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Re: Southern foods
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Reply to: #12035 by Dixie
Dec 1, 2005 6:05am
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OK so this isn't really southern, but it is an odd.

My daughter (age 5) made herself lunch the other day. She started with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Then she sprinkled some grated colby/jack cheese on top of that. And just to top it off...a big ol' blob of catsup!
She must have liked it...she ate the whole thing!
Re: Southern foods
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Reply to: #12069 by Mn8X
Dec 1, 2005 6:27am
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OK.... That's just not right. :) My 3 and 5 year old would do that too.
Koyote
Re: Southern foods
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Reply to: #11985 by BullDawg
Dec 1, 2005 6:29am
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"greens!.....thats a must for country grub...there is a reason why there aint many skinny folks in the southern hills of VA..."

That's why I make my collard greens with lotsa pepper and dash vinegar over it when it's done.

After I turned 40, some weird thing happened to my body and now I can't eat anything with fat it in. Which probably explains why I fight to keep 100 lbs on my 5'3" frame.

Prior to that, I made my collard greens in the drippings of the whopping chunks of bacon that I had first cooked in the pan.

Warrior Woman
Re: tawkin funny
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Reply to: #11889 by Janila
Dec 1, 2005 8:33am
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Grandma was Pennsylvania Dutch. So I don't know all of the words. But I love my dippy eggs. I also like smear-case (spelling?) But I have to have black pepper with it

Sometimes Dad would ask me to "outten the light"

Ever hear "it makes down"? = it's raining. We never used it, but I've heard it a few times.

S~N~K
soda pop
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Reply to: #11929 by Sprite and Highlander
Dec 1, 2005 8:45am
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I remember in high school (Ohio). A new girl ( I can't remember where she was from, New England area I think) confessed to me that she was shocked the first time someone asked her if she wanted some pop...

She thought they were asking her if she wanted some pot!

S~N~K
pecans
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Reply to: #11942 by Sprite and Highlander
Dec 1, 2005 8:53am
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I've heard that pe-cawn is the nut

a pee-can is what you keep under your bed, if you have to get up in the middle of the night

;-)

S~N~K
Re: soda pop
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Reply to: #12101 by Sits N Knits
Dec 1, 2005 8:56am
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Now, here in WNY, it's POP.
That's an ongoing feud between people, here and elsewhere, that makes me laugh.

I prefer 'pop', because that's what I grew up with. To me, a 'soda' is what I get down the street at Condrell's, an ice cream place, and it's scoops of ice cream in a big glass, wth 'soda' or 'pop' flavoring. Yummy, by the way. Now, note this is NOT a 'float'- those have ice cream in them, as well, but instead of 'soda/pop' flavoring, they have actual soda/pop in them. Also very yummy.

My grandparents, who live in Owego, have always referred to it as 'soda'.
Dances With Music, who lives here in Buffalo with my gang, origionally hails from South Dakota. It's 'soda' out there, too.

I most of the time say 'pop', but occasionally (most of the time just to avoid the arguement), I call it 'soda pop'.

-Celtic Quinn (Who happens to like them all, anyway...Cherry Coke rocks)
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Reply to: #12101 by Sits N Knits
Dec 1, 2005 8:59am
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Quote She thought they were asking her if she wanted some pot!


Speaking of pot--I was walking along the downtown waterfront here in beautiful San Luis Obispo a couple of days ago and found a group of kids sneaking some pot. Not very cool, at all. I think I suprised them because they just about jumped out of their pants when I walked passed them and had those "frightened rabbit" eyes at the time. =)

And I just kept thinking, IDIOTS! Not so much that they were smoking pot--I suspect the vast majority of the population has done that at some point--but to do it in such an incredibly public place?! Stupid, stupid, stupid.... It's only a matter of time before they get busted if they keep smoking it in DOWNTOWN San Luis! *rolling eyes*

At least when I was a kid, I had enough sense that if you're doing something illegal, you don't do it openly in public! Kids nowdays. *rolling eyes*

-- Ryan
Re: tawkin funny
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Reply to: #11961 by Sprite and Highlander
Dec 1, 2005 9:06am
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Oh man, Sprite!

