I make sweet cornbread in a cast iron skillet-the old kind. I’ve also fried my own green tomatoes. Some I grew myself. I’m an Oregonian. Born and raised.
Okay, just gotta say the onscreen appeal and pure charisma of the pairing of the Southern Grandma and the Southern Denzel is pure GOLD. They could do a whole Neighbors sitcom theirselves!
i live in the state of Washington, i knew a guy named Denzel (used to work with him), i asked him once did he ever think about how he's named Denzel and lives in Washington, and he said his girlfriend's dad said the same thing to him
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. John 3:16, 17.
@@spicydramarama852 oh come on LOL 😂 That's the first verse we ALL memorize. Geez. But, do you sing the doxology in the bath? Preachin to da choir honey. Move along, move along LOL
@@CorvusCorone68 which side of the state are you on? Big difference. I know the Pullman to Spokane area well, but driving in Seattle is for the insane LOL
My grandma would bring me in a ripe tomato from her garden, wash it off, hand it to me with the salt shaker and I would it just like an apple. Delicious!!!
Eating a tomato like an apple: Grandparents had a farm. We kids would steal the salt shaker, pick that mater -- HOT off the vine, 'cause, summer -- wipe it on the shirt, lick it so the salt would stick, and...BITE IN! Oh. My. Goodness!! Pure summer.
@Jon Boy see there lies the difference. We call it sweet tea and make it 365 days a year, only a Northerner would only drink it in the Summer. ;) I do love you grew up eating cornbread, grits and loved and appreciated fresh tomatoes and your name is Jon Boy so you get your points back. LOL (just teasing you).
Hahahaha, as someone from Ohio I can tell you that the giant controversy about whether to put sugar in cornbread was shocking to me. :) I mean I've made plenty of cornbread recipes before but I honestly couldn't have said for sure if sugar was a normal ingredient or not.
Tomatoes are technically perennial in their native habitat but since they're tropical plants they don't survive the winter most places and are generally grown as annuals I've had some Tomatoes over winter but I live in Phoenix and have to worry about the summer killing them
It's not a full family reunion if there isn't at least 75-100 people. We used to have them for Granddaddys birthday in November, and there would be 100's of people there, all relatives.
My cousin made a list for our Mamaw a couple of years ago with the names of all her grands, great grands, and great great grands. At the time there were 41 names. There have been at least 4 more babies born since then.
My mom's side of the family always had strict rules you had to follow through with. If you didn't they would pick you apart. Like the rule of always cook your cornbread on an iron skillet. I've never tried it before, but I've heard it tastes so good.
"I don't want sweet jiffy cornbread" Callie's reaction was the same as mine. You gotta have that sweet cast iron skillet cornbread with that sugar crust on top. Right out of the oven with some salted butter? Oh man that's a whole meal right there.
My husband is like that don't like sweet cornbread. I told him I am not cooking like that. He cooks his beans so hot 🥵 you have to have a firetruck on call. So, when family gets together, I cook cornbread and someone else brings beans. That way we can eat without the firetruck. By the way he makes his own cornbread and beans. I eat something else.
The grandma and the guy together....loving it! Lol it's like the best friendship you've always wanted to see and she feels so comfortable telling him all of her secrets! 😂
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. John 3:16, 17.
Random Kid: hey Uncle Tyrone what you gonna cook? Tyrone: Well I was thinking I'd co--- Aunt Mabel: Oh child he don't wanna cook....ain't that right Tyrone Tyrone: Kid: Mabel: *stares in southern* Tyrone: *turns to the kid* Oh I would but I promised your dad I'd beat him in 21, gotta go!
I've done everything on that list. I've also owned horses (I used to barrel race in high school), milked a cow, raised chickens, eat eggs that the hens just laid. Grew a complete garden with separate herb garden and raised an apple tree. Finally, not only did I own cowboy boots, multiple pairs, I wore a complete cowboy fancy outfit for barrel racing competitions.
LoLing so hard at the family reunion discussions. I remember Mama saying "Don't eat aunt so-and-so's casserole. Ain't no tellin' what she put in it." Also I had a cousin who used to hang around the park hoping a family reunion would be going on. Then he'd just mingle right in & get a plate full of free food. I suspect that's why family reunions now do matching shirts.
WHO are all these people? Well, that's your cousin twice-removed, you know, Ethyl's kid by her second marriage and then there's... Good Lord, we are fertile bunch!
Of course it good. It's CORNBREAD! I had one granny who made it with and one granny who made it without. The granny who used sugar was born in Montana in the 1890's, so I'm not sure how Southern she was, though her mother was from Kentucky.
"Some people like snails and some people like oysters. I like both. It's not a matter of morality, it's a matter of taste." -- Crassus (Lawrence Olivier) in _Spartacus_ in a scene that was SO not about food, it was cut from the film for 30 years...
@@diggernash1 I'm fine with that classification, although granny's 'cornmeal cake wasn't as sweet as cornmeal muffins, which I think are the best kind of muffins.
@@thenatureboybh9148 Apples and Oranges.. Here in Mobile we're doing Mardi Gras family style. For Norlins its just one big crazy half naked drunken dangerous party.
Im half italian, live in an Italian neighborhood and agree with the lady about store bought tomatoes. Store bought tomatoes taste like CARDBOARD WITH SEEDS! Home grown all the way! 🍅
As a Chinese individual grown in America, my grandparents (when they came to visit for half a year) grew pumpkins and we ate the flowers. And I, being a very young child, would not eat them. We never got pumpkins, but we got flowers? Lol this probably isn’t related to the vid in any way, but the part about growing tomatoes really sparked that memory.
