OT: National Southern Food Day

[triaddukefan]

Just found out that today is national southern food day...... and I live in the South

So if any of yall live south of the Mason Dixon... and north of Interstate 10 in Florida.... there's about 7 hours left in the day to indulge.

 

[MSGRET]

Give me some good Cajun food and I'm satisfied, though my dietician would be having a heart attack just looking at it.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

You would know.

Not indulging today, but I do like non-seafood Cajun, I like sausage gravy - but please, hold the grits.

 

[Bama fan]

Did not know it was Southern food day, but my wife is an Alabama native so many days are Southern food days here. She is just taking a big pan of homemade biscuits out of the oven now!

 

[Jmsdawg]

Did not know it was Southern food day, but my wife is an Alabama native so many days are Southern food days here. She is just taking a big pan of homemade biscuits out of the oven now!

Love homemade biscuits with real butter and strawberry jelly and my wife makes the best biscuits in the south!

 

[Plebe]

Just found out that today is national southern food day. and I live in the South

So if any of yall live south of the Mason Dixon... and north of Interstate 10 in Florida.... there's about 7 hours left in the day to indulge.

Well hell's bells. I didn't know. I'll have to head to Threadgill's today for some chicken fried steak and fried green tomatoes and collard greens and...

 

[nwhoopfan]

Just found out that today is national southern food day. and I live in the South

So if any of yall live south of the Mason Dixon... and north of Interstate 10 in Florida.... there's about 7 hours left in the day to indulge.

Today is also Squirrel Appreciation Day (I'm not kidding). The calendar has gotten so crowded with special occasions that some of them have to share the day with something else.

 

[JordyG]

I didn't know. Yipyeah! What a great day for American food lovers. Cornbread tonight! Triadduke for president.

 

[CocoHusky]

Just found out that today is national southern food day. and I live in the South
So if any of yall live south of the Mason Dixon... and north of Interstate 10 in Florida.... there's about 7 hours left in the day to indulge.

Are you using a southern hemisphere calendar by any chance? My calendar says today is National Hot sauce day. Since hot sauce is associated with southern food it is the same day? I had some chili for dinner with hot sauce. Is chili considered southern or do I need to go eat again to be safe?

 

[vtcwbuff]

Southern foods I love to hate -

Chitlins
Grits
Okra
Boiled peanuts
Collards
I'm sure there's more but I been away from Dixie for a long time.

 

[triaddukefan]

You would know.

Not indulging today, but I do like non-seafood Cajun, I like sausage gravy - but please, hold the grits.

You missing out.... Shrimp and Grits...

Today is also Squirrel Appreciation Day (I'm not kidding). The calendar has gotten so crowded with special occasions that some of them have to share the day with something else.

Ive never eaten squirrel...... but deep fried squirrel topped with white gravy might be something that could be tasty.

 

[triaddukefan]

Well hell's bells. I didn't know. I'll have to head to Threadgill's today for some chicken fried steak and fried green tomatoes and collard greens and...

Thats one texas food that I miss..... chicken fried steak with white gravy ... .. hammercy

I didn't know. Yipyeah! What a great day for American food lovers. Cornbread tonight! Triadduke for president.

Before you cast that vote....... I will say that I dont eat cornbread ...

 

[JordyG]

Thats one texas food that I miss..... chicken fried steak with white gravy ... .. hammercy





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Before you cast that vote.. I will say that I dont eat cornbread ...

A southerner that doesn't eat cornbread? Waiter, check!

 

[JordyG]

Southern foods I love to hate -

Chitlins
Grits
Okra
Boiled peanuts
Collards
I'm sure there's more but I been away from Dixie for a long time.

I'll tell you what. While they're cooking chitlins are the devil's own urine food. But once cooked, and over rice with gravy? Angel food. Nothing like 'em. And Collards? Made with neck bones, hamhocks? You're kidding right? But okra. They have to be fried. If they're boiled, goodness they're nasty. My friend once said he went to a friends house and they served boiled okra. When he couldn't tell the difference between the snot coming out of the nose of his friends younger brother and the okra juice (slime) on the plate....

 

[Bama fan]

 

[triaddukefan]

A southerner that doesn't eat cornbread? Waiter, check!

I dont eat collards either

 

[mbr33ct]

 

[Puppy Love]

Southern foods I love to hate -

Chitlins
Grits
Okra
Boiled peanuts
Collards
I'm sure there's more but I been away from Dixie for a long time.

I’m a borderline Swamp Yankee, but have family roots in Mississippi. I was raised on grits for breakfast on cold mornings. I still love them.

