Southern English

[Creamer]

100% Dixie but that's cuz I was razed in the South (Dakota that is).

now how bout gettin supper around?

 

[two_bit_score]

drunker than Cooter Brown

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and 'three sheets to the wind'

 

[IslandTractor]

and 'three sheets to the wind'

Now that is a nautical term and not specific to the South at all. It relates to the fact that when a boat is overpowered by the wind and uncontrollable, a sailor can release all the sheets that hold the sails in position and let them fly. Desperation move and only done when the boat is out of control. I assume the term is used to describe a rowdy drunk in the South as it is up here.

 

[kenmac]

Nah, I found her wandering the streets of Boston looking for biscuits and gravy. (Sadly we don't have any up here and even worse we call grits "polenta"!)

If you Ain't got biscuits & gravy or grits there, You can't be in America ! I'll take home made biscuits & gravy & grits over just about anything ! I guess I'm a true Southerner. To tell the truth,,I've never been above the Mason Dixon.

 

[Gunny]

"I'd rather be hung by the neck here than die a natural death in New York"

 

[Texomahog]

It's pertnear time bedtime.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

One of the funniest stories I ever heard was told by the female comic, Brett Butler. She said she was doing her stand up act somewhere in the South, Georgia I think, and she was really putting her redneck ex husband and rednecks in general, through the ringer.

She said some guy in the audience stood up and yelled at her the following:

"If somebody had taught you how to make biscuits you wouldn't be up there saying that s**t!

 

[PMA]

Hot biscuits and fresh tomatoes. Now that's good.

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[IslandTractor]

If you Ain't got biscuits & gravy or grits there, You can't be in America ! I'll take home made biscuits & gravy & grits over just about anything ! I guess I'm a true Southerner. To tell the truth,,I've never been above the Mason Dixon.

While we do have some tasty treats y'all don't get in the South, I have absolutely no explanation for why biscuits and gravy have not been successfully transplanted up here. We've adopted BBQ with a vengeance and fried chicken is on every menu but wonderful flaky warm biscuits either plain with butter or smothered in homemade gravy are very hard to find. Franchise biscuits from Hardy's are probably available but not worth much.

The other dish I miss up here is fried catfish with typical fixin's. That makes a little more sense as fresh catfish isn't available in the pond out back.

 

[IslandTractor]

"I'd rather be hung by the neck here than die a natural death in New York"

Nuevo Yorke isn't so bad so long as you don't rattle the native's cages and don't get run over by a Somali cab driver. I spent my last year of high school in Brooklyn and loved exploring the city. Great food, great culture, interesting people not all of whom are strange and it is just amazing to walk around Manhattan and admire what man has built. Wouldn't want to live there without a million a year income but it is as they say a great place to visit.