Sooooo true Wylie, Texas here...in fact my soothing u tube rain sounds include the roughest weather to sleep at night. When I am feeling Fiesty I will " travel" to Miami for a hurricane via internet sounds.
Really this is just them dismantling the stereotypes about Southern people now I'm from the north but a lot of my family came from the south I enjoy listening to stories mostly about the weather and they're cooking sounds alright to me
Doesn’t it originate in Ireland though? Gaelic or something. I just googled. “Ye aww” which sounds like “yeawl” and means the same thing. Not sure about the Gaelic, but it is Northern Ireland, written like 60 yrs before the first “ya’ll” was ever written.
Maybe southerners can't drive, but when my Aunt passed away her funeral was near Atlanta, GA. (I live in Kentucky) and the funeral procession traveled pretty far. On every road, from one lane roads to 4 lane divided roads, people pulled over on both sides immediately. It's like the sea parting as we came through. I even saw people take off their hats inside their cars. I was impressed. In Kentucky, we're lucky if people slow down to get around a procession, or don't honk if they have to wait at an b intersection.
Born & raised in ATL and can attest to the procession-brings goosebumps just thinkin’ about it. Maybe we do it partly cause we know ya gotta straighten up & act right (as Granny would say) othawise they’re gonna come back & haunt your ass. 😂
I moved north and the biscuits up here are nothing but a mound of sadness and self-loathing. So hearing a northerner complain about biscuits makes sense because northern biscuits are a reflection of failure and devolution of our species.
I have learned from reading many, many Southern cookbooks, that if a dish has a few ingredients held together with mayonnaise, it's a "salad", and if it has a few ingredients with cheese and/or bread crumbs on top, cooked in the oven, it's a "casserole". Born and raised in Georgia, and that is the logic I have come up with.
This is because the original name for Mayonnaise was "Salad Dressing" sometimes "Salad oil" or just "Dressing". Therefore anything made with "Salad Dressing" was a "salad".
Dumbing down insults is a Northern skill. (Just kidding). But really, when you are from Ohio and see a car in North Carolina stuck in the snow with a license plate that says "We don't need Northerners tellin us how to drive", then we just walk away slowly.
@@moorek1967 I grew up in Ohio. While stationed at ft. Rucker, Alabama I constantly put up with a local bitching about Northern drivers. The area had a six inch snowfall that winter. ('72/'73) The next morning, every car I saw on the roads were from the North. The ditches to Carin Airfield was full of cars with Alabama tags. I lost the album, but I had photos of my '66 red GTO at the Daleville gate of Ft. Rucker sitting in that snow.
@@michaelterrell That's because they took for granted their driving skills. Six inches of snow and they forgot how to drive? I am truly ashamed of them and do not associate them with the North. Where else can you hear the phrase "Walmart has a deal on tire chains" except in the Midwest.
@@moorek1967 I spent 34 years living in the North, including a year in Alaska but I've never used snow chains. After my duty in Alabama, I was sent to Ft. Greely, Alaska. I was required to take a winter survival training course, and a special driving test on wet, ice covered roads. I passed with no trouble. Some were restricted to only driving on clear roads after failing.
I am from Alabama, moved to Philadelphia little over a year ago. I can’t open my mouth without people saying they could listen to me talk forever. They’ll ask how did I get so far from home. Lol. And my coworkers are amazed at my patience with unruly customers. My mama always says kill’em with kindness 😊
"Listen Up", "Hold on, I'm about to tell you something", "Lord have Mercy"...pretty safe unless you're a kid. That could be the warning before a paddling (or shoe toss - my mama could've been a pitcher, lol)
Dang straight wasps wake up and choose violence. They even skip chewing violets -- if they ever did -- and go straight for your funnel cakes if you have 'em fried up and coated with an ungodly amount of powdered sugar. 😅
Most stereotypes are based on hearsay and not actual experience. Visit the South and learn for yourself how wonderful it truly is. As for the food: what do you think makes the SEC football players so happy and strong? Girl Raised In The South!❤
So true. Biscuits are delicious if you know how to eat them, and take time to savor the experience. The flavor varies from state to state, with small variances in recipes, and local ingredients. You can’t go to Atlanta and buy a biscuit that tastes like the ones you can get in Ft. Worth, or vice versa. That’s like going to Chicago and expecting to be able to buy San Francisco sourdough. Plus, it’s heartbreaking to think about what kind of biscuits they’re getting up there. They’re probably trying to make them out of Bisquick. Ugh.
Fun fact most of those “weird salads” were/are not from the South. About 50% come from the Mid West, about 20-25% from the Northeast, about 20% from the South, and 5% came from California. Fun facts the Jello salad for example was invented in PA, and the oldest recipe for the lime cabbage jello salad I could find was from CA.
“Let’s revisit the biscuit conversation” 😂😂😂 Even though I’m from the Northeast, the accuracy here is 👌🏼. If the biscuit tastes like nothing, you did it wrong and please put it down.
Matt’s “you're not using biscuits right” Ryan’s “Wasps wake up and choose violence every day" Talia's “If your Grits aren't good: You. Did. It. Wrong” and Liz and Mary's “we're under a tornado watch right now as we're recording this" particularly had me laughing!🤣👏🏼
Yesterday I watched a video of a guy who went through a tornado and recorded it from his attic as it went directly through his house. Terrifying. He actually survived.
I married a northerner 45 years ago! He was, and still is, extremely concerned that I stand at the screen door and watch thunderstorms or actually go to the mailbox during a tornado warning! 😂🤣 My grandmother used to let me go out and play in the high pre-storm winds. It felt like I could sprout wings! Good memories!
All depends on where the northerner is from. If it’s a midwesterner, we do the same thing. Coastal northerners though, they’re a completely different breed.
I absolutely adore the heat in the South and will never leave. Anything to avoid the 8-9 month-long hellscape known as winter in the North. I had some fancy folks from work visit our southern properties this past June and the temps were in the lower 90's already. The humidity in Charleston is no joke. 10 minutes into the first property tour, one of them asked, "what time does cool off around here?" " I turned, looked him in the eye and said, "October". They cancelled the tours for the remaining properties. This year, they have scheduled their tours for March. I hope they're able to make it through, this time. lol
In Georgia we have seasons, it's weird. The weather just never decides to make up its mind one day its freezing the next you're sweating, any time other than summer is just strange.
As a southerner who has travelled and likes to eat, can I just point out that polenta, which is served in bougie restaurants everywhere outside the south, is basically grits. So why is polenta considered fancy/gourmet and grits not?
Probably because it's italian so they think it's exotic and special, when in reality polenta was a food staple for poor people just like grits and porridge.
As a true born and raised Southerner, I can tell you right now, "Let me check the Radar" while Tornado Sirens are going off is 100% true. No need to panic till you see a funnel cloud, green sky, your ears pop, the air feeling like its sucked out of the room, or the roaring sound coming through like a train. THEN you panic and get into your windowless interior room.
@@brentfarvors192 The worst hurricane I've been through was Harvey. Took away my power and my neighbours below sea level flooded (Corpus). I live in San Antonio
Slept through an EF2 until it took down a tree and landed on the house. Not the worst but I do like having those storms, only because I can sleep better with all of my fans on with the rain hitting hard on the roof and window.
Yeah. I was born and raised in Oklahoma City (within 10 miles of where the largest tornado on record touched down) and most people I know don't even have a cellar or even a good, sound plan. Just "guess we will get in the closet which is full of junk if it gets close. Hope we can all fit."
This was wonderfull, i am a northerner that has spent some time down south, the south is nice, I would love a video if the opposite, mean tweets southerners have about the north “I tell ya what” it would be a real eye opener to the northerners….but I will say this..there is one thing you NEVER EVER say to a true southerner as a northerner in an argument…and here it is…” Well who won the war” “I tell ya what” if there were not about 6 other people holding that southerner back when I made this comment I would probably be dead…lesson learned, Long live the south
I married a Southerner and have fallen in love with the culture. So much of what you joke about is delightfully true. The line that ""wasps choose violence everyday" had me laughing for hours. So true! I was stung several times during an encounter with one wasp several years ago ... Never again. I see one ...I am gone. :)
Put some tobacco on it! as stated in another show, and very true .. growing up if we got stung my grandfather would chew a little and put on it, all better. His medicine cabinet was primarily Aloe and Tobacco, raised a dozen kids of his own, and all the rest of us to follow at one time another.
I'm from the Pacific NW - had a fellow student there from Georgia. We teased her endlessly about her accent. One day she broke down in tears. We asked her what was wrong and through a ton of sniffles she said, "I don't know what y'all are laughing about. Y'all the ones who have the accent." Never forgot that. We don't think we have accents but we all do. And they are all wonderful.
