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Clear chowda here along the RI border. Lots of clams, salt pork, onions, celery, potatoes, sometimes use sweets, fish stock, clam broth, and a touch of thyme.

Making some right now in honor of this thread
 
Intpseeker said:
Clear chowda here along the RI border. Lots of clams, salt pork, onions, celery, potatoes, sometimes use sweets, fish stock, clam broth, and a touch of thyme.

Making some right now in honor of this thread
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That sounds good; I'm searching recipes.
 
DaddyChoc said:
hate grits and okra? y'all must not be from Buena Vista, Georgia
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I lived for 9 years in the SC low country. I've tried grits prepared in a dozen different ways. No matter how they were disguised they still sucked. As for Okra, maybe I haven't experimented enough. I tried them a couple of times many years ago and decided that it wasn't for me. Tasteless, slimy stuff comes to mind.
 
vtcwbuff said:
I lived for 9 years in the SC low country. I've tried grits prepared in a dozen different ways. No matter how they were disguised they still sucked. As for Okra, maybe I haven't experimented enough. I tried them a couple of times many years ago and decided that it wasn't for me. Tasteless, slimy stuff comes to mind.
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Never was a big okra fan.... but fried okra isnt too bad....started to try it in the past year or so.. just got to have it with ranch dressing and texas pete's hot sauce.
 
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Most folks from New Orleans and its environs, me included, cling to the belief, right or wrong, that people in the rest of the country don't know nuthin' 'bout good food. Nothing on this thread dissuades me from that admittedly smug conviction...sorry!
 
vtcwbuff said:
I lived in Charleston for 9 years. We pulled our own shrimp from Shem creek, boiled them right there on the bank and served with beer. Favorite local SC foods - catfish and hush puppies and Hoppin' John. Grilled gator tail ain't bad either if you can find it.

Mustard based South Caroline BBQ semi sucks. Try a North Carolina style instead. Vinegar, salt and lots of pepper. It's a great mop and dip for a pig roast or a pulled pork sandwich.

I hate grits! Boiled peanuts (another SC junk food) and okra also suck.
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As a born and raised Charlestonian and proud South Carolinian you just shot a bullet straight into my heart...

Those are fighting words!
 
Bigpetunia said:
Most folks from New Orleans and its environs, me included, cling to the belief, right or wrong, that people in the rest of the country don't know nuthin' 'bout good food. Nothing on this thread dissuades me from that admittedly smug conviction..sorry!
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I hold firm to my belief that the South is the region in America with the most authentic "American" cuisine..... and it varies from each state. Everywhere else is just "land of the bland" when it comes to food...
 
cockhrnleghrn said:
I don't like grits or okra, either. Of course, I'm not a native I can eat boiled peanuts, but I prefer dry roasted. The only SC delicacy I can say I really like is She Crab Soup.
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vtcwbuff said:
I lived in Charleston for 9 years. We pulled our own shrimp from Shem creek, boiled them right there on the bank and served with beer. Favorite local SC foods - catfish and hush puppies and Hoppin' John. Grilled gator tail ain't bad either if you can find it.

Mustard based South Caroline BBQ semi sucks. Try a North Carolina style instead. Vinegar, salt and lots of pepper. It's a great mop and dip for a pig roast or a pulled pork sandwich.

I hate grits! Boiled peanuts (another SC junk food) and okra also suck.
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vtcwbuff said:
I lived for 9 years in the SC low country. I've tried grits prepared in a dozen different ways. No matter how they were disguised they still sucked. As for Okra, maybe I haven't experimented enough. I tried them a couple of times many years ago and decided that it wasn't for me. Tasteless, slimy stuff comes to mind.
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if you tried them a dozen different ways... you enjoyed them!

butter, cheese and black pepper... with scrambled eggs and a grilled Georgia hot on the side! that's the only way
 
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SCGamecock said:
As a born and raised Charlestonian and proud South Carolinian you just shot a bullet straight into my heart..

Those are fighting words!
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Lol, I've lived in SC since 3rd grade and I still don't care for BBQ, regardless of sauce.
 
cockhrnleghrn said:
Lol, I've lived in SC since 3rd grade and I still don't care for BBQ, regardless of sauce.
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when you say BBQ are you talking about "grilling" the "meat" or just the "sauce"

some say "we're having a BBQ" some, say "who made that BBQ"
 
triaddukefan said:
NC BBQ > SC BBQ :cool:

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I'm not the kind of South Carolinian that hates all things North Carolina... I actually like ya'lls BBQ.. but I love the sweet and tangy yellow stuff. SC style BBQ is definitely an acquired taste because it's so different than everybody else's... you either love it or hate it.. everybody has an opinion on it. And interestingly enough.. not all of SC eats the mustard style... you go closer to the mountains and they do more of vinegar sauce.. but from Columbia to Charleston it's mostly sweet mustard sauce.
 
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cockhrnleghrn said:
Lol, I've lived in SC since 3rd grade and I still don't care for BBQ, regardless of sauce.
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Lol.. stuff happens. I'm from Charleston and can't eat shrimp.... which is like 90% of the local diet, so whenever my family had a low country boil I would basically starve.
 
DaddyChoc said:
when you say BBQ are you talking about "grilling" the "meat" or just the "sauce"

some say "we're having a BBQ" some, say "who made that BBQ"
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In Texas, BBQ refers to the meat I believe.. they use beef brisket and don't put sauce on it (or use VERY little). It's just seasoned and marvelous. In SC, when people say BBQ they are talking about the sauce because it's already understood that you're putting the sauce of your choice on pulled pork.. the deep south is pulled pork country.
 