What I wouldn't give for a barbequed chip-chop sandwich, with bread and butter pickles! Used to get the best at Spawn's in E. Ohio

S~N~K
Re: soda pop
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Reply to: #12104 by Celtic Quinn
Dec 1, 2005 9:24am
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I remember a demographic map for Coke vs. pop vs. soda vs ....

check this out: http://geeksmakemehot.com/archives/2005/coke-vs-pop/
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Reply to: #12115 by speedsquare
Dec 1, 2005 9:31am
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Quote I remember a demographic map for Coke vs. pop vs. soda vs ....

check this out: http://geeksmakemehot.com/archives/2005/coke-vs-pop/


Wow. That's quite a map! Pretty cool.

I'm gonna make sure to show that to my friends.

-Celtic Quinn
furtive "pop"
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Reply to: #12105 by Green Tortuga
Dec 1, 2005 9:36am
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Quote Speaking of pot--I was walking along the downtown waterfront here in beautiful San Luis Obispo a couple of days ago and found a group of kids sneaking some pot. Not very cool, at all. I think I suprised them because they just about jumped out of their pants when I walked passed them and had those "frightened rabbit" eyes at the time. =)

And I just kept thinking, IDIOTS! Not so much that they were smoking pot--I suspect the vast majority of the population has done that at some point--but to do it in such an incredibly public place?! Stupid, stupid, stupid.... It's only a matter of time before they get busted if they keep smoking it in DOWNTOWN San Luis! *rolling eyes*

At least when I was a kid, I had enough sense that if you're doing something illegal, you don't do it openly in public! Kids nowdays. *rolling eyes*


Oh Ryan, you don't spend much time in the Bay Area, so you? People walk down the street smoking like they're smoking cigarettes. No furtive bahavior AT ALL. And they smoke the stinkiest, skunkiest pot you can imagine, so there is no mistaking what's going on.

This was a big surprise to me when I moved out here! I always chuckle at the Berkeley teenagers who are in for a RUDE AWAKENING when they leave Berkeley for college in another part of the country...

Lisascenic
Re: soda pop
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Reply to: #12115 by speedsquare
Dec 1, 2005 10:08am
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that demographic map is awesome...my little county has 80-100% calling it coke. that is what we do too here in our house but I (like my momma, her siblings, their parents and many of their parents peers) still say dope sometimes. My daughter hates it though...so I don't say it much anymore...it slips every now and again. She thinks someone is gonna hear and think I am talking about drugs or something.

she's gotta point. :~)
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Reply to: #12101 by Sits N Knits
Dec 1, 2005 10:49am
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Here in hot-lanta or the city of coke.... It is ALL coke...
Wether pepsi, flavored soda, coke, sprite, Dr. Pepper and so on it is still COKE!!!

Dee
Re: IT'S COKE!!!!! (was: soda pop)
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Reply to: #12115 by speedsquare
Dec 1, 2005 12:17pm
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Hey - THANKS!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS MAP!!

But what I love MOST OF ALL is the blurb UNDER the map:

"I’m very sorry to disappoint all of you, but see… It’s Coke. When you order a coke, you should be asked what kind of coke you want."

My three year old daughter goes to daycare, and frequently asks if she can have some of my "soda" (which with her articulation sounds a whole lot like "cola", but I digress).

Whichever it is she's trying to say, I keep correcting her:

Moi: "It's COKE, Honey - say: 'Can I have some of your coke, Mommy?'"
Daughter: "Can I ha' some your COKE, Mama???"
Moi: "No, sweetie, I'm sorry, it's bad for your bones."

durn down east ignirint daycare providers anyhow, fume fume fume

akindofmagick from Texas, living in Maryland
Re: IT'S COKE!!!!! the Map
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Reply to: #12156 by akindofmagick
Dec 1, 2005 12:23pm
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Even better than the isleepwithgeeks version is the original, which allows you to

(1) mouse over it to see specific color patterns
(2) enter your own info to help refine the map

Now... what's that durn zip code for Texas City, Texas, anyhow??!!

http://popvssoda.com/

Enjoy!

akom
Re: furtive "pop"
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Reply to: #12122 by lisascenic
Dec 1, 2005 12:29pm
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Ditto for the city parks and swap meets in Oregon... complete with toddlers romping around.

akindofmagick
Re: Food/Grits
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Reply to: #11942 by Sprite and Highlander
Dec 1, 2005 12:48pm
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Depends where'bouts y'all consider "South".

