Let's discuss: vegetable plates, in the South
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- Now listen, I don't know the people in charge of officially categorizing vegetables and non-vegetables but in the South, "vegetable" has a much looser meaning. Here, a vegetable can be anything that is not explicitly a meat. You could use vegetable in the place of the word "side."
What is on your list of vegetables that are not vegetables? And do you love a "vegetable plate?"
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When I moved to SC many moons ago, a gal told me she could live on a vegetable plate. I thought this odd since she wasn't a vegetarian. Now, I can live on a vegetable plate!!!
That’s how I was raised! Basically ANY “side dish” if not entirely meat…vegetable!
I love this!!
Squash casserole- definitely vegetable in all of it’s crusty, cheesy, ooey gooey goodness. Fried okra, corn pudding, and broccoli salad (with cheddar cheese and crumbled bacon) are some I didn’t hear mentioned. Here’s to HEALTHY appetites!!
My squash casserole has no cheese in it
The homemade vs canned cranberry is so true I almost watch the fight over it between my mother-in-law and sister-in-law one thanksgiving. 😆
I like to bridge the gap between the two by starting with canned and adding stuff to "fancy it up", like chopped toasted pecans and/or orange zest or marmalade.
Mac & cheese is absolutely a vegetable!! That's my logic too 😂
Amen. In our family, butter is a vegetable as well. Also, at our family gatherings there's always about 6 kinds of beans: pinto beans with ham, navy beans with ham, lima beans, black eyed peas, slow cooked green beans with bacon grease and seasoning salt, green beans with sliced potatoes, baked beans and then a 5 bean salad with celery and mayo. Most of the beans are served over or next to a huge slice of sweet corn bread.
And in my family gravy is a beverage!
Desserts can also be vegetables like peach cobbler
I love the way you think. I’m expanding my vegetarianism. Thank you❣️
I love how you’re documenting all these little details of southern culture. I haven’t had a vegetable plate in a while!
Have to have fried okra and squash casserole for my vegetable plate!
Hash brown potato casserole (known in my family as Jesse’s Funeral Potatoes), sweet potatoes with pecans on top battling with the classic sweet taters with toasted mini marshmallows, purple hull peas with Aunt Mary’s chili sauce, Kentucky Wonder green beans, and Bradley tomatoes since my grandfather Johnson started growing pink tomatoes in the 1930’s.
Possibly the weirdest American food thing I’ve ever heard of is marshmallows on savoury dishes. Seems very strange. Wonder who came up with that combination. Putting a sweet with vegetables.
I’m reminded of the funeral hot dish served in Minnesota and nearby states. ( hot dish is the same as casserole )
It’s made with macaroni and ground beef and some other goodies. Vegetable? You be the judge.
I’m not Southern at all, but I once nearly lost my place at the table when I dared to suggest that I would be happy to make scalloped potatoes from scratch. You don’t say that in a Betty Crocker family. Apparently.
Just got back from our annual reunion in Nokomis, IL
LOTS of vegetables, many with marshmallows
I fear for any vegans in the south
Funeral potato (scalloped with cheese and ham chunks) definitely a Vegetable Thing.
In Texas, we consider salsa a vegetable. Also I'm Team Canned Cranberry.
Just one additional rule: NO LIMA BEANS. Yech. Gross. Doesn't even improve it when you call them butter beans. 🤮 But baked beans! With brown sugar and worcestershire sauce! Divine. And cream corn and hominy. Mmmmm.
Squash casserole, broccoli rice casserole, corn casserole, sweet potato casserole, black eyed peas and cornbread, cream peas, rolls, baby butter beans
Fried okra (or okree as my mamaw would say lol), collard greens, mac n cheese, creamed corn, homegrown maters and a piece of cornbread (buttered of course)... then there's round two .... ☺
Vegetable plate is the first course…..
any suggestions on okra tomato recipe?