When I was a kid, we had a reunion for the descendants of two of my great great grandparents. They had 14 children, who were prolific as well. There were well over 200 people attending each year. No special shirts for the occasion. Just a lot of good food, music, and horseshoe pits.
The last one I went to before I moved to Texas (from Florida) had over 500! The had two whole pigs for roasting and tons of other food. I heard that it's gotten so big now that they have to rent out a Hall.
I'm from Middle Georgia, my Nana had 10 kids, I've got 33 first cousins... We don't need a family reunion to have 50 people. When I was little, before my Nana passed, you best believe 50 plus people were at Sunday supper. Got a crazy big family!
Omilawwwd, I'm revokin' their Southern cards... "that lil spinny thang on the back". It's called a SPUR, ladies, a SPUR. i'm crackin' up over here. Growing your own 'maters is FUN, y'all! It's therapeutic. I swear, something about watching them grow and knowing you helped them grow... and then picking them and eating them, haha. Nomz, lol.
spurs are cute but ive never had boots with em on. i dont wanna hurt the flanks especially if my mount is responsive y'know? but what i really wanna know, is, how the heck do you grow em? ive tried so hard i even bought an upside down thingy and they did wonderfully but the mardies ( im stray'n not southern but i think there is similarities) got infested and no amount of tomato dust and other tomato pesticides helped .. i was so cranky at my lack of green thumb lol. i tended to them daily and it broke my heart. i wish i had the knack. i love the smell of them on the vine (not my sad little green tomatoes lol) and twisting them off the vine and eating them straight with maybe a bit of sea salt and lots of cracked pepper. or on fresh bread with proper butter with loads of cracked pepper and a little salt. i like RMs for boots (australian brand) but ive never gotten into US brands at all. i like proper construction with stacked leather heels and all leather as they are like the most comfiest ever lol. and you can get em resoled when they wear out. i hope you're good and all. you sound like fun😊😊😊😊
@@alextaylorstan spurs were originally a royalty thing back in Greece, France, and other parts of Europe, iirc, and were worn by both sides in the Civil War, so they were not a Texas thing... they were a civilized world thing ;)
@@jburrows24 I was talking about present day and did not say Texas invented spurs. People in Texas probably wear spurs more than southerners in general.
@@alextaylorstan I was coming at it from a historical pov, but modern day, you'll still occasionally see them in all reaches of the earth where there are ranches. I saw 2 ppl with them all the time that I spent in Texas. Saw lots in Oklahoma, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, and I've seen more in other states. It's not lime they have Walker, Texas Ranger, all over the place in Texas, lol. Love the media foe that one ;)
@@dontaylor7315 That's what I was thinking. And I think she is about my age, maybe a couple of years younger with that hustle crack. Never did like that disco crap.
I'm "Tyrone." I bring potato chips. I've never raised my own tomato's, but I worked on a tomato farm when I was a teen-ager. Does that count? And yes, I've eaten them like apples.
It was the great Lewis Grizzard who said, "If you want something sweet, order the pound cake. People who put sugar in their cornbread don't love the Lord or Southeastern Conference Football." :)
@@ogrebeast64 Yes, they are good, but to pick a ripe one out of your yard, off your own vine, and make a tomato sandwich is even better. With salt, Blue Plate mayonnaise, and plenty of black pepper... or the world-famous BLT. Well, not in the Middle East... Anyway, to each his own, as my Aunt Bernice used to say. I hated them fried when I was young, but now I could eat a plate full. I think fried is an acquired taste, at least for young'uns.
“Have you ever owned a pair of cowboy boots” Me: you can’t ride western if you don’t, so, yeah I have cowboy boots. Blue ones, brown ones, I had pink ones before.
Hogwash ! I have had shit kickers for 50 yrs and have ridden horses with everything from tennis shoes to combat boots, don't tell the horse and he wont know !
@@somekid6718 ikr I was trying to figure out what all else that could be, bc wouldnt the spur get in the way. lol Then I realised she meant spurs haha.
At our family reunions we all love to cook and we are good! There is no “one person”. In South Carolina we meet with over 100 of years and have a blast over the weekend!
I grew up with it pronounced several ways, including locals * without ANY Southern accent! * but I usually say New ORR-leans, or NewOrrrluwhns. Or NOLA. My grandma usually said New Or Lee Uwhns; & was huge football fan. Her cornbread did not have sugar in it, she had huge hibiscus etc & okra in her tomato garden; never wore white after labor day. No matter how hot it was, she defied the Hades Gods of Humidity and always looked like a Southern Goddess, perfectly dressed w makeup immaculate, and nails did perfectly ,) And her lipstick was also always perfect!
Love this. Great pairs of people in the video. I'm not Southern. When they got to the line dancing question, for a good 2-3 sentences I didn't understand a word. It's like they stopped speaking English. LOL
oh you need to watch the If Alexa was Southern video! It´s hilarious! Especially the first one, as I just could NOT understand why Alexa/Siri/Googley could not understand what was said. I work/study in the tech industry, and I KEEP SAYIN they need to train their data with some SOUTHERN ACCENTS!
I've done all of these things, except Mardi Gras. Cornbread is really good with a can of creamed corn mixed in. It makes it moist and slightly sweet. Delish! Also, line dancing was part of my PE grade in middle school. But I barely remember any of the dances I learned!
