Mountain Talk, Wild Men & Sad Biscuits
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- In this video I'm talking about something I am very passionate about: the wonderful rich colorful way folks talk in Appalachia. Be sure to leave a comment and share any thoughts you have about the words and phrases I share.
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You and Matt are truly blessed to have eachother 💕 Nice to hear you two talk together.
We really are. Thank you 😀
one time my husbands grandmother told me to get her sewing basket, it's in the upstairs press she said, LOL I had never heard a closet called a press, my mind pictured her basket in a tobacco press!! Matt says school just like many of us rural Kentuckians say it, we say Scoo. we still use sad to describe stuff, a sad cup of coffee would mean it's weak, a sad paycheck, or my favorite, that was one sad yard sale. I love calling a sack a poke.
Thank you for sharing those 😀
I love Corie's background noise. I feel like I'm at someone's home. And a productive home, at that...
Thank you Abe 😀
I spent two summers (1999 & 2000) in Cataloochee doing Archaeology work for the National Park Service. It is such a beautiful place. I enjoyed learning about the people who lived in both Big Cataloochee and Little Cataloochee. The artifacts that they left behind showed a people rich in culture. I look at those two summers as some of the best times of my life.
Oh I bet that was just wonderful 😀
My Gram always said "the sad cakes are always the best". She was usually talking about her poundcakes. They are sensitive, you know, and if someone opened the oven door or something, they'd fall. They might not have been pretty but they were still moist and tasty.
Thank you for sharing that 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia You're welcome!
My Daddy (born in 1924) and many others I knew frequently used the term “I’m satisfied “ meaning he believed something. I don’t hear it used much anymore so I’m going to start trying to remember to use it. I love our language and it makes me sad that things I heard growing up are fading away. Thank you so much for reminding us of these precious old sayings and for keeping them alive.
My mom still says, "I'm satisfied that..." meaning very sure of. Born in 1933 in foothills of Blueridge Mtns of NC/VA line. She's 89 and I love hearing her phrases. ❤
Happy Easter and love to everyone ❤🐣🐇
Thank you 😀
I love listening to your stories and hearing the definitions of the different words.
So glad you enjoy them 😀
HAPPY BLESSED EASTER TO Y'ALL.... MAY GOD BLESS Y'ALL ALWAYS, FOREVER.....
Thank you Judy!
My great Aunt Mary and Uncle Cleo lived in a house with no AC. They had a wood burning stove in the living room for heat. She used her pie safe all the time for food and dishes. They had an outhouse until 1986. I miss the old house. So many fond memories.
Looked up the wild man. First thing that came up was your story. Matt cracks me up
So glad you enjoyed it 😀
We grew up drinking sassafras tea.
I remember begging my grandfather to go dig up some.
The people used it as a spring tonic to thin the blood after winter. I still love sassafras tea.
I remember my grandfather knew which side the tree from which to get the root.
Many years ago they said that sassafras tea contained a cancer causing substance. But here we are in our 70s and still ok.
I found sassafras roots on Etsy a couple years ago and still have some. When it boils it makes the house smell wonderful!!
Great memories.
Thank you for watching 😀
I had a great auntie who was kind of a famous 'sanger in her area of southern West Virginia. She could find ginseng almost any time she went looking for it, almost like magic. I remember going with her to the store where she sold it, one of those old timey places with an old man on the porch. That sure was a long time ago now, way back in the late 70s.
Y’all make me miss my family and their ways. I love how close y’all are and how easy your conversation and time flows.
When I was in elementry school I decided I wanted to go home in the middle of the day, I walked off and stayed off the main road as much as I could till I made it home, spent the day playing, had a good time. When my grandma got home just by the way she looked at me, I knew it was going to be bad... My Grandma spent a hour and change telling me how worried everyone was about me and how disappointed she was in me, when my Grandpa got home he tanned my backside real well... Long story short I was a senior in highschool before I thought about even missing school.
