OT: How Southern Are You? A Quiz

[militarydog]

Fried okra!

Make sure it is the kind mixed and fried with the cornmeal instead of those tatertot looking things you see most places.

Fried Okra Recipe

Fried Okra is a Southern staple. It's so simple to make, and makes the perfect side dish. Get this heirloom family fried okra recipe that you'll love.

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[CompSci87]

3 or so for this northerner from Milwaukee (now in Palo Alto).

 

[Plebe]

I also feel the list falls a bit short on the desserts. Chess pie is fine and good, but the staples in my grandma's house were pecan pie and black bottom pie (my heart swoons).

Other classic Southern pies include:
buttermilk pie
hummingbird pie
sweet potato pie

 

[JordyG]

I also feel the list falls a bit short on the desserts. Chess pie is fine and good, but the staples in my grandma's house were pecan pie and black bottom pie (my heart swoons).

Other classic Southern pies include:
buttermilk pie
hummingbird pie
sweet potato pie

What the heck is hummingbird pie? I mean, my parents were southern, but I've never heard of that.

 

[Plebe]

What the heck is hummingbird pie? I mean, my parents were southern, but I've never heard of that.

I'm sure the recipes vary, but for me it's a combination of of banana, pecan, pineapple and coconut.

 

[triaddukefan]

What the heck is hummingbird pie? I mean, my parents were southern, but I've never heard of that.

I've never heard of hummingbird pie..... but Im a big fan of Hummingbird Cake from this place here in Greensboro ... Maxi B's @Argonaut

The site says its contains bananas, pecans, and pineapple.

Hummingbird Cake

 

[VFLfan]

28...definitely Southern.

 

[CBus13]

Four years in Savannah and could only muster up 12 points...yikes. Five of those points were made by my northern grandma regularly growing up.

 

[Argonaut]

I've never heard of hummingbird pie..... but Im a big fan of Hummingbird Cake from this place here in Greensboro ... Maxi B's @Argonaut

The site says its contains bananas, pecans, and pineapple.

Hummingbird Cake

That hummingbird cake is my favorite flavor at Maxie B’s. Why must you taunt me so?

 

[Jmsdawg]

18 for me. Left out BBQ Coon, squirrel stew, wild turkey stew, lard biscuits, mayo sandwich, crowder peas with rice, some many desserts, etc. Miss those meals!

 

[Plebe]

I've never heard of hummingbird pie..... but Im a big fan of Hummingbird Cake from this place here in Greensboro ... Maxi B's @Argonaut

The site says its contains bananas, pecans, and pineapple.

Hummingbird Cake

Hummingbird pie is just a pie spinoff of the cake, so to speak:

Hummingbird Pie

This incredible Hummingbird Pie harnesses the flavors of a classic Southern hummingbird cake in the form of a pie. With its coconut pecan crumb topping and pineapple and banana filling, it's a flavor bomb in pie form.

mission-food.com

 

[JordyG]

I've never heard of hummingbird pie..... but Im a big fan of Hummingbird Cake from this place here in Greensboro ... Maxi B's @Argonaut

The site says its contains bananas, pecans, and pineapple.

Hummingbird Cake

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm yeah man! I'm a fan already.

 

[JordyG]

Hummingbird pie is just a pie spinoff of the cake, so to speak:

Hummingbird Pie

This incredible Hummingbird Pie harnesses the flavors of a classic Southern hummingbird cake in the form of a pie. With its coconut pecan crumb topping and pineapple and banana filling, it's a flavor bomb in pie form.

mission-food.com

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Once I saw coconut pecan crumb I'm a fan.

 

[Txhoopsalot]

Make sure it is the kind mixed and fried with the cornmeal instead of those tatertot looking things you see most places.

Fried Okra Recipe

Fried Okra is a Southern staple. It's so simple to make, and makes the perfect side dish. Get this heirloom family fried okra recipe that you'll love.

addapinch.com

Yes, the only way I knew fried okra until i was 40, was to shake the okra in a bowl or paper bag with some cornmeal (and a little salt and pepper) and fry it up in a black iron skillet.

