Folks in the South can pen or turn a phrase. Word usage can be quite interesting and sometimes confusing to those outside the South. For instance, if someone from the South says to put the pan on the stove eye, they're talking about putting it on the burner. If the cook sends you to the store for tin foil, then he or she wants aluminum foil.
And, then there are the Southern sayings. Some are profound and some profane. Some Southern food quotes will make you think. Some will make you smile. And, some will make you blow Pepsi "outcha" nose. They'll all stick with you though - like "white on rice."
A Collection of Colorful Southern Quotations About Food and Cooking:
“You think I don’t have culture just because I’m from down in Georgia. Believe me, we’ve got culture there. We’ve always had sushi. We just called it bait.” -- Ben "Cooter" Jones
“Don't name a pig, chicken or cow you plan to eat.” – Southern saying
"Southerners can't stand to eat alone. If we're going to cook a mess of greens we want to eat them with a mess of people." -- Julia Reed
“Well, butter my behind and call me a biscuit.” – Southern saying
"As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it." - Buddy Hackett
“He’s as scared as a marshmallow at a cook out.” (4th grade simile homework) – Caleb Wittum
“Sex is good, but not as good as fresh, sweet corn.” - Garrison Keillor
“Well that just dills my pickle.” – Southern saying
"The easiest way to make a fruitcake is to buy a darkish cake, then pound some old, hard fruit into it with a mallet. Be sure to wear safety glasses." -- Dave Barry
“Two can live as cheap as one if one don't eat.” – Southern saying
"It is easy to pick up and move when the culture you know is all McDonald's. But if you grow up the way I did in Louisiana, you don't in your travels find anything like it. Some of it is the cuisine, but mostly it is a mind-set." --Glenn Petre
“I’m not a fast cook. I’m not a slow cook. I’m a half fast cook.” – Southern decorative plate saying
“I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.” Erma Bombeck
“Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.” – Fats Domino
“They ate supper before they said grace.” (pregnant before marriage) – Southern saying
“I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.” – George W. Bush
“You plant a tater, you get a tater” – Southern saying
“The North thinks it know how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as good as Southern corn bread, and perhaps no bread in the world is quite as bad as the Northern imitation of it.”- Mark Twain
“She’s wound up tighter than the girdle of a Baptist minister’s wife at an all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast.” - Southern saying
“If’n you’s old enough to catch ‘em, you’s old enough to clean ‘em.” (on fishing) – Grandma
“If you have a complete set of salad bowls and they all say Kool Whip on the side, you might be a redneck.” Jeff Foxworthy
“It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.” - Lewis Grizzard
“All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say, ‘Yo Goober! Where’s the meat?’ I’m trying to impress people here Lisa. You don’t win friends with salad.” – Dan Castellaneta
“Soul food is our personal passport to the past. It is much more about heritage than it is about hominy." - Sarah Ban Breathnach
“In God we trust. All others must pay when they order.” – Sign at Southern barbecue joint
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