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Jimmy
 IP: 75.111.117.81 Mar 24, 08 - 10:18 PM |
Southern Memories
Memories of growing up in the South brings a feeling of comfort to me. While living in other parts of the country, I have come to realize that there are quite a few things about the South that make it unique. Where else can you find the type of hospitality that you receive in the South? People in the South always make you feel at home, they use terms like yes sir, no sir , yes mam, no mam, and use these type of terms in a polite manner, They talk to you, never Down to you, and will always tell you "Y'all come back now you heah" and mean it when they say it. Southerners are proud and honorable people, They will inform you (if you don't already know) that the War for Southern Independence (aka The Civil War) was fought over States Rights and not Slavery, The Confederate Flag is a symbol of Honor and Pride and not Hate, Our Southern Heritage is important to us and we will discuss it with you as long as the Truth is being told and we will steer you away from the "facts" that the schools are trying to teach our children on how the Confederate States of America was formed and the reason why secession was our only choice. Cooking a big meal for you is a task made to look easy by most Southerners. Southern Fried Chicken and Gravy, Fried Green Tomatoes, Fried Okra, Pinto Beans & Cornbread, Collard Greens, or even some Poke Salad, and a big ole glass of Sweet Tea is a good start to a wonderful meal you will never forget. And if it happens to be Breakfast you want Grits is a staple you just can't pass up. The way I enjoy Grits is mixed all up in my Eggs, Bacon, Sausage, and you just have to mix in a little Red Eye Gravy or Coffee Gravy and be sure to add the Salt and Pepper. Any Southerner knows that it just ain't right to add sugar into your grits, You don't want to mess up the flavor by mixing in something that just don't belong. A cup of Luzianne Coffee (with chicory) is the perfect "beverage" for this Breakfast meal. Things to do in the South is an easy thing to figure out. Just do what makes you happy, Simple as sitting back under the Magnolia tree, listening to the whippoorwills, the rain crows (mourning doves) and watching the Kudzu grow and trying to figure out a way you haven't already tried to stop it. Going out for a ride in the mountains for the simple reason that you want to pick some Muscadines cause it's been a while since you had some.or setting up a Coon Hunt, not cause you really want to bring home a Raccoon but because you just want to get together with a few friends and let the dogs run for a while. As I said earlier The South brings me a true feeling of comfort. We believe in God, Family and Friends, Being polite to others whether you know them or not, Working hard to get the things you need or want, and Praying hard that your decisions are the right ones to help your kids grow up and live as they should. Gimme a RC Cola and a Moon Pie, A Shady spot under the Magnolias on a hot humid southern summer day, Give my kids the wisdom to appreciate what The Good Lord has given them, and help them to grow up happy. Gimme a chance to teach them the truth about their heritage and help them be proud of who they are and who they are gonna become. Oh yea and one more thing! Yall Come Back Now Ya Heah!! |
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radiofreedixie
IP: 64.12.116.6 Mar 25th, 2008 - 5:26 AM |
Re: Southern Memories
we weren't taught states rights. i was always taught we were invaded by another country.we defended our homes,hearth,kith and kin.they have tried to run us out twice.but we are still here and ready to fight a invading horde again,we might lose again but i bet we will turn it into a killing field. |
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Jimmy
IP: 75.111.117.81 Mar 25th, 2008 - 9:36 PM |
Re: Southern Memories
Yep Farrell, We were invaded by another country and there is no other way to see it to those of us raised in the South, States Rights have been taught to us as the reason we were forced to defend our homeland and create the CSA through secession. As I said before in the South we believe in God, Family and Friends, Being polite to others whether you know them or not, Working hard to get the things you need or want, and Praying hard that your decisions are the right ones to help your kids grow up and live as they should. Being forced to defend ourselves back then helped us retain these traits and these traits passed down to us will help us defend our honor now. 