Didn't need to. Ate my mother's tomatoes, which she shared with the neighbors. Tomatoes sandwiches with mayonnaise. Bacon, lettuce, tomato sandwiches. Tomato and okra....
Just how many acres does it take to qualify as a garden? Really, growing up our family garden was literally several acres; We had our own hogs, chickens, cows. I didn't have store-bought milk, butter, or cream until my teens. Cheese was store bought though.
When I was young to my teens but always maw maw's or my parents gardens. Unfortunately haven't been so lucky as an adult to have my own yard to do so 😓.
1/4 cup sugar in my cornbread. It doesn’t make it sweet and it doesn’t have a cake consistency. I’m not a Jiffy fan at all!!! My mom taught me to warm the oil at the bottom of your cast iron skillet in the oven for 5 or so mins then pour the batter in...gives your cornbread that awesome crispy crust! Saw Little Jimmy Dickins & Brad Paisley at the GRand Ole Opry.
I know it’s been a while for a response ...but I like bread to be just like you made it except no sugar. Then you add sweet preserves and butter on top asdessert. i have my mother’s iron skillet and use Martha whites hot rise. I too don’t like jiffy it’s just wrong😊
I am not a Jiffy fan either but I like a nice thick slice of sweet cornbread with butter and honey or honey butter. With a talk glass of iced tea. The best! If night time, then glass of non dairy milk.
Family reunions should always have 50 people or more. Our family is huge and it is fun to get together, not only that but half of the people living in the area of the hometown of our family are related.
I'm from Southern Ontario, Canada and I've done all these things except The Grand Ole Opry and 'Nawlins ( on my bucket list ) . Does that make me Southern ( ish ) ? 😄
My Hispanic husband’s family had a family reunion over 40 years ago lol. They never did it again haha! Maybe they figured that was too much family? My family (here in Texas) just visited relatives houses when we were at my grandmothers so that was our reunion I guess 😂
Has anybody had a birthday(not a party just a birthday dinner) at Texas Roadhouse other than me ? It is so much fun , you get to sit on a saddle while people sing happy birthday to you and they have everybody say ye haw. It is honestly so much fun .
Oh man the family reunion question. We have more than 50 people at any given gathering. We have a huge family on both sides. Each of my parents has more than 4 kids, and each grandparent has more than 6 siblings. And they live to be in their 90s at least.
I reckon I qualify as a genuine (pronounced with a long "i") Southerner! My folks were both born in northeast Alabama. We did all of this stuff! Summertime family reunions lasted all week and involved hundreds of folks!
I have never been to the Opry, After Labor Day I always put my white shoes and clothes in the back of my closet, that’s what my Mama and her sisters taught me to do.then I became a nurse, I had to wear white uniforms, stockings, and shoes. But my regular clothes, still in the back like mama taught me. Oh, don’t forget for every color shoes you have, you have to have a matching pocketbook
"The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly American country music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, founded on November 28, 1925." For everyone else who hat no Idea what it is.
EXPLETIVES GOES HERE! I swore to myself that I would not, and I say Would Not comment on some silly; "It Is Southern Thing" video. BUT NOooooo!!! Sugar, In cornbread;}?
Cornbread: I was told that only Yankees put sugar in their cornbread. Having lived in both sides of the Mason Dixon line, it was true in my experience! Go to NOLA to see family any time BUT during Mardi Gras. NYE excellent! Store bought tomatoes taste like disappointment. Grow your own! Been to the GOO and the Rhyman, where the original show happened :) Bought my cowboy boots the same trip! Line dancing happened then too, but then there was electric slide ar a HS reunion under peer pressure. No on the family reunion over 50 people. Never had that many living relatives at the same time and our "reunions" happened when someone died...
Hi. I’m just seeing this. Growing tomatoes. Yes Ma’am. My mother brought that to New York from the south. We always have a kitchen Garden. I would go into the garden, get a ripe tomato, a handful of okra and just sit down and eat them. Sometime with a little salt and pepper but most of the time just as they were. Yes, eating the tomato just like you would eat an apple. Delicious. You learn how to eat tomato so that it isn’t messy. I’m moving towards 70 now and still do it.
8:53 is this why my family doesn't have family reunions because some of us have different last names lol oh wait I know why Because we're too dysfunctional and would probably kill each other lol
Last names got nothin to do with it! We had huge family reunions on all sides, and there were usually about 7 main last names, but lots of other ones also:) Family is family, last name or other,) Not killing each other is obv part of the fun & challenge,) Plus, the Grandmas and aunties giving The Looks made sure everyone stayed in their lane during the heat of summer,)
I have done all these things. I'm a 3rd generation Nashville Native so I graduated from high school at the Grand Ole Opry, lol. Party afterwards at Opryland. Prom at the Opryland Hotel. Sugar in the cornbread is for my hubby from NJ.
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Never made cornbread?! There’s a scandal that will rock Grandma’s presidential campaign!
I know!
I’m glad someone else said it!
My oldest son doesn't even like cornbread and he's made it. It was good too.
Grandma is impeached.
Susan Powers Lord have mercy on her soul, is she saved and baptized by total emersion ?
Grandma never made cornbread and we are suddenly suspicious that she is from Minnesota
She was definitely born in "Birminghams". Only true natives put an "s" at the end.
Steven Love2bike! If you aren’t looking for it you could easily over look that so unless everyone barely annunciates it I’m not so sure
I live right by Birmingham and I recognize that blond older lady. I think she’s a retired school teacher.