My ant has a puhcawn tree in her backyard in Dallas.

akindofmagick
Re: IT'S COKE!!!!! the Map
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Reply to: #12157 by akindofmagick
Dec 1, 2005 1:22pm
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Having delved into the data, I begin to think that some of it is rather suspect. Either that, or sland sure has changed since I lived in Maryland!

http://popvssoda.com/stats/MD.html

Lisascenic
who says "soda" but doesn't drink them any more. I've operated a soda gun, and seen how often the lines (hoses) get cleaned, which at least at my bar was never.
Re: IT'S COKE!!!!! the Map
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Reply to: #12157 by akindofmagick
Dec 1, 2005 2:08pm
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77509

Come plant us a letterbox there! There are some nearby in Webster, Seabrook & even Hitchcock, but none in Texas City itself.

Dewberry
who is from St. Louis, grew up saying soda and now lives in Houston so vacillates between soda and coke for everything. And who is one to talk, never having planted a letterbox in STL.
Re: Southern foods
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Reply to: #12189 by MissMoon
Dec 1, 2005 5:35pm
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Quote never heard of livermush


I never actually ate it, but I believe it's a bit like liverwurst in texture. It comes in a rectangular block and you slice it up and fry it like Spam (the "edible" kind that is).

Knit Wit
Re: IT'S COKE!!!!! (was: soda pop)
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Reply to: #12156 by akindofmagick
Dec 1, 2005 6:20pm
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James (who is now three) can read pretty good these days. But his first attempts at the word "Coca-cola" as written on the side of my husband's beloved BJ's cups:


CA-CA-KOO-KOO

so now we HAVE to call it ca-ca-koo-koo
Re: Southern foods
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Reply to: #12202 by knit wit
Dec 1, 2005 6:26pm
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Livermush:

You northerners call it Scrapple in some towns.

Also have seen it called Liverpudding.
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Reply to: #12211 by Alyson Wonderland
Dec 1, 2005 7:03pm
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we have liver mush and scrapple here. two different things. the appearence is even alot different when you look closely. i don't know anyone who actually eats scrapple though.
Re: soda pop
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Reply to: #12105 by Green Tortuga
Dec 3, 2005 8:22am
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And I just kept thinking, IDIOTS! Not so much that they were smoking pot--I suspect the vast majority of the population has done that at some point--but to do it in such an incredibly public place?! Stupid, stupid, stupid.... It's only a matter of time before they get busted if they keep smoking it in DOWNTOWN San Luis! *rolling eyes*

OK, I can beat that one. Tarnished Knight and I were driving down Burnside in Portland. We pulled up to a stop light and there in the CAR next to us were three young men passing a "hookah" back and forth. The blue smoke was pouring out the windows. There was no doubt what they were doing.. IN a moving vehicle without even trying to hide it.

Now being the mommy/teacher/responsible adult I am, I had to call the police and turn them in. Sheesh.. If they were smoking pot in their bedroom, I may have turned a blind eye.. but not in a moving car where they could kill some innocent bystander.. or themselves.

Maiden
Re: soda pop map
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Reply to: #12120 by Celtic Quinn
Dec 3, 2005 8:26am
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But the maps is WRONG!

It's SODA in Oregon, not Pop! Actually I think it's so mixed up in Oregon you're likely to get a different answer from every other person you ask.

Maiden
Illegal Substances & Moral Dilemmas (Was Re: soda pop)
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Reply to: #12344 by Maiden
Dec 3, 2005 11:30am
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Quote OK, I can beat that one. Tarnished Knight and I were driving down Burnside in Portland. We pulled up to a stop light and there in the CAR next to us were three young men passing a "hookah" back and forth. The blue smoke was pouring out the windows. There was no doubt what they were doing.. IN a moving vehicle without even trying to hide it.

Now being the mommy/teacher/responsible adult I am, I had to call the police and turn them in. Sheesh.. If they were smoking pot in their bedroom, I may have turned a blind eye.. but not in a moving car where they could kill some innocent bystander.. or themselves.


Oh, man! I'm having the same dilemma! We live at the end of a dead end street and own the property at the end and even across the street (making a sort of l shape) . Our back yard neighbors share a pretty good stretch of this same section, but because their road goes down a little farther before their dead end, there's a section of woods in the back that no one really has any claim to. THIS is where we've found a POT PLANT!

