And I expect to hear the story, too. That's just part of socializing. And if it's family, you can be IN THE STORY, but you're still gonna hear it again. 😂😂😂
My mother grew up during the Depression. Her father hunted squirrel and other critters to help keep food on the table. Mom ultimately learned to avoid the heartbreak of naming her grandmother's chickens which eventually ended up on the dinner table.
My Daddy always hunted squirrel and my Mama cooked it for him until I was born (I had 2 older brothers). I remember I was about 3 years old, and it was a Saturday morning Daddy was at the table and I sat down and saw 3 fried squirrels at the center of the table. I started bawling, "Daddy ate my friends" at the top of my lungs. Mama told Daddy if he wanted any more squirrel he would have to get his Mama to cook them for him. LOL!
I lived with my grandparents and my granddaddy went out with the shotgun when we went to go catch the school bus .. fried "chicken" for supper lol .. cornbread, pinto beans, and squirrel or rabbit for supper .. I wasn't allowed in one shed but got sent in there once and saw the skins .. they just don't always tell me what they REALLY feeding me lol
@Winston Smith Oooh, big man whupping up on a little girl who didn't know any better. It wasn't like it was during the Depression, it was something he still wanted to eat every so often from his childhood.
@Winston Smith Again I think you missed the point. The squirrel was cooked for my dad only not for the family. So why would my dad or mom whup me? I don't understand your logic at all. That's the reason my mom told my dad if he wanted it in the future to have his mom cook it for him. My grandmother didn't even cook it for my uncles. So why you would beat me for not eating something that no one was eating but my dad doesn't make sense.
@Winston Smith I never disobeyed my parents or even not eat what placed before me if that is what you are trying to state from your post. My parents were very loving people when it came to the cycle of life on the farm even though I was very attached to animals and they had to go to slaughter especially the hogs. But your attitude of beating a 3 year old because that's the first time she saw cooked squirrel that she considered as friends which her Daddy was eating is harsh to say the least.
@Winston Smith No one forces me to eat what I don't want. I'm vegetarian/vegan and if I don't want what's on the table I make a peanut butter sandwich or do without. My grandmother raised me & she respected this since I went veg when I was 19. I'm 53 now & respect includes recognizing someone's right to not eat what causes them bad feelings.
"Oh you trying to die" No lie, I said the same thing to a coworker the other day when they were talking about doing something crazy. I still remember the slap my momma gave me when I talked back to her at 16 and that was over 30 years ago.
I had to go to enroll for school with a handprint on my face after i thought i could backtalk my mother, i was going into the 5th grade..ive never talked back to my grandparents, ever. Lol
When I was 33, I told my mama I could handle my right to vote without her advice. I still have anxiety remembering how she looked at me for talking back.
Its good..but not enough of it..and you have to eat like ten ot twelve of them with lots of biscuits and gravy and potatoes and onions to get full!!!...Not really worth the trouble and they are boney too!!!...
“now i have a daughter and i’m really going to get it” yup yup yup i have two daughters who def are like i was and i’m paying for my raising seen rock city like a hundred times lol , i’m from chattanooga ❤️ love it
Love this video! I love the story about her Dad leaving Destin and driving back to Tennessee! That’s the way parents used to be...if the said it they meant it! Nothing like today’s parents that think their children should be their best friends.
When I was a kid, we would travel to Florida for vacation and the two places I always looked forward to stopping at were Pedro's South of the Border and any Stuckeys . Pedro's for firecrackers and Stuckeys for their pecan logs ...yum. I remember seeing the Rock City billboards but never got to see it.
I ate beans for the first 5 yrs of my life. When my dad came home bc with a catfish, a rabbit, or a squirrel it was like a feast. My mom believed everything need to be very well done. When she fried squirrel it tasted and had the texture of chicken gizzards.
Yep. Ended Used to take the bus with a homeless guy who had a pole and a cooler. He made his money catching catfish, and then sold the catfish straight to the local seafood restaurants. He said it was good money, at least by homeless people standards.
Squirrel tastes like DRY chicken. It’s also inexplicably “greasy” somehow. 😥🤷♀️ My family came from the mountains. I had all the southern “delicacies.” 😂 I used to walk with my grandma down the highway while she hunted for and picked poke salad. (“Pokesallat”) I never understood why she didn’t just plant some in her garden.
Of course I have been to Rock City 4 times. Stayed in the Read House in Chattanooga and took the walk to the Aquarium. It's a nice addition to a trip there. They treat you right. Love older historic hotels. been to Destin, went out fishing from there. I have been to PCB many times...even back when there was NO motel more than 2 stories high and areas of beach with NO hotels, just dunes. Those were the fun days, college kids walking across the little street to the stores. One year, I went down with my college friends, found out mom and dad were two motels down the beach from us. My sister's high school break was the same time. Dad called me to his room to see me... out of a game of hearts and some 7 and 7s. I straightened myself up and went in to see him. He just wanted to make sure I had enough money. I thought I was handling myself just fine, but I remember momma (bless her soul) was sitting on the chair in the room with her head on her hands staring at the floor. I guess I wasn't fooling anybody. Now PCB is all condos and can't even tell where PC ends and PCB starts. Destin was a quiet fishing village in those days. And yes... I have grandkids and still call mother "momma".