I'm minnesotan and I've made cornbread
I make sweet cornbread in a cast iron skillet-the old kind. I’ve also fried my own green tomatoes. Some I grew myself. I’m an Oregonian. Born and raised.
Grandma’s never made cornbread!?! I’m not sure I can vote for her.
Just like so much of the internet FAKE.....
I agree... and I'm not even southern!
I just made chili and cornbread today, and yes, my recipe calls for a bit of sweetener, which is Splenda these days.
Lady Bee I’m a honey in the cornbread type. Unless there’s creamed corn in it.
@@ladybee883 Howdy!! What do you put in your chili? Beans or no beans?
Okay, just gotta say the onscreen appeal and pure charisma of the pairing of the Southern Grandma and the Southern Denzel is pure GOLD. They could do a whole Neighbors sitcom theirselves!
i live in the state of Washington, i knew a guy named Denzel (used to work with him), i asked him once did he ever think about how he's named Denzel and lives in Washington, and he said his girlfriend's dad said the same thing to him
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. John 3:16, 17.
@@spicydramarama852 oh come on LOL 😂 That's the first verse we ALL memorize. Geez. But, do you sing the doxology in the bath? Preachin to da choir honey. Move along, move along LOL
@@CorvusCorone68 which side of the state are you on? Big difference. I know the Pullman to Spokane area well, but driving in Seattle is for the insane LOL
@@hidinginsight1879 Spokane
My grandma would bring me in a ripe tomato from her garden, wash it off, hand it to me with the salt shaker and I would it just like an apple. Delicious!!!
Same!!!
Yes! The taste is so much better than a store bought tomato.
That sounds really good.
Oh the childhood remembrance (RIP). I also ate Vidalias back in the day the same way. They were sweet and delicious and no odor.
The best way! Bonus points if you're sitting in the garden next to the smell of tomato leaves.
Eating a tomato like an apple:
Grandparents had a farm. We kids would steal the salt shaker, pick that mater -- HOT off the vine, 'cause, summer -- wipe it on the shirt, lick it so the salt would stick, and...BITE IN!
Oh. My. Goodness!!
Pure summer.
Only two thangs that money can't buy, an that's true love and homegrown tomaters
@@bennygee3067 Amen!
@@bennygee3067 ---and home grown cucumbers.
We have farm grown tomatoes here in the united arab emirates. Man, sliced with salt, so good!
@@windmuser oo! Love me a fresh, juicy cucumber
Everybody's got a Tyrone in their family. Not all people are great cooks. And if you're always assigned to bring utensils or ice, it's you.
That’s all he’s good for
At least he's got one job and he sticks to it lol
I get to bring napkins to my family reunion.
@@kathiecrocker1118 you make those the best damn napkins you can!
Or the drinks, paper plates, cups, potato chips
“That was the first time I broke my nose!” In response “The first time!?” BEST RESPONSE EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This would be really funny with one northerner playing along being really confused.
I’ve done most of these things and I’m a northerner
Yes! Get some yankees in there!
Welp...considering my cultural background, this video touches on 90% of this.
@Jon Boy see there lies the difference. We call it sweet tea and make it 365 days a year, only a Northerner would only drink it in the Summer. ;) I do love you grew up eating cornbread, grits and loved and appreciated fresh tomatoes and your name is Jon Boy so you get your points back. LOL (just teasing you).
Hahahaha, as someone from Ohio I can tell you that the giant controversy about whether to put sugar in cornbread was shocking to me. :) I mean I've made plenty of cornbread recipes before but I honestly couldn't have said for sure if sugar was a normal ingredient or not.
“My tomatoes are one season tomatoes..”
Well tomatoes are annual so.. they’re all one season 😂
I said the same thing. Made me wonder how good those tomatoes are that she grows. They could be on the sketchy side of things 😆
She means as opposed to cherry tomatoes that come back all the time, I assume. Or she's confused
Tomatoes are technically perennial in their native habitat but since they're tropical plants they don't survive the winter most places and are generally grown as annuals I've had some Tomatoes over winter but I live in Phoenix and have to worry about the summer killing them
@@EAZ36588 Most vegetables these days are sterile.
I think she means she has to get new seeds or plants every year.
"Sometimes I want my cornbread to taste like pound cake." LOL
The southern version of never I have a ever..
Never ain’t done that
People are at home bored lol
So true
Better name imo
Tomato sandwich? 😳
"It's a pinch not a GALLON" this KILLED me!!!
I'm the oldest of 9 children. I've been to Thanksgiving dinners with over 50 people.
It's not a full family reunion if there isn't at least 75-100 people. We used to have them for Granddaddys birthday in November, and there would be 100's of people there, all relatives.
Yep Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving are over 50. Reunions are over 200 easy.
My cousin made a list for our Mamaw a couple of years ago with the names of all her grands, great grands, and great great grands. At the time there were 41 names. There have been at least 4 more babies born since then.
@thekyperson I also have 9 siblings, it’s crazy at any holiday
Until my mom died, I didn't know you could have Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner without 45 to 50 people there.
The next video is Granmamma learning how to make some damn cornbread!!
My mom's side of the family always had strict rules you had to follow through with. If you didn't they would pick you apart. Like the rule of always cook your cornbread on an iron skillet. I've never tried it before, but I've heard it tastes so good.
@@stacyhindalong9083 no. That's Jiffycakes.
