I had to bring the soda and cups for the first 3 years of Thanksgiving Potluck after marrying into a Southern Family before they even would consider to let me bring a "Side Dish" 🤣🤣🤣
You say it like it means "Only" a side dish. Side dishes are the most important part of a Southern event. The turkey/ham is just there cause we can't justify calling it a meal if there's no main course, that's why it's always made by the host. It doesn't matter who makes it, it just has to be there.
I made the mistake of trying a new pecan pie for my dad’s birthday. No party, just mom, dad, sister, and I… I made him a new pie the next day. The first was fine but “ it just wasn’t the same”. Honestly, I think he was just trying to con me into a second pie.
Some people just prefer what they know. There are entire restaurants that if you go to, you'll think the food is shit. But the patrons will always come back. The people eating there are all old people - they've been eating there since 1947 and the food hasn't changed. And that's the way they like it - familiar, not good.
We have not changed the holiday menus in over 40 years because 1) Dad liked it that way, 2) Mom liked it that way, and 3) now the Grands like it that way. Fine by me, I can now make the meal in my sleep, and I confess, have on multiple occasions.
I can tick off my holiday grocery list by heart Ive done it so long. It NEVER changes. Started helping mom cook when I was six, peeling taters. We had seven in our family plus guests of ten or more. Im now 67. I cooked with mom. I cooked for my husband. I cook it for my daughter. She doesnt cook so it ends with me.
I've tried getting out of making rum cake for the office Christmas party. I once wrote "baked ziti" on the sign-up sheet. A posse appeared at my office door. "You're bringing rum cake, right?" I said "No. Baked ziti. It's delicious." The posse said "AND rum cake?" Again, I said "No. Baked Ziti." The posse was insistent. "You're bringing rum cake. We've scratched out 'baked ziti' and marked you down for rum cake." So I made both. I think they ignored my baked ziti out of spite. Many years later, I'm up to making eight rum cakes from Thanksgiving through New Year's Day. (I accidentally made one last night. So good.)
Mine is Whisky Cake. From a recipe that dates back to around 1850 handed down generations in my husband’s family. I started helping my mother-in-law out with making them the year her son and I got engaged in 1974.
“Is that bacon?” “Dad gum it!”😂How it’s under his breath! 😂😂 “If it has bacon bit you must acquit” “That is the law”😂😂😂 It’s so true how bacon covers a multitude of issues.
Rosie, I love your beautiful name and you would definitely fit in quite well in the southern United States, if you can handle our awful heat and humidity.
I love "It's A Southern Thing"! It's really hilarious, especially "The People's Court" parodies. Too funny, y'all!! "If there's a bacon bit, you must've quit." I can't!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
This is 100% . One time, my great grandma made some weird stuffing for Thanksgiving instead of the good stuffing. I mean, this junk had some apples and raisins and crap in it. Well, nevermind respecting your elders when they do something that out of line. We all were like Granny! What is this?!?! She said, "What? We have to have the same thing every year?!?!" And the whole family said "YES!"
@@momentsformoms9467 I've always made my stuffing with a combo of white and wheat bread, celery, onion, 3 types of apples, raisins, and currants. Everybody loves it. Even folks that don't typically eat stuffing love it. So, I don't know what "junk" her granny conjured up, but I wonder WTH is in their plain-Jane stuffing.
I'm the experimenter in my family, so when I change something up, I get either polite praise or resounding approvals. The problem is, there's a very subtle difference between the two. I can typically figure out which it is, so when I get polite praise, I know to go back to the tried and true the next time. The one thing I NEVER mess with, though, is the potato salad. If I don't make Mom's potato salad, it's all over for me.
This is beautiful. In reality they would show up with a vegan dish, because they want to eat "healthier", and then proceed to eat everything except the atrocity that they brought.
“If there’s a bacon bit, you must acquit.” 🤣🤣🤣 This is what happened to me when I made chocolate pecan pie one year instead of the one on the back of the Karo syrup bottle🙄 in my defense, I did make one of those too but I’m still hearing about that…10 years later!
@@bieuxyongson Was imbibing already part of the family pre-meal traditions? Because, if not, everyone LOVED your Bourbon Chocolate Pecan Pie. They just needed to appear too pious to know what that zing was 😄👍🏿🥃
@Jian Daugh That’s a great story! I told my daughter about this and she reminded me of the pecan pie debacle! I’ll never live it down. But they have no problem making my regular pie disappear! 🤣❤️
Falling down laughing! My mom always made the mac & cheese and it was a perfect blend of cheese, mac and delicious sauce and perfectly browned in the oven. After she passed away on of my sisters was able to make it almost as good as mom's. We were happy to have it. A few holidays later sis started experimenting with different cheeses and different types of pasta. Nobody wants it! We've asked her to bring the tossed green salad and the bottled dressing. I always brought some of her mac&cheese home and it wasn't not bad, but it's not like mom's mac & cheese. I think we should give sis a break and let her bring her own mac and cheese, but stick to one recipe and stop surprising us. 😆
My sister made up this nasty recipe for Mac and cheese that has pimento in it. I cannot tolerate that abomination. Thankfully we don't speak anymore so I don't travel to looked at it on holidays 🙃
Haha yeah.... I like trying to introduce my family to new things, but it never goes well. One small change and you're public enemy number 1, even if you're hosting the event. It got so bad, even if I use g-ma's recipe to the letter, my family thinks it's something else just because I went to culinary school. I'm like "did you stay in the kitchen from 8pm to 1pm with grandma and help her cook?" I didn't think so. Me and my siblings were always her helpers, and we had to do that stuff. But since I went to school, my cooking isn't good enough, yet sometimes I get texts asking what's the recipe 😕
"If there's a bacon bit, you must equit!" I lost it. 😂😂😂 Seriously though. DON'T MESS WITH THE MAC 'N CHEESE! If YOU are THE mac n' cheese designate, DON'T GO OFF SCRIPT!