PLEASE don't cliff jump. My sister in laws brother died doing that, and he was familiar with that jump. It's not worth your life or the pain it will cause your family.
Yep. Growing up in the northeast US (though spending a lot of summertime visiting family near Tallahassee as well) there were always old flooded quarries or strip mine pits, and even a few gorges and various news reports of rescues and fatalities from it.
Why on earth would anyone think eating squirrel is strange, it's the south for Lord's sake! Tons of hunters! Cook the meat of the bones, slow simmer with onions and carrots and potatoes, rich brown gravy, served over rice..mmmmmmm...heaven!
Used to love squirrel when I was a kid. I haven’t had it in over 50 years now, so I wonder if I’d still like it. When I was young I was BAD for back talking. My Mom used to tell me that she hoped one day I had a kid that back talked me like I did her. My son paid me back in spades. Now people wouldn’t believe he was capable of it, he’s so polite and so good to me. But he had a mouth worse than mine and I didn’t think that was possible!
@@heatnicoleher I am so sorry you lost family members to cliff jumping. As a child we would take fish finders in the boat and go under the cliffs to identify depth, rocks, etc. There are smart ways to cliff jump into water sources. Can't say never cliff jump, just do it wisely.
I lived about 30 minutes away from Chattanooga so we constantly went to Rock City and Ruby Falls and my mom's absolute favorite part of Rock City is those dang blacklight dioramas!
The black light fairy scenessat Rock City! My favorite part of the trip when I was little! and they're still there! My parents were living in Chattanooga in the late 1940s and early 1950s, when I was born. North Carolina relatives would visit and want to go to Rock City. Dad finally asked for a pass because he brought so many visitors!
Oh gosh, hearing the story of the blacklight paint fairytale characters.....lol I still sometimes think about this experience. I was about, maybe eight-years-old, and we went to Idlewild park in PA. My family was going to watch some show involving a "gorilla". I was scared and didn't want to go. This was in the 80s and I had a wild imagination. Well, I was told I had to go with the rest or I couldn't ride any rides, so, I reluctantly went. It was in a tent and there was some woman dressed in old type Tarzan attire, they put her in a cage and something was being said. I closed my eyes through most of it. When I did venture to open my eyes, she had "turned into a gorilla", was out of the cage and jumped into the crowd, snarling. That was the only time in my life I almost fainted. I felt myself going down but then saw a bunch of people running out of the tent. I took off as fast as I could go and ran and ran until I felt I was a safe distance away. I then stopped and waited for my family. When they found me, I was told if I was that scared I should have said something.....I had. 🙄 Ah, the 80s. 🙄 Many years later we went on a preschool trip there with my oldest. I don't believe that act was still a thing. Even if it had been, I definitely wouldn't have made her go. By the way, a few years after the "woman/gorilla transformation", I saw a real gorilla at a zoo. He was so much bigger but I wasn't afraid. Of course I was older and he wasn't loose. Lol!
The mile high swinging bridge on Grandfather's Mountain use to be held with ropes and my dad would get that bridge to do so serious swinging but now it is all steel and aluminum. Not as much fun to swing anymore but still fun to watch the newbies tip toeing across it though.
Squirrel is GOOOOD. I have a bamboo spear I made and I wack em off the fence in my backyard and skewer them. Well when I’m quick enough anyway, which has only been 3 times. Throw that on the grill or chop it and put it in a sandwich. I always clean and boil the innards for the dog too. She loves that.
You...you talked back to your grandmother? How are you still alive?! I only once talked back to my mother and that was at 200 feet and she still heard me! All grandma had to do was look at me and I got scared! Still miss her though, that woman was amazing.
That was great. I went to Rock City as a child, but didn’t remember it until this video. I was probably about 6. I moved to Seattle when I was 8. I’m 35 now. I didn’t know what it was called, but I remembered it was in Chattanooga. The descriptions given by these southerners helped trigger those memories. Thank you for putting a name to a childhood memory! Now I can go back some day and make new, more vivid memories. :)
Oh my gosh! 😂 the rock City question got me! I felt him when he was talking about being scared of the fairytale characters that glowed in the dark! The hole in the cliff with the rainbow windows were my favorite! The gnome in the mine cart was the worst!
Oh my word. My family traveled across the country when I was three moving from one side to the other and we did some sight seeing along the way. I also thought this was just a nightmare I had as a kid literally until I watched this video. I knew we went "spelunking" on that trip, I just didn't realize where it was until now.
Yeah, see, it's always the "getting back up" that gets you. Jumping off a cliff into a lake... talking back to grandma... gettin' back up is that hard part.
A teacher at my wife's school went cliff diving in Italy once. My kids still refer to her as "the broken teacher." She's fine now, but they had to reconstruct the bones in her legs. It wasn't fun.
