A True Southerner - Page 2

Lilred · #16 11-09-2006, 07:44 PM

Skeet.....heyalll nawww...they aint winnin the next time! Yankees got some learnin ta do

Tea...catnip tea..green leaf...or sassafrass...stick a bag of it in water and let it sit on a tin roof fer a day in the summer...now THAT is a pitcher of tea. Dam straight.
Ya'll aint had nary a breakfast till ya have some redeye gravy, grits, brown eggs and biskits. Good lordy...a Sunday favorite round this house.
A friend of mine has been comin down durin the spring from vermont every year. I trade him a spring gobbler hunt and a few days of big eatin fer a jug of syrup. I done convinced him that certain words are acceptable in a northern volcabulary...although he claims to git some strange looks when he goes home...lol

The funniest thing I ever saw from them michiganders is their directions. Turn west on such and such...south on whatchamacallit so forth and so on. Ya'll caint do that once ya hit the mason dixon line and fer god's sake dont trust nobody down here that tells ya to go in any direction cause they'll probaly be wrong. I know I am. I caint do it. No matter how hard I try....my hubby is from up yonder...and he laughs at me all the time fer that. Please pay close attention to the landmarks ya'll...cause iffin ya dont...yer perty much screwed...lol

If any of ya'll are down this a way...just stop on in...be glad to cook ya'll up a hot meal and pick a tune er two.

Gunslingergirl · #17 11-10-2006, 07:43 AM

I flunk the direction test. I navigate solely by landmarks. Someone tells me go south here, and then go east, and I'll never get to where I'm going. Tell me turn at the red barn and then drive until you see the water tower and I'm all right.

GSG

GoodOlBoy · #18 11-10-2006, 08:15 AM

When it comes to directions I got em in spades. Heck when I was a kid it was soon discovered than without a light on the blackest night ya ever saw I could find north (er any other direction) without blinkin. Made me REAL popular on coon hunts since most coon hunters have about the same amount of sense of direction as a ferret in a room full o diamonds has concentration. . . . Imagine being six years old and getting to stay up till dawn most every weekend. . . . .

ANYWAY

First off Lilred mentioned brown eggs. . . . Are there any other kind? Seriously I won't eat a white hulled egg.

Secondly DEFFINITION TIME - Creek Taters - The creek tater was an invention towards the later part of the last century by a special breed of coonass known as the East Texas coonass. The nomdeplum comes from the tendency of creek taters to be cooked upon the banks of a creek or river during the heavy spring catfish season. creek tater recipies are fairly wide an varied, although those of the same surname tend to use very simliar variations of the process. An example as follows

1 cast iron skillet on an open flame.
add lard, cleaned and sliced taters, chopped onion, salt, garlic, and bell pepper a cup of creek water then cook until the taters are softened.

This particular meal is only suitable when eaten from a paper or enameled metal plate using a tin or plastic fork, or a pocket knife.

Some variations add cayenne pepper or jalapeno pepper as well, however the influx of marriage to yankees and other undesireables within the East Texas coonass clans has caused this to be a less and less frequent occurance.

GoodOlBoy

Gunslingergirl · #19 11-10-2006, 08:35 AM

That creek tater recipe doesn't sound half bad

I may take exception to being called an undesireable though.

I had no choice where I was born, it was all my parent's fault.

GSG

skeet · #20 11-10-2006, 09:16 AM

First off...are you a displaced yankee er somthin?? It ain't CREEK taters...it's crick taters. Heck only a yankee calls a crick creek!! I'm just messin with ya GOB... I wouldn't call nobody a yankee lessen they was one. In fact after all the time I was guiding them goose hunters I found out some a them yankees were ok people. Fact is though that a lot of the northerners I took huntin couldn't leave work alone...but almost all the southern boys(and gals) was out to have a good time and leave werk waaayyyy behind 'em. Different mindset in my opinion.
An Brown eggs surely do taste better..heck we had some kinda chicken before we moved out here that laid green eggs...and they were ok too. Only way a white egg can have a good flavor is if'n they come from (real) free ranging chickens. Heck our ol chickens cleaned up the bugs around the farm back east. We didn't hardly have any ticks er crickets and grasshoppers just didn't have a chance.
I must admit though and I know it ain't hardly right...but I really never liked grits too awful much..but I do like hominy right fair and don't forget good ol scrapple mmmm!

Gunslingergirl · #21 11-10-2006, 10:55 AM

Northerners can't leave work alone.

Yup, definitely a northerner.

Skeet, I will refer to them as crick taters from now on.

Got to ask though, what the heck is scrapple? I've heard that somewhere but can't place what exactly it is.