Thank you for sharing that experience 😀
Completely off topic from your video, but yesterday we went to our local greenhouse/garden store and noticed a new product display. The display was for a new fire starter product, which immediately caught my eye, as we are campers. Lo and behold, it was made from rich pine. I immediately purchased it, based off of Matt's endorsement!!!
Love that 😀
My brother-in-law’s parents were from North Carolina and they grew gords, dried em and cut em in half to dip water from a pail of spring water with. Later on in the years, they cut a hole in em and hung em in trees for bird houses. Sure hope y’all had a wonderful Easter. Hugs from the southeast coast of Florida 😎🦩🌞🦩😎
Love that Elizabeth 😀
Thank you both for sharing. I really enjoyed it. Matt stop pouting over the popsicle, she talked about you through the whole thing, lol I'm satisfied you both found the right person. That's rare to see these days. May God bless us all.
Thank you Darlene 😀
My Sweetie makes all ours since we can't have the sugar and all the junk that's in the bought stuff. Not hot enough yet for a batch.
You guys are the cutest and enjoy your dinner.
😊 thank you
In Australia, every Primary School classroom had a stand alone cupboard with teaching supplies, called " a press " and in our childhood home was a cupboard called a " linen press. " in which was stored bed linen and some crockery but on the lower shelves.
That has to be your Loudest outburst of Laughter so far Tipper. 😂 Go ahead and get that Thumbnail, all Matt wants to do is push the dog over some and hit the couch!😆 Hope y'all are having a Great Easter 🙋♂️
😀 Thank you! Hope you've had a good day 😀
Happy Easter to your wonderful warm home and family, Matt seems to be in Dreamland lol..must not be his type of interest 😆..
Thank you for watching!
It is down to 57 degrees here in upstate Florida at 6:15...Large lunch with family and full tummies, Praise the Lord...to be able to follow your day to day happenin's is a treat. God Bless hope Granny is well
Glad you had a good day 😀
Oh Tipper...that was funny when you said your husband was disappointed he was not working outside and he shook his head "violently" with that big devil grin. lol Love how he was giving his daughter some good nature banter in the very beginning of the video. lol
😀 He's a mess! Thank you for watching 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia ha ha ha ha ha lol :-)
Sassafras tea fresh from the root is a treat.❤
Matt is so ornery ain't he! He's hilarious and I love all his funny stories. I bet he drove his mama and daddy crazy when he was a kid! I think Katie is just like her daddy and Corie is more like you Tipper. Y'all are a great couple! Hope you and your family had a great Easter!
Its nice to have a rest, I agree Matt!
Thank you for watching 😀
Happy Easter you 2. God Bless you both
Hope you've had a good day!
My Aunt Bobby had a punched tin pie safe. My sisters and I remember goin to it for a biscuit or fried pie. She was such a special lady…thanks for the memory.
Love those memories 😀
Oh Tipper, Just love this one! U can just see the orneriness in Matt ‘s
face in the beginning! Just ❤️u too ! Sitting in the same chair 🪑? He had a lot of patience.Wonderful couple. It gets a little trying after a while. Thanks Tipper for sharing your life with us.❤ & Prayers
Thank you Tipper and Matt for for your video today. Happy Easter to yous all
Thank you for watching! Hope you've had a good day!
God bless your family! I really wish that I lived next door to you!
You are so kind-thank you 😀
When you described the ‘wild man’, it reminded me of the stories of a Sin Eater. It does sound like a sad life.
I always enjoy spending time with you and Matt. Thank you!😊🇨🇦
My mom said my brother used to tell my mom he was going to run away and she would say I will have your lunch packed and ready for you in the fridge. You both are so funny, love listening to you both!
Thanks, that was very enjoyable. You guys are such a great pair. God bless you and happy Easter.
So glad you enjoyed it Lisa 😀
My grandma used to saucer her coffee. Growing up in Ohio my grandma's ( my grandfathers were gone) & parents used a lot of these words & I still do. I Enjoy the these videos so much. Thank you!
Happy Easter to all
Glad you enjoyed it! 😀
I've got a buddy in his 80's that does that. Never gave it the 1st thought.
