Southern 101---Explanation of all things Southern

[scbatz33]

I don't leave messages on my answering machine for this reason...Sometimes when i'm on speaker phone with DH and I hear the echo I think - God I sound ridiculous!

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

Ok this morning Sharon decided she wanted elderberry waffles for breakfast, she was looking thru the cabinet and asked where the waffle iron was. With out missing a beat I said it was under the pistol case.

Which brings up 2 questions

Is having a gun in the kitchen considered southern or redneck?

Doesn't everybody have guns in the kitchen?

Steve in NC

 

[lakeshorenc]

I disconnected my onstar a few years back because I would have to repeat myself so much.

Has anyone ever heard of white on rice. Like if someones likes something a lot you would say
"he was on that like white on rice". OH, another one a friend of my DH's says is "I'm like a mess of collards, come on and get ya some". He's a little crazy!!!

 

[scbatz33]

Quote:
I've used "white on rice"

other food ones? "peas in a pod"

 

[mom2chicksandpups]

Have you ever heard of "hanging in there like a hair in a biscuit?"

This one's not food related, but another funny one I just thought of is, "I've been as busy as a one-legged man in a butt kicking contest." (Or it's often said using the a word, but I wanted to keep out the profanity.)

 

[scbatz33]

skittish as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

 

[Southernbelle]

More orn'ry than a banty rooster!

 

[havi]

The one Ive never liked was "Well butter my buns and call me a biscuit."

 

[hoosier]

I have been enjoying this thread and have to confess something.
My husband and I both grew up in the suburbs of Indianapolis. While on vacation in Vermont several years ago, the proprietor of a store asked my husband where he was from. He then turned to me and said, "You're from the South, aren't you?". DH loves to remind me of that. I admit to using most of the phrases here.

 

[ranchhand]

I am loving this thread!

BUT... I spent most of my life in Texas and it's Shiner Bock. And a mighty good brew!