You might be a “Southie” if...

[Don 27]

Oh boy here comes the map again.
A southie to Ralphie is anyone who does not live in the Frozen Arctic circle of Minnesota.

Hahaha! Sure...

 

[1muttsfan]

Mom always cooked pork in her sauerkraut, but my ancestors in that line are from Germany so that may be where that came from. No dumplings.

Corn is actually not grown this far north, season is too short. They do grow lots of it downstate. I think that (funny!) map should have a northern edge that is labeled "9 Months of Winter"

 

[1muttsfan]

Oh and Popple is called Poplar in other places. Young stands are known as Dog Hair Popple, as the saplings are as close as hair on a dog.

 

[CindyinSD]

I love fried Zuke with Parmersean and olive oil, yum! Mashed sweet dumpling, yum. Baked squash, yum! Any type of sqaush pie, YUM! Also I feel like squash is a Midwest thing. Does anyone eat mashed sweet potatoes with walnuts and cinnamo. Sweet potato is popular around here and I wonder if it’s just a western thing a northerner southie thing

Sweet potatoes aren't as popular as they deserve to be. They're a central/south American plant in the bindweed (Creeping Jenny) family, if you can imagine that. (I'm not that smart--I looked it up.) I grew up in FL, and sweet potatoes were an expected dish at church pot-lucks.

Usually people prepared them as a casserole with the potato flesh mashed up with sugar, nuts, coconut, etc., and topped with marshmallows once hot, then put under the broiler for long enough to toast them. It was never a favorite of mine. I love sweet potatoes though, skin well-scrubbed, baked in a real oven and eaten out of hand (skin and all) with no adornments. That's my "recipe." I was confused when a friend asked for brown sugar. She was confused at my confusion. I had never encountered sweet potatoes buried in brown sugar and drowned in butter before.

 

[007Sean]

I love fried Zuke with Parmersean and olive oil, yum! Mashed sweet dumpling, yum. Baked squash, yum! Any type of sqaush pie, YUM! Also I feel like squash is a Midwest thing. Does anyone eat mashed sweet potatoes with walnuts and cinnamo. Sweet potato is popular around here and I wonder if it’s just a western thing a northerner southie thing

Love mashed sweet taters with walnuts and mini marshmallows toasted on top of the taters.

 

[007Sean]

Sweet potatoes aren't as popular as they deserve to be. They're a central/south American plant in the bindweed (Creeping Jenny) family, if you can imagine that. (I'm not that smart--I looked it up.) I grew up in FL, and sweet potatoes were an expected dish at church pot-lucks.

Usually people prepared them as a casserole with the potato flesh mashed up with sugar, nuts, coconut, etc., and topped with marshmallows once hot, then put under the broiler for long enough to toast them. It was never a favorite of mine. I love sweet potatoes though, skin well-scrubbed, baked in a real oven and eaten out of hand (skin and all) with no adornments. That's my "recipe." I was confused when a friend asked for brown sugar. She was confused at my confusion. I had never encountered sweet potatoes buried in brown sugar and drowned in butter before.

That's what alot of peeps call 'Yams', love them too! Instead of brown sugar, I use regular sugar, cinnamon and butter...heavy on the cinnamon
Also like carrot souffle...hard to tell the difference between it and mashed sweet taters.

 

[duluthralphie]

Also @duluthralphie Cornbread, I thought was a Midwest and southern thing, we ate it a lot in Missouri and in Iowa. Out here in the west, it’s not very popular

Not sure we can accept your response on this as Iowa and Missouri are solidly in Southie territory.

 

[007Sean]

Not sure we can accept your response on this as Iowa and Missouri are solidly in Southie territory.

NOT!!!!

 

[duluthralphie]

I Fergit what else I was going to straighten youse all out on...

But I remember someone requested a map...

Anyone South if the red line is a Southie.

Anyone south of the Blue line is most likely a

Corn does not grow worth a darn North of the blue line, we don’t have enough frost free days for it.

 

[duluthralphie]

NOT!!!!

I am so sorry you feel incorrectly on this...

Maybe this can soothe you..