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radiofreedixie
IP: 205.188.116.6 Mar 25th, 2008 - 11:24 PM |
Re: Southern Memories
jim,don't know if you are old enough. but the revivals were a big part of my youth.i enjoyed them the singing,testifying the preaching. i loved them i miss many of the old saints whom the Father has gethered to himself,o how i hope to gether with them. we didn't have air conditioning.that didn't matter,we didn't it at home. we had a bathroom but it was 150ft.from the house near the barn. i love my family,but i really miss those who have gone home. |
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Jimmy
IP: 75.111.117.81 Mar 26th, 2008 - 2:29 PM |
Re: Southern Memories
Hey Farrell, it sounds like we were raised pretty much the same, I do remember going to the "Revivals" or "Tent Meetings" and there was always a huge turnout of people from your own church as well as from others, always different preachers (sometimes even the one from your own church) but always a great feeling of belonging. We never had air conditioning when growing up the best we ever had was a box fan in the window that you could speak into and make your voice sound funny and it did help move the air around too, a long walk to the out house I don't actually miss but have done it plenty of times and am glad I experienced those walks because they are a part of my memories I don't want to forget.Those days were humble and I do appreciate coming from them, I never knew we were poor until someone told me we were, I guess being poor is just a value placed on how much money you have because in my opinion those were some of the richest days in my life and I would go back to them in a heartbeat.
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Rodney
IP: 66.138.33.169 Mar 26th, 2008 - 3:53 PM |
Re: Southern Memories
I recall as a kid going to church, revival, and pie suppers at the old community building very near where I grew up in eastern Oklahoma. Definitely nothing fancy there; even the old piano didn't work. People sang without musical instruments. The elderly local preachers who preached there passed on years ago. The Choctaws have a church near the old building and while at home I can recall hearing their singing in late evenings at their revivals. I can recall the cicadas singing in the summer and the old fish pond on our 40 acres. It wasn't a big pond, but it was fairly deep and has some nice bass in it. I can recall picking wild onions down in the woods with my dad so we could have them with scrambled eggs. I can recall my mom fixing fried chicken, fried round steak, chicken and dumplings, garden vegetables, and cobbler. We had to use a big oscillating fan in the kitchen where we ate since we didn't have air conditioning. I can recall visiting my grandma and grandpa, and the aunts, uncles, and cousins who'd visit them occasionally, too. I can recall lots of memories while growing up. I reckon we all can, huh? Those memories are special, but they're kind of sad, too. You can go back, but you can't really go back. But those we love who've gone on to be with the Lord we'll see again someday. |
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radiofreedixie
IP: 64.12.116.6 Mar 28th, 2008 - 9:44 AM |
Re: Southern Memories
deceration day was a big deal in our part of dixie, after preaching,they would have dinner out back on some tables. all the women would cook for a week, and bring,they would sing all evening.then walk out to the graveyard to see how the graves were decorated. i would walk with my aunt and she would point out our kin's graves and tell me old stories. |
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radiofreedixie
IP: 64.12.116.6 Mar 31st, 2008 - 9:40 PM |
Re: Southern Memories
anybody ever eat homemade hominy,or frid corn cakes |
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Rodney
IP: 66.137.70.108 Mar 31st, 2008 - 10:54 PM |
Re: Southern Memories
I recall eating what we called corn fritters. They sort of looked like miniature pancakes. Is that what you're thinking about? Are y'all familiar with skillet biscuits? Dang, I'm getting hungry! 
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radiofreedixie
IP: 205.188.116.6 Apr 1st, 2008 - 7:52 AM |
Re: Southern Memories
rodney,thats them,grandma would fix skillet bisquits. did you ever eat rabbit and gravy,or squirrel and gravy. the coyotes have really thinned out the rabbits in north alabama. they have the foxes to,some of the coyotes remind me of wolves,the way their eyes slant. |
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Rodney
IP: 66.141.76.38 Apr 1st, 2008 - 11:38 PM |
Re: Southern Memories
Love them skillet biscuits! They're little chunks of biscuit dough browned in some butter in a skillet. You can also mix up some cinnamon and sugar to put on them. These days, though, I'm having to watch about carbohydrate and sugar intake. Trying to lose some weight, plus my wife has diabetes 2, so we're watching it a bit more with food. Yep, I've had squirrel, but it's been a while. I've also had quail, but haven't had rabbit. My dad used to eat rabbit when he was a kid, but seems like he said that wild rabbits started getting some disease or parasite or something that made them not fit to eat. I've heard of people eating rattlesnake, turtle, possum, frog legs, gator, crawdad tails, etc., but I've never had those. My brother-in-law said he ate a plate of possum one time and then spit up two plates full. Sorry; that was gross, huh?  He was probably joking. I'd have to be mighty hungry to put cooked possum in my mouth, though. Another country food that my mom and dad liked was poke salad, or some call it poke salet. It'd grow in the pasture wherever the seeds ended up. I've heard that poke salad seeds have to go through the digestive system of a bird before it'll grow into a plant. As a kid, I didn't care for the smell of it cooking, but I'd like to try some now.