SCGamecock said:
I'm not the kind of South Carolinian that hates all things North Carolina.. I actually like ya'lls BBQ.. but I love the sweet and tangy yellow stuff. SC style BBQ is definitely an acquired taste because it's so different than everybody else's.. you either love it or hate it.. everybody has an opinion on it. And interestingly enough.. not all of SC eats the mustard style.. you go closer to the mountains and they do more of vinegar sauce.. but from Columbia to Charleston it's mostly sweet mustard sauce.
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The only time ive ever had SC BBQ was here in town... there was a place years ago that had that as an option. I tried it... honestly cant remember if I liked it or not. It just seems weird to think about... MUSTARD in BBQ ??? Its something I want to try again...... one of these days imma make it down to eastern SC to get some. I read/heard before that the the mustard variety was more prominent mid-state down to the coast.
 
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SCGamecock said:
In Texas, BBQ refers to the meat I believe.. they use beef brisket and don't put sauce on it (or use VERY little). It's just seasoned and marvelous. In SC, when people say BBQ they are talking about the sauce because it's already understood that you're putting the sauce of your choice on pulled pork.. the deep south is pulled pork country.
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Ive had BBQ in texas.... of course BBQ in NC..... but the BBQ in Memphis.... those guys are SERIOUS about BBQ. I'd probably gain 100 pounds in a year if I lived there :oops:Head bang

Not sure how they do it in SC...... but depending on the part of the state.... different parts of the hog are used Triad to the mountains...... they tend to just use the pork shoulder and a tomato base.... The triangle and to the coast.... they use the whole hog.... and vinegar.

I'll revisit some of these topics during the off-season in a few OT threads. :cool:
 
SCGamecock said:
In Texas, BBQ refers to the meat I believe.. they use beef brisket and don't put sauce on it (or use VERY little). It's just seasoned and marvelous. In SC, when people say BBQ they are talking about the sauce because it's already understood that you're putting the sauce of your choice on pulled pork.. the deep south is pulled pork country.
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It's the sauce as far as I know!
 
Mmmmm, Sunday morning...snowing a bit...just happen to have some veal cutlets in the fridge...inspired by the cuisine Philistines (but nevertheless friends) on The Boneyard, think I'll surprise my Valentine of these lo and many years with some grillades n grits for brunch. Ooooh, as they say in D.C., "trust me!"
 
triaddukefan said:
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Okra, yuck. Have to tell everyone my okra story. My parents are from the Carolina's and loved grits and okra, although not together. My parents used to boil their okra and I'd always found the smell and taste foul. While speaking to a friend of mine he told me a story of another friend who while having dinner at a third friends house was served okra. This friends youngest brother had a head cold and was at the dinner table. The friend said when the child's snot dripped onto the plate and he couldn't tell the difference between the snot and the okra "juice" he swore off okra forever, then and there. So did I.

However y'all, I live in NYC. There isn't a kind of cuisine extant in this country that isn't here, and I've tried them all. In this country there are, I my opinion, 2 cuisines: Southern cuisine and burgers. Southern cuisine wins every time. Except on gameday when my custom burger is king. Every other cuisine is from somewhere else.
 
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Bigpetunia said:
Mmmmm, Sunday morning..snowing a bit..just happen to have some veal cutlets in the fridge..inspired by the cuisine Philistines (but nevertheless friends) on The Boneyard, think I'll surprise my Valentine of these lo and many years with some grillades n grits for brunch. Ooooh, as they say in D.C., "trust me!"
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Trust that knock at the door then. It's a Brooklyn boy with the UConn hat.
 
DaddyChoc said:
if you tried them a dozen different ways.. you enjoyed them!

butter, cheese and black pepper.. with scrambled eggs and a grilled Georgia hot on the side! that's the only way
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Nah! If you go out for breakfast in the low country they are gonna' slop some sort of grits on your plate, usually messing up your eggs. If you tell the waitress "no grits please" she'll know you're a Yankee and probably spit in your coffee.

My favorite low country foods - catfish and hush puppies from the Dock Restaurant in Monck's Corners, before it went touristy and fried gator tail at the Berkley Yacht Club on the Cooper River (a bubba' style bait and tackle place with a few rickety docks and a boat launch) at a time when gators were a protected species and you had to order the "special fried chicken." I also like sausage and gravy biscuits but don't think they're considered low country.
 
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triaddukefan said:
I never really have associated clams with CT.. but i do remember my father telling me stories of working at a seafood restaurant and making clam chowder up in Connecticut back in the late 50s... early 60s
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Used to have a lot of lobster out of the Sound, but the catch has been decimated by we-know-not what. Too bad.

We're down to cider and donuts!
 
DaddyChoc said:
when you say BBQ are you talking about "grilling" the "meat" or just the "sauce"

some say "we're having a BBQ" some, say "who made that BBQ"
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I like food grilled at a barbecue, but what's being referred to in this thread is chopped or pulled meat (usually pork) that is smothered in some sort of sauce. It is a rural Southern staple, and probably a large contributor to lower life expectancy in the rural South.
 
SCGamecock said:
In Texas, BBQ refers to the meat I believe.. they use beef brisket and don't put sauce on it (or use VERY little). It's just seasoned and marvelous. In SC, when people say BBQ they are talking about the sauce because it's already understood that you're putting the sauce of your choice on pulled pork.. the deep south is pulled pork country.
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I have actually gone on BBQ vacations to Memphis and Kansas City. Had BBQ in Texas, North and South Carolina. Memphis and KC are the best. Wide variety in styles there, but no mustard.
 
cockhrnleghrn said:
I like food grilled at a barbecue, but what's being referred to in this thread is chopped or pulled meat (usually pork) that is smothered in some sort of sauce. It is a rural Southern staple, and probably a large contributor to lower life expectancy in the rural South.
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Actually, I think Waffle House leads to lower life expectancy. Nobody anywhere makes better hash browns than Waffle House.
 
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