GSG

skeet · #22 11-10-2006, 11:23 AM

Scrapple is a meat product made from scraps of meat that are collected while cutting up a hog. It is then cooked in a large pot along with some corn meal and a bunch of spices. Then ya pour the whole concoction into a pan(bread pan or such) and after it cools it will be in the form of a loaf. take it out of the form and wrap it up and into the freezer except for the one ya just gotta eat. Fry it up and have some BROWN eggs and some homemade black raspberry jelly on toast. mmmm-ummm-mmmm. Some homefries cooked up in some of the lard ya made when cuttin up that ol hog and ya really gotta go lay down for a while. Still have my old lard pot that belonged to (at least) my great great aunt. Still using her recipe for scrapple too. She gave her recipe to a company that still uses her recipe in the commercial market..after over a 100 yrs. I gave the recipe to a slaughter house/meat market not far from where i lived. They've been using it for at least 10 yrs. Only scrapple recipe they use. Think I'm gonna have to raise me a couple of hogs next year!!

Gunslingergirl · #23 11-10-2006, 11:47 AM

Guess that might be one you just have to taste.

Thanks for the info though. I thought it was something like that.

GSG

GoodOlBoy · #24 11-10-2006, 12:53 PM

Yup we had some green and some blue egg layers when I was a kid. Not too bad. We also ate quite a few quail eggs from the quail my great grandad raised (amonst alot of other things)

GoodOlBoy

Tall Shadow · #25 11-10-2006, 02:44 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Gunslingergirl
That creek tater recipe doesn't sound half bad

I may take exception to being called an undesireable though.

I had no choice where I was born, it was all my parent's fault.

GSG

+1 on Being called the "Y" word...I know quite a few from around these parts....And I sure as heck ain't one of "Them"!

I come from a long line of backwoods people from the other side of Our northern border(Canada), Southern border from us here in Detroit. I know that at least a few of My kin, were some of the original seed stock for the Cajuns down in L.A.

Tall Shadow

ETA:
seep=Water flowing out of the ground, but small. Runs in to a crick.
crick=Smallish creek. Runs into a creek.
Creek=Bigger version of a crick. Runs in to a stream.
Stream=Bigger version of creek. Runs in to a river.
River=Bigger version of a stream. Runs into Lake or Ocean.

Lilred · #26 11-10-2006, 07:03 PM

Hey tall shadow...are you one of them folks that says...

about...says "aboot" Lilred says it...a-baw-ort

michigan folks says jeez-o-petes all the time...it's hilarious to hear em say that! Yall gotta practice ya'lls "great day"

Ya say it like this here" gr-ayyyyy-it day!!"

Tall Shadow · #27 11-10-2006, 09:24 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Lilred
Hey tall shadow...are you one of them folks that says...

about...says "aboot" Lilred says it...a-baw-ort

michigan folks says jeez-o-petes all the time...it's hilarious to hear em say that! Yall gotta practice ya'lls "great day"

Ya say it like this here" gr-ayyyyy-it day!!"

HAHAHAHA!

No, Lilred... I'm not that full blooded Canadian/yoop-er (Pronounced: "Yoou-per"=Person from Michigan's UPer Peninsula...AKA "Da Great White Nort! eh'!")

But my maternal Grandmother was. She was a VERY PROUD naturalized citizen (From a little town, up near Montreal Canada) She was full of "Hoo Aboot That, eh'?" or "How are ya, besides what ails ya?" or the classic
"I brought it, I'll park it!" When ever we youngins' (

) asked if she needed any help getting up, down, or around.

One Hell of a woman. Raised 3 kids + Many of their friends + Borders + was a Head nurse + played the church organ at 5 masses a day and several more on weekends, as a single mother, all through the great depression and for 41+ years at the same church. You didn't give Grandma any sass!

I do say "jeez-o-petes" all the time, as I'm trying to be a good boy (44yrs young) like my folks raised me to be, and not swear........as much!

Thanks for the good memories & a good chuckle!

Tall Shadow

Gunslingergirl · #28 11-11-2006, 09:14 PM

Just for the record, I've never said jeez-o-petes in my life. I did say "suger jets" when I was a little kid, but only because that was the phrase my parents used when they didn't want to swear in front of us.

I do say y'all occasionally, but I imagine I don't say it properly.

Also, just for the record, I've never said "'eh", but I live below the Bridge, so that might be the reason why.

GSG

Lilred · #29 11-12-2006, 06:36 AM

That's funny tall shadow...now...here's another one fer ya.....who in tarnation is Pete?

The other thing I noticed is that northerners aint got no sayins...like " He aint got the common sense god give a good rock." Or do ya'll have some that I aint heared fore?

skeet · #30 11-12-2006, 09:35 AM

You sure be right Lilred..Sayins are a real part of life..Things like "useless as tits on a boar hog". In the southern sayins book where it says. Useless as tits on a boar hog...they got a picture of the PETA headquarters...oh and don't fergit U P S...useless piece o' ***t...unless it's more'n one..then it means Useless pile o' ***t...as in "Congress is a useless pile o' ***t" an "Senator Stealth is a useless piece o' ***t". An don't fergit..." dumb as a stick"an y'all know who that is...cause we all either know somebody er got a relative that is "dumb as a stick"..even if we don't want to admit it. Used like this "sometimes Skeet is dumb as a stick"

which mus be true cause even I said it!