08-01-2010, 12:50 PM | #31 | |
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Re: A-way down South in Dixie
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I always heard this one as "God willing and the creek (pronounced 'crick') don't rise," but that may be an Ozark variation. I grew up in Missouri which is sort of a transitional state, specifically in St. Louis which is decidedly not a Southern feeling town. [grammar nitpick]The phrase "like a chicken with its head cut off" is a simile. You can tell because the comparison is made explicit; with a metaphor, it's implied. Also, I'd call "so stubborn they'd argue with a fence post" an exaggeration rather than a metaphor. Figurative speech, perhaps would be a better term. [/grammar nitpick] |
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08-01-2010, 02:26 PM | #32 |
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Re: A-way down South in Dixie
I'm kind of surprised that the "sharp cheddar cheese on apple pie" hasn't come up.
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08-02-2010, 01:12 PM | #33 | ||
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08-02-2010, 08:52 PM | #34 |
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Re: A-way down South in Dixie
Just to demonstrate that there isn't just one "South", here are some samples of Lumbee dialect (I used to live in that area):
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08-03-2010, 01:51 PM | #35 | |
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(I'm from Wisconsin, originally, where we keep our apples away from our cheeses, for the most part.)
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08-03-2010, 02:54 PM | #36 |
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Don't forget that the big patriotic outdoor holiday, with parades and concerts and so on, is Memorial Day. July 4th is just a day off from work.
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08-03-2010, 05:47 PM | #37 | |
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I happen to prefer apple pie to peach cobbler but my grandmother had only a recipe for latter and not the former. Come to think of it she didn't do a lot with cheese either, It probably wasn't very attractive in the days before widespread refrigeration. Also in traditional regional cuisine it was cornbread and dumplings rather than wheat bread and pasta. The "hard" wheat varieties that make good bread flour burn up in the Southern summer heat. It was all "soft" wheat varieties grown in the winter.
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08-03-2010, 07:17 PM | #39 |
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Re: A-way down South in Dixie
I just loved My granny's apple sonker . It's sort of a cobbler bread pudding friut thing . Thet have a festival for it in Surry county N.C., " Sonker Festival at the Edwards-Franklin House (annual) Edwards-Franklin House . ".
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08-03-2010, 07:31 PM | #40 | |
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Possum is edible, but just barely. As my papaw used to say, "It's kinee slick." Your grandfather is your "papaw" and your grandmother is your "mamaw." Your aunt is always your "aint" and never your "Ahnt." In southeastern Kentucky, if you put sugar in your cornbread, there's somethin' wrong with you. Bits of crumbled bacon on the other hand, is dam' fine eatin'. Pinto beans are made into a soup with a thick broth, usually with plenty of salt, pepper, rosemary and bacon (more salt) or hamhocks (ditto). The beans are never mashed and made into refried beans. They're eaten in a bowl with a big chunk of cornbread crumbled up in 'em. That's why they're called "soup-beans." For dessert, crumble up a slab of cornbread in a glass of milk. Please note, cornbread frequently comes in "slabs," though "slices" are acceptable. Pie, on the other hand, comes in "slices" and "pieces," as does cake, but neither of those ever comes in "slabs" except as a joke or a compliment to the cook ("I'll take a big ol' slab o' that cake." "Oo, you musta liked it, theyun! Hyerr y'go! Y'wont some ahs-cream with thayut?") Old ladies like squash. Everybody else puts up with it, 'cause they know it's good for you, especially alongside cornbread and green beans and ham. There's plenty of it, because the old ladies still plant this way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_S...agriculture%29 Another word about Appalachian agriculture. A lot of the families their have seed strains, especially for green beans, sweet corn and squash, that has existed for generations. The seeds get divided up amongst the younger family members who stay in the area (which is a surprisingly large number of them, given the widespread poverty), so they can plant 'em and do some "cannin'" (see below). The quality of these family strains is almost universally superb in taste, but usually yield less than commercial varieties. Mason jars get used for "cannin'" all kinds of things. "Cannin'" occupies a lot of time, starting in about July, and it continues until October. A basement full of "cannin'" is evidence of a hard-workin', well-prepared family, and those who can do it well and consistently are highly respected -- especially since they have to spend long hours in a brutally hot kitchen. You eat tender young leaves of poke salad, after boiling them at least three times. Avoid any leaves with red in 'em, and do not eat the berries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytolacca_americana Blackberries grow wild, and huge thickets of them start in creek-bottoms on cleared property. A possible summertime occupation for kids growin' up in the rural southeast is to take a one-gallon plastic milk jug, and cut out a triangular section (the spout and a section of the front) big enough to easily admit a hand. Take six of those down to the blackberry bushes, work your way into 'em, and fill the jugs. On a late summer afternoon, boys and girls aged 12-15 can be seen walking along the side of the road, two to three jugs in each hand. They'll sell you a blackberry jug for ten bucks or so, but will negotiate. An enterprising youngster can make several hundred dollars in a summer, and keep his or her neighbors well supplied. Blackberries get used for cobbler or for "cannin'" as jelly. Local hazards: Copperheads: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agkistrodon_contortrix Cottonmouths are worse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agkistrodon_piscivorus Snappin' turtles is good eatin', but they'll take finger or toe, if you ain't careful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Snapping_Turtle Poison Oak is everywhere (as is poison ivy, but everybody knows about that one): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxicodendron_pubescens
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