I had a TA in college who learned to speak in a northern accent because she was afraid of the bullying she would get from people hearing her southern accent. I was thinking "are we really still at the point where people commonly bully each other for their accents?"
all americans have different accents. if she was from atlanta or north georgia then we don’t have an accent really or say dixie/southern slang. but if she’s from south georgia and the farms then they probably have a REAL south accent. i’m from north ga and we make fun of southern accents
@@trin873 North Georgia, as in Southern Appalachia, definitely has a strong accent and unique slang. Metro Atlanta is not Georgia, it is a colony of Yankees. 😀
As a transplanted Yankee I can tell you that I have eaten in many a restaurant in the North that had roaches or rats and been fine with it. There was a Palmetto bug in my hotel in Charleston, and I just shut the door and let it have the room.
😂😂Excellent! 👏🏼 Tweet to folk up north: "Can anybody north of the Mason-Dixon cook?? A well-stocked spice cabinet, fresh herbs (and a tub o' lard🤭) can go a long way in helping y'all discover actual *flavor*!!!" And did some dumass actually ask why we can't drive in the snow? Same reason you can't get a tan in December. 🤨
Loved that during filming the sirens go off. " Let me check the radar" 😂 I think all of us southerners have been through enough tornadoes we're practically meteorologists. We know how to look for a hook echo on the screen to see if anything is going on. 🌪️
Two words - James Spann. (He is our weatherman and the best in the world and also a minor deity down here. On his Facebook page I literally see people request weather from him. This happens all the time. He knows where every tree in Alabama is.)
One time in college, I remember being in the computer lab and heard the tornado siren going off. I took a look at the radar and kept right on typing my paper 😶😮😬
And hurricanes. The North goes flipping crazy if a hurricane is coming. We in the south look at the weather channel. "It's just a one. I don't move my butt unless it's a three or higher."
I live in upstate NY, only a couple hours from the Canadian border, and I love grits; it's so hard to find good ones this far north, so I really look forward to my 2-3 work trips south every year. I'm also a huge fan of biscuits and tomatoes, because they're just plain good.
I’m with y’all because anyone who talks smack about biscuits and grits have never eaten good ones. All you need is butter to make biscuits and grits taste heavenly!
As a Texan I can testify REAL biscuits taste out of this world with or WITHOUT butter/gravy/jelly/whatever. People who don't get that haven't eaten real biscuits. On the other hand butter just tastes heavenly no matter what you spread it on.
Ohhh, grits. Good grits cook slowly, and they’re creamy. Sorta like risotto! If you haven’t had good grits, you’re definitely gonna hate them, but if you’ve had the good stuff you’ll go back up to your gritless northern climes dreaming about them. You might even wake up with drool on your pillow.
I'm a northerner, born and raised, even I was thinking who says this. Somebody get that person some cooking lessons. Plus teach them the importance of condiments.
@@sevenandthelittlestmewevery time I think about a northerner experiencing and falling in love with grits, I think about the movie “My Cousin Vinny.” That movie pays proper respect to southerners and their love for grits. 👍🏾
My younger daughter was telling me about how one of her co-workers was always trying to tear down her ideas for projects at work. She had also told me that her manager was from the south. I casually mentioned that she could state her reasons for the work ideas and then tack on bless your heart to the co-worker. Just to see how the manager reacted. But then, I'm fond of non insult insults.
@@DakotaEXE-vc8wv One of my mother's cats had premature kittens (only one made it to adulthood) and they were so very tiny they were smaller than some of the roaches that were longer than an index finger.
Love that Liz had the radar up and going during the filming. Also, the rule in the fam was.. if it is cold, it is a salad, if it is hot it is a casserole.
So weird that I've never heard these stereotypes before. But I will say my grandma was from the South and made every form of a salad for our big dinners but I loved them all! And her phrase was 'Bless your heart'.
I LOVE you guys. I'm Australian, but from the 'South-equivalent' of Australia, Queensland. Only of course, because we're upside down from you, the South is the North, and Queensland is the northernmost state. A lot of what you guys were discussing is true for us too. Our roaches are also family-sized, our temperatures and humidity are like yours, and we too have epic weather events (cyclones) that we take for granted while other states would run screaming for the hills. We don't get snow this far north, or ice, and we also have lots of animals in the road: kangaroos, possums, koalas, wombats, emus, and a LOT of cattle that loom up on you in the darkness, so yup, we drive slowly too, especially at night. And finally, yes, other Australians regard Queenslanders as slow, dumb, backwards, weird. But we know better, just like you - those other guys just aren't doing it right... Take care, y'all, and keep doing what you do.
I remember seeing a comment from an American northerner saying he never knew that there were huge cockroaches that could fly. Lucky fella, lol. Glad to have you Queenslanders as our spiritual southerners.
Kate, what is the comfort carb of Queensland? Grain glop (ala grits, oatmeal, mush, congee, rice, etc.) or baked thingy ('Merican biscuit, tortilla, nan, etc.) Everybody on the planet has a glop and flop that means love.
I lived in Atlanta for two years in the 1970’s. I loved the food, the slower pace (took time to get used to). The people, once I was accepted (after all, I was a yankee & I talian) couldn’t have been kinder. A very happy time in my life.
We have been calling the gas stations in my dads home town by the names of the ppl that 1st owned them or what brand gas station they were when they opened up. The "Lil Cricket" = Valero, "Shell" = Exxon, "Exxon" = Sunoco, etc. lol
I'm from Texas and the "I tell you what" reminded me of "Bless your heart". You can say these two phrases in so many ways. My sister and I were talking about how many ways you could use "Bless your heart" one time. Funny enough, I got a call from my doc's place after that conversation and, while talking to the assistant, she said "Bless your heart". It was the nice, endearing, and comforting version of the phrase.😂
K, I've already said this once. Down here in the south, we bless the hearts of old people, sick people, babies, and people who've had a death in the family. It's not what you say, it's how you say it. It's the tone you use. Anyone born and raised in the south would know.
Floridians ruined Bless your Heart for me. They have a tendency to overcompensate their southern (because they aren't too 'southern' here). Well, someone got it in their heads that BYH is an insult so now they feel the need to use it any time they need to win an argument. It wont even fit in the conversation, but they're gonna whip it out. And OMG the cringe of hearing it come out of the middle aged men's mouths.
The salads part reminds me of when me and my grandma use to make carrot salad just thin sliced carrots mayo and raisins 😂 was my favorite thing growing up
It took a while for me to try grits, having grown up on cream of wheat. And the phrase 'I tell you what' reminds me a lot of the phrase 'dontcha know' from my birth state of Minnesota. Both are said at the end of sentences and mean basically the same thing, dontcha know.
My New England grandma used to get on me for being scared of roaches but she was deathly afraid of the smallest spiders. Until she visited and saw the roaches fly and I was like yeah your spider basically runs away and these roaches come at you like you wanna fight me? After that she stopped teasing me.
It’s 1963 and I’m 7 years old visiting my Long Island NY relatives. We go out for breakfast and as I’m accustomed to in Georgia, I ask for grits. Our waitress, in true NY fashion, looks at me, smacking gum and says “What are you, a communist or something?”. I learned that day to NEVER request grits or sweet tea outside of the South. God bless her Yankee soul. 🥰
I'm from Long Island, in 1963 I would not be surprised by that. Now, different story. I have a place in my town that makes a goat cheese and habanero grits. So good.
Right off the bat the reum thing, I learned this 2 years ago when I moved to Georgia from New York state. Southerners stretch out their vowels. Hiiiim. Roooom. Not all southerners have that drawal though. Also, as for bad driving in the rain.. it is real but the roads in GA are flat, not pitched so the water stays static on the road. Never hydroplaned so many times in my life. Guys, I tell you what! Love the content. Keep it coming
I don't really consider myself "southern," but man, I'm with you all on just about all of these! (Especially the biscuits/grits thing and the tornado/wasp thing. Clearly, some people a) don't know how to eat and b) have never encountered a wasp.) Great as always! :D
My son's school (PA) was delayed bc of wind-chill (a.k.a too cold) last winter. Being from the south, I'd never heard of such a thing so I called his school to confirm, which they did. Apparently, they were concerned about kiddos getting frostbite waiting for the bus! I was like, you mean to tell me it was perfectly okay for us southern kids to be waiting at the bus stop with a heat index of 98 degrees. Then travel 25min in satan's traveling sauna with no AC/fan and windows that would only slightly open because they always got stuck at that one weird angle? 🤦♀️
You made me laugh! I am from PA but live in Fl now. As a young adult I lived for a while at 10,000 ft elevation. School never closed there!! People figured out how not to get frost bit.