Now THAT was hilarious! Grease will get you out of trouble every time in the South.🤣 Now I understand why my niece is asked to bring the dessert plates and toothpicks every holiday 🤣
Lol I had a troll shame me for writing a RIP message for Bob Dole. In my best southern manners I replied that they obviously needed to get out of mom's dusty basement and get some fresh air bless your heart. We know what I was saying. We southern folks do use our manners and show respect to those who've "passed" and bless those who don't!
So true. Folks get used to it. I have learned if you want to try something new you have to show up with both as a transition. If the new one is a hit, next year you can just bring the new one.
In terms of southern courtroom dramas, not quite 'To Kill a Mocking Bird', but pretty dam close people! Deep Fried Honeybun, I love it, and yes I am now in search of one!🤣🤣👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 From the writers and actors that brought you 'Slaw and Order'
Absolutely! When some one says ‘bring your (insert side dish here)’, they don’t mean bring your NEW recipe. If you want to spring a new recipe, invite them over BEFORE the main event for a ‘just try it’. People have come to depend on your dish as part of their holiday tradition. Especially kid friendly dishes like Mac n cheese. That there is grown up Mac n cheese. If the kids start fussing, you are going to be sent to the kids table to deal with it.
Growing up in the country, outside a small town in Georgia, I attended quite a few "covered dish suppers" (back then only Yankees held "potlucks) and let me tell you, there were some fierce, yet oh so subtle, completions over who brought the best dish. It was not just the best overall dish ( although that was a coveted accomplishment), but a battle with many categories; fried chicken was one of the most contended, with other meats getting honors for their mere appearance. Casseroles, a Southern staple, were sacrosanct (as long as one stuck to the " can of something soup" rule and did not get experimental. But the fiercest competition were the desserts; pies were acceptable, but cakes ruled supreme; be it coconut, caramel, German Chocolate or red velvet, if you took home an empty plate, you had "done good," and, if before each event, people asked you, "Now you are bringing your cake, aren't you?", then you knew all others bowed before you.
If you have to experiment, just bring it as an _extra_ for people to try if they want to. If they don't, then more for left overs for you. If they do, and like it, then you're good. More food for people to happily graze on. More work, yes. But is it more work than having to repair a damaged reputation?
I'll bring the ice. 4 bucks. Minimal work and I don't have to deal with ungrateful people. I can cook but also most of you make gross shit I don't want to eat anyway. As for Mac n cheese the host should just buy some stouffeurs
@@intercat4907 Counselor would be a nice option if I wanted to switch. As is, I'm a Scrum Master, which is a bit like a counselor or coach. Politics is too cruel and uncollaborative for my tastes.
My parents told me about when my oldest sister came home for Thanksgiving during her first year of college. She couldn't wait to have all of our family's traditions. What she got: Rolled turkey breast. Instant stuffing. Instant mashed potatoes. Anything and everything that could be instant, was. I never experienced it (born that same year), but that atrocity has never been repeated in 37 years.
Oh the shame that must have caused. That is a punishable offense for sure. For a Southern Thanksgiving they ain't nothing instant ever been on our table including sweet tea
Southern Court is Back!!! This is my favorite skit. Maybe ya'll could do a trial for the guy who starts eating dinner before the Blessing is said. Heaven forbid if you take a bite before the Papaw says Grace.
(See edits below) Mac & Cheese comes in TWO forms in The South. *Creamy Mac & Cheese:* is good, creamy, and delicious. *Baked Mac & Cheese "Casserole":* Not technically a casserole as it is only cheese and noodles with an egg to bind it, and maaaaybe bacon if you want to add some, but heaven help you if you add ANYTHING else and DARE call it Mac & Cheese... if you add ANYTHING else beyond that, it is no longer Mac & Cheese, it is then a cheesy-noodle-casserole. Bread Crumbs on top to make the top crispy are GARNISH and DO NOT COUNT. Garnishing with bread crumbs, some fresh chopped herbs, or stuff like that is GARNISH and does NOT count as changing the dish significantly. *BOTH ARE DELICIOUS AND BOTH QUALIFY AS MACARONI AND CHEESE!!! EVEN IF you don't use Macaroni noodles, and you use a completely different shape of noodle, it's still Mac & Cheese, because the shape of the noodle DOES NOT matter, as long as it is standard Semolina Flour noodles. I'm from South Carolina. We... LOVE... our BAKED Mac & Cheese. How DARE you Bamaites insult our Baked Mac & Cheese! THIS MEANS WAAAAAAAAA'(rrr)!!! ------------------ EDITS: THANK YOU @BillsBayou for bringing my mistake to my attention! I didn't even THINK about someone trying to use SPAGHETTI NOODLES to make Mac-n'-Cheese. So, CORRECTION TO MY ORIGINAL POST: It ain't Mac-n'-Cheese, unless the noodles are proper Macaroni Elbow Noodles. It's in the name! How I messed that up and it's in the name I don't know. THANK YOU @Kirsten Irwin you are 100% correct! That Kraft instant powdered garbage is NOT Mac-n'-Cheese, and is INDEED a sin against nature, humanity, and God. That stuff is naaaasty!
