[USER=94]@Dave Karoly[/USER]
The southern part of Illinois was largely settled by people getting the heck out of Kentucky because it was getting too crowded. Slavery moved with them. During the Civil War, Illinois was recognized as a Northern state but many Confederate soldiers came from the southern end of Illinois. Brother against brother, as they say.
One branch of my family tree arrived southeast of St. Louis prior to 1830. They came from central southern Kentucky with ancestry that went back to North Carolina and Virginia.
[USER=20]@paden cash[/USER]
Yes, sir. That line pretty well lines up with the north end of both Texas and Arkansas. Kansas was set up with a south line, as you say, roughly 35 miles further north. That left what we know as the Oklahoma Panhandle stuck in No Man's Land. Twarn't north and twarn't south.
I got 100% even though I am purebred Yankee and proud of it. Had to guess at a couple of the answers though.
Stopped for a night many moons ago in Chattanooga TN. Stopped at a fast "food" place for dinner. Had to ask three times before the poor girl behind the counter could understand what I wanted.
She then asked "you aren't from around here, are you?"
Nope.
I could tell.
Why's that, because I don't have the accent?
Both of us laughed.
Was how the conversation went.
Words and phrases can be easier to understand when written rather than spoken in a heavy southern drawl. Though after living south of the Mason Dixon line for way too long, I would have to relearn the Down East New England drawl that still sounds like music to my ears. My how I miss that!
Dave Karoly.
I don't like sweet sauce either (Memphis and Kansas City sauces are BAD). This is one I use. The good thing about sauces is that you adjust to taste,
1-1/2 quarts Catsup
1 pint Mustard
å? bottle Durkee Sauce
10 tablespoons Brown Sugar
12 tablespoons Lemon Juice
1 cup Worcestershire Sauce
Black Pepper to taste
4 tablespoons Hot Sauce
3 tablespoons Liquid Smoke
å? cup Oil
Combine, mix WELL and enjoy
Andy
And as I told a bunch of fellows in Iowa a few years ago as they were giving an Englishman a hard time about his accent. "You fellows don't understand, I'm the ONLY one around here without an accent." Those of you who have met me or heard me speak will definitely understand that.
:cool:100% Southern. However, I drink unsweetened tea, never say you-all, and barbecue chicken with the sauce. I was only born in the South and spent 65 years here so far. Oh yea, I don't even much care for NASCAR. Maybe one day I will catch on to this Southern thing.
Sauces
Mustard
Mayo
Dill pickle
Sweet onion
Special sauce (mustard + katsup + whoohoo/soy + pickle)
BBQ is not supposed to be dry and all the flavors should be cooked into snd thruout the meat.
BBQ sauce is for makin sloppy joe samichs
100% Southern!!
Let's hear what the expert has to say about southern language.
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Holy Cow, post: 426094, member: 50 wrote: [USER=94]@Dave Karoly[/USER]
The southern part of Illinois was largely settled by people getting the heck out of Kentucky because it was getting too crowded. Slavery moved with them. During the Civil War, Illinois was recognized as a Northern state but many Confederate soldiers came from the southern end of Illinois. Brother against brother, as they say.
One branch of my family tree arrived southeast of St. Louis prior to 1830. They came from central southern Kentucky with ancestry that went back to North Carolina and Virginia.
lmbrls, post: 426113, member: 6823 wrote: :cool:100% Southern. However, I drink unsweetened tea, never say you-all, and barbecue chicken with the sauce. I was only born in the South and spent 65 years here so far. Oh yea, I don't even much care for NASCAR. Maybe one day I will catch on to this Southern thing.
[SARCASM]I quit watching NASCAR when the yankees killed Earnhardt.[/SARCASM]
Holy Cow, post: 426064, member: 50 wrote: Ahm sew imbareassed two sae whut aye scort. won hunert pursent. workun wid da mentulee chalunjud rooteenlee hepz aye ges.
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WOW! That reminds me of my brother's wife from Lousianna! ( I misspelled on purpose!) She talks like that and she emails the same way. Takes me FOREVER to decipher her emails. Can't even talk to her on the phone, especially if she's been drink the local hooch!
Tommy Young, post: 426340, member: 703 wrote: [SARCASM]I quit watching NASCAR when the yankees killed Earnhardt.[/SARCASM]
When was Earnhardt killed? I thought he retired! Just kidding... I know JR retired and SR crashed. But for some of the youngin', they wouldn't know he had a daddy that kicked JR's butt on the track!
Lewis Grizzard left us far too soon. He was a hoot. Somewhere around here I have his book, "Shoot Low Boys They're Ridin' Shetland Ponies".
Loved the story from Dumptruck County, Alabama featuring Junebug "Sonny Bubba" as the local law officer.
My favorite Grizzard routine was the difference between "Nude and Nekkid"
"Nude means you ain't got no clothes on. Nekkid means you ain't got no clothes on and you're up to something".
Andy
Tommy Young, post: 426340, member: 703 wrote:
I quit watching NASCAR when the yankees killed Earnhardt
I was at the Daytona 500 when Sr met his demise. He was in third place blocking Sterling Marlin from catching Michael Waltrip in first place and Dale Jr. In second. Both cars of which belonged to DEI racing. Marlin used the same maneuver Sr did on numerous occasions and threw him into the wall to pass. Sr suffered a broken neck and died, Martin retired because of death threats.
BTW: Sterling Martin is from TN. 😉
One hunnert percent, but that 's only because I spent my most formative childhood years in Alabama, which having been born in England, makes for one very wide range of available accents to fall back on, depending upon the company I'm with and the quantity of alcohol involved.
Williwaw, post: 426356, member: 7066 wrote: One hunnert percent, but that 's only because I spent my most formative childhood years in Alabama, which having been born in England, makes for one very wide range of available accents to fall back on, depending upon the company I'm with and the quantity of alcohol involved.
I grew up in Oklahoma with some kids whose father was from here and had met his wife in WWII in Germany before settling down back in Oklahoma. The kids all sounded like Okies (but their mother made sure they all could speak fluent German). The funny thing was when their mother would try and mimic an Okie accent with her thick akzent.
This is the ONLY BBQ sauce for chicken, courtesy Cornell Ag.
1 egg
1 cup vegetable oil
2 cups cider vinegar
2-3 tablespoons kosher salt (I like it salty, you may not)
1 tablespoon poultry seasoning
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
4 broiler chickens split in half bilaterally
Whisk together 1st 6 ingredients. Place halves split side down over hot coals. Weber Kettle with cover is best, or keep birds well above coals to prevent flare-ups (chicken fat plus oil in sauce). Baste with sauce. Flip about every 8-10 minutes, baste again. repeat until thigh separates from carcass with a twist. Every volunteer fire dept. in the state seems to sell these birds by the hundreds in the summertime.
FL/GA PLS., post: 426353, member: 379 wrote: I was at the Daytona 500 when Sr met his demise. He was in third place blocking Sterling Marlin from catching Michael Waltrip in first place and Dale Jr. In second. Both cars of which belonged to DEI racing. Marlin used the same maneuver Sr did on numerous occasions and threw him into the wall to pass. Sr suffered a broken neck and died, Martin retired because of death threats.
BTW: Sterling Martin is from TN. 😉
I distinctly remember that before the race they showed a ride-along Earnhardt did with Terry Bradshaw in the passenger seat (I think that was the first race Fox broadcast). When he got to about the point where it all ended, he told Bradshaw that if you got your left front down on the apron in turn 4 you were gonna break loose and then get turned straight into the wall. That's pretty much what happened, and I never saw that interview replayed.
