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Originally Posted by happeemommee
Thanks ya'll for everything you have said so far! I know what comes to mind for me, but needed the opinions of others and these are great so far.Please keep em coming?
Also, do yall consider Florida to be the south? Why or why not? And what's the gnat line? is it just what it sounds like? ( We live in the mountains, so we don't really em here!)
Thanks!
Yes, IMO northern Florida and even the interior areas of the central and southern portions of the state (towns like Ocala, Leesburg, Sebring, Wauchula, Winter Haven and Pahokee) are quite Southern.
The 'Gnat Line' is basically the borderline between the Piedmont and Coastal Plain regions of the South. I'm just grateful that I live above it in the summer.
I will be just a bit more charitable though, my friend. I am sure there are a random few Southerners out there who truly don't care for fried okra. Unfathomable as it might be. I have yet to meet one...but law of averages says it must be so in some isolated and remote quarters! Now, I think a LAW is that one cannot be a true Southerner if they never even heard of it!
My KIDS even love fried okra! Dang now I may have to fry some up tonight, diet be danged!
Mmmmm red-eye gravy or with biscuits or anything else for that matter!
We went to a flea market and one of the booths was selling country ham, bacon, sausage, cracklin's, etc. We bought some ham and my son was with me. The man working the booth asked my son how old he was, to which he responded 11. The gentleman told my son that he has young men his age up to 16 working his farm for all the can eat and would teach him how to cure country ham and make the bacon and so on. My son, who has never even been to summer camp, was more than willing to leave me to learn this craft lol He wanted to come back to teach my husband and I how to do it also. I thought that was cute.
I will be just a bit more charitable though, my friend. I am sure there are a random few Southerners out there who truly don't care for fried okra. Unfathomable as it might be. I have yet to meet one...but law of averages says it must be so in some isolated and remote quarters! Now, I think a LAW is that one cannot be a true Southerner if they never even heard of it!
Here's one...I don't like to be in the same room with okra. I can handle is in gumbo or something like that where it's falling apart, but fried? Ick.
Fishing
Hunting
Molasses boiling
Kressy or cressy greens
turnip greens
branch lettuce
Ice cold lemonade
Pepsi
Cheerwine
pop corn
picnics
shag dancing
brook trout
chickens and eggs
potato salad
cole slaw
fried squash
sweet potatoes
cobbler
Singing on Grandfather Mountain
All day church with dinner on the grounds
Folk songs
quilts
embroidery
crochet
feed sack dresses
grapes
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moonshine
long walks in the country
hound dogs
cotton fields
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tobacco
tobacco road
pine trees
ponds
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rivers
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paddle boats
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southern belles
beauty queens
grape, orange and apple jelly
strawberry fields
chestnuts
black walnuts
pecan pie
homemade ice cream
steeple chase
buggy rides
golf
crochet
bad minton
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Tyson
Lowe's
American furniture
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Walmart
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Dollywood
Six flags
Merlefest
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Hoedowns
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weeping willows
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grapefruit trees
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morning glory's
honeysuckle vines
kudzo
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riding pants and boots
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Now, I think a LAW is that one cannot be a true Southerner if they never even heard of it! 
I can handle is in gumbo or something like that where it's falling apart, but fried? Ick. 
