The "Rules of the South" are as follows: 1. Pull your saggy pants up. You look like an idiot. 2. Turn your cap around right, your head ain't crooked. 3. Let's get this straight; it's called a "dirt road." I drive a pickup truck because I want to. No matter how slow you drive, you're going to get dust on your Lexus. Drive it or get out of the way. 4. They are called cows & hogs. That's why they smell to you. They smell like money to us. Get over it. Don't like it? I-75 goes north, I-10 goes west. Pick one. 5. So you have a $60,000 car. We're impressed. We have $250,000 cotton pickers that are driven only 4 weeks a year. 6. So every person in the south waves. It's called being friendly. Try to understand the concept. 7. If that cell phone rings while a bunch of doves are coming in, we WILL shoot it out of your hand. You better hope you don't have it up to your ear at the time. 8. Yeah, we eat catfish & crawfish. You really want sushi & caviar? It's available at the corner bait shop. 9. The "Opener" refers to the first day of deer season. It's a religious holiday held the closest Saturday to the first of November. 10. We open doors for women. That is applied to all women, regardless of age. 11. No, there's no "vegetarian special" on the menu. Order steak. Or you can order the Chef's Salad and pick off the 2 pounds of ham & turkey. 12. When we fill out a table, there are three main dishes: meats, vegetables, and breads. We use three spices: salt, pepper, and ketchup! Oh, yeah.... We don't care what you folks in Cincinnati call that stuff you eat... IT AIN'T REAL CHILI!! Real chili never met a tomato! 13. You bring "coke" into my house, it better be brown, wet and served over ice. 14. College and High School Football is as important here as the Lakers and the Knicks, and a dang site more fun to watch. 15. Yeah, we have golf courses. But don't hit the water hazards -- it spooks the fish. 16. Colleges? We have them all over. We have State Universities, Universities, and Vo-techs. They come outta there with an education plus a love for God and country, and they still wave at everybody when they come for the holidays. 17. We have more folks in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines. So don't mess with us. If you do, you will get whipped by the best. 18. The south is the greatest!! If you are from the south you are part of the best people in the USA!! A true southerner will repost this!!!
I gotta ask. If "real chili never met a tomato," what do you hold it together with? I mean, you've got your meat, your beans, your onions, your spices, and -?
HELL YEAH! i like the waving to everybody and the opening doors for women part Its so important to me
HELL YEAH! i like the waving to everybody and the opening doors for women part Its so important to me :wubs:
The board is experiencing some slow-downs and the requests aren't going through fast enough for their liking so people hit "Submit Reply" multiple times. People, hit submit just once and then wait on it to complete or you get a error message. It's not all that terribly complicated.
Ya know, I have heard of people being religious about lack of beans in chili, but never in my entire life have I ever heard of any chili that was not made with tomatoes.
Possible. I mean, it's got to have some "glue," right? C'mon, you Southerners, chime in here! Enquiring minds what to know.
I dunno about the chili, but Carolina style BBQ (vinegar-based) is food of the Gods! Y'all can't get that up north!
I have heard of such a thing, called white chili, which not only lacks tomatoes, but sneaks a chicken in to the pot! I can conceive of chili without tomatoes, but I wouldn't want to eat it, and I certainly wouldn't make it!
I was born in Charlotte, and spent most of my formative years up to around 21 in N.C. So as a native born North Carolinian, you can take it to the bank when I say...North Carolina BBQ sucks.
I'm more partial to that myself. But, I can happily enjoy both Tennessee and Carolina barbecue, since I'm not tied to either state.
