Just how is it pronounced? (Charlotte, Chapel Hill: chapel, live in, to move)

[marvinnative]

Originally Posted by AOYAS

Ha ha! Punkins..that's a good one.

How about this: When I was a kid (in Louisville), a bunch of my friends called the little wax coloring tools "crowns." I always pronounced it "cray-on," so it used to bug me when other kids would call them "crowns." How is it pronounced in NC?

And don't even get me started on "sammich"...

I'm a cray-on girl...but I caught my daughter calling them "crowns" the other day...so which one of you transplants influenced my little GRIT (girl raised in the south).

[marvinnative]

My grandmother used to call her dresser the "chest of drawers." Unfortunately, I was probably 20 years old before I realized that she wasn't saying "Chester Drawers." Imagine, "Chester" had been dispensing my socks for years....

[AOYAS]

Originally Posted by marvinnative

My grandmother used to call her dresser the "chest of drawers." Unfortunately, I was probably 20 years old before I realized that she wasn't saying "Chester Drawers." Imagine, "Chester" had been dispensing my socks for years....

LOL! When you were a kid, instead of being afraid of monsters in your closet, were you afraid of Chester Drawers?

Here's another one: My husband is originally from a suburb of Philly. He says "wooder" instead of "water." Now, he's a highly educated person, and I've never heard him use any other type of silly regional slang or accent, but I always laugh at him when he says "wooder" because I think it makes him sound goofy. On top of that, he makes fun of me, because I say "wad-er." I always tell him that I say it the "correct" way. He he. I guess we all think we say things "the correct way."

[marvinnative]

That's the kind of variety that makes the world an interesting place to be!
I always get a kick out of learning other folks' regional speech. Trust me, Southerners are NOT the only ones! We just like to show ours off more than others...nothing delights my dh more than to "turn it up a notch" with the southern speech-isms when he knows someone is trying to make fun of him.

[3johnsons]

Originally Posted by marvinnative

That's the kind of variety that makes the world an interesting place to be!
I always get a kick out of learning other folks' regional speech. Trust me, Southerners are NOT the only ones! We just like to show ours off more than others...nothing delights my dh more than to "turn it up a notch" with the southern speech-isms when he knows someone is trying to make fun of him.

EXACTLY!!! I do the same thing--- If I hear a bit of a condescending tone directed at my "southern ignorance," I turn it on thick, as well. Of course if I have to say something REALLY ugly, I wrap it up with "bless your heart." Example: You just a big ol' ugly no-account, bless your heart!

[ssdei38]

marvin! My mom is only a recent Waxhaw resident. She was actually born in Surry County. Way up in NC!...I think she was about 4 when the family relocated to DC then VA. It took me moving here to get her home!!!

Before the food subject goes away...I have a Great Aunt in Surry County that every time we go there she makes biscuits and sausage gravy from scratch...I've got the sausage gravy part down... This Great Aunt makes FANTASTIC homemade biscuits....but to this day she will not share the recipe... I watched her a couple months ago when we visited....she only uses basic ingredients (flour milk eggs...and salt i guess) she made a well for the eggs...then swirled the ingredients with her hand...Anyway, when she saw me watching she turned away!!!

I understand she wants the recipe for yummy biscuits to go to her direct family! Any clues on how to make good flaky homemade biscuits...

Oh!! and once she got the dough ready...she pumped those biscuits out of her hand like an assembly worker...it was amazing....and those things taste AMAZING!!!

[saralee]

Originally Posted by ssdei38

Before the food subject goes away...I have a Great Aunt in Surry County that every time we go there she makes biscuits and sausage gravy from scratch...I've got the sausage gravy part down... This Great Aunt makes FANTASTIC homemade biscuits....but to this day she will not share the recipe... I watched her a couple months ago when we visited....she only uses basic ingredients (flour milk eggs...and salt i guess) she made a well for the eggs...then swirled the ingredients with her hand...Anyway, when she saw me watching she turned away!!!

I understand she wants the recipe for yummy biscuits to go to her direct family! Any clues on how to make good flaky homemade biscuits...

Oh!! and once she got the dough ready...she pumped those biscuits out of her hand like an assembly worker...it was amazing....and those things taste AMAZING!!!

Now that sounds awesome. Think she'd sell my family a batch? We won't ask about the recipe. I'm a bread lover by design but I've never had a truly awesome biscuit yet I know they exist.

SL

[ssdei38]

I don't know...she's so old school!!! Maybe I could get a batch...but she is so dang protective over those biscuits....This is my grandmas sister and my grandma made good biscuits but even she'll admit they are nothing like my great aunts...I don't know what she does, but they are so moist, but not too moist...flaky but not dry, they are just awesome... 3 generations of women from our side have asked her about her biscuits and she dodges the subject, everytime!!

I've experimented in my kitchen and have only been able to make dog biscuits and hockey pucks....

[marvinnative]

Ok, I'll admit that I am not a good biscuit maker...but, I have watched it done. I don't think my crowd uses eggs, though. I recall the ingredients to be self-rising flour, Crisco and buttermilk. Make a volcano out of the flour, add a handful of Crisco, pour in the buttermilk, work it together, knead it into a ball, roll it out and cut out biscuits. Now, when I have made hockey pucks, the old timers have told me that I probably added too much flour (it's OK if it is slightly sticky) or that I "overworked" it - as in, don't handle it too long.

[Pikantari]

Originally Posted by ssdei38

marvin! My mom is only a recent Waxhaw resident. She was actually born in Surry County. Way up in NC!...I think she was about 4 when the family relocated to DC then VA. It took me moving here to get her home!!!

Before the food subject goes away...I have a Great Aunt in Surry County that every time we go there she makes biscuits and sausage gravy from scratch...I've got the sausage gravy part down... This Great Aunt makes FANTASTIC homemade biscuits....but to this day she will not share the recipe... I watched her a couple months ago when we visited....she only uses basic ingredients (flour milk eggs...and salt i guess) she made a well for the eggs...then swirled the ingredients with her hand...Anyway, when she saw me watching she turned away!!!

I understand she wants the recipe for yummy biscuits to go to her direct family! Any clues on how to make good flaky homemade biscuits...

Oh!! and once she got the dough ready...she pumped those biscuits out of her hand like an assembly worker...it was amazing....and those things taste AMAZING!!!

you need some white lily flour...no eggs, and I think the directions are on the bag... I used to make them when i was about 16-20. Then came the kids... now if you want biscuits they are frozen and then put in the oven. I used to do all the cooking for my family when I was a teenager.... good stuff.