That’s NOT how we did it up north!!

Geezer said:
Sadly, when she died she took a lot of recipes with her. We never had the foresight to write any of them down.
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I had a friend that I’ve lost contact with that talked about a recipe for red velvet cake. Apparently her mother wrote down two copies of the recipe, Suzanne got one and her sister got the other. Neither could make the cake come out right. Turned out both recipes were incomplete or incorrect and it wasn’t until they compared them and figured out what was missing were they able to get it right.
 
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Growing up we also had something similar in concept to country ham, but with beef instead. It was dried and very salty and we’d eat it with gravy. It was commonly called “ sh!t on a shingle” cause it looked like bird droppings.
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I’m pretty sure we had that too. I think it was “dried chipped beef” on white bread with a cream gravy. We also called it shit on a shingle. And it was gross.

Leave the beef off and white bread with brown gravy became “Missouri Ice Cream”
 
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Tim said:
I’m pretty sure we had that too. I think it was “dried chipped beef” on white bread with a cream gravy. We also called it shit on a shingle. And it was gross.
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Didn’t you say you grew up in MI? I grew up in OH, east of Cleveland, which had a unique mixture of heritage from European settlers.
 
Tim said:
I’m pretty sure we had that too. I think it was “dried chipped beef” on white bread with a cream gravy. We also called it shit on a shingle. And it was gross.

Leave the beef off and white bread with brown gravy became “Missouri Ice Cream”
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Exactly this. S on a shingle is creamed chipped beef on toast.
 
Tim said:
This thread was SUPPOSED to be about Southern food…y’all have me googling “NY Pastrami delivery”
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In the three Carolina cities I’ve lived in my whole life there was always at least one authentic Jewish deli in each where said sandwich could be procured, but I don’t know if there are any now.
 
All this time reading and only one guy mentions goulash that sounds like proper goulash.
Proper goulash has paprika and lots of it. It's made with beef stew meat. Potatoes, onions, salt, carrots, parsley root, black pepper, garlic and a bay leaf.
It eats like a soup in that it's a broth with large chunks of meat and veggies.
This hamburger helper noodle crap mentioned may be a somewhat tasty and easy to prep dish for busy families, but it isn't goulash. It's a convenient dehydrated meal mix in a box.

My favorite thing that only southerners do right is Chicken and Waffles. A little sweet and a little heat. Outstanding.
 
Timfoilhat said:
This hamburger helper noodle crap mentioned may be a somewhat tasty and easy to prep dish for busy families, but it isn't goulash. It's a convenient dehydrated meal mix in a box.
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My mother made that a lot, still does. Basically, baked spaghetti with macaroni elbows and cheddar cheese on top. She always called it goulash and I thought that was what it was until I worked with a guy from Hungary for a while and learned the truth. My mother said her grandmother always called it slumgullion. Aside from a name that is derived from slime and mud, it strikes me as a very American creation.
 
I'm going to share a biscuit recipe that will change your life. Given to us by The Man Killer Collie Metts. Tried by The State and Federal Court..Walked.

3-1-1....3 cups of SR Flour..........1 cup of LARD........1 cup of Buttermilk.....Your life is about to change.
 
I put on 10 pounds just reading this stuff.

How about hot dogs with Michigan sauce? only in Plattsburgh NY!


or a New England Shore dinner?
Fried Clams, little necks, clam fritters, creamy white clam chowder (red if in RI), corn on the cob, lobster, hunk of cod, tata salad, watermelon, lots of butter, a bit of salty sand, and gallons of beer -Narragansett preferred but any beer except light will do.
You did it right if you slide around in the car on the way home- if you can find the car or remember where home is!
 
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Tim said:
Ok all y’all that ain’t from ‘round here…Yankees, Cheeseheads, flatlanders, midwesterners….

What does the SOUTH get RIGHT?! Note, we are in the “Cooking Channel”, not Politics or Tortuga!
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...but the South gets Politics and Tortuga right, as well!
 
BatteryOaksBilly said:
Anytime I mention a good Eyetallian restaurant to a Resident Northener they always say...Not Toooo bad, BUT Nothing like Back Home!!!
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+1

I once joined a Raytheon team from Philadelphia for a project in Switzerland. They had already been there for a month, and had a routine. They took me to an Italian restaurant, which is pretty common in Suisseland, and I took a moment about halfway through to state that this was the Best Italian Food I had Ever Eaten! All them Philadelphia natives just looked at me all dead pan, and one of 'em said, "It's ok... almost as good as what you can get in South Philly."
 
A few things that I have not found their equal:

My grandma on my dad's side was a loud mouth old bird but she cooked a mean fried rabbit with cathead biscuts- the dough was wet and she would just drop them on a sheet to bake. They were about the size of a golf ball and so light and tender. She was a strong believer in sugar- coleslaw would have so much it that it would be crunchy. Her tea was spot on- strong and sweet, dark as my wife's heart..

On mom's side, my great grandma, great aunt, and grandma all live together when I was a kid. Chicken pastry ( not doughy dumplings) was always a looked to meal. they mixed their own dough, rolled it out on dinner table with a Dr.Pepper bottle (no ridges on it), cut it in 4x2 strips and dried out side till it was stiff enough to handle. An old stew hen would be boiling till it falls of the bone. Add the pastry and cook till done. Nothing better than chicken slick on a cold day. They also made fried corn bread- thin as a lace doillie, crisps as a cracker...that with a bowl collars and some fatback...almost enough to make you forget to say grace when its on the table.