My wife met a couple from CT who had been transferred to MS with the husbands Corp. They arrived in June and by the end of Sept. the wife was asking when Summer would end. We explained that Spring & Fall last two weeks, Winter lasts 6 - 8 weeks and the remainder of the year is Summer. What we forgot to mention is that the two weeks of Spring & Fall might not be continuous. 😀
It's the opposite here in Colorado! We have pre-winter, winter, post-winter, and just a smidgen of spring/summer. I think I need to move further south.
I made mushrooms and grits with the same seasoning I use with shrimp and grits. It was amazing... even if I got the side eye. Southern vegans find a way 😋
In response to the "why do you call it a salad" question, one of the definitions of a salad is: "a mixture containing a specified ingredient served with a dressing." We call them salads because they're salads, dangit!
I am currently active duty Army and when I started my career I was definitely a Northerner. Over the years I have made the conscientious choice to retire as a Southerner.
My husband is in the Navy from New York and he too said the south is where his soul belongs. So he married me, a southerner he could keep in his pocket to feel at home until we retire 😅
I don’t think I would qualify as a “southerner” but I am a midwesterner so I relate to most of this👍 Especially the tornado bit. My Mom and I always joke how if the sirens go off instead of heading for shelter run outside and be ready for pictures! 😂
Y'all. Let me tell you something. My grandma could cook. I mean that green giant fella would stop by, sit down, shut up and take notes from her. Anyway. She would always make biscuits from scratch for breakfast and supper along with anything else she was fixing. When she was finished cooking, grandpa got his cup of coffee, a saucer, and 2 biscuits. She would then set out a basket of biscuits covered with a cloth. Let me tell you, as soon as she put that on the table it was a family battle royal. Hands were flying, kids somehow took flight without a pilots license. If you somehow got one you knew better than to just leave it on your plate. Because if you got up for something, when you got back it was gone. Those biscuits didn't last long at the table. AND rarely did they stick around till supper. But if they did, they were still delicious. When she left for heaven, we knew what God wanted her home for.
Don't forget the cornbread. I moved to Wisconsin one time and the church I was going to decided to prepare a lunch after a service southern style. Supposed to be all these foods from the south. Me who was raised my whole life in the south went to test their foods. They got nothing right. Mashed potatoes were plain, cornbread was nasty, corn was nasty, everything that I recognized as a southern food item was nasty or plain. They failed.
Best diet I ever went on was to move out of south east Louisiana. After six months I was chugging Tabasco just to get a little hit of flavor. Lost four dress sizes in seven months. Then I moved back and gained them back with interest.
I'm from North Florida, but I lived in England for several years, and while I was there, I worked for a Chinese community center and my best friend there was Chinese from mainland China. I went back for a visit a few years ago and stayed with her and her husband for a week, and she was feeding me different traditional Chinese foods each day. By about day four, we ran out of ideas and we contemplated having congee again, which is basically like grits but with rice, so I was telling her about grits, and she smiled and was like, "I know what grits are. They're very popular in the north of China" (where she's from). And then she walked over to her kitchen counter and brought out a bag of grits with both English and Chinese writing on it. We had grits for breakfast that morning. Chinese grits. They make their grits a little bit more soupy than ours, and where she's from, they put kind of a pickled relish on the grits instead of salt and butter, but the fact that I was able to get grits in the north of England - Chinese grits no less - more easily than getting grits north of the Mason-Dixon line was just wild.
This makes me super happy, I know what you are talking about. I'm a Texan living in China. they call it 小米粥， it's not exactly the same but I am always tempted to add butter, cheese and ham😂
Living in New York and having lived in New Jersey. I can say southern drivers were a thousand times more polite and considerate on the road than anyone I've ever met where I live. In this area you need to become a road warrior and fight for your own space on the road or people will just shove you out of it and pretend you don't exist
As a southern now living in the north I find the tornado and snow parts funny. I told my coworkers that I prefer drive during a tornado watch/warning way over driving through snow/ice. I got some crazy looks but hey its true lol
Here are two things about the South that are overlooked. 1. Down here we measure distance with time. "Go up 82 for about five minutes then turn right and in about ten seconds take that first left and you'll see the house". B. Macaroni and cheese is a vegetable in the deep south. Just go anywhere that has vegetable plates. It's a menu item for that.
We don't measure how far we have to drive by miles, it's by how much time it takes. I live roughly 3 miles from the nearest hospital, but it can take 30-60 minutes to get there, depending. Had to pick up my husband from the airport, left the house before his plane took off. Details.
So funny! The tornado alarms going off gives us a strong desire to go see if it's in sight. If not, we go about our business and "keep an eye on the weather" as my mom says. Lol
As someone who hails from the west coast, and has friends from both my personal life, as well as my time in the service, I thoroughly enjoyed this video.
Why are people using instant grits and canned biscuits, and then treating them like they were homemade? Of course they taste nasty!! Homemade is always better when it comes to food.
Living in Wisconsin most of my life I hated grits. The reason is because they were cheap store bought and sold in a chain restaurant. Once I moved to South Carolina down by the Charleston area 10 years ago and went to a local restaurant. I now love grits. I also love Fried Green Tomatoes too.
In the countryside of Michigan, the corner stores also have the names of the first owners. We also call hills after the farmers that own the fields on either side of the road. "You go on up to Loker's Hill. Once you're over that, turn at that tree Billy smacked into while dodging a deer ten years ago..."
As someone from the Midwest where in 2020 it got to -52 degrees, it is utterly mind boggling to hear anybody say 65 degrees is cold. I hath been flabbergasted
I’m a born and bred midwestern girl who transplanted to the south, and after being here a while, anything below 72 and I’m grabbing a sweater if the sun is down. After temps hitting near that of Hades, it doesn’t take much to feel cold Lol
Got to -20 here. Not in the Midwest. It gets below 0 and above 100 every single year. I think the -10 region is the coldest temperature that’s common. 100-105 is the hottest. With wet air as well. You wanna drink fever temperature air you come here.
I'll tell you what hold my beer and read this. Some people probably never lived in the south, don't have celling fans, only eat "pop" can biscuits, never had Duke's on any kind of sandwich, stumbled into a red wasp or yellow jacket nest, only sampled instant grits without real AAs sweet cream butter, and roaches vs. rats is like comparing apple {rats} to oranges {roaches} . BUT y'all have learned to use the word Y'ALL. So in closing, bless your Yankee hearts
We're fixing up a house and the wife wants to take out all the ceiling fans. I'm like I'll tell you what, every house needs a ceiling fan and if it's not running 100% of the time the power's out cause a tornado knocked it out. We're keeping the one at the top of the stairs. 'Nuff said.
@@beholdiamglamdringsbane89 yooo that’s so accurate! The only time my fan turned off within the past 3 years was when a hurricane knocked out power out for a week🤣
Jam on the top part, apple butter on the bottom, eat separately.......yum!! The best of both!!! Have you ever tried fried apples on a biscuit??? OMG!! Each side (top/bottom) is a Mini fluffy pie!!🦩
Oh my gosh, we used to rent a house in East Texas that had the tornado siren directly in our yard. When that sucker went off the first Wednesday of every month, or for a tornado, the windows would be rattling, the walls would be creaking and the whole house would be shaking, but my husband would still be in the bed snoring his head off! 😂😮😂
For anyone who’s never been stung by a wasp, it literally feels like getting an electric shock. Difference is the shock pain last longer than an electric shock and is followed by swelling.
Not the ones here in Oregon that I've been stung by. One just felt a bit like rolling over on a thumb tack in bed. I didn't realize at first that it was a wasp. Another time, one stung me while I talked to my GF. I didn't notice but she did, got annoyed and knocked it off my wrist to kill it. I wonder if southern wasps are just more venomous and painful.
My wife once told me about a comedian telling about encountering a big southern roach in her hotel room. Someone in the audience shouted "Hit it with a shoe", to which the comedian said, "And what, give it a weapon?" I have encountered a few in my life and once hit one with a shoe, only to have it fly at me with an, "I know you didn't just hit me with a shoe!" attitude. It won that encounter because when I went back in the room, still armed with the shoe, it was gone.
4:10 - that's right about the store - "go to Bruce Geralds and get me a ..." - Bruce Gerald, who originally opened the store in the 70s, died 20 years ago and it's now an Exxon. But it will always be "Bruce Geralds".
"I tell you what" is the PERFECT cliffhanger but I've found that a lot of people don't really get it. They always ask "what?" as if I'm supposed to say something else like I didn't just tell them what.
Really barn weddings are always the most fun !!!!! Everyone lets loose a little more, because it’s not so stuffy, not having to worry about messing up the carpet, etc.