Nah, I'm from Bama and I wholeheartedly support this message! 😝 Mac n cheese is MAC N CHEESE, I've had way too many kinds of Mac "casserole" than I'd like. Sadly can't eat bacon (pork allergy) so if I smell bacon I gotta pass no matter how good it could be. ;-; Though I make a pretty good one with Jimmy Dean turkey sausage, I call it my Cheesy Sausage Casserole.
Baked mac n cheese is mac n cheese, yep. Same way a bologna on bread and a po boy are sandwiches. If I want a po boy and you bring bologna, I'm not gonna love it. Same way, if you bring baked mac n cheese, I'll eat it, but I'll just wish it was good mac n cheese the whole time.
South Carolina here, and my Gimma's baked mac and cheese is the only mac and cheese. I can't quite put her amount of love into it but when she passed at 106 years old, the baton fell to me!
My potluck go-to is scotcheroos! They went over amazingly at my fiancé’s family’s potlucks, but his family lives in NJ. I was hurt that they only ate like 1/8 of the pan until they told me “this is amazing but way too rich and heavy for more than a couple bites!” Lol!! His cousin is a nurse so she took the leftovers in to her coworkers. Apparently I made an entire ER department full of tired and hungry nurses really happy!!
So true, even here. We got a friend who we ask to always bring their famous mushroom risotto. It's rich, creamy, fabulous and would make any Italian nonna proud. Sadly enough, it's also he only dish they can make that doesn't make the rest of us to try to leave the event early.
So I'm just gonna say this: I have friends who are Celiac and a lot of gluten free foods, including pasta, are really good and damn near indistinguishable from the normal stuff. Same cannot be said for vegan food. Vegan cheese is foul
@@DaltonHBrown honestly, I have no clue. It's more expensive and doesn't really taste any better. I was just pointing out that a lot of gluten free foods taste good.
I love, it's a southern thing. I'm a new enlander, but I did live in FLA, & also Tenn. Truth is stranger than fiction. Truth is also Funnier than fiction. That's why I love, It's a Southern Thing. 💗💗💗
"If there are bacon bits you have to acquit" Couldn't do anything but gasp for air for 5 minutes after laughing so hard. It also sounded like the judge was drifting towards a Louisiana accent. Ah- YEEEEEEE!
I agree except for the part where she said "if you don't like it I'll just throw it away" nope we don't waste food in my house that mac and cheese would get eaten one way or another 😂
I feel like we need a pot luck equivalent of community service, here. I say, if they fail at cooking, knock them down to drinks, first. If they cheap out on tea and soda, THEN assign 'em the ice and plates!
Mac and cheese in a crockpot? That’s a new one on me. We always made ours on the stove with the roux in the same pan. Then take it straight to the bar on a few hand towels.
You definitely don't mess with mac & cheese. If you want to experiment, bring two separate casserole dishes....one traditional and the other experimental.
I’m sorry, y’all named the red head Daphne and put her in purple and green? Y’all put the brunette in glasses and an orange turtleneck? And combined a white top with an orange scarf? Who’s the Scooby-Doo fan? 🤣🤣🤣
I just went through my first Thanksgiving without the oyster dressing. I'm 56 years young. Been eatin' that treat since I was in diapers every Thanksgiving. Sad. 😩
I remember hearing someone say that biscuits and gravy really isn’t a thing in the south because they heard some family member from Atlanta Georgia say they’ve never had it before
I mean even this south Texan of Mexican American heritage MAKES BISCUITS AND GRAVY even if I use pillsbury Grands(I like the layers and buttery taste and ability to have two if split apart if more people than biscuits show up)
I'm from Atlanta. I don't know how that family had never had b&g, but it's a main staple in my family and several others I know. And we are considered Southern, it's just big y'all! lol
Well, that’s what she said and also claimed it because that her family has never heard of biscuits and gravy then therefore it was not an actual southern dish because her family “lived in the south” but never had it so
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Apologies to everyone who is always told to bring ice. I’m sorry you had to find out this way.
It's fine...apology accepted 😔😥
Or cups, plates, plasticware, chips and soda
I usually get asked to bring soft drinks. LoL
It was inevitable. Some secrets can't be kept.
I’m the one who is asked to bring the rolls.
Y'all......hilarious. "If there's a bacon bit - you must aquit" had me. Your writers and actors are awesome!!!
This was my favorite.
I woke family laughing at that line.
SO true ya'll. According to my son bacon improves everything.
I know, pure genius😄
That was brilliant!
I had to bring the soda and cups for the first 3 years of Thanksgiving Potluck after marrying into a Southern Family before they even would consider to let me bring a "Side Dish" 🤣🤣🤣
That was your probationary period.