"PLAY A BEYONCE SONG BETWEEN IT... SO WE CAN BREATHE!" hahahaha
"The family reunion is for you to all get together and know each other so you don't be dating your cousin.... accidentally.."
"I don't want sweet jiffy cornbread"
Callie's reaction was the same as mine. You gotta have that sweet cast iron skillet cornbread with that sugar crust on top. Right out of the oven with some salted butter? Oh man that's a whole meal right there.
My husband is like that don't like sweet cornbread. I told him I am not cooking like that. He cooks his beans so hot 🥵 you have to have a firetruck on call. So, when family gets together, I cook cornbread and someone else brings beans. That way we can eat without the firetruck. By the way he makes his own cornbread and beans. I eat something else.
You’re speaking my language nothing better than a cornbread from a skillet and the salted butter 😋 so good
The grandma and the guy together....loving it! Lol it's like the best friendship you've always wanted to see and she feels so comfortable telling him all of her secrets! 😂
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. John 3:16, 17.
"Tyrone's not gettin' on the grill." 😭😭😭😭
“HE DONT WANNA COOK!” = he isn’t gonna get the option because no one messes with the BBQ at a family reunion!
Random Kid: hey Uncle Tyrone what you gonna cook?
Tyrone: Well I was thinking I'd co---
Aunt Mabel: Oh child he don't wanna cook....ain't that right Tyrone
Tyrone:
Kid:
Mabel: *stares in southern*
Tyrone: *turns to the kid* Oh I would but I promised your dad I'd beat him in 21, gotta go!
D3adlyShade_Dad Sound about right
I've done everything on that list.
I've also owned horses (I used to barrel race in high school), milked a cow, raised chickens, eat eggs that the hens just laid. Grew a complete garden with separate herb garden and raised an apple tree. Finally, not only did I own cowboy boots, multiple pairs, I wore a complete cowboy fancy outfit for barrel racing competitions.
Fell off in a barrel run, broke an arm, ate fresh eggs, mucked a stall! Chased loose horses……
@@deejayk5939 oh if you got horses, you've mucked a lot of stalls.
You put sugar in cornbread too!!?🤦♂️😊
LoLing so hard at the family reunion discussions. I remember Mama saying "Don't eat aunt so-and-so's casserole. Ain't no tellin' what she put in it."
Also I had a cousin who used to hang around the park hoping a family reunion would be going on. Then he'd just mingle right in & get a plate full of free food. I suspect that's why family reunions now do matching shirts.
WHO are all these people? Well, that's your cousin twice-removed, you know, Ethyl's kid by her second marriage and then there's... Good Lord, we are fertile bunch!
I’ve had cornbread with and without sugar. I like it both ways
Of course it good. It's CORNBREAD! I had one granny who made it with and one granny who made it without. The granny who used sugar was born in Montana in the 1890's, so I'm not sure how Southern she was, though her mother was from Kentucky.
"Some people like snails and some people like oysters. I like both. It's not a matter of morality, it's a matter of taste." -- Crassus (Lawrence Olivier) in _Spartacus_ in a scene that was SO not about food, it was cut from the film for 30 years...
You had cornbread and cornmeal cake...and liked both. ;)
@@diggernash1 I'm fine with that classification, although granny's 'cornmeal cake wasn't as sweet as cornmeal muffins, which I think are the best kind of muffins.
I just have to be in the mood for a sweet cornbread. I don't like being surprised by it.
Grandma’s lil giggle and smile warms my heart man.
The "ting ting ting" are called spurs..and yes I'm from Texas. LOL!
I Know , but that's just because I played red dead redemption 2
Howdy fellow Texan!
@@nicolepatterson5078 Hey, you know have to represent the Lone Star! :-)
Texas forever
"I've got spurs that jingle jangle jingle!" lol Yeehaw!
The only family reunions I have been to always had a casket present. 😥😥😭😭
Oooooh, I feel that😪
thats so sad! so sorry.
i can relate
This is sad but true for my family as well.
sometimes you have to shoot your way out of family gatherings.
When he said “I go to the real Mardi Gras in Mobile”, I shouted AMEN!! 😆👏
Julia Layne same!
The original yes but the big easy perfected it
Same!!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣 the "real" one. First, ok, I'll give ya that. But Rutgers was the first college football team, that don't make em the "real" team.
@@thenatureboybh9148 Apples and Oranges.. Here in Mobile we're doing Mardi Gras family style. For Norlins its just one big crazy half naked drunken dangerous party.
Im half italian, live in an Italian neighborhood and agree with the lady about store bought tomatoes. Store bought tomatoes taste like CARDBOARD WITH SEEDS! Home grown
all the way! 🍅
As a Chinese individual grown in America, my grandparents (when they came to visit for half a year) grew pumpkins and we ate the flowers. And I, being a very young child, would not eat them. We never got pumpkins, but we got flowers? Lol this probably isn’t related to the vid in any way, but the part about growing tomatoes really sparked that memory.
Don't the pumpkins COME from the flowers?! How you gonna get punkins if you eat all the flowers? lol :D That was a very sweet memory :)
When I was a kid, we had a reunion for the descendants of two of my great great grandparents. They had 14 children, who were prolific as well. There were well over 200 people attending each year. No special shirts for the occasion. Just a lot of good food, music, and horseshoe pits.
At some point there’s just too many people to make shirts for!😂
The last one I went to before I moved to Texas (from Florida) had over 500! The had two whole pigs for roasting and tons of other food. I heard that it's gotten so big now that they have to rent out a Hall.