Whoever it was that made that tweet lived in an urban area.....and don't understand that in the rural south, the nearest "corner" (where two roads meet) may very well be 5 or more miles away. Heck, in East Tennessee, there were some towns where there WAS only one "corner". Our joke about them was when driving through, if you blinked you missed the town. Two buildings, a post-office and a general store. That was it. That was the town. Population was measured in double digits, and most directions to residents homes included the words "...then turn off the paved road..."
There was a Country Comedian several years back named Mike Snider. And he used to say that the Tennessee community where he grew up was so small that "You could throw a rock from your front porch clear across town!😂😏🎤🎼🎵🎶🎸🎹🎻🥁📺B.W.
I grew up in a small southern town. I picked cotton with my parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and races other than myself. We did it manually...where you walked between the rows of cotton plants in big fields, picked the cotton out of the hard bowls that cut your gloves and made your fingers bleed...you put the cotton in this long bag that strapped onto your body and you dragged it up and down the rows until it was as full as you could get it. Then you took it to the truck where a big scale weighed. You were paid so much per pound. Your break time was a picnic lunch under the only tree in the area because cotton doesn't grow under trees! It was hot as hell! But the commradary, competition and singing made it bearable! It made you tough! There wasn't any whining! It made you realize what you were made from and where you come from!!! Those are fond memories to me. I LOVE the south!
There are not many left who have experienced this. My great grandmother worked in a cotton mill. For whatever reason the north hates us and our heritage.
Way down here in Texas, as a small kid I had to tag along as my mom and older siblings busted their behinds in August heat and humidity picking cotton. Lucky for me the farmers started using cotton picking machines. Don't know how we survived the heat but my sister fainted out there one time.
Never picked cotton, but I spent quite a few summer days in Tennessee walking railroad tracks picking blackberries in the heat and sun. Had to fill that bucket! Wasps, hornets, and chiggers were the enemy. Reward was momma making a cobbler with them.
You know you're a Southerner when you can sleep through tornado sirens but you can't sleep without the fan on.
I never realized how many other people have to have the fan on to sleep. I have to have it, even in the winter.
@@freddycooksSame!!🤣🤣
I tell you what, it's true!
@@freddycooks great white noise
Sooooo true Wylie, Texas here...in fact my soothing u tube rain sounds include the roughest weather to sleep at night. When I am feeling Fiesty I will " travel" to Miami for a hurricane via internet sounds.
“You’re insulting us but using y’all in your tweet. You’re welcome”.🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hello Robin! Can I ask y A question?
A a westerner… is that what I call myself? A pacific northwesterner? Anyways, y’all is just a convenient term, especially in texting
My phone is used to my southern words. I always use y’all
Really this is just them dismantling the stereotypes about Southern people now I'm from the north but a lot of my family came from the south I enjoy listening to stories mostly about the weather and they're cooking sounds alright to me
Doesn’t it originate in Ireland though? Gaelic or something. I just googled. “Ye aww” which sounds like “yeawl” and means the same thing. Not sure about the Gaelic, but it is Northern Ireland, written like 60 yrs before the first “ya’ll” was ever written.
"wasps wake up everyday and choose violence..." That is so funny and so true.
Ha ha ha
Maybe southerners can't drive, but when my Aunt passed away her funeral was near Atlanta, GA. (I live in Kentucky) and the funeral procession traveled pretty far. On every road, from one lane roads to 4 lane divided roads, people pulled over on both sides immediately. It's like the sea parting as we came through. I even saw people take off their hats inside their cars. I was impressed. In Kentucky, we're lucky if people slow down to get around a procession, or don't honk if they have to wait at an b intersection.
Im from Kentucky too and people always pull over where Im from, which is one of many reasons why I believe Kentucky is a southern state.
Try driving in a funeral procession in NYC. Saw people get run off the road by an oil truck.
That's a beautiful image especially the hats
Born & raised in ATL and can attest to the procession-brings goosebumps just thinkin’ about it. Maybe we do it partly cause we know ya gotta straighten up & act right (as Granny would say) othawise they’re gonna come back & haunt your ass. 😂
I’m in Myrtle Beach,SC and people claim off-season southerners can’t drive.We are full of Yankees now those F’ers can’t drive
"I watched my dog lose a fight to a bug on the porch one time." Is probably the most southern line in this whole thing.
not dog! my doooog 😂😂
9:57 just for future me
My dog stepped on a bee. 🐝
I have seen it myself. My poor "badass" Aussie will run now.
Facts.
I moved north and the biscuits up here are nothing but a mound of sadness and self-loathing. So hearing a northerner complain about biscuits makes sense because northern biscuits are a reflection of failure and devolution of our species.
Well said!
That's just plain sad. 😔
Oh I loved this comment. It made us laugh so much.
That’s most northern stuff.
They don't have White Lily.
I have learned from reading many, many Southern cookbooks, that if a dish has a few ingredients held together with mayonnaise, it's a "salad", and if it has a few ingredients with cheese and/or bread crumbs on top, cooked in the oven, it's a "casserole". Born and raised in Georgia, and that is the logic I have come up with.
Agree with this assessment lol. I think it was high school when I learned the term "bound salad", which is all the ones with mayo and jello 😂
This is because the original name for Mayonnaise was "Salad Dressing" sometimes "Salad oil" or just "Dressing". Therefore anything made with "Salad Dressing" was a "salad".
You nailed it, lol.
Yankees sure are critical. Thank y'all for trying to bridge the gap with humor and kindness.
Clearly people from up north don’t know how to insult a southerner. Bless y’all’s hearts.
Heres one way as a northerner that yall seem to get mad at southerners arnt nice
Dumbing down insults is a Northern skill. (Just kidding). But really, when you are from Ohio and see a car in North Carolina stuck in the snow with a license plate that says "We don't need Northerners tellin us how to drive", then we just walk away slowly.
@@moorek1967 I grew up in Ohio. While stationed at ft. Rucker, Alabama I constantly put up with a local bitching about Northern drivers. The area had a six inch snowfall that winter. ('72/'73) The next morning, every car I saw on the roads were from the North. The ditches to Carin Airfield was full of cars with Alabama tags. I lost the album, but I had photos of my '66 red GTO at the Daleville gate of Ft. Rucker sitting in that snow.
@@michaelterrell That's because they took for granted their driving skills. Six inches of snow and they forgot how to drive?
I am truly ashamed of them and do not associate them with the North.
Where else can you hear the phrase "Walmart has a deal on tire chains" except in the Midwest.
@@moorek1967 I spent 34 years living in the North, including a year in Alaska but I've never used snow chains. After my duty in Alabama, I was sent to Ft. Greely, Alaska. I was required to take a winter survival training course, and a special driving test on wet, ice covered roads. I passed with no trouble. Some were restricted to only driving on clear roads after failing.
The whole "terrible ingredients thrown together makes a salad" exists in the north too. Y'all just call it a casserole. 😘
Damn! Called out
lmao 😂
Yep...Northern = casserole, Midwest = hot dish.
No apparently that some shit called "hot dish," with no additional detail. In TX that's a casserole fo sho.
Zing! Spot on.
I am from Alabama, moved to Philadelphia little over a year ago. I can’t open my mouth without people saying they could listen to me talk forever. They’ll ask how did I get so far from home. Lol. And my coworkers are amazed at my patience with unruly customers. My mama always says kill’em with kindness 😊
I moved from Detroit to Birmingham and no one understood me for the first few years.
Y'all, y'all, listen up. Biscuits with butter and a thin slice of country ham is HEAVEN!!!
"Listen Up", "Hold on, I'm about to tell you something", "Lord have Mercy"...pretty safe unless you're a kid. That could be the warning before a paddling (or shoe toss - my mama could've been a pitcher, lol)
And loaded with gravy
corn bread is better imo
whataburger her in Tx should have its own star on Hollywood Blvd for their exquisite jalapeño biscuits!
"Wasps wake up and choose violence every day" had me dead 🤣🤣🤣
its so true though. and they are huge these days
At first I legit thought he said “chew violets” 😂
@@129140163 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@129140163
You mean they don’t?
Dang straight wasps wake up and choose violence. They even skip chewing violets -- if they ever did -- and go straight for your funnel cakes if you have 'em fried up and coated with an ungodly amount of powdered sugar. 😅
People that aren’t southern probably just judge the accent because they are judging the fake accent they see in Hollywood films 😂😂😂
Exactly! One great bad accent is the one Dan Ackroyd used in Driving Miss Daisy. I love Dan but his accent needed work.
Nope I was Alabama and worked at a call center. My train born and raised in Bama said you will get a few southern that you can't understand
true
Ya think Hollywood boogers up a good southern drawl, did you ever hear them try to do a Louisiana Cajun French accent?
That, and also just plain bigotry. Dialect or language based discrimination is as old as time itself.
"Let me check the radar" is THE most Southern thing a person can say.
