In what ways is Southern Missouri southern, and in what ways is it not? (Kansas City: movies, to live)

[OA 5599]

Originally Posted by ajf131

Sweet tea and biscuits and gravy may be in parts of Southern Missouri, but as to all over the state I'm going to strongly, strongly disagree. The Northern half of the state is devoid of those. St. Louis and Kansas City don't have 'em except in Cracker Barrels. If it was available all over the place in Missouri, these two cities would be heaviy promoting it no doubt. Rolla really surprises me. When I was there I couldn't find a drop.

They served biscuits and gravy every morning in the dorm cafeterias when I was going to college in Rolla (just a few years ago). Being dorm food, they tasted horrible, but they were there every morning.

[Hillman]

I sure don't know of any place around here that don't have biscuits and gravy every morning and Sweet Tea any time you want it.

This is just North of Buffalo.As matter fact I would be surprised if I couldn't find this in most places in Missouri.

hillman

[ajf131]

Originally Posted by Hillman

I sure don't know of any place around here that don't have biscuits and gravy every morning and Sweet Tea any time you want it.

This is just North of Buffalo.As matter fact I would be surprised if I couldn't find this in most places in Missouri.

hillman

Be prepared to be surprised. Buffalo is still pretty far down in Missouri. If you think St. Louis, Boonville, Columbia, Kansas City, or any of those places have that kind of availability, I'm here to tell you they don't. The Northern half of Missouri certainly doesn't at least, and at least around the upper part of Southern Missouri sweet tea is not nearly readily available everywhere...unless you're at a place like a Cracker Barrel, that's the only place you'll find it...McDonald's and other franchise restaurants didn't have it around here or anywhere else I noticed in Missouri until a few years ago. And however readily available it is now, it has made somewhat of an advance north of the Mason-Dixon line over the past half-century anyway. If sweet tea was readily available almost everywhere in Missouri, I certainly would've noticed it by now. My dad continues to stand by his story that Southwest Missouri at one time did not have sweet tea nearly to the degree of today...he never saw it in restaurants during his childhood. The fact it is as available in the quantities I've heard described shocks me, and I have explored Southern Missouri in pretty good detail over the past 4 years.

[Hillman]

Originally Posted by ajf131

Be prepared to be surprised. Buffalo is still pretty far down in Missouri. If you think St. Louis, Boonville, Columbia, Kansas City, or any of those places have that kind of availability, I'm here to tell you they don't. The Northern half of Missouri certainly doesn't at least, and at least around the upper part of Southern Missouri sweet tea is not nearly readily available everywhere...unless you're at a place like a Cracker Barrel, that's the only place you'll find it...McDonald's and other franchise restaurants didn't have it around here or anywhere else I noticed in Missouri until a few years ago. And however readily available it is now, it has made somewhat of an advance north of the Mason-Dixon line over the past half-century anyway. If sweet tea was readily available almost everywhere in Missouri, I certainly would've noticed it by now. My dad continues to stand by his story that Southwest Missouri at one time did not have sweet tea nearly to the degree of today...he never saw it in restaurants during his childhood. The fact it is as available in the quantities I've heard described shocks me, and I have explored Southern Missouri in pretty good detail over the past 4 years.

We was in Boonville year ago ate at Bobbers had biscuits and gravy and sweet tea.

hillman

[ajf131]

Originally Posted by Hillman

We was in Boonville year ago ate at Bobbers had biscuits and gravy and sweet tea.

hillman

One restaurant out of how many there? I've made several stops in Boonville several times over the past two years while driving between St. Louis and Kansas City...couldn't get sweet tea there even once, and I tried seven different restaurants. Maybe one out every 20 restaurants will serve it up here if even that many. Compared to the part of Missouri you live in, sweet tea is rare up here. There are only a few restaurants in St. Louis you can get it, and those restaurants are either a Cracker Barrel or they are ones that just started serving it a few years ago. I could guarantee that ten years ago you would have a very hard time finding it up here. In general you still do. If you think it's common up here like it is in the far southern part of the state, you are badly mistaken.

ajf131

[Cali BassMan]

Umm What was this thread about?

[ShadowCaver]

Originally Posted by Cali BassMan

Umm What was this thread about?

Good grief - what, we gots to explain everything to you?

Listen, and listen carefully - heck, I'll even type sloo o o o w l y f o r y a - ya ain't Southern or live in a Southernish region unless ya have sweet tea, grits, fried green 'maters, and bisquits & gravy... Plus, that such vittles are exceedling rare with most of Mizzarah, and practically non-existent norte of ~I-44. There, did that help ya?

[northbayeric]

I don't quite rightly recall, but reading all these posts is making it feel pretty dang Northern around where we're at! If I tell someone I like Kentucky HeadHunters music, they look at me and go, "Kentucky what??!!"

Makes me wonder how many folks there are in southern Missouri who wear their Yankees baseball caps backwards and have rap noise, I mean "music"**** blasting out of their little Honda Civics...... Probably not one in 250,000.

****Their big ol' subwoofers going tha-thUM, tha-thUM, tha-thUM.... just INTOLERABLE.

[Cali BassMan]

Originally Posted by ShadowCaver

- ya ain't Southern or live in a Southernish region unless ya have sweet tea, grits, fried green 'maters, and bisquits & gravy... Plus, that such vittles are exceedling rare with most of Mizzarah, and practically non-existent norte of ~I-44.

Wait a minute, you mean to tell me that bisquits and gravy along with Squirrel and dumplings ain't served through out the state???Why maybe it time to teach them Yank Northern Missourians how to cook......I bet they don't even eat Sucker Hushpuppies...might as well be CAliforienyans...

[ShadowCaver]

Originally Posted by Cali BassMan

Wait a minute, you mean to tell me that bisquits and gravy along with Squirrel and dumplings ain't served through out the state???Why maybe it time to teach them Yank Northern Missourians how to cook......I bet they don't even eat Sucker Hushpuppies...might as well be CAliforienyans...

Not to mention crawdads, grits, and snap peas...



lol, speaking of squirrel - when huntin for house in SC years back, was amazed at how many people thought I was such a strange hillbilly for inquiring about hunting and actually eating those 'fuzzy tailed tree climbers'. Heck, to me it was common, little did I foolishly not realize, at that time, that what I took for granted in the my world [Ozarks + St Louis], was not same elsewhere... kinda cool, makes the world more richer, such diversity.