Y'all - tonight for dinner - fried (and then slathered with BBQ sauce) chicken thighs AND homemade cole slaw (well, I bought the pre-shredded slaw mix, but the dressing is my own), mash potatoes and gravy, and sweet tea (house wine of the south).
There's lots of southerners on this board - staro's right about the writing, I think. Oxford MS is literary paradise. Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Capote, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, Fannie Flagg, Harper Lee - I could elaborate on this forever.
We swelter in the summer - bare legs and open toed shoes from March - October - we think 30 F is insufferable in the winter. We're all great bar dancers - Sunny can even cut a rug to Sweet Home Alabama. I think we use more terms of endearment than many other cultures: honey, baby, darlin', luv, sweetheart, precious. Honey BooBoo gives us a bad wrap. I don't know if you can find a better tomato in the world than what we get here in July. And please for the love of God, don't put your tomatoes in the fridge.
Memphis is my town. This guy
.made it his home (though he was from Tupelo).
I love living in the south.