and make some yourself! ---
**Author:** ![Second\_Star\_to\_the\_Right](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Second\_Star\_to\_the\_Right](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Second_Star_to_the_Right)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-southern-foods/178178/17 "2003-05-29T07:37:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Earl Snake-Hips Tucker \* > \*\*Well, this isn’t exactly a “Southern standard,” but one of my absolute favorite restaurant dishes is called “Chicken Pontalba.” It’s cream-cheese grits topped off fried chicken, sausages, and hash browns. \*\* That sounds really yummy. Now I’m hungry. My personal favorites are: Country-fried steak Fried catfish Biscuits n’ gravy Chicken n’ dumplins Grits(with salt and butter) Sausage and biscuits Fried or mashed taters Going against my roots, I detest: pecan pie, cornbread, okra, and black eyed peas. Don’t hurt me. ---
**Author:** ![japatlgt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@japatlgt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/japatlgt)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-southern-foods/178178/18 "2003-05-29T08:12:10Z")
Fried fish & hushpuppies, coleslaw and cheese-grits.among many others ---
**Author:** ![shep\_proudfoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@shep\_proudfoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shep_proudfoot)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-southern-foods/178178/19 "2003-05-29T09:34:15Z")
I’m from Memphis and went to college in Mississippi, What are cat head biscuts? Is there a cat involved?? For me its fried chicken, Bar-b-que, cornbread (Mexican preferrably), white gravy, and chicken fried steak. SP ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-southern-foods/178178/20 "2003-05-29T10:04:33Z")
Okay, i think one of you needs to get over here to London and open a restaurant pronto… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-southern-foods/178178.md?page=2)