@@pugsabi you mean y'all have it indoors?!?
Right? For my family we have it at whom ever’s house is biggest.
Those were good times!
I'm from Middle Georgia, my Nana had 10 kids, I've got 33 first cousins... We don't need a family reunion to have 50 people. When I was little, before my Nana passed, you best believe 50 plus people were at Sunday supper. Got a crazy big family!
That's what ours was like, except Grandpa's house for Sunday brunch after church. The sheer chaos of it... 💗
Omilawwwd, I'm revokin' their Southern cards... "that lil spinny thang on the back". It's called a SPUR, ladies, a SPUR. i'm crackin' up over here.
Growing your own 'maters is FUN, y'all! It's therapeutic. I swear, something about watching them grow and knowing you helped them grow... and then picking them and eating them, haha. Nomz, lol.
spurs are cute but ive never had boots with em on. i dont wanna hurt the flanks especially if my mount is responsive y'know? but what i really wanna know, is, how the heck do you grow em? ive tried so hard i even bought an upside down thingy and they did wonderfully but the mardies ( im stray'n not southern but i think there is similarities) got infested and no amount of tomato dust and other tomato pesticides helped .. i was so cranky at my lack of green thumb lol. i tended to them daily and it broke my heart. i wish i had the knack. i love the smell of them on the vine (not my sad little green tomatoes lol) and twisting them off the vine and eating them straight with maybe a bit of sea salt and lots of cracked pepper. or on fresh bread with proper butter with loads of cracked pepper and a little salt.
i like RMs for boots (australian brand) but ive never gotten into US brands at all. i like proper construction with stacked leather heels and all leather as they are like the most comfiest ever lol. and you can get em resoled when they wear out.
i hope you're good and all. you sound like fun😊😊😊😊
Spurs may be a Texas thing
@@alextaylorstan spurs were originally a royalty thing back in Greece, France, and other parts of Europe, iirc, and were worn by both sides in the Civil War, so they were not a Texas thing... they were a civilized world thing ;)
@@jburrows24 I was talking about present day and did not say Texas invented spurs. People in Texas probably wear spurs more than southerners in general.
@@alextaylorstan I was coming at it from a historical pov, but modern day, you'll still occasionally see them in all reaches of the earth where there are ranches. I saw 2 ppl with them all the time that I spent in Texas. Saw lots in Oklahoma, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, and I've seen more in other states. It's not lime they have Walker, Texas Ranger, all over the place in Texas, lol. Love the media foe that one ;)
I've done it all...Tennessee born and raised!
The guy with the white shoes doesn't believe you, lol.
Well duh! Your named Marybeth! I would have been disappointed if you had not.
The granny is my favorite she reminds me of my nanny
Same honestly
She's sweet but that girl is too young for me to think of her as a granny! 😂
@@dontaylor7315 That's what I was thinking. And I think she is about my age, maybe a couple of years younger with that hustle crack. Never did like that disco crap.
Lol
I'm "Tyrone." I bring potato chips. I've never raised my own tomato's, but I worked on a tomato farm when I was a teen-ager. Does that count? And yes, I've eaten them like apples.
Feel like the Sure have side should say "shore nuff"...
Rebel Rose you mean “sho nuff”
I've always said that the King cake is like a giant cinnamon roll....lol
With a tiny baby in it.
Hush your mouth!! No it isn't!
Let do southern pecan pie from all southern state
Store bought pecan pie ain't no where near as good as a homemade pecan pie. On a scale of 1-100 Store bought is a zero and homemade is100 !
@@oldblackstock2499 Now I'm getting sad...Yes you are absolutely right! But I've aged and can only eat the soft filling...missing the pecans! haha
I make bourbon chocolate pecan pie.
It was the great Lewis Grizzard who said, "If you want something sweet, order the pound cake. People who put sugar in their cornbread don't love the Lord or Southeastern Conference Football." :)
Shannon M. Hey AJC 🥰🥰🥰
Sweet cornbread is Yankee cornbread. Nothing better than a homegrown tomato, though.
@hudson steele...AMEN...suger in cornbread is a mortal sin!...I think it’s somewhere in the Bible 🧐
Actually, there ain't nothing better than a Fried Green Tomato. This is coming from a southern boy trapped in a Yankee body!
@@ogrebeast64 Close enough. The inside is taking over!
@@bisleyblackhawk1288 Fine print.
@@ogrebeast64 Yes, they are good, but to pick a ripe one out of your yard, off your own vine, and make a tomato sandwich is even better. With salt, Blue Plate mayonnaise, and plenty of black pepper... or the world-famous BLT. Well, not in the Middle East... Anyway, to each his own, as my Aunt Bernice used to say. I hated them fried when I was young, but now I could eat a plate full. I think fried is an acquired taste, at least for young'uns.
“Have you ever owned a pair of cowboy boots”
Me: you can’t ride western if you don’t, so, yeah I have cowboy boots. Blue ones, brown ones, I had pink ones before.
C F Nice, I wear boots EVERYWHERE
“ the spinny thing on the back”
Hogwash ! I have had shit kickers for 50 yrs and have ridden horses with everything from tennis shoes to combat boots, don't tell the horse and he wont know !
I loved mine, all broken in and dirty, my ridin boots. Then I had the lacers, all clean to go to the rodeo or concerts.
@@somekid6718 ikr I was trying to figure out what all else that could be, bc wouldnt the spur get in the way. lol Then I realised she meant spurs haha.
I eat tomatoes like apples
🤯☠👻
Me too lol
Me to
So do I, one of my first childhood memories was sitting in a hammock with my neighbors eating giant tomatoes....😝
Lol, sounds delicious
I love Jiffy cornbread. It probably has sugar in it. I like it cooked in a cast iron pan. And I like the edges crispy and butter on top !
Jiffy is fabulous, the secret ingredient is beef lard🤣
At our family reunions we all love to cook and we are good! There is no “one person”. In South Carolina we meet with over 100 of years and have a blast over the weekend!
Granny just makes me smile I wanna hang out with her
Old school: New'O'Leens,
New school: Nawlens.
Mexican cornbread: Spicy and Savory
Yankee cornbread: may as well eat cake!
Millennials: NOLA
I grew up with it pronounced several ways, including locals * without ANY Southern accent! * but I usually say New ORR-leans, or NewOrrrluwhns. Or NOLA. My grandma usually said New Or Lee Uwhns; & was huge football fan. Her cornbread did not have sugar in it, she had huge hibiscus etc & okra in her tomato garden; never wore white after labor day. No matter how hot it was, she defied the Hades Gods of Humidity and always looked like a Southern Goddess, perfectly dressed w makeup immaculate, and nails did perfectly ,) And her lipstick was also always perfect!
Grandma and Ostrich Boots are my favorite paring. I love their pure chemistry.
Love this. Great pairs of people in the video. I'm not Southern. When they got to the line dancing question, for a good 2-3 sentences I didn't understand a word. It's like they stopped speaking English. LOL
oh you need to watch the If Alexa was Southern video! It´s hilarious! Especially the first one, as I just could NOT understand why Alexa/Siri/Googley could not understand what was said. I work/study in the tech industry, and I KEEP SAYIN they need to train their data with some SOUTHERN ACCENTS!
I've done all of these things, except Mardi Gras. Cornbread is really good with a can of creamed corn mixed in. It makes it moist and slightly sweet. Delish!
Also, line dancing was part of my PE grade in middle school. But I barely remember any of the dances I learned!
I've grown tomatoes and I don't even eat them. I give them away to my family.
Thank you for acknowledging that Mobile was the origin of Marie Gras! 😂👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I thought all southerners grew a garden!!
I'm not allowed no more;
Dug trenches/water canals in my mother's back yard to irrigate my corn. 😂😂😂
Didn't need to. Ate my mother's tomatoes, which she shared with the neighbors. Tomatoes sandwiches with mayonnaise. Bacon, lettuce, tomato sandwiches. Tomato and okra....
Just how many acres does it take to qualify as a garden? Really, growing up our family garden was literally several acres; We had our own hogs, chickens, cows. I didn't have store-bought milk, butter, or cream until my teens. Cheese was store bought though.
I don’t have a green thumb! I kill cacti 🌵
When I was young to my teens but always maw maw's or my parents gardens. Unfortunately haven't been so lucky as an adult to have my own yard to do so 😓.
I'm from Illinois and I have done all of these! I even have four pairs of cowboy boots! And this is why we are moving to Tennessee!!
1/4 cup sugar in my cornbread. It doesn’t make it sweet and it doesn’t have a cake consistency. I’m not a Jiffy fan at all!!!
My mom taught me to warm the oil at the bottom of your cast iron skillet in the oven for 5 or so mins then pour the batter in...gives your cornbread that awesome crispy crust!
Saw Little Jimmy Dickins & Brad Paisley at the GRand Ole Opry.
I know it’s been a while for a response ...but I like bread to be just like you made it except no sugar. Then you add sweet preserves and butter on top asdessert. i have my mother’s iron skillet and use Martha whites hot rise. I too don’t like jiffy it’s just wrong😊
I am not a Jiffy fan either but I like a nice thick slice of sweet cornbread with butter and honey or honey butter. With a talk glass of iced tea. The best! If night time, then glass of non dairy milk.
Never heard of the oil trick. I’m going to do that!
I grow tomatoes every year in South Dakota. They’re so good.
I'm more Southern than some of y'all; I'm Australian... 🤣
LOL!!!
G'day Mate, glad to see another Aussie who loves this channel.
LOL, You must be from New SOUTH Wales.
@@philipprigmore8723 Nah Mate, North Queensland.
Melbourne, Australia here. Nothing better than tomato straight off the plant eaten like an apple
Store-bought tomatoes just taste red. It's gotta be real home-grown with a high acidity! Gotta love a mater sammich!
Line dancing is AMAZING!! my favorite thing to do ever!! I live in CA and it makes me sad it doesn't happen much!
Born and raise up north and I've done more of these things then the southerners playing this game lol.
NO sugar in cornbread! I've grown tomatoes for years. ALL family reunions have more than 50 people.
Family reunions should always have 50 people or more. Our family is huge and it is fun to get together, not only that but half of the people living in the area of the hometown of our family are related.
I'm from Southern Ontario, Canada and I've done all these things except The Grand Ole Opry and 'Nawlins ( on my bucket list ) . Does that make me Southern ( ish ) ? 😄
I have be fortunate to have done all of these. It is and was a blast.
10:40 I HAVE Done this!!! These Thingees ... And more!! (A Very compassionate, empathetic and, maniacal laughter ensues…) thank you
Hello 👋 from Las Vegas!! I really enjoyed this.. 😊😊
My Hispanic husband’s family had a family reunion over 40 years ago lol. They never did it again haha! Maybe they figured that was too much family? My family (here in Texas) just visited relatives houses when we were at my grandmothers so that was our reunion I guess 😂
Tomatoes out of the garden, ripened onthe vine, never seen a fridge...close to heaven
If we have less than 100 at our family reunion, then we had a poor showing.
southerner telling a texan "you have an accent".... so cute.
