My Favorite Southern food

[Andy_Stephenson]

Poll question: My Favorite Southern food

In light of all the Southern threads...What is your favorite southern food?

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. I am hungry.

Very hungry.

[otohara]

2. Collard Greens But Not Southern

way of cooking, dice some garlic, brown in olive oil - remove garlic - add greens & small amts of water, cover until tender - sprinkle with toasted garlic and salt....

Greens are good for you

[short bus president]

3. Allen & Son barbecue

finest NC pig there is!

[Lithos]

4. Oh please

You forgot (in no particular order):

Hush puppies (jalapeno are best)
Catfish
Barbeque
Pecan pie
Black-eyed peas
Cajun (Etoufe, Jambalaya, etc.)
Biscuits
Chess Pie
Mississippi Mud
Peach Cobbler/Pie
Peanut Brittle
Pralines!!!!

[Andy_Stephenson]

5. MMMMM

pecan pie!

I make a mean one.

[Lithos]

8. Pecan Pie

Is one of my downfalls. That and Bread pudding.

[sheilab15]

11. Bread pudding is Great!

Although Granny never put raisins in hers and to this day I end up picking the little buggers out.

Sweet pudding and chocolate sauce is really good too.

SheilaB15

[Lithos]

14. Oh yeah

Though I do have to have raisins in mine. Just how I was raised I guess. Give me a good Rum or Bourbon sauce and I am exceedingly happy too.

[newyawker99]

34. Hi sheilab15!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Johnyawl]

36. Pecan Pie!

A decade ago I was in Dallas on business, and my pardner and I went to the Cattleman's Restuarant in Ft. Worth one night for dinner. He and I are both big eaters, and wrapped ourselves around 16 oz T-Bones, 2 lb baked potaoes (with all the trimmings), corn and homemade rolls, and a couple of pitchers of beer. We were stuffed! We leaned back in our chairs,loosened our belts, and waved the waitress over to order coffee. Our waitress, about mid-fifties, fifty lbs overweight, (all boobs and butt), bleach blond hair piled up in a bee-hive, came over, took our order for coffee, and asked, in the sweetest Texas accent,

"Would you boys like some dee-ssert?"

No ma'am we replied, we're too stuffed to even think about dessert.

and she said

"We got the best homemade pecan pie in Texas!

And in unison, Art and I both said "I'll have a piece of that!"

Ohh I was in pain, I was so full.

But it was worth it, as she was right, that was the best pecan pie I'd ever had!

[kathee]

10. Dont forget Chow Chow!!

you know, the stuff made of cabbage and tomatoes, and other seasonings that goes oh so well with that beans and cornbread?

[Andy_Stephenson]

13. Man do I!

My great aunt made the best chow chow.

mmmmm...Damn my stomach is growling.

[Lithos]

15. Fried Green Tomatoes

You made me remember Fried Green Tomatoes! A little acidic for me, but it is Southern cooking!

[mac56]

37. My lovely wife and I are carpetbaggers.

Moved here to GA from MN 1 1/2 years ago.

Yet she makes the best fried green tomatoes ever. Go figure.

[northofdenali]

27. CATFISH! oh shit I wish I didn't remember

really good southern fried catfish. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO good!

[TSIAS]

6. Fried chicken

Sadly, I'm on a diet, so no KFC for me :(

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. If you eat it after midnight it doesn't count, trust me on this.

;-)

[Andy_Stephenson]

19. KFC is NOT I repeat

Not real southern fried chicken. It is mass produced. Mine is far better.

[tarkus]

23. Family Guy...

Peter went to Kentucky and went into a KFC and was angry that Colonel Sanders wasn't working there. The redneck working there said, in a very thick Southern accent, "He dead." Peter, who is of course from New England, just stood there for a second and then repeated himself, but in a louder voice. Then the guy said, once again with a thick and barely understandable Southern accent, "He dead." I think Peter may have repeated himself again but louder and then left after another response. It was funny.

[NightTrain]

9. What, no jambalaya?!

Hank Williams would never approve! ;-)

[JackDragna]

12. Wha bou' de gumbo?

That's good Southern cooking right there. For a good gumbo, I'd lick a stamp with Ann Coulter on it.

