The Rules of Dixie

[ChickieWhickie]

Don't forget the slawburgers with the RC and moonpie....I couldn't resist there is a song with reference to those 3 items.....I do love to travel and listen to people talk...The best things to do are ask for directions & place an order for food....every area is different.....my friend Kim moved to CA a few months ago...everyone has asked her if she can fry a chicken, make cornbread & beans...she answers, yes 'am, I'm a true Southern gurl...

 

[Davaroo]

The best things to do are ask for directions & place an order for food....every area is different.....my friend Kim moved to CA a few months ago...everyone has asked her if she can fry a chicken, make cornbread & beans...she answers, yes 'am, I'm a true Southern gurl...

And you don't gotta be a gurl for that. I can do all of those, although my specialty is chicken and dumplings.
I got my dumpling recipe from Aunt Bea, herself.

I have family in MN and when I go there to visit, I love to order sweet tea. I march in and say loudly, with a thick Carolina drawl,
"Well, hey! How ya'll doin'? I'd like to get me some sweet tea..."
They look at me like I've got a mushroom in my ear - too funny!.​

 

[dacjohns]

I have a cousin in Georgia. When she and her husband visit her brother in Northern Illinois, George (cousin's husband) knows he is back in the South when they cross into Tennessee. He can order Sweet Tea, they know what it is and they have it.

The fast food places around here are starting to advertise sweet tea. Not being a tea drinker I don't know if it is any good.

 

[Tutter]

You beat me to it. When I was a kid, I ate Scooter Pies. They aren't the same, I learned, when I grew up and first had a Moon Pie.

By the time I had children, we could not find Scooter Pies. There was a generic brand called: Sweetie Pie. Not worth eating, comparatively speaking, IMHO.

Believe it, or not, a lot of things on that list actually apply to small towns in N. California, such as the snow, tractor driving etc. It was all new to me, being a Southern Californian by birth. Heck, it never snowed a day in my life growing up. If we felt like making snowmen, we went to the mountains (Yosemite or Lake Gregory) and visited the snow. Then when we were tired of it, after a few days, we went home, put our lightweight clothes back on, and got back to our lives.

 

[ChickieWhickie]

I like living in a rural area. If I want to go to the city, I can travel about 1 hour or 1 hr 30 mins in any direction from my house & be in a city. I'd rather drive 2 hours & be in Nashville, TN.

But yeah, there are small towns & rural areas all across the nation not just in Dixie.

I always tell my friends & family that live in cities that the Clampetts are coming, when we go to visit.

 

[d.k]

* "Ya'll watch this!!" brought back a memory. Of us rushing to stop a work buddy, Rusty, from trying to jump a car on his motorcycle one Friday after work and a few Heinekens. . . We stopped him just in time, and when he sorrowfully asked why we stopped him, we had to point out that he didn't have a ramp. TRUE STORY!!

 

[mangled]

d.k :

* "Ya'll watch this!!" brought back a memory. Of us rushing to stop a work buddy, Rusty, from trying to jump a car on his motorcycle one Friday after work and a few Heinekens. . . We stopped him just in time, and when he sorrowfully asked why we stopped him, we had to point out that he didn't have a ramp. TRUE STORY!!

Hysterical!
Em​

 

[d.k]

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: Ain't it though??? Living in the South DOES bring one some definite 'head-shaker' moments. . . .