OT: How Southern Are You? A Quiz

[calpedaler]

My score was 5. Why have I never heard of Chocolate Gravy? I need that in my life.

 

[Bigboote]

1) deviled eggs are a gift from the heavens.... nothing like fried chicken with 4-6 deviled eggs......... and a glass of sweet ice tea

2) My neighbor and I were talking about squirrel a few weeks back...... he was talking about how he used to hunt back in the day... and mentioned squirrel. I told him I'd never had it... but it is kinda intriguing. Im not sure where I would get processed squirrel meat from though....... guess I could just set up a trap in the back yard.

At my family get-togethers (in Maine or New Hampshire, all living in New England except me, my wife and daughter), the deviled eggs are so popular that usually two people bring them. Even so the person who takes the last one gets dirty looks. I know because it's often me.

The thing about squirrel (which I haven't tried) is that it's so much work for so little meat. Frog legs are very tasty, but I don't eat them for the same reason. Thinking of frog legs, I remember Bobcat Goldthwait saying, "If it tastes like chicken, just give me chicken."

 

[DanishBulldog]

mayo sandwich

When I was a kid, this was a "ham sandwich without the ham."

 

[ClifSpliffy]

When I was a kid, this was a "ham sandwich without the ham."

fresh picked summer tomato, seeded rye bread also fresh baked, and lots of mayo -- fuhhghetaboutit. awe inspiring, and reason alone to hope for better days soon. if ur a wonderbread type instead, or any other bread for that matter, i'd happily eat that version, too.

 

[RowdyFan]

30 and I'm Italian Irish and my hubs is an Ohio State farm boy. But I've also eaten Iguana, Guinea Pig, and DOG.

 

[Crazyhorse]

30 and I'm Italian Irish and my hubs is an Ohio State farm boy. But I've also eaten Iguana, Guinea Pig, and DOG.

Like my Irish friend told me, you are not Irish, you are American

 

[triaddukefan]

22. I love a good corn pudding. I'm not sure what chocolate gravy and fatback are. They should have listed pimento cheese.

I was gonna deduct a point.....and order you to read four Southern Living magazines from front to back..... but I will forgive you since you mentioned pimento cheese.

 

[skilz]

30, however there were opportunities to try the others and I chose not too!

 

[Ozimoto]

I got 10 which seems about right growing up just south of the Mason Dixon line. However, I have heard of most of them. Many I would not touch with a 10 foot pole...

 

[garddog]

I got 10 which seems about right growing up just south of the Mason Dixon line. However, I have heard of most of them. Many I would not touch with a 10 foot pole...

Are you practicing social distancing with Southern food!

33 here and tasted a couple others but didn't care for them.

 

[triaddukefan]

Since I need to up my score.... I found a source for Souse. There is a Company based here in Greensboro that sells all kinds of Pork related food..... Sausage... Souse, C-Loaf (chitterlings), Bacon, Liver Pudding, Livermush, and Scrapple.

Good news... they ship all over the country... and their products have my personal seal of approval. I wouldn't steer you wrong well maybe a few of yall

Shop – Neese Sausage

Though I will admit... after seeing a few of the ingredients in Souse..... pig skins, pig tongue, pig heart , pickles and a few other things.

 

[garddog]

Since I need to up my score.... I found a source for Souse. There is a Company based here in Greensboro that sells all kinds of Pork related food..... Sausage... Souse, C-Loaf (chitterlings), Bacon, Liver Pudding, Livermush, and Scrapple.

Good news... they ship all over the country... and their products have my personal seal of approval. I wouldn't steer you wrong well maybe a few of yall

Shop – Neese Sausage

Though I will admit... after seeing a few of the ingredients in Souse..... pig skins, pig tongue, pig heart , pickles and a few other things.

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If you ever ate Spam, potted meat, deviled ham, you get all that.

Real Souse is also called Hog Head Cheese. You take the head, brain is already gone, first thing out and scrambled with eggs. Back to souse, remove eyes and tongue, boil the rest of head in cast iron pot, (yes like a witches pot) scrape everything off the bone, run through grinder, season, press flat to make a loaf.

 

[Bigboote]

If you ever ate Spam, potted meat, deviled ham, you get all that.

Real Souse is also called Hog Head Cheese. You take the head, brain is already gone, first thing out and scrambled with eggs. Back to souse, remove eyes and tongue, boil the rest of head in cast iron pot, (yes like a witches pot) scrape everything off the bone, run through grinder, season, press flat to make a loaf.