You say it like it means "Only" a side dish. Side dishes are the most important part of a Southern event. The turkey/ham is just there cause we can't justify calling it a meal if there's no main course, that's why it's always made by the host. It doesn't matter who makes it, it just has to be there.
Not even let you bring dessert?? Shame on them 😂😂
You must have been really impressive. There are a few we've known for years, double digit years, and they know to bring ice or sliced bread.
That's a short probation period! Good for you!
The “hand to God” motion after the “fried honeybun” killed me, y’all! These folks always bring it. 😝😆🤣😂
🙌 deep fried honeybun!
Me too, I chuckled for the next 2 arguments or so 😆
🤣 Me too!
Absolutely Hilarious 🤣😆. Favorite part
I might have to deep fry a honey bun now….
I made the mistake of trying a new pecan pie for my dad’s birthday. No party, just mom, dad, sister, and I… I made him a new pie the next day. The first was fine but “ it just wasn’t the same”. Honestly, I think he was just trying to con me into a second pie.
Might've been....I do that to my wife pretty regularly! :D
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And it worked, ainnit!
Some people just prefer what they know. There are entire restaurants that if you go to, you'll think the food is shit. But the patrons will always come back. The people eating there are all old people - they've been eating there since 1947 and the food hasn't changed. And that's the way they like it - familiar, not good.
@@kaldo_kaldo cracker barrel is a fine example. Food is subpar but folks go back
I cracked up at the "I'm tryin a make us disappear." That's a whole holidays mood.
This is also true for church pot lucks. The disappointment of “You didn’t bring your broccoli cheese casserole?” almost broke my heart. 🤣
That’s risking the Lord’s wrath, not just the People’s Court.
We have not changed the holiday menus in over 40 years because 1) Dad liked it that way, 2) Mom liked it that way, and 3) now the Grands like it that way. Fine by me, I can now make the meal in my sleep, and I confess, have on multiple occasions.
I can tick off my holiday grocery list by heart Ive done it so long. It NEVER changes. Started helping mom cook when I was six, peeling taters. We had seven in our family plus guests of ten or more. Im now 67. I cooked with mom. I cooked for my husband. I cook it for my daughter. She doesnt cook so it ends with me.
“I’m tryna make us disappear”
“It’s not working”
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The way no one would meet his eyes... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I've tried getting out of making rum cake for the office Christmas party. I once wrote "baked ziti" on the sign-up sheet. A posse appeared at my office door. "You're bringing rum cake, right?" I said "No. Baked ziti. It's delicious." The posse said "AND rum cake?" Again, I said "No. Baked Ziti." The posse was insistent. "You're bringing rum cake. We've scratched out 'baked ziti' and marked you down for rum cake." So I made both. I think they ignored my baked ziti out of spite. Many years later, I'm up to making eight rum cakes from Thanksgiving through New Year's Day. (I accidentally made one last night. So good.)
Mine is Whisky Cake. From a recipe that dates back to around 1850 handed down generations in my husband’s family. I started helping my mother-in-law out with making them the year her son and I got engaged in 1974.
That's... that's just rude... if it were me, I would just refuse to attend...
@@Ikajo Same
To me that's just rude
Honestly, baked ziti would be a refreshing change. It's good stuff.
“Is that bacon?”
“Dad gum it!”😂How it’s under his breath! 😂😂
“If it has bacon bit you must acquit”
“That is the law”😂😂😂
It’s so true how bacon covers a multitude of issues.
Culinary duct tape.
Mac and cheese McGuyver.
Thank you! I couldn't figure out what it was he had said .... lol ...
Megan Jaime I think the Southern People's Court law you are referring to is "bacon covereth a multitude of sins."
Gotta keep it Old King James! 😆
John w LoL Yes!😂
North South East West all agree bacon is 👌
"It was on the today show" would have been an immediate conviction in my court.
The gavel at the end when it got awkward. Loved that
I love people's court on it's a Southern thing! Please create more like this!
“If there’s a bacon bit, you must aquit”. That had me on the floor, absolute genius writing. 😂😂😂😂😂 Really great video guys ♥️👍
Rosie, I love your beautiful name and you would definitely fit in quite well in the southern United States, if you can handle our awful heat and humidity.
"A possum by any other name is just as feisty..." ROFL
Well, it is the law
I love "It's A Southern Thing"! It's really hilarious, especially "The People's Court" parodies. Too funny, y'all!!
"If there's a bacon bit, you must've quit." I can't!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Must acquit. You musta never done no law breaking things in your life, or just ain't been caught, yet. 🤣
If there’s a bacon bit, ya’ must’a quit
it's "aquit", which basically means all charges are dropped
@@masonmeaders2719 "a*c*quit"
@@masonmeaders2719 Thanks. My mistake.
This is 100% . One time, my great grandma made some weird stuffing for Thanksgiving instead of the good stuffing. I mean, this junk had some apples and raisins and crap in it. Well, nevermind respecting your elders when they do something that out of line. We all were like Granny! What is this?!?! She said, "What? We have to have the same thing every year?!?!" And the whole family said "YES!"