[DemBones DemBones]

16. It should be illegal to post a thread like this at this time of night!

My brain started shorting out just reading the list, thank God you had an "all of the above" choice.

Umm, did you leave out BISCUITS??? I don't recall seeing any BISCUITS on your list. Big, fluffy biscuits, preferably with butter and homemade pear preserves, blackberry jam, or fig preserves. Sausage biscuits, great as they are, also great if you add a little grape jelly as a condiment. Country ham biscuits. And what about cinnamon rolls?

OK, there's an all-you-can-eat-for $6.95 restaurant not too far from here (though it is in another state!) that serves up a wonderful buffet of Southern food. We're talking barbecue, fried catfish, fried chicken, fried chicken livers, country fried steak, pork chops, mashed potatoes, cream gravy, candied yams, pole beans like your granny fixed 'em, creamed corn, turnip greens, beans of various sorts, fried okra, hushpuppies, etc., etc., plus a big salad bar and several kinds of dessert, including pecan pie and banana pudding made with 'Nilla wafers. Guess where I'm going to lobby for us to go tomorrow? The question is: should we go for breakfast or dinner?

[punpirate]

17. Man, you gotta fix this poll--

where are the ribs?

Cheers.

[DemBones DemBones]

18. OHMIGOD, punpirate has done it now! He said. . .

RIBS. Wish I had some ribs right now.

Dreamland Barbecue, Tuscaloosa and Birmingham. 'Nuff said.

[Bake]

20. Wonder where I can get a barbeque sandwich at 2:00 AM.

Damn!

Bake

[DemBones DemBones]

22. My guess is nowhere and that is a shame.

I'd pay a good price for most any of the foods mentioned here tonight.

[ibegurpard]

21. Umm, hello? Barbeque?

:wtf:

[MoonGod]

24. Biscuits and gravy

So much of it is so delicious, but biscuits and gravy wins my vote hands down. Good fresh fluffy biscuits, and a spicy sausage gravy. Like my mom used to make.

Oh, and about pecan pie, I make a mean one, too. My grandmother's recipe. I still remember visiting her in Texas when I was like 5 or 6 and she would send us out back to gather pecans in these big pails. And then she'd bake pecan pie. Happiness.

[ibegurpard]

26. I love me some biscuits and gravy!

Mmmmm Mmmmm!

[northofdenali]

25. Butter beans, fried okra, collards, cornbread............................

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Gbnc, why do you do this to me? Why? Are you tormenting me on purpose?

Add some fresh tomatos, peaches and watermelon, and I'm sunk.

BBQ ribs? GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

OK, gotta visit the kid in Alabama sooner than I thought!

[DemBones DemBones]

29. Speckled butter beans, scalloped tomatoes,

why am I here talking about food in the middle of the night? Is the moon full?

[TreasonousBastard]

28. I'm glad to see people remembered BBQ...

and fried chicken. (Proper fried chicken is done in lard, remember)

But what about a real Smithfield Ham?

Not a bullshit one with just the name, but a real one, properly cured.

Pulled pork?

Grits and biscuits (lard, not Crisco) and red-eye gravy. Yummm!

Southerners could always cook the shit out of a pig in ways us Yankees cain't hardly imagine.

[eyesroll]

30. Ever watch Paula's Home Cooking on Food TV?

I admit I'm not from the south, and I've only been to truly non-touristy southern destinations a couple of times, so I have no idea whether she cooks authentically or not, but, damn, it all looks good.

Unfortunately, living in Waukesha, WI, there's not a lot of Southern cooking to be found.

[Kahuna]

31. No candied yams?!?

feh

[phaseolus]

32. Fatback!!!

Deep fried pork fat. A great complement to southern buffet food. Doesn't get any better than that...

Second place, peach cobbler

Third place, good old Blenheim Ginger Ale. The extra hot kind.

I swear, I gain five pounds a week whenever they send me down south...

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

33. For the healthy food I usually eat...

There's just something about those grits that is disgusting and tasty at the same time. Only having them once every couple of years isn't going to kill me! :)

[JitterbugPerfume]

35. I love southern soul food

beans 'n greens , cornbread and buttermilk fried potatoes with onion, the whole thing

You haven't ate until you try my Aunt Noras cooking !!!