I've only been to Rock City at night for Christmas. Except for once as a small child with my Grandmother and her grade school class which I can hardly remember. Sometimes when looking at the fairy tale scenes I would wonder how many of the stalactites and stalagmites were broken off and stolen from Ruby Falls and then mortared in.
When I was a kid in the 70's and 80's, my dad was an avid hunter of squirrels. My mom, dad, and brother ate fried squirrel several times a year. I was the only one who never really cared for it.
I’ve not seen/heard an advertisement for a product state that it gives “kitchen confidence” in a modern context. Only in like Victorian/Edwardian era. Way to stay on brand, Pioneer!
I talked back and got in an argument with my Mom once... when I was a teenager and I was involved in a serious car wreck later that day!!!...Totaled my car and got banged up but I survived it!!! ...Was it a coincidence???...I never crossed that line again!!! ( that's for sure) I see little kids in grocery stores talking back.... saying all sorts of nasty things to their moms ...and I think to myself.." Yep its just a matter of time.. those little rascal are cruising for a bruising"... I can't ever imagine anybody hitting or cursing out their mom or abusing them....those people probably will come up dead or missing or wind up in a bad..bad..way in life!!!
It's good to see somebody finally from Tennessee represented in your group (although she sounds like she's from the city or a transplant, so that don't count). She talks right ever once in a while. I'm surprised she didn't mention the Incline when talking about Rock City. For some of these questions, I'd need a "HELL NO" side to hold up.
I loved that cave in Rock City as a kid!! It was one of my best vacations with my parents and grandparents....ya know other than Disney World lol. Probably why I loved gothic fantasy things growing up.
My dad hunted and ate squirrel. But, as kids, we had a couple of pet squirrels, and I've since fostered one. So, Squirrel is not on the menu here. RE: Fried Chicken. Luke, you can fix awesome fried chicken using the indespensible cast iron skillet. It's all in the amount and temperature of the oil and timing.
I loved the squirrel dumplings my wife made back in the day that I squirrel hunted. But I had to turn my back on the squirrels a friend's mother brought to the table...heads in tact. No can do on that one. Yes, I have talked back to my mama and for my effort, I received something in return...a backhand. Never rode a mechanical bull, but hopped off a shed onto the back of a young steer once. It seemed like a good idea at the time...but it wasn't. 1.5 seconds later, I was draped over a fence looking like a rag doll. Yes on the jumping off a cliff into a lake as well as into a river. Never jumped off a bridge, but we did have a rope swing attached to a bridge and would swing out and drop into the river below. Yes, on the catching of fish...and have done so for over 65 yrs. now. Have also caught turtles and snakes (unintentionally) while fishing. Fired chicken? Oh, come on. What Southerner hasn't? Yes, on Rock City. I live about 45 minutes from there.
Caught a fish. Lost lots of expensive lures. Broke some fishing poles. Almost got run over by a huge ship while operating a small Boston Whaler. No fish caught.
I vaguely remember seeing Rock City as a kid when we went to visit relatives in southern Georgia. Also Ruby Falls, which I visited again last summer as my route on a motorcycle road trip took me through the area and I wanted to see how the tour compared to what I remembered from the early 1980s.
"Cotton Eyed Joe"! Lol! I haven't had the opportunity to try a mechanical bull, probably wouldn't do it now, but we've definitely had that song at bars for years! Lol! (Well, I guess they still do, been several years since I've been to a bar. Lol!)
I am a born and raised New England Yankee, damnyankee to most from the South, and I am surprised at how many of these things I have done. It should be noted that I grew up in a farming community and have spent a fair part of my adult life in the West ("home" will always be New England: the place, not the idiots who moved in and ruined it and certainly not the politicians [I will refrain from describing them as women and children may read these comments]).
Jumping off a Cliff into the Water, One of my Schoolmates Brother is Paralyzed for Life Doing that, A Stump was under the Water that couldn't be seen............
My dad and uncle used to take all the kids fishing. We would catch fish but they always told us, “throw ‘em back, you can’t eat those. They’re trash fish.” I caught lots but never ate them. I was 24 and out to lunch with coworkers. They had all those “trash fish” on the menu. Turns out my father and uncle didn’t like cleaning fish.
I don't even remember the reason or the situation I talked back to my Mom, but the whole world suddenly went completely silent and she just looked at me with that poker face she had and I immediately started crying and apologizing.
Have I ever?.....eatin' a squirrel? Yes one time, I'll never eat another one if I don't have to! / Talked back to your Momma? I'm ashamed to say it but, yes I have. / Rode a mechanical bull? Nope! Have no plan to either. / Jumped off a cliff or a bridge into a lake? No way! I hate swimmin' in lakes anyway. / Caught a fish? Yes! I love to go fishin'! In a boat, off a pier, or shore side, I love it! / Fried chicken? Yes, but my husband makes better fried chicken..😉/ Been to Rock City? Not that I recall. I have been to Little Rock 😁/ I love this channel! Y'all are great!
