Help me, I'm turning Southern

Saying you prefer BBQed chicken is flipping a coin and calling the edge.
I have friends who won't eat at BBQ places that serve beef, I don't mind brisket, but I won't go near beef ribs.
Best BBQ meal, for me, burnt tips on a bun, with a scoop of slaw on top of the meat. Sauce on the table and a thick, sweet sauce with beans and french fries (or onion rings) as my sides.
Of course you really know when you're in the South has BBQ with oddball things like the BBQ pork nachos you can get or this pulled BBQ chicken baked potato covered in cheese and bacon.


Southern slang for you, is ya, as in OutKast's "Hey Ya"
So ya'll is double Southern slang.

 

As per the dictionary:
Brisket -- a cut of meat, especially of beef, taken from an animal's breast

As per ribeye sandwiches:
No effin' clue

 

I like sliced the best.

 

Save your bacon fat. When the time is right, you'll be told what to do with it.

 

One of my favorite things to do on a long road trip is to pop in a tape of Lewis Grizzard doing stand-up. He epitomizes the South. Love his accent, wit and passion for all things southern.

Grizzard: "I'm a white man and I'm a Southerner. And I'm sick of being told what is wrong with me from outside critics, and I'm tired of being stereotyped as a refugee from 'God's Little Acre'."

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Boiled peanuts are nasty! Ugh. Wouldn't touch 'em with a 10-foot pole. Oh, those and chitlins.

 

Best usage of "all y'all":


"I don't care. Fuck all y'all."

I use it daily.

 

Probably not a good thing to say around the VA, since they might take you literally... at least the leader might...

 

The South is very underrated. I had a lot of negative connotations of it moving here, but now I love it. As someone said earlier in the thread, the people are so nice it is refreshing.
I remember the first time interviewing a high school kid and he called me sir and I did a double take. Then I told him I wasn't THAT much older than him and he didn't need to call me sir, he said he couldn't help it, it was just natural.
Good stuff.

 

I cannot emphasize this enough about brisket, y'all: meat smoker, beer (or wine) in the pan, fat side up, slow-cooked -- and the thinnest possible slices.

The last one is non-negotiable.

 

I looked it up online and saw something about corned beef brisket. Is that the same as corned beef? I love corned beef, angus pastrami and prosciutto (I probably spelled that wrong.)

 

I've never made it myself, just eaten it at BBQ joints. Can you buy brisket in the store or do you have to slice it yourself?

 

You can buy it in any good butcher shop or meat department of a decent grocery store. Just don't slice off the fat until after you've cooked it -- fat-side up, mind you -- lest you cook a God-forbid dry brisket.