Foods from the South

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moon pies

 

[Michael in FtW]

Shrimp creole

 

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benne seed candy

 

[mcnerd]

moon pies

Is that the same as what my friends and I used to do years ago out the car window while cruising?

 

[Dave Hutchins]

I like most Southern foods with these exceptions Boiled peanut what a disaster to put in my mouth. Black eyed peas my dog would not eat them. Michel just what is poke salad??. All the rest is just great. grits, hominy. red beans and rice( In Mobile Ala ) I had the best red beans and rice that has ever been cooked.

 

[LPBeier]

Poke Salad - cooked with bacon or drippings, salt pork, smoked ham hock, ham, etc. ... spashed with green tabascos in vinegar sauce, and served with cornbread - either as a meal or as a side for other things.

Dave, He actually has a link to it right in the post! I know I had to look it up too.

 

[quicksilver]

How 'bout corn pone?

 

[Michael in FtW]

Yep - I went ahead and put a link to an explanation because I knew there would be people who had never heard of it. I got hooked on it when we lived in Georgia ... we used to be able to get it canned but I haven't seen it in some years and the company that produced it (Allen's) doesn't list it anymore. Other variation on the spelling are poke salit or poke salet.

To borrow from Tony Joe White's song Poke Salal Annie (the intro portion which is spoken):

"If some of ya'll never been down South too much...
I'm gonna tell you a little bit about this,
So that you'll understand what I'm talking about
Down there we have a plant
That grows out in the woods and the fields,
Looks somethin' like a turnip green.
Everybody calls it Poke salad. Poke salad.
Used to know a girl that lived down there and
she'd go out in the evenings and pick a mess of it...
Carry it home and cook it for supper,
'Cause that's about all they had to eat,
But they did all right. ..."

 

[quicksilver]

Kentucky cream candy

 

[LPBeier]

Yep - I went ahead and put a link to an explanation because I knew there would be people who had never heard of it. I got hooked on it when we lived in Georgia ... we used to be able to get it canned but I haven't seen it in some years and the company that produced it (Allen's) doesn't list it anymore. Other variation on the spelling are poke salit or poke salet.

To borrow from Tony Joe White's song Poke Salal Annie (the intro portion which is spoken):

"If some of ya'll never been down South too much...
I'm gonna tell you a little bit about this,
So that you'll understand what I'm talking about
Down there we have a plant
That grows out in the woods and the fields,
Looks somethin' like a turnip green.
Everybody calls it Poke salad. Poke salad.
Used to know a girl that lived down there and
she'd go out in the evenings and pick a mess of it...
Carry it home and cook it for supper,
'Cause that's about all they had to eat,
But they did all right. ..."

Michael, I had forgotten all about this song. I used to love it. Never associated it when you wrote "poke salad". Once I read the words, it all made sense!

I really should have been born a southern girl instead of a prairie girl transported to the North West!

 

[quicksilver]

head cheese ....( to bed with me now!)

 

[Uncle Bob]

So far:

Andouille
BBQ
Beignets
Black-eyed Peas
Boiled Peanuts
Boudin
Bourbon
Brunswick stew
Buttermilk Biscuits
Cane Syrup
Chicken Bog
Chicken Fried Steak
Chicory Coffee
Chitterlings
Cornbread
Cornbread Dressing
Country Ham
Cracker Salad
Cracklins
Crawfish Etouffee
Dirty Rice
Fajitas
Field Cress
File
Fried Catfish
Fried Chicken
Fried green Tomatoes
Fried Pies
Frogmore Stew
Fruit Cobblers
Gator Burgers
Greens
Grillades & Grits
Grits
Gumbo
Hogs Head Cheese (Souse)
Hushpuppies
Kentucky Cream Candy
Key Lime Pie
Mint Juleps
Mississippi Mud Pie
Moon Pies
Moonshine
Muscadine Wine
Pecan Pie
Pecan Pralines
Po-Boys
Poke Salad
Pork Skins
Ramps
Red Bean & Rice
Red-Eye Gravy
Sausage Gravy
Shrimp & Grits
Shrimp Creole
Steamed Shrimp/Crabs
Swamp cabbage
Sweet Potato Pie
Sweet Tea
Tabasco
Watermelon Rind Pickles

 

[quicksilver]

Cool. Thanks, U.B. That helps me going back all the time. But add head cheese.

NEW: Derby pie

 

[Uncle Bob]

Jambalaya ---

 

[quicksilver]

Chess Pie

 

[Uncle Bob]

Bread Pudding

 

[Mama]

Fried Okra!

 

[Mama]

Kentucky Hot Browns

 

[Mama]

Hoe Cakes

 

[Uncle Bob]

Vidalia Onions