Homegirl was just looking to see if James Spann had his coat off and sleeves rolled up😂
Most stereotypes are based on hearsay and not actual experience. Visit the South and learn for yourself how wonderful it truly is. As for the food: what do you think makes the SEC football players so happy and strong? Girl Raised In The South!❤
G.R.I.T.S.
Matt: If you don't know how to use a biscuit, put it down. 🤣🤣🤣 That was hilarious!
And so true - same for grits. And I have never seen a banana mayo sammy in my family. They all ate PB banana on wonder bread.
Put down the biscuit lol
So true. Biscuits are delicious if you know how to eat them, and take time to savor the experience. The flavor varies from state to state, with small variances in recipes, and local ingredients. You can’t go to Atlanta and buy a biscuit that tastes like the ones you can get in Ft. Worth, or vice versa. That’s like going to Chicago and expecting to be able to buy San Francisco sourdough.
Plus, it’s heartbreaking to think about what kind of biscuits they’re getting up there. They’re probably trying to make them out of Bisquick. Ugh.
On the same note, if your biscuits have no flavor? You done did it wrong
We had a Tornado watch 10 days later lol.
It's funny how folks diss Southerners but no one retires up north!
Boom!
They like to move South then b**ch about everything. Yet we remain welcoming. Bless their hearts.
Drop the mic Isabelle
Lol Isabelle Truth 💯
Erm... no retired people up north? Ok then.
Fun fact most of those “weird salads” were/are not from the South. About 50% come from the Mid West, about 20-25% from the Northeast, about 20% from the South, and 5% came from California.
Fun facts the Jello salad for example was invented in PA, and the oldest recipe for the lime cabbage jello salad I could find was from CA.
Yep, it was a generational thing, but traditions die hard in the South.
We don’t need credit for it. We have the California burrito so anything else is moot and/or unnecessary 😂
“Let’s revisit the biscuit conversation” 😂😂😂 Even though I’m from the Northeast, the accuracy here is 👌🏼. If the biscuit tastes like nothing, you did it wrong and please put it down.
Matt’s “you're not using biscuits right” Ryan’s “Wasps wake up and choose violence every day" Talia's “If your Grits aren't good: You. Did. It. Wrong” and Liz and Mary's “we're under a tornado watch right now as we're recording this" particularly had me laughing!🤣👏🏼
and then the tornado sirens went off!
Typical Southern behavior: "Let me check the Radar."
I had to do that two weeks ago here in Texas.
Yesterday I watched a video of a guy who went through a tornado and recorded it from his attic as it went directly through his house. Terrifying. He actually survived.
Chicago we grab a beer and the lawn chair and sit out and watch it go by.
10:06 -- I'm going to add "I've seen videos of rats up north just walking away with a whole pizza.." 😅
I married a northerner 45 years ago! He was, and still is, extremely concerned that I stand at the screen door and watch thunderstorms or actually go to the mailbox during a tornado warning! 😂🤣 My grandmother used to let me go out and play in the high pre-storm winds. It felt like I could sprout wings! Good memories!
I'm a northerner and love thunderstorms. Most people I know do!
Lol! I remember watching a tornado go by during Hurricane Camille with my my granddaddy.
Best thing was to go out on the porch and watch the storm howl. 👌
All depends on where the northerner is from. If it’s a midwesterner, we do the same thing. Coastal northerners though, they’re a completely different breed.
I'm from the north but I'm a weather junkie so yes I would walk to the mailbox 😄😄
I absolutely adore the heat in the South and will never leave. Anything to avoid the 8-9 month-long hellscape known as winter in the North.
I had some fancy folks from work visit our southern properties this past June and the temps were in the lower 90's already. The humidity in Charleston is no joke. 10 minutes into the first property tour, one of them asked, "what time does cool off around here?"
" I turned, looked him in the eye and said, "October".
They cancelled the tours for the remaining properties. This year, they have scheduled their tours for March. I hope they're able to make it through, this time. lol
Folks get real twisted up when you tellem "It ain't even hot yet."
In Georgia we have seasons, it's weird. The weather just never decides to make up its mind one day its freezing the next you're sweating, any time other than summer is just strange.
Northerners are vampires i can confirm
"you are not using biscuits right." Quote of the year, say otherwise and we will feud forever.
As a southerner who has travelled and likes to eat, can I just point out that polenta, which is served in bougie restaurants everywhere outside the south, is basically grits. So why is polenta considered fancy/gourmet and grits not?
Probably because it's italian so they think it's exotic and special, when in reality polenta was a food staple for poor people just like grits and porridge.
No its not
Kinda like how everyone looks down on mayonnaise but call it aioli and they are obsessed with it
Polenta is poor people food and it is wonderful though.
THANK YOU!! I’ve said that to my sisters Italian in laws but then had to run for my life! BTW, laughing the whole time running.
As a true born and raised Southerner, I can tell you right now, "Let me check the Radar" while Tornado Sirens are going off is 100% true. No need to panic till you see a funnel cloud, green sky, your ears pop, the air feeling like its sucked out of the room, or the roaring sound coming through like a train. THEN you panic and get into your windowless interior room.
We also don't worry about a hurricane until it turns right for us...
@@brentfarvors192 The worst hurricane I've been through was Harvey. Took away my power and my neighbours below sea level flooded (Corpus). I live in San Antonio
BRUH 🤣
Slept through an EF2 until it took down a tree and landed on the house. Not the worst but I do like having those storms, only because I can sleep better with all of my fans on with the rain hitting hard on the roof and window.
Yeah. I was born and raised in Oklahoma City (within 10 miles of where the largest tornado on record touched down) and most people I know don't even have a cellar or even a good, sound plan. Just "guess we will get in the closet which is full of junk if it gets close. Hope we can all fit."
I would love to read “mean tweets” about midwesterners. I feel like we’re kinda the glue that holds the north and south together lol
It’s true
Update: the north and south is now divided because the midwesterners huffed all the glue
This was wonderfull, i am a northerner that has spent some time down south, the south is nice, I would love a video if the opposite, mean tweets southerners have about the north “I tell ya what” it would be a real eye opener to the northerners….but I will say this..there is one thing you NEVER EVER say to a true southerner as a northerner in an argument…and here it is…” Well who won the war” “I tell ya what” if there were not about 6 other people holding that southerner back when I made this comment I would probably be dead…lesson learned, Long live the south
Woohoo!
I married a Southerner and have fallen in love with the culture. So much of what you joke about is delightfully true. The line that ""wasps choose violence everyday" had me laughing for hours. So true! I was stung several times during an encounter with one wasp several years ago ... Never again. I see one ...I am gone. :)
Put some tobacco on it! as stated in another show, and very true .. growing up if we got stung my grandfather would chew a little and put on it, all better. His medicine cabinet was primarily Aloe and Tobacco, raised a dozen kids of his own, and all the rest of us to follow at one time another.
53 years in the south and I've never heard a tornado siren. Must be where I live I guess.
Yep 👍
That was an awesome line
Lmao. Wasps are a$$holes. They will move into your space or home and then as soon as you hear them or see them they attack... repeatedly. Jerks!
I'm from the Pacific NW - had a fellow student there from Georgia. We teased her endlessly about her accent. One day she broke down in tears. We asked her what was wrong and through a ton of sniffles she said, "I don't know what y'all are laughing about. Y'all the ones who have the accent." Never forgot that. We don't think we have accents but we all do. And they are all wonderful.
I had a TA in college who learned to speak in a northern accent because she was afraid of the bullying she would get from people hearing her southern accent. I was thinking "are we really still at the point where people commonly bully each other for their accents?"
all americans have different accents. if she was from atlanta or north georgia then we don’t have an accent really or say dixie/southern slang. but if she’s from south georgia and the farms then they probably have a REAL south accent. i’m from north ga and we make fun of southern accents
@@trin873 North Georgia, as in Southern Appalachia, definitely has a strong accent and unique slang. Metro Atlanta is not Georgia, it is a colony of Yankees. 😀
@@trin873 Yep panhandle Florida is not the same as Miami
@@diggernash1 Go Yankees
As a transplanted Yankee I can tell you that I have eaten in many a restaurant in the North that had roaches or rats and been fine with it. There was a Palmetto bug in my hotel in Charleston, and I just shut the door and let it have the room.
😂😂Excellent! 👏🏼
Tweet to folk up north: "Can anybody north of the Mason-Dixon cook?? A well-stocked spice cabinet, fresh herbs (and a tub o' lard🤭) can go a long way in helping y'all discover actual *flavor*!!!"
And did some dumass actually ask why we can't drive in the snow? Same reason you can't get a tan in December. 🤨
Loved that during filming the sirens go off. " Let me check the radar" 😂 I think all of us southerners have been through enough tornadoes we're practically meteorologists. We know how to look for a hook echo on the screen to see if anything is going on. 🌪️
Two words - James Spann.
