Ongoing Quilt Projects, Continued from the "No Appreciation...." Thread

[User395221]

We started using subtitles on our TV if it is not an American show.

There were some movies/tv shows that were published with subtitles. I remember one set in Derry (Northern Ireland). They mutter and mumble in some shows, I have headphones where I can bring the dialogue up and try to hear what they are saying. If they are muttering and mumbling AND it's set somewhere with a difficult accent, subtitles can really help.

 

[speckledhen]

My grandmother was from North Carolina. Everytime she came back from her yearly trip Back East, we couldn't understand her. I got to where I could mimic her so well I would fool people. Once she heard me and said "Terreh, don't be ugleh."

Which was another thing. "Ugly" meaning unkind, which I didn't know and wondered why gramma didn't tell me I was pretty like she did my sister. Now I know I was just bratty.

Yup, there's the accent and then, there are the "Southern-isms" on top of that. I mean you've heard "I'm fixin' to do that", very southern. I had a friend who said what did you say to another friend who said to put something in the foot of the car. She said the floorboard, of course. He'd never heard that term.

https://www.southernliving.com/travel/southern-sayings#well-i-declare

there are a lot of misused ones by non-Southerners like "Y'all", meaning you all (referring to a group of people, not just one person. We don't say "y'all" to one person).

 

[speckledhen]

And also, there are things attributed to the South that don't belong here and did not start here, like the dish "chicken and waffles". Neither my husband nor I had ever even heard of such until we heard about it on television as a "classic Southern dish". Not from our South, it isn't! And my husband is as Southern in his roots as they come. His family settled Georgia. If you look at the history of the dish, it really is not from here, and why they say it is, I have no idea. It's disgusting. Waffles are sweet and for breakfast. You may eat fried chicken with biscuits and gravy for breakfast if you're a farmer about to go do chores all day, but not waffles with chicken, the horror! It just does not compute.

 

[DuckLady]

Oh chicken and waffles are yum!!!

 

[speckledhen]

But, WHY? They don't go together! They are definitely not Southern. It's more Pennsylvania Dutch and is supposedly very popular in Maryland. Well, that explains it, haha, it's a Yankee dish. Do not blame us for that! Waffles are sweet and you put syrup on them. Chicken is for the other two meals and you may serve them with biscuits or rolls, but waffles don't belong. Who pours pancake syrup on fried chicken? Terrie, you are just too Yankee, woman! LOL

It's reminds me of years ago when we went to a restaurant in Jamestown, TN when we owned land there. And they offered us chocolate gravy with our breakfast. WTH is chocolate gravy???? We never heard of it and they could not even explain it! That isn't Southern, that's just plain weird.

P.S. Terrie knows I love her, even if her food choices are less than Southern. Mine are also less than Southern, especially once I realized that Southern food is very fattening! I call it "Southern Slop". It's why my husband's family all has issues with weight unless they take after the 'other' side of the family. My FIL would eat stuff I wouldn't touch and my husband won't eat stuff I love, but he's eaten a lot of stuff since we've grown our own food that he never would touch as a kid.

 

[speckledhen]

oh, I found this explanation of chocolate gravy. Still disgusting.

Chocolate gravy is a variety of gravy made with fat, flour, cocoa powder and sometimes a small amount of sugar. This variety is more common in cuisine of the Southern United States and is most often served as a Sunday morning dish with fresh biscuits in the Ozark and Appalachian Mountain regions. Chocolate gravy was a regular item at Elvis Presley's Graceland.

That ain't gravy! That's chocolate sauce!

 

[User395221]

Yup, there's the accent and then, there are the "Southern-isms"

Interesting. Many of those are completely normal to me. I wonder whether some of them derive from British English. I can't believe I'd have picked up so many terms to that level of familiarity just from the telly and not from hearing them used. Others I definitely hear in a Scarlett O'Hara voice: "Well, hevvuns to betseh, I do declehah" and a couple I'd never come across. Maybe they used them in that Designing Women show, or that Blanche off Golden Girls, although I wasn't a regular viewer of either....
My friend in Louisiana hadn't heard of Gumption (the stuff you clean your bath with) so I sent her some. I don't know whether that was just her, or whether they don't sell it in the US.

 

[DuckLady]

Cyn, Cyn, Cyn....I never said I put pancake syrup on waffles. Waffles don't have to be sweet. Make a savory waffle, maybe with poultry seasoning in the mix. Plop a piece of fried chicken on top and pour GRAVY on it. Yum Yum Yum.

I am not Yankee at all! I am half Mexican and half Southern.

 

[speckledhen]

Interesting. Many of those are completely normal to me. I wonder whether some of them derive from British English. I can't believe I'd have picked up so many terms to that level of familiarity just from the telly and not from hearing them used. Others I definitely hear in a Scarlett O'Hara voice: "Well, hevvuns to betseh, I do declehah" and a couple I'd never come across. Maybe they used them in that Designing Women show, or that Blanche off Golden Girls, although I wasn't a regular viewer of either....
My friend in Louisiana hadn't heard of Gumption (the stuff you clean your bath with) so I sent her some. I don't know whether that was just her, or whether they don't sell it in the US.

I never heard of Gumption, either!

Cyn, Cyn, Cyn....I never said I put pancake syrup on waffles. Waffles don't have to be sweet. Make a savory waffle, maybe with poultry seasoning in the mix. Plop a piece of fried chicken on top and pour GRAVY on it. Yum Yum Yum.

I am not Yankee at all! I am half Mexican and half Southern.

Savory waffle is an oxymoron, my dear. No way. Waffle is sweet. Savory is something else.

And, honey, "Yankee" is not necessarily always by blood. My FIL called me a Yankee because I didn't slop my beans on top of my rice. I put butter and salt on it, LOL. I grew up in Decatur, GA, a suburb of Atlanta.

 

[User395221]

Savory waffle is an oxymoron, my dear. No way. Waffle is sweet. Savory is something else.

Isn't waffle batter like pancake batter, just cooked all crispy in the waffle iron? You can have savoury pancakes. Like scones (biscuits). You can have them sweet, with jam and cream, or as dumplings or on top of a stew (cobbler? Is that what they call cobbler?)
Gumption is a very good product, you don't know what you're missing.