That sounds good though. 😋
@@momentsformoms9467 I've always made my stuffing with a combo of white and wheat bread, celery, onion, 3 types of apples, raisins, and currants. Everybody loves it. Even folks that don't typically eat stuffing love it. So, I don't know what "junk" her granny conjured up, but I wonder WTH is in their plain-Jane stuffing.
@@AlbredaWelde Sounds delicious I’d like to make something like that one day.
The classics are classic for a reason!
Experiment on friends, not family
:)
What is stuffing? We make dressing.
Matt's suthun gennleman voice always cracks me up
I'm the experimenter in my family, so when I change something up, I get either polite praise or resounding approvals. The problem is, there's a very subtle difference between the two. I can typically figure out which it is, so when I get polite praise, I know to go back to the tried and true the next time. The one thing I NEVER mess with, though, is the potato salad. If I don't make Mom's potato salad, it's all over for me.
My son gives my either THANKS MOM or Yeah, it’s good…meaning “it’s food & I know better than to insult the ONLY Cook in the house”! 🤣🤣🤣
Potato salad is sacred. You are indeed wise.
Ahh, the shame. To be damned with faint praise.
Bless your heart!
Cheese and bacon are two of the greatest things bestowed on mankind and thus by default this mac and cheese is innocent for it is a masterpiece
Truth!
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This is beautiful. In reality they would show up with a vegan dish, because they want to eat "healthier", and then proceed to eat everything except the atrocity that they brought.
Yes, so true!
Untrue. If a person brought vegan, he or she now has something to eat. The rest of the party may pass it by, but the vegan will not.
@@HappyLife693 Mine was from a personal experience. My aunt brought it never having been vegan. Proceeded to eat and critique everything else.
@@kungfuhustling4832 funny.
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“If there’s a bacon bit, you must acquit.” 🤣🤣🤣
This is what happened to me when I made chocolate pecan pie one year instead of the one on the back of the Karo syrup bottle🙄 in my defense, I did make one of those too but I’m still hearing about that…10 years later!
@Jian Daugh 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Geez, I’m 66 and I wanted some zing ( did I forget to say they was bourbon in that pie?). But nooo…🙄🤣🤣
@@bieuxyongson Was imbibing already part of the family pre-meal traditions? Because, if not, everyone LOVED your Bourbon Chocolate Pecan Pie. They just needed to appear too pious to know what that zing was 😄👍🏿🥃
@@MovableNu 🤣🤣🤣
@Jian Daugh That’s a great story! I told my daughter about this and she reminded me of the pecan pie debacle! I’ll never live it down. But they have no problem making my regular pie disappear! 🤣❤️
@@bieuxyongson make me one, I promise I won't complain one single bit 😋
Falling down laughing! My mom always made the mac & cheese and it was a perfect blend of cheese, mac and delicious sauce and perfectly browned in the oven. After she passed away on of my sisters was able to make it almost as good as mom's. We were happy to have it.
A few holidays later sis started experimenting with different cheeses and different types of pasta. Nobody wants it! We've asked her to bring the tossed green salad and the bottled dressing.
I always brought some of her mac&cheese home and it wasn't not bad, but it's not like mom's mac & cheese.
I think we should give sis a break and let her bring her own mac and cheese, but stick to one recipe and stop surprising us. 😆
If it's a family classic, ya gotta stick to the plan.
Are you going to show her this video?
@@samiam619 No, she doesn't have a sense of humor. She's over sensitive like Eunice in mama's family on the Carol Burnett Show. Lol
My sister made up this nasty recipe for Mac and cheese that has pimento in it. I cannot tolerate that abomination. Thankfully we don't speak anymore so I don't travel to looked at it on holidays 🙃
"I'm tryin' to make us disappear." LOL !!!
I made a TINY change to my sweet potato casserole one holiday and I almost was disowned...🤣
Experiment on your own time.
Haha yeah.... I like trying to introduce my family to new things, but it never goes well. One small change and you're public enemy number 1, even if you're hosting the event.
It got so bad, even if I use g-ma's recipe to the letter, my family thinks it's something else just because I went to culinary school. I'm like "did you stay in the kitchen from 8pm to 1pm with grandma and help her cook?" I didn't think so.
Me and my siblings were always her helpers, and we had to do that stuff. But since I went to school, my cooking isn't good enough, yet sometimes I get texts asking what's the recipe 😕
@@alicesmith7020 🤣🤣🤣🤣
What was the change?
OP WHAT WAS THE CHANGE?
DID YOU ADD BACON?
"If there's a bacon bit, you must equit!" I lost it. 😂😂😂
Seriously though. DON'T MESS WITH THE MAC 'N CHEESE! If YOU are THE mac n' cheese designate, DON'T GO OFF SCRIPT!
That’s like religion!
You can bring an experimental mac n cheese, but you best bring a normal one too.
@@kaldo_kaldo You have to be REAL careful. If you make too good, you'll be responsible for making two dishes every year.
ACQUIT, not "equit,' which word does not exist anywhere irl.
Amen to that! Keep it simple and tasty!!
Now THAT was hilarious! Grease will get you out of trouble every time in the South.🤣 Now I understand why my niece is asked to bring the dessert plates and toothpicks every holiday 🤣
Potluck toothpicks??? Can she cook her own food at home?
Toothpicks???!!! That's cold😂🤣😂🤣😂
@Sam I am she doesn’t cook, nor does she try to learn. She knows nobody will ask her to bring anything.