(He is our weatherman and the best in the world and also a minor deity down here. On his Facebook page I literally see people request weather from him. This happens all the time. He knows where every tree in Alabama is.)
Also, we get warnings about tornadoes in advance. I have never heard a of wasp watch or warning. You see or hear one, you run or fight to the death!
One time in college, I remember being in the computer lab and heard the tornado siren going off. I took a look at the radar and kept right on typing my paper 😶😮😬
true!
And hurricanes. The North goes flipping crazy if a hurricane is coming. We in the south look at the weather channel. "It's just a one. I don't move my butt unless it's a three or higher."
"Sunshine is Bright. Have ya'll ever Seen sunshine?" Brutal comeback level 11/10
I live in upstate NY, only a couple hours from the Canadian border, and I love grits; it's so hard to find good ones this far north, so I really look forward to my 2-3 work trips south every year. I'm also a huge fan of biscuits and tomatoes, because they're just plain good.
Water bugs were so scary and our house had roaches but here we had mice problems WHEN WE MOVED IN
I’m with y’all because anyone who talks smack about biscuits and grits have never eaten good ones. All you need is butter to make biscuits and grits taste heavenly!
As a Texan I can testify REAL biscuits taste out of this world with or WITHOUT butter/gravy/jelly/whatever. People who don't get that haven't eaten real biscuits. On the other hand butter just tastes heavenly no matter what you spread it on.
Ohhh, grits. Good grits cook slowly, and they’re creamy. Sorta like risotto! If you haven’t had good grits, you’re definitely gonna hate them, but if you’ve had the good stuff you’ll go back up to your gritless northern climes dreaming about them. You might even wake up with drool on your pillow.
I'm a northerner, born and raised, even I was thinking who says this. Somebody get that person some cooking lessons. Plus teach them the importance of condiments.
And salt
@@sevenandthelittlestmewevery time I think about a northerner experiencing and falling in love with grits, I think about the movie “My Cousin Vinny.” That movie pays proper respect to southerners and their love for grits. 👍🏾
Talia and Matt should do bless your rank together. That would be the best/funniest video ever!
My younger daughter was telling me about how one of her co-workers was always trying to tear down her ideas for projects at work. She had also told me that her manager was from the south. I casually mentioned that she could state her reasons for the work ideas and then tack on bless your heart to the co-worker. Just to see how the manager reacted. But then, I'm fond of non insult insults.
I think they all should
Yes!!! Or start a new food show, like going to a local restaurant and tasting everything off the menu. (Not eating everything, TASTING everything.)
They’re all hilarious tbh! 😂
Agreed!
Up north here, 45° and people start running around in tees lol
0:24 she actually said "reum". This is what that tweet meant. But, that is one of the cutest way I've heard someone say "room"!
they were all saying it like ruem...
When she said "A roach crawled out and I don't know where it went, so I had to move apartments that night" *I felt that* 🥲
She'd last exactly one minute in my mother's old house. Roaches carried off the cats.
Same 🥲 if I see a roach, Usain Bolt is suddenly the second fastest human on earth😂
@@DakotaEXE-vc8wv One of my mother's cats had premature kittens (only one made it to adulthood) and they were so very tiny they were smaller than some of the roaches that were longer than an index finger.
@@CraftyZanTub omg- I bet that the cats were adorable tho-
Still if I see a roach, I’m runnin’ the frickity-frack outta there-
@@DakotaEXE-vc8wv I've had to take several roaches outside for the roommates.
Love that Liz had the radar up and going during the filming.
Also, the rule in the fam was.. if it is cold, it is a salad, if it is hot it is a casserole.
"If it's cold, it's a salad. If it's hot, it's a casserole." I am totally stealing this line.
So weird that I've never heard these stereotypes before. But I will say my grandma was from the South and made every form of a salad for our big dinners but I loved them all! And her phrase was 'Bless your heart'.
"Wasps wake up and choose violence" I Love that. I feel the same way.
I LOVE you guys. I'm Australian, but from the 'South-equivalent' of Australia, Queensland. Only of course, because we're upside down from you, the South is the North, and Queensland is the northernmost state. A lot of what you guys were discussing is true for us too. Our roaches are also family-sized, our temperatures and humidity are like yours, and we too have epic weather events (cyclones) that we take for granted while other states would run screaming for the hills. We don't get snow this far north, or ice, and we also have lots of animals in the road: kangaroos, possums, koalas, wombats, emus, and a LOT of cattle that loom up on you in the darkness, so yup, we drive slowly too, especially at night. And finally, yes, other Australians regard Queenslanders as slow, dumb, backwards, weird. But we know better, just like you - those other guys just aren't doing it right... Take care, y'all, and keep doing what you do.
Don't forget cassowarys and Pauline Hanson, it's crazy up there!
This is sweet. You too❤
I remember seeing a comment from an American northerner saying he never knew that there were huge cockroaches that could fly. Lucky fella, lol. Glad to have you Queenslanders as our spiritual southerners.
Hi Kate
How are you doing today🌹🌹?
Kate, what is the comfort carb of Queensland? Grain glop (ala grits, oatmeal, mush, congee, rice, etc.) or baked thingy ('Merican biscuit, tortilla, nan, etc.)
Everybody on the planet has a glop and flop that means love.
I lived in Atlanta for two years in the 1970’s. I loved the food, the slower pace (took time to get used to). The people, once I was accepted (after all, I was a yankee & I talian) couldn’t have been kinder. A very happy time in my life.
We have been calling the gas stations in my dads home town by the names of the ppl that 1st owned them or what brand gas station they were when they opened up. The "Lil Cricket" = Valero, "Shell" = Exxon, "Exxon" = Sunoco, etc. lol
I'm from Texas and the "I tell you what" reminded me of "Bless your heart". You can say these two phrases in so many ways. My sister and I were talking about how many ways you could use "Bless your heart" one time. Funny enough, I got a call from my doc's place after that conversation and, while talking to the assistant, she said "Bless your heart". It was the nice, endearing, and comforting version of the phrase.😂
That one always just makes me paranoid because, as you say, there are at least two ways of taking it.
K, I've already said this once. Down here in the south, we bless the hearts of old people, sick people, babies, and people who've had a death in the family. It's not what you say, it's how you say it. It's the tone you use. Anyone born and raised in the south would know.
"I tell ya what" always reminds me of hank hill.
@@ambam90 Well... Texas IS southern. ;D
Floridians ruined Bless your Heart for me. They have a tendency to overcompensate their southern (because they aren't too 'southern' here). Well, someone got it in their heads that BYH is an insult so now they feel the need to use it any time they need to win an argument. It wont even fit in the conversation, but they're gonna whip it out. And OMG the cringe of hearing it come out of the middle aged men's mouths.
“Wasps wake up and choose violence every day.” That was the best part of the whole video
My favorite was when explaining why they hate wasps and not tornadoes was "Wasps hurt"
The salads part reminds me of when me and my grandma use to make carrot salad just thin sliced carrots mayo and raisins 😂 was my favorite thing growing up
It took a while for me to try grits, having grown up on cream of wheat. And the phrase 'I tell you what' reminds me a lot of the phrase 'dontcha know' from my birth state of Minnesota. Both are said at the end of sentences and mean basically the same thing, dontcha know.
“I tell you what” makes me think of Hank Hill when abd how he pronounces the “h” in “what” lol
Oooya der hey
in the south, they aren't roaches they are "palmetto bugs" and they will run off with small dogs and come inside for a beer if it gets too hot outside
But do they bring the dogs back when it's too hot and they come inside for a beer?!
😂😂😂: Excellent point
And… they freaking fly
My New England grandma used to get on me for being scared of roaches but she was deathly afraid of the smallest spiders. Until she visited and saw the roaches fly and I was like yeah your spider basically runs away and these roaches come at you like you wanna fight me? After that she stopped teasing me.
@@Birdnerd1968 it’s funny until you’re being dive bombed by a flying roach no less than an inch long and you’re fighting for your life 😂
It’s 1963 and I’m 7 years old visiting my Long Island NY relatives. We go out for breakfast and as I’m accustomed to in Georgia, I ask for grits. Our waitress, in true NY fashion, looks at me, smacking gum and says “What are you, a communist or something?”. I learned that day to NEVER request grits or sweet tea outside of the South. God bless her Yankee soul. 🥰
Neither would have tasted good with a Yankee preparing them, anyway! 😂
Bless her heart…..🐝🤗❤️
Ironically the communists prefer products way closer to cream of wheat 🤣
I'm from Long Island, in 1963 I would not be surprised by that. Now, different story. I have a place in my town that makes a goat cheese and habanero grits. So good.