I saw no POTATO SALAD !!! #ASin
I'm missing any sight or mention of collards... or will greens be their own topic? 😂❤
When the line is long at the reunions I just go straight to the desert table and start there because we all now that you fix your plate planning for the desert table plate. They only laugh once now several cousins meet me at the desert table first.
I would eat every bit of that no matter what you call it! 😁😀
Looked like a dang good vegetable plate to me! Love me a good veggie plate with everything that was there! Starches definitely count as a vegetable! 😂
But I can hear my momma now. Where's the meat? She always had to have meat of some sort on her plate. When I'd tell her I didn't, she was horrified like she'd seen a ghost! 😱
LOL! Nailed it!! 😂
Yes Lord.
In the diners around Charlotte we call it a vegetable plate when you choose four sides to make a lunch. You get a roll or a biscuit, and one butter pat.
Additional pats cost ten cents.
if you want a meat and three, that means one of the vegetables is replaced by Salisbury steak or meat loaf (I don't recommend).
💯 in agreement!
Landon, you MUST discuss pear salad and peaches pickles!!!
I’ve mentioned pear salad before, but you’re right- it probably deserves its own discussion 😅
I totally agree that both canned and homemade cranberry sauce must be offered to avoid conflict. I stand firmly in the canned cranberry camp, but as I've matured I have gained a tolerance for the homemade cranberry sauce camp...as long as canned is also served, of course.
Deviled eggs, mashed potatoes, Mac and cheese, slaw, baked beans, and a hot roll with butter. Mmmm…now I’m hungry!
I forgot to add potato salad to my plate!! I woke up just after midnight and realized that. 😂
Yep, you got it! And who needs meat when you have veggies like that?!
Lima beans!!!! Yum! Now I need to know about the corn. Is it just put up corn, creamed corn, or some kind of corn casserole?
In the south we call them butterbeans, not Lima beans.
Pineapple casserole!! Gotta include it. Canned pineapple with shredded cheddar and crumbled Ritz crackers, plus sugar, flour, salt, and butter. Then you bake it, and it gets gooey and caramelized, and the crackers turn into an almost crumble streusel kinda thing! It shouldn’t work, the cheese should be a weird addition, but it totally works. It’s amazing and deserves a spot on a happy veggie plate.
Landon we need another voting bracket on sides.
That gets cooked?
@@Leslie-wb8cb baked!
My Sweet Potato Casserole is like DESSERT! Tastes like Sweet Potato Pie… only better (if that’s possible).
Okay it's official, I'm moving to the south. I have a very picky tummy, but a little STUFFING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE YEAR???? YES. that's all I need.
Ain’t no STUFFING in the South. 😎
Yep! Stuffing goes into the bird, and there's only so much space in there; so dressing it is, which is made in its own baking pan. That way, we can make enough to go around, coz everybody wants some!
Yes!!!!! My vegetable plate would have deviled eggs, lima beans/baked beans, jello salad and cornbread ❤😋
Beats any Vegetable plate we have in Wisconsin.
Well... I had to laugh. I had a very southern grandma and to her, yes this would probably be a vegetable plate. I may mention that she was diabetic and died way too young. 😢
I am also diabetic, cause crummy genes.. I would eat most of what's on this plate, except the Mac and cheese, lime beans cause they are a starch, and no dressing. But more or less, if in the south do as the southerners do... 😂
I’m totally down with this attitude… except for sweet tea. I can’t. I just can’t. 😅
@@mirandamom1346 sweet tea is all I drink year round
From Mississippi. So glad you mentioned congealed salad. I still make several different recipes of these on a regular basis. Good year round with anything. I make blueberry with sour cream/ cool whip/ pecan topping, sweet cherry, usually eaten with a dollop of mayo, strawberry/banana also with sour cream and cool whip topping, and apricot with a cooked custard and whipped cream topping. They all have crushed pineapple in the jello part which gives it body and tartness. I like something sweet to eat along with my meal and these are perfect. Also can be dessert.
you are absolutely and completely right on this one, Landon! In fact, I much prefer a vegetable plate over any other kind.