I love to hear about all the sayings there are. It also makes me smile to see you both tease each other.
We had a choir teacher who used shape notes to help us learn those intervals so that it was easier to sight read a musical score.
That is great 😀
I’m a 68 year old woman who has lived in Wisconsin the vast majority of my life but I once lived in East Tennessee while I was married to my first husband. While the marriage didn’t work out I still think about some of the wonderful people I met and befriended and especially enjoy watching your videos it brings back memories of that time in my life. I used to use that same vocabulary and I was always in awe of how musical everyone was, the way everyone could just so naturally play and sing. Still jealous of that ability. But it truly is the food and the gardening that really makes it vivid. I stayed with my ex husbands grandmother often and helped her plant her garden by the signs and I taught her how to crochet which was a gift she was so very grateful for. They also had family in North Carolina and we would travel over the mountain to visit, so I am traveling back again in your videos. Thank you.
P S I have been married to my current husband for 38 years but he promised to bring me back to Appalachia to visit my old stomping grounds someday soon.
Thank you for sharing!!
Thank you for this beautiful discourse which is so valuable to maintain Appalachian culture⭐️
Shape note singing is FASCINATING, in doing women's barbershop music and many old timey churches of my childhood, shape-note singing was used with glorious accapella harmonies that brought so much joy to my heart in childhood ❤
My mom would use the term sad to describe a cake that was lopsided or didn't rise. My grandfather would sometimes dig 'sang for extra money. He also sometimes called it manroot. He also saucered his coffee. Thank you for the videos, your language ones are my favorite, they remind me of my family and the mountains .
I love these videos on appalachian talk. I remember when I was about 13 me and my friend fancied a day off school. Mum used to go to work so we snuck in after she had left. We realised that she would be home for lunch so we went up to the front attic which had a small built in wardrobe and we sat in there till we heard Mum leave. Then of course you had to forge a note for school giving the reason for absence! I have had a few sad cakes in my time, where it sinks in the middle as it cools. When I was at school we had a cookery teacher, a Miss. Stubbs. We thought she had been in the army as she could really shout. Anyway it was victoria sponge sandwich day and we all had them in the oven when another friend kept peering in her oven then scooted over to me in a panic and could I look in her oven door. Well the contents of the tins had risen like a brown bubble and just at that moment we were spotted by Miss Stubbs. "Come away from that oven girls, it's a sponge in there not the bank of England." Just as we srood up the sponge blew up and covered the oven glass. Oh dear was poor Nicola in trouble. She had used her icing sugar instead of flour! She had to go back at the end of school and scrub the oven. I enjoyed cookery and it was one of my few 'O' levels. We have had a very peculiar day weather wise. First it was grey and windy then it pelted down with rain, the sun came out then out of nowhere and enormous crack of lightening followed by thunder that shook the house. Frightened the life out of me and the cat. Then we had a terrible hail storm. Good thing I was planning on a gardening day. I hope Matt gets over the popsicle incident.
Thank you for sharing Margaret 😀
My favorite “old” saying was one of my grandmother’s who lived in PA Appalachia. “Can’t see that on a galloping horse”. Miss my grandma every day.
Daddy, Uncle Wayne and their Uncle Emlis McHan were shape note singers. Sometimes they sang a verse or even a whole song using the do, re, mes. Sometimes one of them would sing the notes while the others sang the words.
They never sang with instruments. Uncle Wayne had a tuning fork that they used to start on the right note.
I so wish I could have heard them Papaw 😀
We call hard biscuits sea biscuits, Hope your family have a Happy Easter,and that pie comes out delicious
Thank you Tammy!
I get tickled at Matt's mischief in his eyes. Ya'll are good together.
Sang diggers reminded me of fishermen hiding their favorite spots and telling fishing tails. Enjoyed you two cutting up during the lesson and Corie adding sound effects. 😊
Interesting, enlightening,entertaining, heart warming and appreciated you inviting us into your harmonious good life. I am in love with your entire family. Your relationship makes me smile. Feel blessed. Stay safe and healthy. You are all my favorites, Granny is my most favorite of all. Stay safe and continue to be such humble satisfied people who will be making it big on the RUclips channel. Best from Kansas City, Missouri.
