Dear North Carolinians: (Charlotte, Raleigh, Asheville: transplants, move to, skyline)

[CampingMom]

Only thing I ever knew that to me was a bit odd-was pickled watermelon rind. I searched all over my last trip down to find that delicacy for my Mom-she's 86. She LOVES the stuff and her Mom and Grandmother used to make it when she grew up in Leaksville. Found it at Piggly Wiggly.

[Dusty Rhodes]

It would be either a Cheerwine, a Pepsi, or a tall glass of sweet iced tea. All you'd need would be a bucket of Bojangles w/biscuits of course.

[Reporter84]

I'm from Concord, NC. I grew up drinking witch doctors. I got them at the roller rink and it was all the fountain drinks mixed together, not just Sun Drop, plus pickles. Sans pickles, they called it a suicide.
I live in Kentucky now and everyone around here calls soda 'pop'. It's annoying. But they started selling Sun Drop here so that's cool.

[Shani NC]

what part of the state are yall from? cus i have never heard of any of this stuff. not peanuts in coke, pickles in soda or any of it

[Charlotte485]

Originally Posted by Shani NC

what part of the state are yall from? cus i have never heard of any of this stuff. not peanuts in coke, pickles in soda or any of it

I know. It sounds disgusting.


I was born and raised in Charlotte, lived everywhere in Charlotte and on every major road in Charlotte, and lived all over Western Metro Charlotte (Lake Wylie, Lowell, Mcadenville, Belmont, Gastonia, Lincolnton, Bessemer City, Kings Mountain in that order) and never heard of such things. I also think most of us have never heard of that in these parts.


The only regional (I guess it's regional...) weird thing I eat is putting chips on sandwiches.

[meh_whatever]

Originally Posted by psulions2007

Among your strange, but unique gastronomical preferences (vinegar'd bbq sauce, for example)... isn't it you guys who like to put coke and pickle juice together?

Can someone please explain to me why this is so popular?

That sounds positively VILE.

[Asheville Native]

Originally Posted by SunnyKayak

Same here 30 something here never heard it either and most people I know
drink coke
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Guess it's a clear indicatore, Raliegh, Charlotte, are not southern cities, they just happen to be in the south.

North Carolinian's drink Pepsi or RC Cola, not that nasty stuff from Georgia, and I have poured many a bag of salted peanuts in to a bottle of Pepsi or RC.

And lets not forget the Nehi Orange or Strawberry with a Moon Pie

[lovebrentwood]

Eighteen years here, married to a native.

Never heard of Sundrop or the pickle thing or Witchdoctors or Suicide (drink).

Husband often talks about RC Cola and nabs.

I drink water.

[Francois]

Originally Posted by Asheville Native

Guess it's a clear indicatore, Raliegh, Charlotte, are not southern cities, they just happen to be in the south.

And your evidence for this is what??

I've lived in Raleigh basically my whole life and it still certainly IS a Southern city (with a bunch of Northerners here).

[Francois]

Originally Posted by lovebrentwood

Never heard of Sundrop or the pickle thing or Witchdoctors or Suicide (drink).

The "pickle thing" seems to be something the OP (who oddly has not been back since the thread started) dreamed up. I also have never heard of a "suicide", though I know that any time you have free access to fountain drinks, teenagers will mix them all together and call them something.

But never heard of Sun Drop??