For the Veggie Plate at Threadgill's in Austin, Tx, I used to get Yellow Squash Casserole, Broccoli and Rice Casserole, and Hoppin' John (black eyed peas mixture). That with a side of Corn Bread. Heaven!!!
Last time I was at Threadgill’s, Janis Joplin was singing. Those were the days.
@@margarete6888 Now I live in Portland, OR and am a Flaming Vegan as my TX relatives call me. Older and wiser. But sometimes I crave some Big Brother and the Holding Company.
I am looking for some form of tomato to go with the corn bread and fried corn.... ? Seems a glaring omission. Or, is that a more middle soutn necessity. You are missing out on the lycopene for your health.
It's barely time for good tomatoes here, so I imagine that's the reason for the omission. Had one fresh out of the garden for lunch today, and it was truly special.
We’d already eaten our tomatoes before we realized we needed to take a picture, but it was present and accounted for! Even made an appearance for a fresh BLT for dinner last night 😉❤️
@@Landontalksalot well now I'm jealous!
Excellent idea- leftovers! I love it! I discovered I could make a healthy meal this way at any barbecue joint without the red meats! How about Baked brussels sprouts with garlic and herbs?? Would this qualify??
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I love this! I would have Sweet potatoes, Mac and Cheese, with Asparagus, and stuffing with cranberry sauce.
Rice and gravy is a vegetable too!
That is absolutely a vegetable plate. No need to question that at all!
Stuffed zucchini stuffed onions stuffed artichokes and the delicacy- zucchini blossoms deep fried!!! Yummola
Wisdom of the ages.
The only thing missin from that plate is beans & rice
Yes!
We call them sides...in Indiana. But my family is from the south.
I completely understand! A vegetable plate includes everything but meat and designated desserts(as in on the desert table). Sorry on the late comment ,but have been off social media for a bit and just catching up! Love your content..it makes me happy.
Oh my land ... Deviled egg 😍 is that baked corn or corn pudding? I'm down with either. Now what I see missing - and this might be a regional thing - no pickled eggs? I do love a delicious pickled egg with a little salt on top. That and a nice handful of potato chips and some baked beans (are there baked beans on there?) Is all I would add to that masterpiece.
I prefer a vegetable plate, such as the one you pictured. Could you just send me one exactly like yours! Have you tried boiled eggs with only hot sauce and bacon bits. No mayo..just hot sauce. They are wonderful also!
I'm from Indiana, and my plate would always be sliced tomatoes, cucumber and onions, deviled eggs, green onions, radishes, and bread & butter. Followed up with sliced melons!
Yep! I'm originally from Illinois, and if your summer plate didn't have cob corn, sliced tomatoes, and green beans from the garden you weren't livin'! We always had a drinking glass of water with green onions in them on the table, too!
I’m from Illinois and my summer plate is corn, melon (probably cantaloupe ), and tomatoes. At least 2 ears of corn.
I was always the only vegetarian and always got offered the vegetable plate but generally could never eat it because of some kind of ham product or gravy or something that had been made with chicken stock so I just never ate.
So many thoughts….all my grandparents never understood if you weren’t eating the ‘meat’ on your plate. How times have changed
My DIL would be horrified at the bacon bits bc the bacon flavor has already seeped down into all of it. Even saying just scrape it off doesn’t work
And if you had given that plate to my dad he would’ve asked ok but now what’s for dinner???
Cole slaw would be on the vegetable plate but corn on the cob would be its own category
Hmm, I gotta think on this.
Oh my gosh... that looks amazing.
Yes, you hit the nail on the head. ❤your channel
the accuracy 💀 I didn't have a vegetable that wasn't actually a grain OR cooked in animal fat until I went to college
oh, or smothered in cheese
I’m in!
Totally agree!
That is a mighty fine looking vegetable plate!
We use canned cranberry sauce too, and if we want to be fancy, we just smoosh the lines out of it.
Terrific information! My vegetable plate would have a few more of those scrumptious deviled eggs.