“If there are bacon bits you must acquit.” 🤣🤣🤣
This was too funny and to true, especially the comment “Next time you will bring plates.” Lol! So true.
This is a potluck not a science fair. IM DYING🤣
"IS THAT BACON?" My heart is consoled! Thank y'all.
Fun fact: I told someone “Bless your heart” today, this is what this channel has done to me!!!
Lol I had a troll shame me for writing a RIP message for Bob Dole. In my best southern manners I replied that they obviously needed to get out of mom's dusty basement and get some fresh air bless your heart. We know what I was saying. We southern folks do use our manners and show respect to those who've "passed" and bless those who don't!
So true. Folks get used to it. I have learned if you want to try something new you have to show up with both as a transition. If the new one is a hit, next year you can just bring the new one.
In terms of southern courtroom dramas, not quite 'To Kill a Mocking Bird', but pretty dam close people! Deep Fried Honeybun, I love it, and yes I am now in search of one!🤣🤣👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 From the writers and actors that brought you 'Slaw and Order'
SVU - Southern Vittles Unit
"You mean y'all didn't even turn the cup around?"
"Uh, Chief, it's a tumbler."
This troupe write and perform better sketches than anything currently being produced for TV. I hope they all become millionaires. Brava!
Absolutely! When some one says ‘bring your (insert side dish here)’, they don’t mean bring your NEW recipe. If you want to spring a new recipe, invite them over BEFORE the main event for a ‘just try it’. People have come to depend on your dish as part of their holiday tradition. Especially kid friendly dishes like Mac n cheese. That there is grown up Mac n cheese. If the kids start fussing, you are going to be sent to the kids table to deal with it.
People are bizarre about their traditions
“If there’s a bacon bit, you musta quit”😂😂i loved it
Growing up in the country, outside a small town in Georgia, I attended quite a few "covered dish suppers" (back then only Yankees held "potlucks) and let me tell you, there were some fierce, yet oh so subtle, completions over who brought the best dish. It was not just the best overall dish ( although that was a coveted accomplishment), but a battle with many categories; fried chicken was one of the most contended, with other meats getting honors for their mere appearance. Casseroles, a Southern staple, were sacrosanct (as long as one stuck to the " can of something soup" rule and did not get experimental. But the fiercest competition were the desserts; pies were acceptable, but cakes ruled supreme; be it coconut, caramel, German Chocolate or red velvet, if you took home an empty plate, you had "done good," and, if before each event, people asked you, "Now you are bringing your cake, aren't you?", then you knew all others bowed before you.
"Only God can help you now." LOL so true
If you have to experiment, just bring it as an _extra_ for people to try if they want to. If they don't, then more for left overs for you. If they do, and like it, then you're good. More food for people to happily graze on. More work, yes. But is it more work than having to repair a damaged reputation?
You can't undo a betrayal of this level. Make the normal one or make two, never make only the experiment.
I'll bring the ice. 4 bucks. Minimal work and I don't have to deal with ungrateful people.
I can cook but also most of you make gross shit I don't want to eat anyway.
As for Mac n cheese the host should just buy some stouffeurs
Would you consider public office? Or are you already full-time in your career as a relationship counselor? Either way ... wow. Ma'am.
@@intercat4907 Counselor would be a nice option if I wanted to switch. As is, I'm a Scrum Master, which is a bit like a counselor or coach. Politics is too cruel and uncollaborative for my tastes.
@@KimberlyGreen Helpless laughter. Thanks for a great answer. Stay well.
My parents told me about when my oldest sister came home for Thanksgiving during her first year of college. She couldn't wait to have all of our family's traditions. What she got:
Rolled turkey breast. Instant stuffing. Instant mashed potatoes. Anything and everything that could be instant, was.
I never experienced it (born that same year), but that atrocity has never been repeated in 37 years.
your sister was in college the year you were born and that was 37 years ago? Okay that does check out. 17-18 year difference.
😲😲 thank the lord!
Oh the shame that must have caused. That is a punishable offense for sure. For a Southern Thanksgiving they ain't nothing instant ever been on our table including sweet tea
Southern Court is Back!!! This is my favorite skit. Maybe ya'll could do a trial for the guy who starts eating dinner before the Blessing is said. Heaven forbid if you take a bite before the Papaw says Grace.
I was waiting for a holiday Southern court skit, I swear I felt it coming like the joint pain I get before a nasty storm 💯 ❤️❤️❤️
Let's face it, without mac and cheese the South would collapse
Woo-hoo! Glad to see a new court skit! Good one! Plus it had Talia!
"If there's a bacon bit, you must acquit." I can get behind that!
There's not Many situations that BACON can't get you out of...🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓👍🏻🤤🤤
Kevin Bacon?
@@Carl_Jr No, his cousin...Chrispie! 🤣
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Mac & Cheese comes in TWO forms in The South.
*Creamy Mac & Cheese:* is good, creamy, and delicious.
*Baked Mac & Cheese "Casserole":* Not technically a casserole as it is only cheese and noodles with an egg to bind it, and maaaaybe bacon if you want to add some, but heaven help you if you add ANYTHING else and DARE call it Mac & Cheese... if you add ANYTHING else beyond that, it is no longer Mac & Cheese, it is then a cheesy-noodle-casserole. Bread Crumbs on top to make the top crispy are GARNISH and DO NOT COUNT. Garnishing with bread crumbs, some fresh chopped herbs, or stuff like that is GARNISH and does NOT count as changing the dish significantly.
*BOTH ARE DELICIOUS AND BOTH QUALIFY AS MACARONI AND CHEESE!!!
EVEN IF you don't use Macaroni noodles, and you use a completely different shape of noodle, it's still Mac & Cheese, because the shape of the noodle DOES NOT matter, as long as it is standard Semolina Flour noodles.
I'm from South Carolina.
We... LOVE... our BAKED Mac & Cheese.
How DARE you Bamaites insult our Baked Mac & Cheese!
THIS MEANS WAAAAAAAAA'(rrr)!!!
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EDITS:
THANK YOU @BillsBayou for bringing my mistake to my attention! I didn't even THINK about someone trying to use SPAGHETTI NOODLES to make Mac-n'-Cheese. So, CORRECTION TO MY ORIGINAL POST: It ain't Mac-n'-Cheese, unless the noodles are proper Macaroni Elbow Noodles. It's in the name! How I messed that up and it's in the name I don't know.
THANK YOU @Kirsten Irwin you are 100% correct! That Kraft instant powdered garbage is NOT Mac-n'-Cheese, and is INDEED a sin against nature, humanity, and God. That stuff is naaaasty!
Nah, I'm from Bama and I wholeheartedly support this message! 😝 Mac n cheese is MAC N CHEESE, I've had way too many kinds of Mac "casserole" than I'd like. Sadly can't eat bacon (pork allergy) so if I smell bacon I gotta pass no matter how good it could be. ;-; Though I make a pretty good one with Jimmy Dean turkey sausage, I call it my Cheesy Sausage Casserole.
Baked mac n cheese is mac n cheese, yep. Same way a bologna on bread and a po boy are sandwiches. If I want a po boy and you bring bologna, I'm not gonna love it. Same way, if you bring baked mac n cheese, I'll eat it, but I'll just wish it was good mac n cheese the whole time.
South Carolina here, and my Gimma's baked mac and cheese is the only mac and cheese. I can't quite put her amount of love into it but when she passed at 106 years old, the baton fell to me!
Never, ever bring the Kraft stuff. That's a sin against nature.
@@kirstenirwin9084 and GAWD!!
"If there's a bacon bit, you must acquit!" 🤣🤣🤣
I usually don't speak in emoji, but man that line was hilarious.
"If there's a bacon bit, you must acquitte." - that one went right to my heart. Totally agree!
Awesome. I agree though, when you're expecting a special dish from somebody and you get a substitute it's WRONG.
I'm always in charge ice, cups, and/or bags of chips, lol.
Hahahaha! You need to do a piece about me, a Yankee 30 years in the South that thinks they're Southern.
Wellll....if you've dropped your brogue for a drawl, we might talk about it.
Try bein' a Cuban with a Southern accent.
Yes, this is A Thing.
We had about 25 dishes at Thanksgiving (for 11 people so it was a bit of a small spread), and I swear that at least half of them had bacon in them
Um, what did you say the address of the gathering was for this annual event? Askin' for a "friend". 😂
@@happycook6737 My “friend” would like that address too. 😂
Lucky you!
You don't experiment at the pot luck, you just don't. That's a heinous party foul.
My potluck go-to is scotcheroos! They went over amazingly at my fiancé’s family’s potlucks, but his family lives in NJ. I was hurt that they only ate like 1/8 of the pan until they told me “this is amazing but way too rich and heavy for more than a couple bites!” Lol!! His cousin is a nurse so she took the leftovers in to her coworkers. Apparently I made an entire ER department full of tired and hungry nurses really happy!!
I think Adam has based his character on the chicken/lawyer on Futurama.
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So true, even here. We got a friend who we ask to always bring their famous mushroom risotto. It's rich, creamy, fabulous and would make any Italian nonna proud.
Sadly enough, it's also he only dish they can make that doesn't make the rest of us to try to leave the event early.
Hey, you only need one. You might torture your taste buds the rest of the year, but come potluck time? You better bring that A game!
I'm pleased to know her infraction was not substituting the normal macaroni noodles with some gluten free abomination.
Or worse... VEGAN cheese!
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So I'm just gonna say this: I have friends who are Celiac and a lot of gluten free foods, including pasta, are really good and damn near indistinguishable from the normal stuff.
Same cannot be said for vegan food. Vegan cheese is foul
@@Elamdri lol yea, I get that. But the people (like my mother) who don't have celiac disease, who do it just because... like why?
@@DaltonHBrown honestly, I have no clue. It's more expensive and doesn't really taste any better. I was just pointing out that a lot of gluten free foods taste good.
I love, it's a southern thing. I'm a new enlander, but I did live in FLA, & also Tenn. Truth is stranger than fiction. Truth is also Funnier than fiction. That's why I love, It's a Southern Thing. 💗💗💗
if theres bacon bits, you must acquit 🤣🤣
You always know who to tell to bring the ice, cups, plates, plastic ware, napkins and soda. Never ever trust their food!
Yall need to do the sacred hand towels and soap in the guest bathroom.