I think what you experience depends on if you were raised in the country or the city. I’ve only lived in big cities in the South ( ATL, NOLA, Charlotte, Louisville, Nashville ).
Never rode a mechanical bull, though I could probably be talked into it with enough liquid encouragement. I've jumped off things into water, but I'm not sure I ever jumped off a bridge. Quite possibly. I was once at a city pool in North Central Alabama and they had the highest diving board I've ever seen. I was 9 and when I finally got to the top I realized I was TERRIFIED of heights. Nevertheless, I jumped. How high was the diving board? High enough that a kid a few behind me was able to miss the entire pool! Yeahhh ... that diving board got taken down. I think I've done everything else. Talked back to my mother? Yep. Probably still have the hand-print to prove it, LOL.
Thanks. It's been a rough week and when I saw an "Ain't never done that" I was thank God. And you didn't disappoint. Oh yeah I've cooked professionally and unless you're a mom from the South (maybe Midwest) the only way to fry chicken is with a fryer
Jumped off many a bridge into the creek, lake, and river. In south Louisiana there was a lot of swimming in creeks that had plenty of gators. In Louisiana, we do “southern” with an added dose of danger! 🐊 🦞
Yaaaayyy, "Chattanooga, 'The *SCENIC* City of the South'"! ..."Rock City;" "Lookout Mountain," where u *can* see 7 states from; "Ruby Falls;" etc!👌😉 I used to live in Chattanooga...for a total of 10 yrs! GOOD memories❣️👌😍
The most southern thing about this video is how they each have a 10 minute long story to go with every single one of their answers.
You know you're southern if you have a 10 minute "minimum" story for every question. I love being southern.
SO TRUE.
And I expect to hear the story, too. That's just part of socializing. And if it's family, you can be IN THE STORY, but you're still gonna hear it again. 😂😂😂
Sorry can’t help it I feel like I can’t explain something the best way unless there’s a minimum 10 minute story to go a long with it
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I'm 50, born, raised and living in GA. I've done everything mentioned in this video. Many times more than once.
I know it's y'all's sponsor...but you can't be truly a Southerner if you making gravy outta a packet! My word! 😂😂😂
Nikki Davidson hell no ! How hard is it to mix floor in with a little warm grease and add milk ! At 10 years old I could make gravy !
Not every southerner likes gravy...
Gene Stamey I only like breakfast gravy and chocolate gravy.
Nora D I had gravy this morning .
Even southerners like fast food sometimes! Lol
And that’s the difference. We southerners feel BAD that we’ve talked back to our mommas! 😂💞
You feel bad, we Asians would have all gone to coma for doing that.
My mother grew up during the Depression. Her father hunted squirrel and other critters to help keep food on the table. Mom ultimately learned to avoid the heartbreak of naming her grandmother's chickens which eventually ended up on the dinner table.
Oh my gosh! Bearville!! I used to LOVE that game!!
I can't eat pets either but as long as I remind myself they are food not pets I'm ok.
"oh you tryin' to die?!" 😂 Pretty much.
My Daddy always hunted squirrel and my Mama cooked it for him until I was born (I had 2 older brothers). I remember I was about 3 years old, and it was a Saturday morning Daddy was at the table and I sat down and saw 3 fried squirrels at the center of the table. I started bawling, "Daddy ate my friends" at the top of my lungs. Mama told Daddy if he wanted any more squirrel he would have to get his Mama to cook them for him. LOL!
I lived with my grandparents and my granddaddy went out with the shotgun when we went to go catch the school bus .. fried "chicken" for supper lol .. cornbread, pinto beans, and squirrel or rabbit for supper .. I wasn't allowed in one shed but got sent in there once and saw the skins .. they just don't always tell me what they REALLY feeding me lol
@Winston Smith Oooh, big man whupping up on a little girl who didn't know any better. It wasn't like it was during the Depression, it was something he still wanted to eat every so often from his childhood.
@Winston Smith Again I think you missed the point. The squirrel was cooked for my dad only not for the family. So why would my dad or mom whup me? I don't understand your logic at all. That's the reason my mom told my dad if he wanted it in the future to have his mom cook it for him. My grandmother didn't even cook it for my uncles. So why you would beat me for not eating something that no one was eating but my dad doesn't make sense.
@Winston Smith I never disobeyed my parents or even not eat what placed before me if that is what you are trying to state from your post. My parents were very loving people when it came to the cycle of life on the farm even though I was very attached to animals and they had to go to slaughter especially the hogs. But your attitude of beating a 3 year old because that's the first time she saw cooked squirrel that she considered as friends which her Daddy was eating is harsh to say the least.
@Winston Smith No one forces me to eat what I don't want. I'm vegetarian/vegan and if I don't want what's on the table I make a peanut butter sandwich or do without. My grandmother raised me & she respected this since I went veg when I was 19. I'm 53 now & respect includes recognizing someone's right to not eat what causes them bad feelings.
I ain’t never skipped a It’s a Southern Thing video!
"Oh you trying to die"
No lie, I said the same thing to a coworker the other day when they were talking about doing something crazy.
