Southern English

[jinman]

I appreciate your point about Yankees and Rednecks but those terms are not always used in a mean spirited way. I'm sure folks in the south call themselves Rednecks just as we use the term Yankee (though I must say it is really galling for a devoted Red Sox fan to call himself a Yankee).

Absolutely true! We all love good-natured joking, but we all have to be careful that our joking doesn't turn to taunting. I've been called a Yank by Brits and Aussies; loved the term and consider it a compliment.

 

[IslandTractor]

Absolutely true! We all love good-natured joking, but we all have to be careful that our joking doesn't turn to taunting. I've been called a Yank by Brits and Aussies; loved the term and consider it a compliment.

And, I suppose it is even more galling for a proud Redneck to be called a Yank than it is for a Red Sox fan!!!

 

[/pine]

just an opinion based on observation...no personal animosity...

Not trying to throw gas on a fire but...I think it's going to be quite a while before all the deep seated hatred (rightly deserved or not) that is rooted in the demeaning use of the word (Yankee) becomes diluted enough to be accepted as being "good" in nature...JMO

 

[bcp]

To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.
To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.
To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.

E. B. White

 

[IslandTractor]

just an opinion based on observation...no personal animosity...

Not trying to throw gas on a fire but...I think it's going to be quite a while before all the deep seated hatred (rightly deserved or not) that is rooted in the demeaning use of the word (Yankee) becomes diluted enough to be accepted as being "good" in nature...JMO

Yes, there is that perspective. But I don't think it was too long ago that Japs and Krauts were reviled and those feelings subsided within a generation. I appreciate that southerners hang on to some civil war related feelings but the inverse really is not the case. We might cheer for the blue rather than grey in an annual football game but any memories of Andersonville or Bulls Run etc etc have long since passed into history and no longer have any significant emotional component up here.

 

[k0ua]

DaveR, that sausage has plenty of drippings to make great gravy. However, cleaning a cast iron skillet after making gravy is not my favorite chore. The gravy seems to take some of the seasoning out of the pan and requires a treatment of about 1/2 teaspoonful of oil to keep the pan from rust spotting.

Yep, best to season them again with a quarter sized spot of olive oil. At least that is what I do... And while I consider my self a southerner, I have brains enough to know that every area of the USA has some great eats. While I don't care a lot for Boston politics, I also know they make some very tempting dishes up there.

 

[k0ua]

To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.
To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.
To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.

E. B. White

Hm.... I have been know to do just that...

 

[/pine]

Yes, there is that perspective. But I don't think it was too long ago that Japs and Krauts were reviled and those feelings subsided within a generation. I appreciate that southerners hang on to some civil war related feelings but the inverse really is not the case. We might cheer for the blue rather than grey in an annual football game but any memories of Andersonville or Bulls Run etc etc have long since passed into history and no longer have any significant emotional component up here.

Again just an observation...
...From what I have read it is/was not so much the atrocities of war(s) but those that come in the aftermath that are the most resented at least when it comes to 'The War Between the States'...

 

[/pine]

...a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast

I was born and raised in the South but I find nothing wrong with pie for breakfast..especially 'ShooFly Pie'...

 

[jerrybob]

To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.
To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.
To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.

E. B. White

To many of us.....a Yankee is just a spoiled baseball player!:laughing: