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To all the southern boys......

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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 17,343
    GaBGE said:
    ....from the snooter to the tooter...
    Sooo stolen!  :)

    “The best way to execute french cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken."

         -  Julia child

    Ogden, UT, USA

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  • theyolksonyou
    theyolksonyou Posts: 18,459
    Wolfpack said:
    Assume you live in Dalton? 
    Yep. 
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    edited July 2015
    theyolksonyou said:
    Wolfpack said:
    Assume you live in Dalton? 
    Yep. 
    Isn't that where a convoy of rednecks in trucks parading confederate flags crashed?   Yeeeeehaaawww!
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  • YukonRon
    YukonRon Posts: 17,261
    OK -  My southern Geography knowledge based on the US government definition included:Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Kentucky. However, True South as defined by the culture of sweet tea is: South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi, which equates to about 1/3 of the original "South." Further according to The American Health Foundation, the 5 "True South, Sweet Tea States" rate Alabama as the worst (50), Mississippi (48) South Carolina (47) Tennessee (46) and Georgia (37*). 
    * denotes with Atlanta taken out of the Georgia population mass, Georgia would be (49). 
    Given a chance to reflect upon those numbers, I would say it is due to a bunch of BGE folks, when not swilling bourbon by the bottle, and then washing it down water infused sugar, with tea flavoring, throwing down on some mean assed Q.
    I totally get the Atlanta caveat. Mostly a bunch of pinky raised, snobby nosed northerners, who play too much tennis, eat tofu, and drink flavored water. Glad I am not part of that. Yet there are BGErs living there, staying the course. (God Bless you)
    Being from Kentucky, the birthplace of bourbon, and seriously devoted folks to even the most obscure aspects of the southern lifestyle, I believe we can hold our own when it comes to sweet tea. The United Health Foundation says so. We are in the bottom 15 (just above Georgia). Add to that a local drink called Ale81(a late one) which was designed as the original "get your ass outta bed because I drank way too much bourbon again late last night" power drink which is equal parts sugar and caffeine, and I think we blend.
    However the south and the immediate subsets thereof are defined, It is a great place to live, and be proud of.

    "Knowledge is Good" - Emil Faber

    XL and MM
    Louisville, Kentucky
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  • jak7028
    jak7028 Posts: 231
    Chiming in from Texas - Probably 90 percent of restaurants you go into, if you ask for "Iced Tea," they will ask you if you want sweet or unsweet.

    If you are at someones house, a bbq joint, or a southern home-cookin type restaurant - you can pretty much excpect the "Iced Tea" to be sweet tea.  

    Not sure what that determines, just what I have experienced over the years.  

    Also Southern Sweet Tea makes kool-aid seem bitter.  I think there is an unofficial competition between southern women of who can dissolve the most sugar in a pitcher of tea.
    Victoria, TX - 1 Large BGE and a 36" Blackstone
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  • Phatchris
    Phatchris Posts: 1,726
    DoubleEgger said:
    Gotta love the South 

    That stuff right there is beyond dangerous... I mix with a little water and a lot of lemon.
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  • theyolksonyou
    theyolksonyou Posts: 18,459
    nolaegghead said:
    theyolksonyou said:
    Wolfpack said:
    Assume you live in Dalton? 
    Yep. 
    Isn't that where a convoy of rednecks in trucks parading confederate flags crashed?   Yeeeeehaaawww!
    Yes. Not our proudest moment for sure. 

    The city is actually majority Hispanic like 48%, then white 42% then other. It's a manufacturing town whose demographics have changed dramatically since 1997. We're actually very tolerant, at least racially, maybe not so much LGBT, but hey! It's the Bible Belt. 

    The grammar schools are like 95-99% Hispanic and they have developed some great programs to take on and educate kids who come and don't speak any English. 

    Anyway, bunch if idiots made national news. 
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  • Toxarch
    Toxarch Posts: 1,900
    I thought this belonged in here.


    Aledo, Texas
    Large BGE
    KJ Jr.

    Exodus 12:9 KJV
    Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.