I still remember the slap my momma gave me when I talked back to her at 16 and that was over 30 years ago.
Marla's Crafty talking back to grandma is just asking to die
I had to go to enroll for school with a handprint on my face after i thought i could backtalk my mother, i was going into the 5th grade..ive never talked back to my grandparents, ever. Lol
When I was 33, I told my mama I could handle my right to vote without her advice. I still have anxiety remembering how she looked at me for talking back.
Seriously?
@@mplwy you had to know my mother!
I wouldn't say that's talking back, depending how you said it, plus you're 33, not an child anymore.
Shame on you!
Squirrel taste like squirrel, just like chicken taste like chicken.
Its good..but not enough of it..and you have to eat like ten ot twelve of them with lots of biscuits and gravy and potatoes and onions to get full!!!...Not really worth the trouble and they are boney too!!!...
i woulda said it tastes more like gamey rabbit than chicken
Y’all are sassy talking back to your mammas! 😂
"I had a country cousin..." sounds like an excuse you always need to have in your arsenal.
“now i have a daughter and i’m really going to get it”
yup yup yup
i have two daughters who def are like i was and i’m paying for my raising
seen rock city like a hundred times lol , i’m from chattanooga ❤️ love it
Love this video! I love the story about her Dad leaving Destin and driving back to Tennessee! That’s the way parents used to be...if the said it they meant it! Nothing like today’s parents that think their children should be their best friends.
Look out mountain. See seven states,...if the clouds don’t block the view.
Right here in my neck of the woods and it's absolutely beautiful. Yes it is 🙂
Sounds like it looks amazing.
"Oh you tryin to die" LMAO!!!
When I was a kid, we would travel to Florida for vacation and the two places I always looked forward to stopping at were Pedro's South of the Border and any Stuckeys .
Pedro's for firecrackers and Stuckeys for their pecan logs ...yum.
I remember seeing the Rock City billboards but never got to see it.
Lord, we had to stop at every Stuckey's for pecan logs.
@@michaelcsteffens LOL, you bet.
That's a Southern tradition
I ate beans for the first 5 yrs of my life. When my dad came home bc with a catfish, a rabbit, or a squirrel it was like a feast. My mom believed everything need to be very well done. When she fried squirrel it tasted and had the texture of chicken gizzards.
Y’all are amazing
You dont have to get on a boat to catch a fish. I am scared of boats as well but I fish.
Yes. Sugarcane pole or bamboo pole with line tied at the tip. All sorts of low cost or no cost baits. From the shore or pier.
Yep. Ended Used to take the bus with a homeless guy who had a pole and a cooler. He made his money catching catfish, and then sold the catfish straight to the local seafood restaurants. He said it was good money, at least by homeless people standards.
Squirrel tastes like DRY chicken. It’s also inexplicably “greasy” somehow. 😥🤷♀️
My family came from the mountains. I had all the southern “delicacies.” 😂
I used to walk with my grandma down the highway while she hunted for and picked poke salad. (“Pokesallat”) I never understood why she didn’t just plant some in her garden.
babydollgoddess the fun is in the hunt in’. 😉
Because pokeweed will take over. It's not as bad as Kudzu but it can see it from there.
Of course I have been to Rock City 4 times. Stayed in the Read House in Chattanooga and took the walk to the Aquarium. It's a nice addition to a trip there. They treat you right. Love older historic hotels. been to Destin, went out fishing from there. I have been to PCB many times...even back when there was NO motel more than 2 stories high and areas of beach with NO hotels, just dunes. Those were the fun days, college kids walking across the little street to the stores. One year, I went down with my college friends, found out mom and dad were two motels down the beach from us. My sister's high school break was the same time. Dad called me to his room to see me... out of a game of hearts and some 7 and 7s. I straightened myself up and went in to see him. He just wanted to make sure I had enough money. I thought I was handling myself just fine, but I remember momma (bless her soul) was sitting on the chair in the room with her head on her hands staring at the floor. I guess I wasn't fooling anybody. Now PCB is all condos and can't even tell where PC ends and PCB starts. Destin was a quiet fishing village in those days. And yes... I have grandkids and still call mother "momma".
Next time I’m back home, I should go back to Rock City and Lookout Mountain. Did that as a kid and it was fun! Love your videos!!
Fried Chicken. Skin on, Batter Dip twice, Cast Iron skillet, plenty of lard, cooked at high temperature. The way my mama taught me.
PLEASE don't cliff jump.
My sister in laws brother died doing that, and he was familiar with that jump.
It's not worth your life or the pain it will cause your family.
Yep. At the age of 16, my good friend did that & died-broke his neck. So terrible!
Sorry for your loss
That is tragic. I'm so sorry.
Yep. Growing up in the northeast US (though spending a lot of summertime visiting family near Tallahassee as well) there were always old flooded quarries or strip mine pits, and even a few gorges and various news reports of rescues and fatalities from it.
FYI, you have a better chance dying from getting hit by a car than dying from cliff jumping.