Has anybody had a birthday(not a party just a birthday dinner) at Texas Roadhouse other than me ? It is so much fun , you get to sit on a saddle while people sing happy birthday to you and they have everybody say ye haw. It is honestly so much fun .
Sugar in cornbread is cake.
That's what I call a bad cake that's not fit to eat.
Cake with cornmeal instead of flour.
It is called a *cake* of cornbread
Sugar with cornbread was Southern in the 60's-70's! Don't know how they make it today?
@@ednaselm I've been inn he middle of old school since the 50's and NO sugar at ALL from the ancestors.
this is my favorite Aint Never 🤣
I have grown my own tomatoes and gone to a family reunion.
Family reunion, best food in the world!
I love this "personal" type of video! It's so fun to see y'all and learn more about you. :)
Oh man the family reunion question. We have more than 50 people at any given gathering. We have a huge family on both sides. Each of my parents has more than 4 kids, and each grandparent has more than 6 siblings. And they live to be in their 90s at least.
I reckon I qualify as a genuine (pronounced with a long "i") Southerner! My folks were both born in northeast Alabama. We did all of this stuff! Summertime family reunions lasted all week and involved hundreds of folks!
I have never been to the Opry, After Labor Day I always put my white shoes and clothes in the back of my closet, that’s what my Mama and her sisters taught me to do.then I became a nurse, I had to wear white uniforms, stockings, and shoes. But my regular clothes, still in the back like mama taught me. Oh, don’t forget for every color shoes you have, you have to have a matching pocketbook
I eat tomatoes like an apple. A Campari on a hot summer day with a little salt. Y•U•M !
I have grown tomatoes and I enjoyed it 😁.
Tyrone has been called out...😂😂
"The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly American country music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, founded on November 28, 1925."
For everyone else who hat no Idea what it is.
I like to scratch make my corn bread, and yes I do add some sugar, but my wife keeps buying Jiffy Cornbread mix.
My mom sang at the Opry for a couple of years and I got to go with! I would fall asleep in empty dressing rooms when I got sleepy.
I have done it all. Play horseshoes, fish at night, and more. At our family reunion it is mostly home cooked, but some KFC does show up
EXPLETIVES GOES HERE! I swore to myself that I would not, and I say Would Not comment on some silly; "It Is Southern Thing" video. BUT NOooooo!!!
Sugar, In cornbread;}?
Sugar in corn muffins..yes
Sugar in corn sticks or pone...yes, but only if you're a gosh-dang yankee or communist
Like I've said before on the Great Sugar In Cornbread Debate: Sugar in the cornbread makes the baby Jesus cry.
@@Banapis Hallelujah!!! :)
haha! I don´t like sugar in my tea either! Just lots of ice!
This makes me wish I had a southern family that actually does family stuff
Uncle Tyrone's on ICE duty. ;-)
Yes, I have done them all!
I even take pictures of my tomatoes 🍅 every year!!
They ain’t store bought either!
Like mama says “there’s nothing like a real tomato”..... home grown is real!
Line dance? I did that at both of my proms! 🤗 We played Cotton Eyed Joe, too!
Love this videos-so much fun.
There's enough sugar in my tea thank-you-very-much I dont need any in my cornbread. I like it nice and savory.
I like how the have all city slickers doin this southern show
"I don't want sweet jiffy cornbread." Yes! That's exactly right! I don't want my cornbread to taste like cornbread cake!
@Angel Bulldog I don't think so
Those paddles remind me of the funeral home fans everyone used during church in my grandparents town in summer in North Carolina.
Cornbread: I was told that only Yankees put sugar in their cornbread. Having lived in both sides of the Mason Dixon line, it was true in my experience!
Go to NOLA to see family any time BUT during Mardi Gras. NYE excellent!
Store bought tomatoes taste like disappointment. Grow your own!
Been to the GOO and the Rhyman, where the original show happened :) Bought my cowboy boots the same trip! Line dancing happened then too, but then there was electric slide ar a HS reunion under peer pressure.
No on the family reunion over 50 people. Never had that many living relatives at the same time and our "reunions" happened when someone died...
Hi. I’m just seeing this. Growing tomatoes. Yes Ma’am. My mother brought that to New York from the south. We always have a kitchen Garden. I would go into the garden, get a ripe tomato, a handful of okra and just sit down and eat them. Sometime with a little salt and pepper but most of the time just as they were. Yes, eating the tomato just like you would eat an apple. Delicious. You learn how to eat tomato so that it isn’t messy. I’m moving towards 70 now and still do it.
8:53 is this why my family doesn't have family reunions because some of us have different last names lol oh wait I know why
Because we're too dysfunctional and would probably kill each other lol
Last names got nothin to do with it! We had huge family reunions on all sides, and there were usually about 7 main last names, but lots of other ones also:) Family is family, last name or other,) Not killing each other is obv part of the fun & challenge,) Plus, the Grandmas and aunties giving The Looks made sure everyone stayed in their lane during the heat of summer,)
I have done all these things. I'm a 3rd generation Nashville Native so I graduated from high school at the Grand Ole Opry, lol. Party afterwards at Opryland. Prom at the Opryland Hotel. Sugar in the cornbread is for my hubby from NJ.