Thank you so much Ruth!
Y’all are the cutest couple on RUclips! The respect you show each other is obviously why your love has endured time. Thank you for sharing your love of Appalachia! ✨💖
Tipper, I have to thank you, as I made the cream biscuits you made previously. The bisquits came out WONDERFULLY!! Hope your day was enjoyable.
Wonderful! Thank you 😀
That is the best recipe. It’s the only biscuits I make that turn out like they are supposed to.
When I was in my 20s I inherited my great grandma's pie safe. She got married when she was 13 and my great grandpa was 18. The pie safe was there first peice of furniture. My daughter has it now and my granddaughter will get it next. It has the punched tin panels in the doors. For this past Christmas my son built me one out of cherry that he milled. It's beautiful. Tipper, I love watching you and your family!
What a treasure 😀 Thank you!
Yes that music is haunting, eerie and beautiful. My mother taught school every year of my education in our school 1-11 and then 12th grade came in when I went from 7th grade to eight. What silliness that was. 8th grade was a clone of 7th. Anyway, I tried everything to escape school, but everyone knew exactly where I would be hiding.❤
As a children we used to go off in the woods to our special sassafras trees. We called them bubblegum trees and we'd pick a small branch, bite off the bark and chew on it too! Tasted so sweet and good! Also dug sang and we called the numbers of branches above the ground the prongs. Fun video! Thank you : )
Thank you 😀
Love when you and Matt chat a while! My brothers and Daddy used to hunt ginseng! And sassafras for tea! Never heard of some of the words you said! Enjoyed listening to y’all!! I’ve saucered coffee before with my Granny & Pappy! God bless and love to all! 💕🤗🙏🏻
Thank you 😀
My daddy was raised in Ky and loves collecting antiques... His favorite is those darn pie safes! We went exploring on my grandads family lands in NC and he showed us the old families homesteads when I was young and low and behold, in my grandads great aunt Esthers old homestead was this beautiful pie safe, my daddy wanted it so bad but parts of the old house were caving in. He managed to get it though haha.
Funny--I was reading just a day or so ago that they stopped using sassafras in root beer around 1960 because somebody did some lab tests on animals (poor things) and found that the main compound in sassafras, called safrole, gave the animals liver cancer. I am old enough to remember root beer before they made the change, and I always thought it tasted better the old way (sigh...).
We love watching your videos. I have to tell you, I fast forwarded this one to see the outtake and the capture of THIS FANTASTIC THUMBNAIL!!!! Your love for each other, your kids and your land is infectious!! Thank you for sharing! ✌️❤️🙏
Thank you so much 😀
I have totally enjoyed watching Matt being a big part of your videos❣️😊
So much fun, you both are precious.
I absolutely LOVE watching your videos. I am a native Californian, African American. So different, but much the same in the love of family values, culture, and love of Christ. I am learning so much about a beautiful part of our American culture. Thank-you for sharing. And to be clear, this is not my first video. I've been watching your channel for close to a year. You pop up in my feed daily. I learned about you from your daughter's channel.
God bless you. I love the pride you take. And I love your garden! My grandparents grew much of the food we ate when they were still living.
Be blessed, and thanks for the lovely, wholesome, Spirit-filled content.
Thank you for the kind words! So glad you enjoy our videos!!
My Uncle Jack used to saucer and blow his coffee! He was the only family I've ever seen do that. I didn't realize there was a term for it, but I knew exactly what you meant when you said it. Good memories. 😊
As Matt reminisced about running away from school, I could clearly see the little boy who was so pleased with himself. 😊
Happy Easter!! Hope Matt got to rest up this weekend!
Thank you Johnny 😀
I love sad pound cake. There's actually a recipe for it.