Why on earth would anyone think eating squirrel is strange, it's the south for Lord's sake! Tons of hunters! Cook the meat of the bones, slow simmer with onions and carrots and potatoes, rich brown gravy, served over rice..mmmmmmm...heaven!
Squirrels, rabbits, deer....we eat it all!
Squirrel and dumplings oh my so good !
Johnny Barger, truth!
I know people who have eaten racoon🤢
Garnet Fusion my grandma baked them with sweet potatoes. It’s ok , don’t try eating very much
Used to love squirrel when I was a kid. I haven’t had it in over 50 years now, so I wonder if I’d still like it.
When I was young I was BAD for back talking. My Mom used to tell me that she hoped one day I had a kid that back talked me like I did her. My son paid me back in spades. Now people wouldn’t believe he was capable of it, he’s so polite and so good to me. But he had a mouth worse than mine and I didn’t think that was possible!
No lie, the worst part of jumping off a cliff into the water is having to climb back up.
Dying. Dying is the worst part.
@@heatnicoleher I am so sorry you lost family members to cliff jumping. As a child we would take fish finders in the boat and go under the cliffs to identify depth, rocks, etc. There are smart ways to cliff jump into water sources. Can't say never cliff jump, just do it wisely.
Finally, an episode where I've done every one! I'm quite proud of that. GRITS unite!
I lived about 30 minutes away from Chattanooga so we constantly went to Rock City and Ruby Falls and my mom's absolute favorite part of Rock City is those dang blacklight dioramas!
Sometimes when I go fishing, I don’t even bait the hook. I just relax in my camping chair next to a well stocked cooler.
The black light fairy scenessat Rock City! My favorite part of the trip when I was little! and they're still there! My parents were living in Chattanooga in the late 1940s and early 1950s, when I was born. North Carolina relatives would visit and want to go to Rock City. Dad finally asked for a pass because he brought so many visitors!
Talking back to your Mama is a death wish! You people are lucky to be ALIVE!
Doing it to Gram Gram is EVEN worse !
Oh gosh, hearing the story of the blacklight paint fairytale characters.....lol I still sometimes think about this experience. I was about, maybe eight-years-old, and we went to Idlewild park in PA. My family was going to watch some show involving a "gorilla". I was scared and didn't want to go. This was in the 80s and I had a wild imagination. Well, I was told I had to go with the rest or I couldn't ride any rides, so, I reluctantly went. It was in a tent and there was some woman dressed in old type Tarzan attire, they put her in a cage and something was being said. I closed my eyes through most of it. When I did venture to open my eyes, she had "turned into a gorilla", was out of the cage and jumped into the crowd, snarling. That was the only time in my life I almost fainted. I felt myself going down but then saw a bunch of people running out of the tent. I took off as fast as I could go and ran and ran until I felt I was a safe distance away. I then stopped and waited for my family. When they found me, I was told if I was that scared I should have said something.....I had. 🙄 Ah, the 80s. 🙄 Many years later we went on a preschool trip there with my oldest. I don't believe that act was still a thing. Even if it had been, I definitely wouldn't have made her go. By the way, a few years after the "woman/gorilla transformation", I saw a real gorilla at a zoo. He was so much bigger but I wasn't afraid. Of course I was older and he wasn't loose. Lol!
The mile high swinging bridge on Grandfather's Mountain use to be held with ropes and my dad would get that bridge to do so serious swinging but now it is all steel and aluminum. Not as much fun to swing anymore but still fun to watch the newbies tip toeing across it though.
Loved this & need to have all the people that was in this one more often!! Love them all 👍
Squirrel is GOOOOD. I have a bamboo spear I made and I wack em off the fence in my backyard and skewer them. Well when I’m quick enough anyway, which has only been 3 times. Throw that on the grill or chop it and put it in a sandwich. I always clean and boil the innards for the dog too. She loves that.
“give us a minute, we bondin’ “ 😂
Don't talk back to your mama or abuela! That's a no no. Also, squirrels are cute. Malabar giant squirrels are pretty
Squirrels are cute. They are delicious too...
I bet giant squirrels have some good meat on them
They are cute till they start eating your sweet corn, then they are a tree rat! Boom!
You...you talked back to your grandmother? How are you still alive?! I only once talked back to my mother and that was at 200 feet and she still heard me! All grandma had to do was look at me and I got scared! Still miss her though, that woman was amazing.
That was great. I went to Rock City as a child, but didn’t remember it until this video. I was probably about 6. I moved to Seattle when I was 8. I’m 35 now. I didn’t know what it was called, but I remembered it was in Chattanooga. The descriptions given by these southerners helped trigger those memories. Thank you for putting a name to a childhood memory! Now I can go back some day and make new, more vivid memories. :)
Oh my gosh! 😂 the rock City question got me! I felt him when he was talking about being scared of the fairytale characters that glowed in the dark! The hole in the cliff with the rainbow windows were my favorite! The gnome in the mine cart was the worst!
One of the most vivid memories of mine from Rock City is that Mine Cart Gnome
Oh my word.