@@joeg8200 🤗
Right off the bat the reum thing, I learned this 2 years ago when I moved to Georgia from New York state. Southerners stretch out their vowels. Hiiiim. Roooom. Not all southerners have that drawal though. Also, as for bad driving in the rain.. it is real but the roads in GA are flat, not pitched so the water stays static on the road. Never hydroplaned so many times in my life. Guys, I tell you what! Love the content. Keep it coming
I don't really consider myself "southern," but man, I'm with you all on just about all of these!
(Especially the biscuits/grits thing and the tornado/wasp thing. Clearly, some people a) don't know how to eat and b) have never encountered a wasp.)
Great as always! :D
My son's school (PA) was delayed bc of wind-chill (a.k.a too cold) last winter. Being from the south, I'd never heard of such a thing so I called his school to confirm, which they did. Apparently, they were concerned about kiddos getting frostbite waiting for the bus! I was like, you mean to tell me it was perfectly okay for us southern kids to be waiting at the bus stop with a heat index of 98 degrees. Then travel 25min in satan's traveling sauna with no AC/fan and windows that would only slightly open because they always got stuck at that one weird angle? 🤦♀️
You made me laugh! I am from PA but live in Fl now. As a young adult I lived for a while at 10,000 ft elevation. School never closed there!! People figured out how not to get frost bit.
“Satan’s traveling sauna” 🤣🤣
🤣🤣😂 My childhood
Yes
OMG, the windows, core memory unlocked.
My wife met a couple from CT who had been transferred to MS with the husbands Corp. They arrived in June and by the end of Sept. the wife was asking when Summer would end. We explained that Spring & Fall last two weeks, Winter lasts 6 - 8 weeks and the remainder of the year is Summer. What we forgot to mention is that the two weeks of Spring & Fall might not be continuous. 😀
Yeah, Summer doesn't tolerate competition.
It's the opposite here in Colorado! We have pre-winter, winter, post-winter, and just a smidgen of spring/summer. I think I need to move further south.
😂😂😂 sounds like Texas where I live we get maybe two weeks of Winter, not all at once though 🧐
Sounds a lot like Kansas the past 20 years. Our weather is getting hotter longer and I miss the long fall season. 😢
@@jodileben694 ❤
I made mushrooms and grits with the same seasoning I use with shrimp and grits. It was amazing... even if I got the side eye. Southern vegans find a way 😋
In response to the "why do you call it a salad" question, one of the definitions of a salad is: "a mixture containing a specified ingredient served with a dressing." We call them salads because they're salads, dangit!
I am currently active duty Army and when I started my career I was definitely a Northerner. Over the years I have made the conscientious choice to retire as a Southerner.
Well hell son, come on down. We'd love to have you and thank you for your service
traitor! No snow for you! LOL
One does not become southern.
My husband is in the Navy from New York and he too said the south is where his soul belongs. So he married me, a southerner he could keep in his pocket to feel at home until we retire 😅
@@shamelesshussy you can southern wash a Yankee. I've done it. The only thing I haven't broken him of yet is how he pronounces paw & coffee lol
"let me check the radar" is the most southern phrase ever lmaoo
Agreed.
First app I ever loaded in my phone , east central Florida
Isn’t it though? And if you didn’t read that in your southern voice, you’re lying.
My Southern friend, a mature lady, describes a lot of something as "a lot lot lot"! She also says, " lord a mercy!" 😉
I don’t think I would qualify as a “southerner” but I am a midwesterner so I relate to most of this👍 Especially the tornado bit. My Mom and I always joke how if the sirens go off instead of heading for shelter run outside and be ready for pictures! 😂
"You're not using a biscuit right. If you don't know how to use it, put it down!" 😂😂 that was awesome.
Y'all. Let me tell you something. My grandma could cook. I mean that green giant fella would stop by, sit down, shut up and take notes from her. Anyway. She would always make biscuits from scratch for breakfast and supper along with anything else she was fixing. When she was finished cooking, grandpa got his cup of coffee, a saucer, and 2 biscuits. She would then set out a basket of biscuits covered with a cloth. Let me tell you, as soon as she put that on the table it was a family battle royal. Hands were flying, kids somehow took flight without a pilots license. If you somehow got one you knew better than to just leave it on your plate. Because if you got up for something, when you got back it was gone. Those biscuits didn't last long at the table. AND rarely did they stick around till supper. But if they did, they were still delicious. When she left for heaven, we knew what God wanted her home for.
This is the sweetest comment ❤
Yes...we have the best Mee-Maws y'all. ♥
That is so sweet I'm all misty over it.
@@theresaalexander4142 Thank you.
@@djonpow You are so right. I couldn't agree more. 😆
I am literally eating a Popeyes biscuits while watching this for the first time. God Bless the South!
"Catherine, you gotta dress up your biscuits. That sounded kinda weird."
"Catherine? You gotta dress up your biscuits. OH-"
Don't forget the cornbread. I moved to Wisconsin one time and the church I was going to decided to prepare a lunch after a service southern style. Supposed to be all these foods from the south. Me who was raised my whole life in the south went to test their foods. They got nothing right. Mashed potatoes were plain, cornbread was nasty, corn was nasty, everything that I recognized as a southern food item was nasty or plain. They failed.
Yeah... I live in Iowa now, lived in the south (Memphis & northern MS) till I was 9. And NO ONE here can make proper corn bread. XD
Best diet I ever went on was to move out of south east Louisiana. After six months I was chugging Tabasco just to get a little hit of flavor. Lost four dress sizes in seven months. Then I moved back and gained them back with interest.
They just don't have the southern flare in the kitchen
How did they mess up corn?
Oh, do not even get me started! I live in Oregon now, man I wish I could jump down and get good Tex Mex so bad!
I'm from North Florida, but I lived in England for several years, and while I was there, I worked for a Chinese community center and my best friend there was Chinese from mainland China. I went back for a visit a few years ago and stayed with her and her husband for a week, and she was feeding me different traditional Chinese foods each day. By about day four, we ran out of ideas and we contemplated having congee again, which is basically like grits but with rice, so I was telling her about grits, and she smiled and was like, "I know what grits are. They're very popular in the north of China" (where she's from). And then she walked over to her kitchen counter and brought out a bag of grits with both English and Chinese writing on it. We had grits for breakfast that morning. Chinese grits. They make their grits a little bit more soupy than ours, and where she's from, they put kind of a pickled relish on the grits instead of salt and butter, but the fact that I was able to get grits in the north of England - Chinese grits no less - more easily than getting grits north of the Mason-Dixon line was just wild.
Chinese grits are made from millet, not ground corn
They have grits at Whole Foods… don’t know how common it is in smaller grocery stores but healthy people love to have them as an option
I enjoyed reading your comment. Thank you for sharing.
This makes me super happy, I know what you are talking about. I'm a Texan living in China. they call it 小米粥， it's not exactly the same but I am always tempted to add butter, cheese and ham😂
You have blown my provencial little American mind.
Wow.
Thanks.
Living in New York and having lived in New Jersey. I can say southern drivers were a thousand times more polite and considerate on the road than anyone I've ever met where I live.
In this area you need to become a road warrior and fight for your own space on the road or people will just shove you out of it and pretend you don't exist
As a southern now living in the north I find the tornado and snow parts funny. I told my coworkers that I prefer drive during a tornado watch/warning way over driving through snow/ice. I got some crazy looks but hey its true lol
Here are two things about the South that are overlooked.
1. Down here we measure distance with time. "Go up 82 for about five minutes then turn right and in about ten seconds take that first left and you'll see the house".
B. Macaroni and cheese is a vegetable in the deep south. Just go anywhere that has vegetable plates. It's a menu item for that.
Absolutely on both points! Also, like the skit they did giving directions by which Dollar General somebody lives nearby, lol. 😝😆🤣😂
dern tootin,I'll tell you what
We don't measure how far we have to drive by miles, it's by how much time it takes. I live roughly 3 miles from the nearest hospital, but it can take 30-60 minutes to get there, depending. Had to pick up my husband from the airport, left the house before his plane took off. Details.
@@azulverde89 freebird!
@@maryhildreth754 will you still remember me ?
So funny! The tornado alarms going off gives us a strong desire to go see if it's in sight. If not, we go about our business and "keep an eye on the weather" as my mom says. Lol
Same with hurricanes..."That ain't gonna hit here..."
“Nah its too far east, we’ll be fine” while its the next street over lol
@@kittikat4124 so accurate - it's like "I'm not getting out of bed until it's on my street"
Yup
My friends in Huntsville like to joke how everyone ran outside with their phones to take pictures of a passing tornado.