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radiofreedixie
IP: 64.12.116.6 Apr 2nd, 2008 - 12:13 PM |
Re: Southern Memories
i love poke salet. we used to eat hickory nuts or as we used to say,hicker nuts,persimons,possom grapes, huckle berries,mulberrys and pawpaws.all the deep woods are all cut down here. its away of life that is past. |
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Jimmy
IP: 75.111.117.81 Apr 3rd, 2008 - 8:49 PM |
Re: Southern Memories
Poke Salad I do remember picking it and Mom cooking it up for supper, a pot of grits was breakfast and my .22 was used to bring home squirrell for supper, I did clean them myself in the front yard. Muscadines did you ever go and pick them? sorta kinda but not really like a grape they grow wild out in the woods best I remember, folks made wine and jelly out of them I remember just eating them because they were good. A lot of memories we enjoyed have gone away with the "advancement of society" I sure do enjoy looking back and wishing our kids could enjoy a good squirrell or coon hunt, a day spent hunting for muscadines and blackberries or laying around under the kudzu while the grownups are trying to figure out how to control that kudzu that keeps creeping closer to the house everyday, a hot night listening to the preacher at the tent meeting and going home after its over and sitting on the poarch and listening to the sounds you only hear in the quiet of the night, those quiet country sounds you have not heard in a long long time that were a big part of your childhood, just close your eyes and remember that peaceful time, you can almost hear that kudzu growing huh
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OKConfederate
IP: 66.138.33.211 Apr 3rd, 2008 - 10:26 PM |
Re: Southern Memories
Actually, I'm not familiar with kudzu. Makes me think of honeysuckle that smells good, but spreads like crazy along fences and so forth. Yep, I get so tired of the sounds of traffic, airplanes, and other people's racket going on here in "civilization." It'd be therapy to be in a place where there are no noises like that, but only the sound of nature. I think we had muscadines growing along our back fence where I grew up; they were a kind of wild grape, anyway. We had a small orchard, too, with peach trees, a tree that grew some kind of small apple, and a blackberry patch. I could go for some blackberry or plum jam on some biscuits right about now. (Dang, I'm hungry again!) We had a plum tree in our back yard that made good jam. Those were the small pinkish-orange kind of plums. Come to think of it, we had quite a variety of trees in our yard, including black walnut. Had to use a hammer to crack those nuts, though. |
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radiofreedixie
IP: 64.12.116.6 Apr 3rd, 2008 - 10:30 PM |
Re: Southern Memories
muscadines or as we said muskie dimes. yes i still find a few. mama said her mother would pick wild vegtables and give them a taste of fresh food in early spring. poke salad,creacy,lambsquarter,pepper grass and dandelion greens,and water cress. grandad knew about turtle eggs,how to clean and cook turtles. frog legs,ground hog,possum and coon. frog legs and turtle legs would kick in the skillet. i don't remember how but he would kill birds and clean and cook them. not dove or quail although we ate those, blackbirds and small birds was what i remember. |
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Jimmy
IP: 75.111.117.81 Apr 12th, 2008 - 7:01 PM |
Re: Southern Memories
Kudzu is actually a vine type plant that was brought in to help with land erosion way back when, it now covers a big part of the South and the majority of folks do all they can to get rid of it, I remember my Granny going out every day and chopping the vines back from her garden, they say under ideal conditions this vine will grow two foot a day, I have actually seen Kudzu grow up a guide wire to a power pole, and continue growing along the line crossing the road and go back down the other side to continue covering everything that is not moved in a while, I too have seen houses completely covered in about a years time when they are left vacant. It does have a purple flower that blooms on it, in springtime if I remember correctly. Frog gigging and hunting mud turtles was the start to a good meal in my early years, I never did this myself but I remember some men going into the water and feeling up under the banks for the turtles, they would run their fingers around the shells until they found the notches on the shell---thats where the tail is and then they would pull them out by the tail, we always baited hooks on a wire leader to catch ours. Man I miss those days |
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D. Stoff
IP: 70.173.102.238 Apr 24th, 2008 - 11:00 PM |
Re: Southern Memories
Best thing about growin' up down south was the love and care that the people around us had for each other and just bein' a good neighbor to others. I still to this day love to eat Fried Chicken Liver and Collared Greens at the local diner and read the newspaper printed by real people who support and love each other. I grew up in Crossville, Tennessee and that town is where I go every summer. I remember the 4th of July, Fishing with Grandpa, etc etc. All and all, there's no place in the world where I would rather live then down south, and even though I live in Las Vegas, I still find myself longing for my Southern Home. |
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