My family traveled across the country when I was three moving from one side to the other and we did some sight seeing along the way.
I also thought this was just a nightmare I had as a kid literally until I watched this video. I knew we went "spelunking" on that trip, I just didn't realize where it was until now.
“Oh you tryin to die.. you skippin levels” that had me rollin laughing
This is nothing like some of the Never Have I Ever contests I've been in ... but that's probably a good thing. Yeah, it is.
Yeah, see, it's always the "getting back up" that gets you. Jumping off a cliff into a lake... talking back to grandma... gettin' back up is that hard part.
A teacher at my wife's school went cliff diving in Italy once. My kids still refer to her as "the broken teacher." She's fine now, but they had to reconstruct the bones in her legs. It wasn't fun.
I've only been to Rock City at night for Christmas. Except for once as a small child with my Grandmother and her grade school class which I can hardly remember. Sometimes when looking at the fairy tale scenes I would wonder how many of the stalactites and stalagmites were broken off and stolen from Ruby Falls and then mortared in.
When I was a kid in the 70's and 80's, my dad was an avid hunter of squirrels. My mom, dad, and brother ate fried squirrel several times a year. I was the only one who never really cared for it.
I’ve not seen/heard an advertisement for a product state that it gives “kitchen confidence” in a modern context. Only in like Victorian/Edwardian era. Way to stay on brand, Pioneer!
I talked back and got in an argument with my Mom once... when I was a teenager and I was involved in a serious car wreck later that day!!!...Totaled my car and got banged up but I survived it!!! ...Was it a coincidence???...I never crossed that line again!!! ( that's for sure) I see little kids in grocery stores talking back.... saying all sorts of nasty things to their moms ...and I think to myself.." Yep its just a matter of time.. those little rascal are cruising for a bruising"... I can't ever imagine anybody hitting or cursing out their mom or abusing them....those people probably will come up dead or missing or wind up in a bad..bad..way in life!!!
It's good to see somebody finally from Tennessee represented in your group (although she sounds like she's from the city or a transplant, so that don't count). She talks right ever once in a while. I'm surprised she didn't mention the Incline when talking about Rock City.
For some of these questions, I'd need a "HELL NO" side to hold up.
I loved that cave in Rock City as a kid!! It was one of my best vacations with my parents and grandparents....ya know other than Disney World lol. Probably why I loved gothic fantasy things growing up.
My dad hunted and ate squirrel. But, as kids, we had a couple of pet squirrels, and I've since fostered one. So, Squirrel is not on the menu here.
RE: Fried Chicken. Luke, you can fix awesome fried chicken using the indespensible cast iron skillet. It's all in the amount and temperature of the oil and timing.
I loved the squirrel dumplings my wife made back in the day that I squirrel hunted. But I had to turn my back on the squirrels a friend's mother brought to the table...heads in tact. No can do on that one.
Yes, I have talked back to my mama and for my effort, I received something in return...a backhand.
Never rode a mechanical bull, but hopped off a shed onto the back of a young steer once. It seemed like a good idea at the time...but it wasn't. 1.5 seconds later, I was draped over a fence looking like a rag doll.
Yes on the jumping off a cliff into a lake as well as into a river. Never jumped off a bridge, but we did have a rope swing attached to a bridge and would swing out and drop into the river below.
Yes, on the catching of fish...and have done so for over 65 yrs. now. Have also caught turtles and snakes (unintentionally) while fishing.
Fired chicken? Oh, come on. What Southerner hasn't?
Yes, on Rock City. I live about 45 minutes from there.
Caught a fish.
Lost lots of expensive lures.
Broke some fishing poles.
Almost got run over by a huge ship while operating a small Boston Whaler. No fish caught.
That swinging bridge at Rock City is scary AF.
I vaguely remember seeing Rock City as a kid when we went to visit relatives in southern Georgia. Also Ruby Falls, which I visited again last summer as my route on a motorcycle road trip took me through the area and I wanted to see how the tour compared to what I remembered from the early 1980s.
I been to Ruby Falls .. Amazing. Gonna have to go see Rock City now
"Cotton Eyed Joe"! Lol! I haven't had the opportunity to try a mechanical bull, probably wouldn't do it now, but we've definitely had that song at bars for years! Lol! (Well, I guess they still do, been several years since I've been to a bar. Lol!)
Chef John Folse in his Encyclopedia do Cajun and Creole Cuisine has a recipe for squirrel gumbo. Haven’t had it, but everything he cooks is amazing.
Squirrel is good eat'n.
Yes, it's just a cute rat with a better diet.
Tree rats
Hahahahaha
Had me rolling with laughter when the guy and lady made the joke about saying that they ain't never fried chicken.
I’ve done everything except the bull riding. And I’m with Luke about the crazy cave at Rock City...that was trippy!