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  • northGAcock
    northGAcock Posts: 15,173
    YukonRon said:
    OK -  My southern Geography knowledge based on the US government definition included:Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Kentucky. However, True South as defined by the culture of sweet tea is: South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi, which equates to about 1/3 of the original "South." Further according to The American Health Foundation, the 5 "True South, Sweet Tea States" rate Alabama as the worst (50), Mississippi (48) South Carolina (47) Tennessee (46) and Georgia (37*). 
    * denotes with Atlanta taken out of the Georgia population mass, Georgia would be (49). 
    Given a chance to reflect upon those numbers, I would say it is due to a bunch of BGE folks, when not swilling bourbon by the bottle, and then washing it down water infused sugar, with tea flavoring, throwing down on some mean assed Q. 

    You had to go confusing us with facts now didn't you?
    Ellijay GA with a Medium & MiniMax

    Well, I married me a wife, she's been trouble all my life,
    Run me out in the cold rain and snow
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  • DaveRichardson
    DaveRichardson Posts: 2,324
    theyolksonyou said:
      but hey! It's the Bible Belt. 


    Not just the Bible Belt....., you, sir, and in the buckle of the bible belt.

    LBGE since 2014

    Griffin, GA 

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  • DoubleEgger
    DoubleEgger Posts: 19,153
    Alabama is clearly the buckle. Atlanta takes Georgia out of the running. 
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  • AaronH
    AaronH Posts: 145
    edited September 2015
    DoubleEgger said:
    And as a FYI, real Southerners are from South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. The rest are just wannabes. 

    This has to be the most ridiculous statement ever made. So I guess NC's old tradition of BBQ doesn't matter or the fact that NC had the most soldiers die in the CW fighting for the Confederacy were all "wannabes."   
    XLBGE /MiniBGE / Maverick 733 x 2/ Woo2 / CGS 17.5 Stone

    North Carolina land
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  • GATraveller
    GATraveller Posts: 8,207
    theyolksonyou said:
    Wolfpack said:
    Assume you live in Dalton? 
    Yep. 
    You ever eat at Oakwood? 

    "Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community [...] but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots."
                                                                                  -Umberto Eco

    2 Large
    Peachtree Corners, GA
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  • theyolksonyou
    theyolksonyou Posts: 18,459
    @GATraveller I don't go there to eat often, but they cater a lot of lunches at work. Good chicken. 
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  • GATraveller
    GATraveller Posts: 8,207
    That's my cousin. Good folks. 

    "Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community [...] but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots."
                                                                                  -Umberto Eco

    2 Large
    Peachtree Corners, GA
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  • theyolksonyou
    theyolksonyou Posts: 18,459
    Small world
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  • Legume
    Legume Posts: 15,936
    Aren't you glad you said something nice about it Yolk?
    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
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  • Cookbook_Chip
    Cookbook_Chip Posts: 1,299
    DoubleEgger said:
    And as a FYI, real Southerners are from South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. The rest are just wannabes. 
    And I do believe the good folks here in Richmond might disagree. And I'm a CT Yankee. Go 'cocks!
    Lovin' my Large Egg since May 2012 (Richmond, VA) ... and makin' cookbooks at https://FamilyCookbookProject.com
    Stoker II wifi, Thermapen, and a Fork for plating photo purposes
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  • theyolksonyou
    theyolksonyou Posts: 18,459
    Legume said:
    Aren't you glad you said something nice about it Yolk?
    If you aren't from here and you know the oakwood, something's up. You gotta know where to find it. 

    I do like their fried chicken though. And desserts. 
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  • SandyHookEgger
    SandyHookEgger Posts: 451
    Cookbook_Chip said:
    DoubleEgger said:
    And as a FYI, real Southerners are from South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. The rest are just wannabes. 
    And I do believe the good folks here in Richmond might disagree. And I'm a CT Yankee. Go 'cocks!
    Come hang out in backwoods Virginia where I come from. We drink sweet tea, raise tobacco, cling to the Bible and guns round here. May not be deep south but we are southern.
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    I think y'all self-regulate in the over-population department if ya get mah drift.
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  • henapple
    henapple Posts: 16,025
    nolaegghead said:
    I think y'all self-regulate in the over-population department if ya get mah drift.
    This from a person living in NO and Louisiana? Y'all invented self regulating. 
    Green egg, dead animal and alcohol. The "Boro".. TN 
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    You're just a big idiotic lovable sour puss, tony.
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