 

[Txhoopsalot]

Hummingbird pie is just a pie spinoff of the cake, so to speak:

Hummingbird Pie

This incredible Hummingbird Pie harnesses the flavors of a classic Southern hummingbird cake in the form of a pie. With its coconut pecan crumb topping and pineapple and banana filling, it's a flavor bomb in pie form.

mission-food.com

View attachment 52463

I have to make this! And that crust looks perfect.

 

[billybud]

Scored 23....Ahm as suthern as sweet tea.

 

[DefenseBB]

I bet there were a few items you had to google to see what they were

Well, I know I am a "Yankee" but I did score a 10! Triad-very disappointing that you only scored 26 of 39, that's a 67% score. Your Southern roots are now in question...

 

[meyers7]

12. Not very southern. Or not very adventurous. I did live in GA, FL and VA for a bit though.

 

[dogged1]

2 years in LA (Lower Alabama) courtesy of Uncle Sam and I got 16. So I just qualified as Sho'nuff.
Fatback is pork skin and fat, a close cousin to salt pork. You can fry it and cut it up like bacon bits. Or use it in a lot of recipes that call for rendered pork fat.
I sometimes use it to make Rhode Island clam chowder, with quahog clams of course. Or Hungarian Szalonna.

 

[militarydog]

12. Not very southern. Or not very adventurous. I did live in GA, FL and VA for a bit though.

I realize Virginia was home to the capital of the Confederacy but anything north of South Carolina and Tennessee and west/northwest of Arkansas as well as anything but the panhandle of Florida is only marginally “Southern” at best. Basically Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, eastern Arkansas, Louisiana above I-10, and the Florida panhandle is “The South”.
Edited to add my home state of Mississippi.

 

[dogged1]

I realize Virginia was home to the capital of the Confederacy but anything north of South Carolina and Tennessee and west/northwest of Arkansas as well as anything but the panhandle of Florida is only marginally “Southern” at best. Basically Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, eastern Arkansas, Louisiana above I-10, and the Florida panhandle is “The South”.

You just p*ssed off a whole bunch of Virginians, sir!

 

[militarydog]

You just p*ssed off a whole bunch of Virginians, sir!

The truth can be hard to stomach sometimes.

 

[Bigboote]

I realize Virginia was home to the capital of the Confederacy but anything north of South Carolina and Tennessee and west/northwest of Arkansas as well as anything but the panhandle of Florida is only marginally “Southern” at best. Basically Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, eastern Arkansas, Louisiana above I-10, and the Florida panhandle is “The South”.

I went to graduate school at UVA with a guy who grew up in Texas, Alabama, and Louisiana. All these kids from the Washington suburbs thought they were so Southern. He said Virginia is just a "Boahdah state." I had a good friend who grew up for the most part in the northern part of Virginia who'd lived for a year just over the border in Maryland, about 30 miles from her home in VA. She said she'd never live "in the north" again. Swore up and down that there was a world of difference just by crossing an imaginary line.

 

[Bigboote]

Make sure it is the kind mixed and fried with the cornmeal instead of those tatertot looking things you see most places.

Fried Okra Recipe

Fried Okra is a Southern staple. It's so simple to make, and makes the perfect side dish. Get this heirloom family fried okra recipe that you'll love.

addapinch.com

Yeah, really heavily battered okra is just an abomination. There are some things I like battered (not many), but okra is not improved by going beyond a light dusting of corn meal. The light dusting counteracts the slime factor perfectly.

 

[nwhoopfan]

I went to graduate school at UVA with a guy who grew up in Texas, Alabama, and Louisiana. All these kids from the Washington suburbs thought they were so Southern. He said Virginia is just a "Boahdah state." I had a good friend who grew up for the most part in the northern part of Virginia who'd lived for a year just over the border in Maryland, about 30 miles from her home in VA. She said she'd never live "in the north" again. Swore up and down that there was a world of difference just by crossing an imaginary line.

My bro was in the Air Force for 20 years, so I got to visit a number of different places based on where he was stationed. He was on loan to the DoD for a while and worked in DC, they lived in Fairfax, VA. Definitely didn't feel like the south to me. We did a hike to the Great Falls of the Potomac, could see Maryland on the other side of the river. Didn't really look any different over there.

My only real trip to the south was when he was in Tullahoma, TN. We also visited Nashville and Chattanooga. I think that counts as the real south.