 

[meyers7]

Today is also Squirrel Appreciation Day (I'm not kidding). The calendar has gotten so crowded with special occasions that some of them have to share the day with something else.

So do you deep fry your squirrel or cook it over an open pit?

 

[vtcwbuff]

I've eaten squirrel. Par boiled, dusted in seasoned flour and pan fried in bacon grease. Not bad (better than chitlins) but not a favorite.

 

[BroadwayVa]

So do you deep fry your squirrel or cook it over an open pit?

Squirrel like most country food was eaten out of necessity and became desirable for those that got familiar with it. It is Nostralia.

Are you using a southern hemisphere calendar by any chance? My calendar says today is National Hot sauce day. Since hot sauce is associated with southern food it is the same day? I had some chili for dinner with hot sauce. Is chili considered southern or do I need to go eat again to be safe?

Chilli is Tex Mex in nature. Brown beans are southern.
Just don't eat green chilli it is the hottest. Or stuff chilli peppers--it is acquired eating.
C

 

[jaundicedeye]

I'll tell you what. While they're cooking chitlins are the devil's own urine food. But once cooked, and over rice with gravy? Angel food. Nothing like 'em. And Collards? Made with neck bones, hamhocks? You're kidding right? But okra. They have to be fried. If they're boiled, goodness they're nasty. My friend once said he went to a friends house and they served boiled okra. When he couldn't tell the difference between the snot coming out of the nose of his friends younger brother and the okra juice (slime) on the plate....

Correct on all counts!

 

[Magy Cannon]

Texas is not south. It's southwest. There's a difference. Parts of east Texas are kinda south.

Best southern foods: (where do I start?)
Fried chicken with rice and gravy
Pork chops with baked apples
Biscuits with bacon gravy (just had a dose of that)
Ham with cabbage and fried potatoes ( not french fries, fried potatoes)
Pot roast with potatoes and carrots (this one may fit the whole U.S.)

 

[Magy Cannon]

And by the way, y'all is always, always, always PLURAL! Y'all is 2 or more. All y'all is a whole bunch of people. Singular is you, just like up north. You guys, or guys, is NEVER used. Correct is y'all.

 

[Plebe]

Texas is not south. It's southwest. There's a difference. Parts of east Texas are kinda south.

Best southern foods: (where do I start?)
Fried chicken with rice and gravy
Pork chops with baked apples
Biscuits with bacon gravy (just had a dose of that)
Ham with cabbage and fried potatoes ( not french fries, fried potatoes)
Pot roast with potatoes and carrots (this one may fit the whole U.S.)

Texas is a blend of south and southwest. It neither is nor isn't.

 

[JordyG]

So do you deep fry your squirrel or cook it over an open pit?

I like my road kill raw. I then like to wipe my hands on the circling pack of wild dogs. Man, that's eatin'.

 

[JordyG]

I dont eat collards either


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Hand in you southern card immediately or face the consequences.

 

[ClifSpliffy]

we had fried chicken (pretty much the only chicken I'll ever eat), grits (the slow kind), biscuits, gravy, home baked fruit cake, and corn likker. thank you southern friends. great cold weather food, though we kinda groggy today!

 

[triaddukefan]

Hand in you southern card immediately or face the consequences.

Man every Christmas I tell myself... this is the year imma eat some collards..... and every christmas its the last thing on the plate... and invariably it goes to waste. Ill try again..... eventually....... i may have to take a road trip down to the eastern part of the state to get some.

Tell ya what...... as penance.... I'll eat some fried chicken, vinegar based pork bbq.... some hushpuppies.... 2 pieces of fat back...... washed down with some good ol Muscadine wine.... and a piece of sweet potato pie.

 

[vtcwbuff]

Texas is not south. It's southwest. There's a difference. Parts of east Texas are kinda south.

Best southern foods: (where do I start?)
Fried chicken with rice and gravy
Pork chops with baked apples
Biscuits with bacon gravy (just had a dose of that)
Ham with cabbage and fried potatoes ( not french fries, fried potatoes)
Pot roast with potatoes and carrots (this one may fit the whole U.S.)

None of those are exclusive "southern" foods although they may be eaten in the south. I have a fried chicken recipe from my great grandmother from around 1900. She had never been further south than 10 miles below the Quebec border.

I grew up on a farm. Pork chops, ham hocks (we called them pigs feet), biscuits and gravy were all standards on our French Canadian table. Ham and cabbage is an Irish dish just as common in Boston as it is in Savannah and beef pot roast is a traditional French Canadian dish better known as Yankee pot roast.

The same goes for other "southern" foods like fried catfish (we called them bullheads), corn bread, fried frog legs and chicken and biscuits. All of them common dinner fare when I was a kid in Northern VT.