I remember jumped off a 12 foot cliff into a lake. It was exciting even though my back was stinging from hittin the water so hard 😆
I am a born and raised New England Yankee, damnyankee to most from the South, and I am surprised at how many of these things I have done. It should be noted that I grew up in a farming community and have spent a fair part of my adult life in the West ("home" will always be New England: the place, not the idiots who moved in and ruined it and certainly not the politicians [I will refrain from describing them as women and children may read these comments]).
We all just talked back once😂
Not so much talked back unless you consider arguing as a teen 😁. Mom has super powers when she's pissed 🤷
Only thing I haven't done was eat a squirrel, but knowing my family... I have and didn't know it 😕
Rock City!!! I miss living in Chattanooga. Don't forget Ruby Falls and the Inclined Railroad!
Once again, like the last one, I am from rural Michigan and have done every single one of these. TIL Michigan is southern.
Jumping off a Cliff into the Water, One of my Schoolmates Brother is Paralyzed for Life Doing that, A Stump was under the Water that couldn't be seen............
I went to school with someone who did that. He used to play baseball. After that his brother pushed him around in his wheelchair ☹️
For people in Alabama, Lake Martin Chimney Rock. I was at a family reunion
"Big enough to walk, big enough to go fishing".
My dad
My great grandma in Tennessee used to eat squirrel, of course not anymore, she's 87.
I talked back to my Mom once. I was three. I learned that particular lesson very quickly.
My dad and uncle used to take all the kids fishing. We would catch fish but they always told us, “throw ‘em back, you can’t eat those. They’re trash fish.” I caught lots but never ate them. I was 24 and out to lunch with coworkers. They had all those “trash fish” on the menu. Turns out my father and uncle didn’t like cleaning fish.
I am VERY proud of the fact that the six times I rod a mechanical bull I have never fallen of
I don't even remember the reason or the situation I talked back to my Mom, but the whole world suddenly went completely silent and she just looked at me with that poker face she had and I immediately started crying and apologizing.
I have eaten squirrel, racoon, rabbit, rattlesnake, goat hash, bear, deer, turtle & many other critters. I draw the line at possum & chittling!!
Couldn't believe the dude sassed his granmama unreal
Yup,that's All Ya'll! Watch this hold my beer!?! LOL!
Squirrel and dumplins was one of my grandmas favortie dishes to make up
From Arkansas here and I love all y’all !
Hey! I live in Chattanooga, Tennessee. I love this.
Have I ever?.....eatin' a squirrel? Yes one time, I'll never eat another one if I don't have to! / Talked back to your Momma? I'm ashamed to say it but, yes I have. / Rode a mechanical bull? Nope! Have no plan to either. / Jumped off a cliff or a bridge into a lake? No way! I hate swimmin' in lakes anyway. / Caught a fish? Yes! I love to go fishin'! In a boat, off a pier, or shore side, I love it! / Fried chicken? Yes, but my husband makes better fried chicken..😉/ Been to Rock City? Not that I recall. I have been to Little Rock 😁/ I love this channel! Y'all are great!
The Cross Eyed Cricket!! I remember that place!!!!💜💜💜
I'm not saying I talked back to my mom, I'm just saying that I do know what dial soap tastes like
Yep, I remember my mum washing my mouth out with soap on a few occasions
I think what you experience depends on if you were raised in the country or the city. I’ve only lived in big cities in the South ( ATL, NOLA, Charlotte, Louisville, Nashville ).
Never rode a mechanical bull, though I could probably be talked into it with enough liquid encouragement.
I've jumped off things into water, but I'm not sure I ever jumped off a bridge. Quite possibly. I was once at a city pool in North Central Alabama and they had the highest diving board I've ever seen. I was 9 and when I finally got to the top I realized I was TERRIFIED of heights. Nevertheless, I jumped. How high was the diving board? High enough that a kid a few behind me was able to miss the entire pool! Yeahhh ... that diving board got taken down.
I think I've done everything else.
Talked back to my mother? Yep. Probably still have the hand-print to prove it, LOL.
Squirrel and rabbits...southern quizine and don't forget the turtle soup, yum yum!
Love this channel
Thanks. It's been a rough week and when I saw an "Ain't never done that" I was thank God. And you didn't disappoint. Oh yeah I've cooked professionally and unless you're a mom from the South (maybe Midwest) the only way to fry chicken is with a fryer
Squirrel brains scrambled with eggs.
I'm from Montevallo, Alabama .. I think we have all jumped in =P Small world for sure.
Squirrel and dumplings and squirrel cabbage number two of my favorite meals
Jumped off many a bridge into the creek, lake, and river. In south Louisiana there was a lot of swimming in creeks that had plenty of gators. In Louisiana, we do “southern” with an added dose of danger! 🐊 🦞
"I talked back to her on Tuesday, I woke up about Monday."
"You tryin' ta die" amen.. never talk back to Gran, she'll end ya
Yaaaayyy, "Chattanooga, 'The *SCENIC* City of the South'"! ..."Rock City;" "Lookout Mountain," where u *can* see 7 states from; "Ruby Falls;" etc!👌😉
I used to live in Chattanooga...for a total of 10 yrs! GOOD memories❣️👌😍