I hated every minute of school. After working for my dad and eventually running my own electrical business, I took jobs in 2 factories for the last 25 years as a CNC Machinist. The math crossed over somewhat and made sense to me. CAT and other tests I took in school said I didn't have the ability to do math. They were wrong. 2 similar careers that are very much math based got me through life comfortably.
Thanks for sharing these videos with us!
Thank you Scott!
Those tall tales, sang tales.. we’d say fish tales, each time the story is told the fish got bigger😊 hope you’re having a blessed Easter🕊️
😀 Thank you! Hope you've had a wonderful day 😀
Sassafras tea with fresh wild mint.. 👍👍
Yeah, I know a lot of the words... thank you both 🤗❤️
Thank you for watching 😀
Love your alls interaction with each other. It’s a testimony of your all’s mutual respect for one another , that you can fun and kid on each other.
My wife and I did a popsicle video to send to you all, but we chickened out sending it 🙃.
Keep the conversations and videos going and GOD bless !
Thank you so much! We would love to see it 😀
Great video I love watching you two especially when you joke and laugh together you have such a beautiful family and learning more about the Appalachian ways I’m from the mountains East Tennessee 20 miles of Knoxville I’ll always be a mountain girl, I hope you all had a great Easter ❤
Tipper, I love you and Matt together as a couple. Even though I don't live near those areas, I do like the stories and foods of those times.
My grandparents used the word "sad". If Granny had a cake in the oven, she wouldn't let us kids jump around in the house, because her cake would "fall" and then it would be "sad". My Grandpa always winked at us, because he thought a sad cake was the best there was. He didn't care if we jumped around or not!!
Love those memories 😀
It's soooo awesome that you guys have a fascinating story that connects to so many of these words! 🤗 I could listen to you for hours on end. 😊🥰 Thank you for sharing!
You are so kind thank you!
Y’all are so funny together! I’m sure there is never a dull moment in your home. I could listen to y’all all day. Take care and God bless you and your precious family! 😀❤️
Thank you 😀
Thanks tipper! Enjoyed this! Matt is hilarious! " i could get you a saw or something " ..haha. I could listen to Matt talk all day with his quick wit and stories...appreciate y'all always . God bless. 🙏❤️
Using gourds for containers is what my Paw-Paw always grew them for. He was born in 1907 and he said during the depression it saved having to worry about finding money for storing stuff. He mainly used them in his garage and the shed. In later years he had just gotten used to using them and he said it kept my Grandma from getting mad at him for taking her bowls out in the garage.
I really hope you’ll both be out in the Appalachian sunshine, planting seeds, and gardening next weekend! Hope it’s not rainy again, for sure. I did really enjoy today’s readings from the dictionary of Appalachian language. I was raised on that wonderful language and I certainly love it!
Thank you Jan 😀
Whenever I watch a video with you two, I almost always end up laughing! You're so adorable together.
Matt cracks me up, appreciate his sense of humor. I tend to think he participates out of his love for you (Tipper). My husband would be like that, if I had a channel. Thank you for another fun video! 🙌🏼 💓
So happy to learn of your recollections.
You and Matt are so great together,
You are truely blessed to have eachother,
The way you two talk, is so natural, Thanks again, for sharing your fab slices of life.
My parents lived through the great depression, as they were both country folks, your shared memories and ways of life really resonate with me.
Wonderful!
❤
Lizzie from Oz.
Always enjoy these videos about the Appalachian language. And it's always fun watching you and Matt together.
Matt talking about chewing on a sassafras twig led me to think of a plant called “mountain tea” that only grew in one part of my granny’s woods. The leaves were chewed and tasted like Teaberry Gum, if you remember that product.
thats a birch twig ive chewd them all my life .
My grandparents used a gourd as a dipper to drink water. One kept in the kitchen another by the well. She also had a pie safe that she kept leftover biscuits and cornbread in.