And don’t forget, Down here in the South, we can make a casserole out of anything 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
As someone who hails from the west coast, and has friends from both my personal life, as well as my time in the service, I thoroughly enjoyed this video.
Why are people using instant grits and canned biscuits, and then treating them like they were homemade? Of course they taste nasty!! Homemade is always better when it comes to food.
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Living in Wisconsin most of my life I hated grits. The reason is because they were cheap store bought and sold in a chain restaurant. Once I moved to South Carolina down by the Charleston area 10 years ago and went to a local restaurant. I now love grits. I also love Fried Green Tomatoes too.
Yea, that was a great movie
@@jimwakefield6705 It sure was.
And they sure are good. Half the reason I grow tomaters.
Bless your heart
Then you need to go down to Fleet Landing restaurant downtown & try their bacon,lettuce & fried green tomato sammich. Greeeeat Goodness!!
Grits with butter, salt, sugar, a bit of milk and a biscuit is so comforting!
In the countryside of Michigan, the corner stores also have the names of the first owners. We also call hills after the farmers that own the fields on either side of the road. "You go on up to Loker's Hill. Once you're over that, turn at that tree Billy smacked into while dodging a deer ten years ago..."
As someone from the Midwest where in 2020 it got to -52 degrees, it is utterly mind boggling to hear anybody say 65 degrees is cold. I hath been flabbergasted
It's cold because we have 100 degrees plus summer sometimes
I'm cold if it gets below 70
65 is not cold it’s just chilly. But you northerner’s can keep your snow and -10 degrees for 6 to 7 months. Not happening
I’m a born and bred midwestern girl who transplanted to the south, and after being here a while, anything below 72 and I’m grabbing a sweater if the sun is down. After temps hitting near that of Hades, it doesn’t take much to feel cold Lol
Got to -20 here. Not in the Midwest. It gets below 0 and above 100 every single year. I think the -10 region is the coldest temperature that’s common. 100-105 is the hottest. With wet air as well. You wanna drink fever temperature air you come here.
"Wasps wake up and chose violence."
Me, sitting here agreeing vehemently while nursing a nasty sting from yesterday. 🥴🥴🥴🐝🐝🐝
Yo I have PTSD from one damn red wasp 30 years ago!
Lived in the south 7 years. LOVED IT and it's people.
As soon as he said “Winn Dixie” he had me rolling 😂. I haven’t seen a Winn Dixie in YEARS!!
I'll tell you what hold my beer and read this. Some people probably never lived in the south, don't have celling fans, only eat "pop" can biscuits, never had Duke's on any kind of sandwich, stumbled into a red wasp or yellow jacket nest, only sampled instant grits without real AAs sweet cream butter, and roaches vs. rats is like comparing apple {rats} to oranges {roaches} . BUT y'all have learned to use the word Y'ALL. So in closing, bless your Yankee hearts
Who doesn't have a ceiling fan??
We're fixing up a house and the wife wants to take out all the ceiling fans. I'm like I'll tell you what, every house needs a ceiling fan and if it's not running 100% of the time the power's out cause a tornado knocked it out. We're keeping the one at the top of the stairs. 'Nuff said.
Especially Dukes mayor on a mayo and banana sandwich. So good!
@@beholdiamglamdringsbane89 yooo that’s so accurate! The only time my fan turned off within the past 3 years was when a hurricane knocked out power out for a week🤣
I had a deliemma the other day; a biscuit with blackberry jam or apple butter. Now that is a southern thing.
Jam on the top part, apple butter on the bottom, eat separately.......yum!! The best of both!!!
Have you ever tried fried apples on a biscuit???
OMG!!
Each side (top/bottom) is a Mini fluffy pie!!🦩
What? Jams and jellies are what you use when you're out of Sorghum......
Greetings from Byhalia Mississippi. We love our southern heritage here "I tell you what".😁😁
Oh my gosh, we used to rent a house in East Texas that had the tornado siren directly in our yard. When that sucker went off the first Wednesday of every month, or for a tornado, the windows would be rattling, the walls would be creaking and the whole house would be shaking, but my husband would still be in the bed snoring his head off! 😂😮😂
I live in Iowa. You know you're getting close to the South,when you see Quaker Instant Grits on grocery shelves.
For anyone who’s never been stung by a wasp, it literally feels like getting an electric shock. Difference is the shock pain last longer than an electric shock and is followed by swelling.
Yes especially them Texas red wasps they are pure mean
I was leaning toward a hot needle for yellow jackets, but them red ones are a big Nope.
And anaphylactic shock for some of us.
Not the ones here in Oregon that I've been stung by. One just felt a bit like rolling over on a thumb tack in bed. I didn't realize at first that it was a wasp. Another time, one stung me while I talked to my GF. I didn't notice but she did, got annoyed and knocked it off my wrist to kill it. I wonder if southern wasps are just more venomous and painful.
I never developed swelling from wasp venom or mosquito saliva. So it's not universal.
My wife once told me about a comedian telling about encountering a big southern roach in her hotel room. Someone in the audience shouted "Hit it with a shoe", to which the comedian said, "And what, give it a weapon?" I have encountered a few in my life and once hit one with a shoe, only to have it fly at me with an, "I know you didn't just hit me with a shoe!" attitude. It won that encounter because when I went back in the room, still armed with the shoe, it was gone.
Oh, yeah. Those huge ones (really called Palmetto Bugs) are mean. I took a hammer to one once. I won.
dont smash......Just name them and move on. They are just too juicy.
Just read this real quick and thought you had written "a big southern coach"
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They do attack.😂😂😂
4:10 - that's right about the store - "go to Bruce Geralds and get me a ..." - Bruce Gerald, who originally opened the store in the 70s, died 20 years ago and it's now an Exxon. But it will always be "Bruce Geralds".
You better step it up and dress up those biscuits. That line got me 😄
I’m Canadian. When I visited my Florida cousins, I had grits. My suitcase was filled with grits.
And sweet tea.
"Wasps wake up and choose violence."
Truer words have never been spoken!
"I tell you what" is the PERFECT cliffhanger but I've found that a lot of people don't really get it. They always ask "what?" as if I'm supposed to say something else like I didn't just tell them what.
Us southerners love Barn weddings. I recently went to one and it was so beautiful and creative. Bridal party pictures by the horse pasture. 🥰
Really barn weddings are always the most fun !!!!! Everyone lets loose a little more, because it’s not so stuffy, not having to worry about messing up the carpet, etc.
How is that person upset about corner stores while simultaneously trying to imply that a store 5 miles away from my house is somehow convenient!?!
Whoever it was that made that tweet lived in an urban area.....and don't understand that in the rural south, the nearest "corner" (where two roads meet) may very well be 5 or more miles away.
Heck, in East Tennessee, there were some towns where there WAS only one "corner". Our joke about them was when driving through, if you blinked you missed the town. Two buildings, a post-office and a general store. That was it. That was the town. Population was measured in double digits, and most directions to residents homes included the words "...then turn off the paved road..."
There was a Country Comedian several years back named Mike Snider. And he used to say that the Tennessee community where he grew up was so small that "You could throw a rock from your front porch clear across town!😂😏🎤🎼🎵🎶🎸🎹🎻🥁📺B.W.
I grew up in a small southern town. I picked cotton with my parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and races other than myself. We did it manually...where you walked between the rows of cotton plants in big fields, picked the cotton out of the hard bowls that cut your gloves and made your fingers bleed...you put the cotton in this long bag that strapped onto your body and you dragged it up and down the rows until it was as full as you could get it. Then you took it to the truck where a big scale weighed. You were paid so much per pound. Your break time was a picnic lunch under the only tree in the area because cotton doesn't grow under trees! It was hot as hell! But the commradary, competition and singing made it bearable! It made you tough! There wasn't any whining! It made you realize what you were made from and where you come from!!! Those are fond memories to me. I LOVE the south!
There are not many left who have experienced this. My great grandmother worked in a cotton mill.
For whatever reason the north hates us and our heritage.
Way down here in Texas, as a small kid I had to tag along as my mom and older siblings busted their behinds in August heat and humidity picking cotton. Lucky for me the farmers started using cotton picking machines. Don't know how we survived the heat but my sister fainted out there one time.
Never picked cotton, but I spent quite a few summer days in Tennessee walking railroad tracks picking blackberries in the heat and sun. Had to fill that bucket! Wasps, hornets, and chiggers were the enemy. Reward was momma making a cobbler with them.
I bet there’s no way that cotton was left in the fields the way it is now with machinery picking it. Y’all would have been sent back.
Me, change word to strawberries picked for years, how i paid for my first Stingray bike! Oregon
As a “recovering Yankee “ I’ve lived in the south the vast majority of my life. Y’all are so spot on in your responses ❤️.
I live in the East Coast You guys are absolutely hilarious me and my kids love your videos