The Highlander noticed that kids were walking back between the yards toward that back area one day and searching around for something, so when the kids left, he walked back there and found this plant. Apparently they planted this and come take the leaves off when they need to.

Now, I can't say my family's had the best of experiences regarding stuff you shouldn't do, so I'm the world's biggest prude. I have at least one relative per thing you can get addicted to that I can point to as the down side of such indulgence and my mom made me watch Scared Straight when I was 10. The Highlander, on the other hand, was raised pretty normally and so he doesn't tend to paint this as the horrifying evil I tend to do.

So, I might be the last person in the world to think that all this stuff ain't cool, but it's even more frustrating this close to the HOUSE (especially since we chose this log cabin away from people to avoid stuff like that). The Highlander thinks we need to leave things alone, since the boys saw us watching them from the house. He thinks reporting them to the cops only makes our house a target for vandalism or worse (which in some small ways has already happened in the far corners of the property where teens think we can't see). So, as good a point as he makes, I'm driven insane by the idea that I'm letting someone get away with something I don't approve of.

It's awful being a goody-goody...really chaps the gold star on my Sunday school record! :-)

The (fixing her Victorian collar and chastity belt) Sprite & the (rumpling his tie-dyed shirt to look a little MORE like Shaggy) Highlander
Illegal Substances & Moral Dilemmas
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Reply to: #12354 by Sprite and Highlander
Dec 3, 2005 12:03pm
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Quote Oh, man! I'm having the same dilemma! We live at the end of a dead end street and own the property at the end and even across the street (making a sort of l shape) . Our back yard neighbors share a pretty good stretch of this same section, but because their road goes down a little farther before their dead end, there's a section of woods in the back that no one really has any claim to. THIS is where we've found a POT PLANT!

The Highlander noticed that kids were walking back between the yards toward that back area one day and searching around for something, so when the kids left, he walked back there and found this plant. Apparently they planted this and come take the leaves off when they need to.


Actually, it is possible that they only *think* they've found a pot plant. There's a weedy plant that grows in my garden in Otsego County NY that looks suspiciously like marijuana. But when I looked up marijuana in the National Audubon Society's Field Guide to North American Wildflowers, it clearly wasn't the same plant.

I let the plant grow, because it amuses me. But, no, I don't amuse myself with it any *other* ways!

For all we know, these kids are trying to get high on a random weed, and will laugh about it in years to come. Kinda like kids who actually smoked oregano, thinking it was good for a buzz.

**************

Now, on the other hand, my born-again great aunt and uncle apparently had a bale of reefer dropped on their rural home back in the 1980's. The family folklore insists that the pilot mistook their bear light for another signal light. In the mythology, the bale burst, and scatteded seeds everywhere, so the next spring they had huge pot plants growing up around their home.

There are "good" stories, and then there are "true" stories! I could never decide about this one.... Seemed just too good!

Lisascenic
Re: Illegal Substances & Moral Dilemmas
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Reply to: #12355 by lisascenic
Dec 3, 2005 12:38pm
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Lisa could be right. I've never heard of just ONE pot plant growing outdoors. Even a neophte knows it takes at least two. Around here pot gardens are planted in the middle of fields surrounded by hogweed. If you've never experienced hogweed...let's just say it is an EXCELLENT deterrent.

I found a whole little garden of baby pot plants while scouting a letterbox location in an abandoned part of the Erie Canal. I wondered what hijinks would ensue if I sprayed the plants with my pepper spray, but thought better of it and just stomped them instead. The bigger problem here is borne by dairy farmers who are fighting off the crystal meth guys. sheesh...so much for living the "simple life."

I won't soon forget checking out a library book and finding one perfectly pressed mariuana leaf in it. But I like the bale of reefer story better!

LW
Illegal Substances & Moral Dilemmas (Was Re: soda pop)
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Reply to: #12354 by Sprite and Highlander
Dec 3, 2005 12:41pm
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Quote I'm driven insane by the idea that I'm letting someone get away with something I don't approve of.


Why don't you try something really wicked while they're gone and sprinkle the plant with weed killer or something. Perhaps that'll help them kick the habit once their plant dies. They'll probably think it died of natural causes. Poor environment for it or something. ;o)

-- Ryan