I'm thinking Katie is more like her dad and Corrie is more like you 😊 I thought of a word my great-uncle used to say. I barely remember him, but my mom said that he used to say "darenst". I don't know if I spelled it right. In a sentence it would have been "Dare'nst I go down to the pool hall tonight?" He would mean "do I dare?". I thought that one was pretty interesting. Another one using sad my mom used to say. If someone was moping around, she would call them a "sad sack". My grandpa used to go "sangin". (ginseng). Mom used to also call a big mouthed braggy person a "blow hard". I never tried to start ginseng but I did plant and try to start ramps, but they never took hold. I used to chew on sassafrass limbs. Mom loved sassafrass tea. I used to have to buy the bottled stuff for her to make tea. My grandpa used to saucer and blow his hot tea. He'd swirl it around in the saucer then drink it. I love the language videos. Hope you all had a great Easter.
Thank you for sharing those Tammy 😀 I've heard sad sack too. So glad you enjoyed the video 😀
Happy Easter ✝️. I can remember grandpa always drank coffee out of a saucer at his meals. When I was little didn't really know why. I would sit in amazement and watch him pour from his cup into the saucer. Then lift it up and drink. Thank you for bringing back another memory. Hope you have a great week.
Love that memory 😀 Hope yall have a good week too 😀
I've been told that it was to cool boiling hot coffee before drinking.
Beth Giesey, I'm from Ohio. My grandmother (daddy's mother), great aunt Flora, my in-laws would saucer their coffee. They would pour a little coffee in the saucer under their cup so that it would cool.
I just found your channel recently and have looked at many of your old post. My Dad built a safe with screen on the doors for Mom to keep food in. I remember as a child coming in from school and going to see what was in the safe to snack on. What a memory.
Love that 😀
I love y’all’s interactions. Y’all are the cutest!
Love your old traditions. I lived those experiences too. If someone didn't experience these things, they WILL NOT understand. That is sad..
Matt’s a funny addition!
Thanks for saving the language! You remind me of my daddy and momma when I was growing up in Florida. Both of them had relatives from closer to you.
Truly enjoyed watching both of you and learning your culture. I'm in Canada and both me and my husband thoroughly enjoy your lovely family. You and Matt are a beautiful couple. 🎉❤
Thank you so much 😀
I'm convinced that some of the old ways of saying things goes back to the old country - scotland or Ireland- to an older language that was just a bit different.
I’ve thought that too. TeresaSue.
So many of them do 😀
Thank you for sharing the vocabulary with us. It is definately interesting.
My mother born 1912 and raised partly in the Ohio River Valley, across the river from West Virginia. She used to speak of once as a girl, baking a cake for her father and it went sad. She had used too much sugar and it made it heavy. I use the word in regards to all baked goods that didn't rise proper,
Thank you for sharing your experience with the usage 😀
Y'all are so great together always learn something from the talks.
What an adventure in words. Lol. Thanks for sharing. Happy Resurrection Day!❤
Enjoyed this one y’all two. You do a great job preserving the history & language of Appalachia! Loved hearing about the wild man of cataloochee, stories about folks like that have always been very interesting to me. Great Thumbnail to. 🙌🏻😇🙏🏻👍🏻❤️
Thank you Pastor Lon!
Fun video! Enjoy you two so much. Cracks me up that Matt is on the “Great Popsicle Pout of 2023”. 😂 I love your relationship and that it has lots of laughter. God bless you all. 🙏🏻🥰🙏🏻
Thanks so much!!
Love your language videos. Saddle is very commonly used in the rocky mountain states. We usually call a pie safe a cabinet having a tin door front with nail holes in a decorative pattern. Here in Missouri folks used to call a raw salad with a "d" and cooked sallet with the "t". My granddad used to sauce his coffee and it would make my momma spitting mad.
You two are a hoot! When we redid our kitchen last year, I bought a pie safe at an antique store and we were going to replace part of a wall and inlaid shelves with it but it would probably not support the wall so didn't. Our house is pretty tiny so now it sits in my living room and has some small kitchen appliances and canning tools and supplies. It has the tin, punched doors too.
I had heard about the Phillips guy in another vlog about Cades Cove along with the Walker sisters and maybe a Myers family that were allowed to continue to live in their homes even after the park claimed their land.
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