Amen! And the decorative quilts/throw pillows in the Room Kids Shall Not Enter.
“I said the blessing in the car so I’m gonna go ahead and dive in” 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant!
The fact that y’all are dressed as the SCOOBY Doo gang is everything. Love it!
OMG.. I'm a southerner and this was so true and hilarious 😂
"If there are bacon bits you have to acquit" Couldn't do anything but gasp for air for 5 minutes after laughing so hard. It also sounded like the judge was drifting towards a Louisiana accent. Ah- YEEEEEEE!
Yeah, I'd never heard Matt talk like that and it was sooooo weird XD
It was funny, but certainly not something that would have left anyone "gasping for air for 5 minutes..."!
@@jb6712 You don't know me. So don't criticize me.
FINALLY, The Southern People's Court is back!
It made me laugh how Adam and Matt had notes of Foghorn Leghorn in their voices!
I agree except for the part where she said "if you don't like it I'll just throw it away" nope we don't waste food in my house that mac and cheese would get eaten one way or another 😂
"If you don't like it I'll take it home" is more like it.
Use it as the basis for a casserole...
@@AlbredaWelde It already WAS a casserole!
Can’t tell you how many times I’ve had ppl bring the ice. Lol
The Bacon Bit must acquit should be on a T shirt. That is so hilarious!
I needed a good belly laugh!! Thank y'all!!
Wait, there's a fried honeybun????? Why have I not seen these before???
Baked mac and cheese is definitely superior to crockpot mac and cheese. But panko breadcrumbs on top? Uh-uh.
"If there's a bacon bit, you must aquit." LOL As usual, you're the funniest Southern channel out there!
Love these Southern Justice court skits.👍💯
At deep fried honeybun I got chest pains. At dad gummit I lol’d. And nobody making eye contact with the ice man. 🤣🤣🤣
So that's why they always ask me to bring ice and paper plates. 🤨 Great skit! 💯
I feel like we need a pot luck equivalent of community service, here. I say, if they fail at cooking, knock them down to drinks, first. If they cheap out on tea and soda, THEN assign 'em the ice and plates!
This has me Rollin!! I love this segment! Hahaha 😂😂
I love this channel. It's hilarious and those wonderful accents are to die for (Canadian here, enthusiast of southern accents)💖
Mac and cheese in a crockpot? That’s a new one on me. We always made ours on the stove with the roux in the same pan. Then take it straight to the bar on a few hand towels.
The Southern Court sketches are the best! Do more of those!!!
I love the line "Ain't no shame in my cheese game."
Love all ya'all but Matt is on a whole other level. He needs to be doing comedy movies for real.
Everyone was good, but the faces Adam made were great! 😆
Omgosh! The tapping to disappear!! Love it!
In our house I must clear all menu changes for holidays beforehand with the adult children.
I am so glad to see some regular content from this channel. thanks for all the hard work.
You definitely don't mess with mac & cheese. If you want to experiment, bring two separate casserole dishes....one traditional and the other experimental.
This. YOU are a GENIUS. 👏👏👏
“Never experiment without consent”, is what I think we all learned from this episode 😂(it helps that it rhymes)
THIS is spot on! No one likes it when your signature side dish has been “made over”. Just be consistent and everyone is happy.
This is one of y'all's best videos 😂 It is funny from beginning to end! The look on the guy's face when he mutters "dadgummit" is my favorite.
I’m sorry, y’all named the red head Daphne and put her in purple and green? Y’all put the brunette in glasses and an orange turtleneck? And combined a white top with an orange scarf? Who’s the Scooby-Doo fan? 🤣🤣🤣
Great catch.
Ruh-roh
I was thinking that too. I was like "Wow! A potluck and closet cosplay! Nice!"
Their reply autotranslates into "spirits" so do we need to call Mystery Inc.?
Don't forget ice-guy in the green shirt!
Oh God the accents had me dying! This was really very funny.
"I said the blessing in the car so I'm just going to dive in" 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
"I just wanted to try a new recipe..."
Awwww... Bless her heart.
I like to try new recipes, but my family only ever wants the old, familar recipes, especially at holidays.
I just went through my first Thanksgiving without the oyster dressing. I'm 56 years young. Been eatin' that treat since I was in diapers every Thanksgiving. Sad. 😩
No oyster dressing? Then you didnt have thanksgiving. You just had dinner! 😞
I remember hearing someone say that biscuits and gravy really isn’t a thing in the south because they heard some family member from Atlanta Georgia say they’ve never had it before
The horror
We don't consider Atlanta the South
I mean even this south Texan of Mexican American heritage MAKES BISCUITS AND GRAVY even if I use pillsbury Grands(I like the layers and buttery taste and ability to have two if split apart if more people than biscuits show up)
I'm from Atlanta. I don't know how that family had never had b&g, but it's a main staple in my family and several others I know. And we are considered Southern, it's just big y'all! lol
Well, that’s what she said and also claimed it because that her family has never heard of biscuits and gravy then therefore it was not an actual southern dish because her family “lived in the south” but never had it so
Lmao! The last part had me nearly falling down. Just a Floridian.
THE MUSIC THOUGH!!!!!!! IF there’s a bacon bit….you must acquit…🤣🤣🤣GOD I love being a southern girl!