One thing we ate that is getting harder to find (been 3 years when I had one) was Tom's Thumb (https://thelocalpalate.com/articles/eatymology-tom-thumb/) I turn @thrillhill on to it a few years ago...about the time the local place got sold and new folks don't make them any more, lol
 
BatteryOaksBilly said:
I'm going to share a biscuit recipe that will change your life. Given to us by The Man Killer Collie Metts. Tried by The State and Federal Court..Walked.

3-1-1....3 cups of SR Flour..........1 cup of LARD........1 cup of Buttermilk.....Your life is about to change.
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Does it have to be lard or will crisco surface?


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MacEntyre said:
took a moment about halfway through to state that this was the Best Italian Food I had Ever Eaten! All them Philadelphia natives just looked at me all dead pan, and one of 'em said, "It's ok... almost as good as what you can get in South Philly."
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This is one of the best Italian restaurants I've been to. https://www.umbertosfamily.com/

There was a good one in north high point but the family up and left and went back to Italy
 
Luckily one of my best friends moved down here 10+ years ago and guides me to the best food. Just getting used to driving more than 15 minutes to get it, though.

What I have found is that most places here that I've ordered a burger in are MUCH better than your average NY burgers. I'm very happy about that.
 
BatteryOaksBilly said:
I'm going to share a biscuit recipe that will change your life. Given to us by The Man Killer Collie Metts. Tried by The State and Federal Court..Walked.

3-1-1....3 cups of SR Flour..........1 cup of LARD........1 cup of Buttermilk.....Your life is about to change.
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Actually, lard was probably my Grandma's secret. That's about 5 points of cholesterol per biscuit.
 
There are three Southern food groups: grease, fat, and lard.

Ok. Now to biscuits. Like others my "granny B" made biscuits at least twice a day. Breakfast and dinner, and supper. (That's what Southern folk call their meal times.) Well one time granny had been to the hospital and had surgery. When she got home she was still on bed rest. My grandpa took the makings of biscuits and the bowl and baking sheet to her bed so she could whip up a batch of biscuits. She did this every day until she could get back to her kitchen. Mom said that she carefully made them and never had a mess in her bed.

I learned to make biscuits in a fast food restaurant when in was about 18 years old. Yes there is a difference between grandma's biscuits and what you get at the local Bojangles/Hardee's. Even those restaurants can't get their own people to make a biscuit that they would be proud of.

Making biscuits is an art, with alot of science, and a little magic added in. And oh, if you don't treat the dough right it will tell on your ass without saying a word. You can look at that biscuit and know "I screwed up."

When I hired a biscuit cook I would always tell them this. "Once you know how to make biscuits you will always be able to feed yourself. You can make them to eat, or you can make the for a wage."

Lastly, baking is the world's second oldest profession.

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Tim said:
I’m pretty sure we had that too. I think it was “dried chipped beef” on white bread with a cream gravy. We also called it shit on a shingle. And it was gross.

Leave the beef off and white bread with brown gravy became “Missouri Ice Cream”
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Omg I love a good plate of SOS
 
I've said this before, but being born & raised in KS, I was surprised to find out southerners eat a lot like midwesterners, with the odd twist like our sweet cornbread & non sweetened iced tea. Greens & fatback? Check, though typically mustard or turnip, vs. collards. Hominy, black eyed peas & fried okra. Check. Even corn fritters & okra pickles & shit on a shingle was as likely as biscuits & sausage gravy. Some friends in the 'Ville a million years ago took me out to Chason's out in Lumber Bridge & asked me afterward what I thought of soul food. My response? Soul food? That's the same broke-ass country people food I was raised on.

I do love me some good eastern NC Q. You can get pulled pork here, but it just ain't the same. 'N y'all definitely got it goin' on with the seafood, too. Not sure I'd wanna pay for, let alone eat, oysters this far from the coast. 'Course, we can get crappie & walleye here & you can sure there'll be hush puppies, so maybe not so different.

All breakfast gruel "foods" are disgusting to me, so that's a wash. I don't care for boiled peanuts & don't like slaw much, neither. Fermented or fried cabbage is GTG, but slaw is just blech.

I always seem to be an outlier on these regional things, but in my experience Southern food & culture just ain't that different from the rural Midwest. There's a few fun/interesting differences, though not of any real substance, IMO.
 
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Crazy Carl said:
I've said this before, but being born & raised in KS, I was surprised to find out southerners eat a lot like midwesterners...

...in my experience Southern food & culture just ain't that different from the rural Midwest.
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You know the South was settled a looong time afore the Midwest, right? An' a whole lotta Southerners went West... jus' sayin'.
 
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You know the South was settled a looong time afore the Midwest, right? An' a whole lotta Southerners went West... jus' sayin'.
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So...all the Midwesterners relocating here are just coming home? =)
 
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You know the South was settled a looong time afore the Midwest, right? An' a whole lotta Southerners went West... jus' sayin'.
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Soooo...a whole lotta Southerners just couldn't WAIT to get out of the South?

Things that make you say "Hmmmm...."
 
Crazy Carl said:
...I don't care for boiled peanuts...
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Man, I could really go for some boiled peanuts!

But raw peanuts are out of season right now. I normally pick some up when driving between SC and VA, because Suffolk. I'll have to try a couple different places than my normal on the way back to SC this week!
 
RetiredUSNChief said:
Man, I could really go for some boiled peanuts!

But raw peanuts are out of season right now. I normally pick some up when driving between SC and VA, because Suffolk. I'll have to try a couple different places than my normal on the way back to SC this week!
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Man, I tried, but blech. Stuck a boiled peanut in my mouth & promptly spit that gooey Play-Doh right back out. I'm an adventurous eater, but man, they musta been some hongry mofos to eat those things.
 
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