I had a Paul Prudhomme cookbook with a recipe for red beans and rice that started with boiling a hogshead. (Night before last, hot sausage worked fine.)

It also had a recipe for red boudin that started with pig's blood that had to be VERY fresh, and if not fresh, kept on ice. I haven't had red boudin, but I did have black pudding (also a blood sausage) in Ireland. Not my cuppa.

I donated the Prudhomme cookbook.

 

[BRS24]

24 - not bad for almost 50 years in MA/CT and now a Floridian

 

[thatguyed]

16. From Stratford to Myrtle Beach 4 years ago.

 

[SVCBeercats]

Came across this on Twitter.. I scored a 26

Sho'nuff Southern with a 33. I had many of these foods in the first 21 years of my life living in PA. Some had different names such headcheese instead of souse. I am guessing the pickled pigs feet at the Slovak and Polish clubs' bar were different. Frankly ambrosia salad sounds much more appetizing than congealed salad. I have never eaten Burgoo, Oyster Casserole, Hoppin' John, Liver Mush (and never will!), Brunswick Stew, and Poke Salad. At one time my sales territory included Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas. We lived in Missouri for 27 years. We also had a dear friend who grew up in south. She always tried to surprise me with a new southern dish at each dinner.

 

[SVCBeercats]

Just inched over the Yankee line with 6.

No, you did not!

 

[garddog]

Brunswick stew is basically Beef stew but with pork or chicken or wild game.

Tomato base, beans, corn, potatoes, okra, carrots, and meat.

Surely most of you have had stew.

 

[Volup1]

Simply put, “fatback” comes from each side of the pig’s back. It is cured with salt. You may know it as “salt pork.” My mama in south Alabama used small chunks of it to season and salt turnip greens, green beans, and black-eyed peas. It also can be sliced similar to bacon. When sliced, it is referred to as “streak o’ lean.” Whereas good bacon consists of lean smoked meat interspersed with streaks of fat; streak o’ lean is sliced salted fat with a streak or two of lean meat in it.

I am sure this is waaaay more info than any of you want.

 

[militarydog]

Simply put, “fatback” comes from each side of the pig’s back. It is cured with salt. You may know it as “salt pork.” My mama in south Alabama used small chunks of it to season and salt turnip greens, green beans, and black-eyed peas. It also can be sliced similar to bacon. When sliced, it is referred to as “streak o’ lean.” Whereas good bacon consists of lean smoked meat interspersed with streaks of fat; streak o’ lean is sliced salted fat with a streak or two of lean meat in it.

I am sure this is waaaay more info than any of you want.

Salt pork is one of the best breakfast foods ever created. Period.

 

[triaddukefan]

A story on Collard Green Sandwiches..... you can fast forward to the 2:55 mark if you just want to see how they prepare them. As they say.... you gotta have fatback on it. Also noted in the video.... they fry their collards... and they talk about Chow-Chow ... another food I associate with the South.

 

[IWearShoes]

Came across this on Twitter.. I scored a 26





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What does 33 make me???

 

[Bigboote]

A couple of things to add:

I'd say the primary difference between Brunswick stew and your garden-variety beef/pork/chicken stew is the presence of tomato. To me that's akin to the difference between a file gumbo and an okra gumbo.

Burgoo is also just a stew, but made with game rather than farm-raised meat. I had a friend from Kentucky who cooked it, so I may have unwittingly had squirrel once or twice.

I guess poke weed is more common in the south than the north, but around here in Maryland (and I assume where SVC grew up in PA), it really does grow as a weed. I've encouraged some in our yard, as my wife LOVES the stuff. We don't make a salad from it, but cook it as greens. Be careful, you can only eat the small leaves, bigger ones can make you so sick you'll have to die to get better. (Actually they can kill you, but that's really unusual, and if you've been eating it all season, it would've made you sick a few times, at which point if you keep eating it, it's your own fault).

 

[Ozimoto]

While vacationing on the Outer Banks several years ago we ran across a book entitled "White Trash Cooking" in a small hole in the wall bookstore on Ocracoke Island. Suffice to say that I crew up eating several of the dishes that were in that book being raised in the Appalachian mountains of Maryland...

 

[garddog]

While vacationing on the Outer Banks several years ago we ran across a book entitled "White Trash Cooking" in a small hole in the wall bookstore on Ocracoke Island. Suffice to say that I crew up eating several of the dishes that were in that book being raised in the Appalachian mountains of Maryland...

Does that make you almost West Virginian?