Watch our panel of Southerners try some of the more unusual treats from our neck of the woods and learn that maybe cornbread and buttermilk ain't all it's cracked up to be.
My grandpa made his own pickled eggs with garlic and dill and jalapenos and he and my dad would eat them and drink crappy beer. You didnt want to be ANYWHERE near them afterwards when the gas kicked in
My husbands father used to torment his sons with his gas starting from when they were little kids. he would eat all kinds of things like sardines and pickled eggs that would give him terrible gas and then he would fart and lock them in the room with it and so on. Their mother would laugh at them the whole time they begged for help. As teenagers they figured out that their fathers dog would get horrible smelling gas when she ate peanuts so one day they gave her a bunch of peanuts. They put the dog in their parents room that night and blocked the door. All of a sudden you hear their dad screaming and banging on the door to be let out. The dogs farts were so loud and so bad that their father started to dry heave. He never did that to them again.
Thank you for the "cornbread and buttermilk". My Dad grew up in the mountains of West Virginia (RIP 1985) and he used to sing "Cornbread an' buttermilk, and good ol' turnip greens"!
I drink the juice alone 🙋♀️ I used to get my tail whooped from drinking all the bean juice, butter bean juice, greens juice, sweet butter juice from the carrots...
I like the way that one lady OBVIOUSLY had Southern grandparents, because she knew what everything was, even if she hadn't tasted it before .... lol ...
Just glad they had the whipped cream version of ambrosia, I've been surprised by the Mayonaise variant. It's not bad (3/5) but you definitely need to know beforehand it's not going to be as sweet and light as the whipped cream/ Cool Whip kind (5/5).
You just KNOW that these children have no problem -- and would find no bad associations -- with any given fast food selection. If only they knew. Bless their hearts.
I'm a Southern girl and while I know all of these I've avoided eating them. Cornbread and milk is awesome but I've never used nasty old Buttermilk. Now Buttermilk cornbread is another story, it's awesome. Actually I have had Ambrosia, I never knew it was a Southern thing. I don't much like it. I'm weird I guess.
Jennifer C Same . . . Why do you think that is? I have a lot of food sensitivities, but if I roll up on a salad bar and it has pink pickled eggs, I’m happy!
I was nearly a self made widow when I caught my new husband 30 years ago POURING OUT the pot liquor from the greens I'd worked so hard to season just right. I'm plating up the rest of the dinner. He picks up the pot of collard greens, I turn away to get a bowl for them and he commences to pour my pot liquor down. The. Drain. It was touch and go there for a minute...then I decided I didn't look good in orange, so he survived. 😜
@@NewportMamabear ❤ hee... every now and then i remind him of that incident. I was standing over the sink with a ladle of pot liquor this Thanksgiving carefully pouring it into a Mason jar when he laughed and told me he thought I was pouring down the sink. Haha honey... no.
Told a girlfriend what Pot liquor was and she thought I was kiddin especially after I told her you use pan fried corn bread AKA ho cake to soak it up!!LOL!! It don't get no better!!!!
Growing up my mother introduced me to buttermilk and cornbread. She said it was a traditional Sunday evening meal after a heavy Sunday dinner. I love cornbread and buttermilk.
My now late wife years ago, noticed I was experiencing a bad case of thrush (from antibiotics). So she got a small carton of buttermilk and made me drink it. It cured the thrush but I think it was the spasming and jitterbugging across the floor.
"Snacks" never ate pot likker as a "snack", nor ambrosia. Ambrosia WAS a time consuming labor of love made for special occasions and church potlucks until Cool Whip came along and they started using canned fruit 😩. Maybe leftover ambrosia could be considered a snack? I dunno, that's a stretch, lol.
We had the sweetest neighbors across the road. When we moved in Howard greeted us to the neighborhood with a jar of homemade bread and butter pickles. Best ever! He would grow both a full summer and winter garden. He would bottle everything from piccalilly to candied watermelon rind. I hope his kids wrote down his recipes. A true Southern Country man. Even put 5 unshelled pecans in when cooking his greens and said it kept them from getting bitter.
My grandma churned her own butter and the buttermilk that was left didn’t taste anything like the buttermilk in grocery stores. Always looked forward to drinking it with cornbread crumbled up in it. Sooo.. good
She probably made sweet cream butter, which produces butter and buttermilk that is similar to regular low-fat milk. A different way of making butter soured the milk first, producing butter and cultured buttermilk. If I remember correctly, this took less work to churn then sweet cream butter.
Pot Likker with a chunk of cornbread to sop it up is AMAZING... That's where all the vitamins from the collards go anyway.... The catch is, it's gotta be GOOD collards with a ham hock an some bacon in it.
Put a little salt and pepper on that egg, a whole new taste, pot likker should be poured over your cornbread, its not for drinking. What part of South Dakota are ya'll from?
Same here. I make my own and I use the bulk size pickle jar and 36 eggs. They don't even normally last long enough to fully pickle unless I make two jars (and 72 eggs) at once. If I do that then the second jar sometimes makes it over a week or two before I open it. Not sure if it is a thing or just something I created. But deviled pickled eggs. You use pickled eggs to make deviled eggs.
How lucky are those of us to have had these experiences growing up. Ours were at Granny’s, out on the farm, in the south, fresh killed chicken , fried crisp, boiled to death greens with farm grown bacon, doused in vinegar, cornbread baked in great grandmas black cast iron skillet, ( I still hav it) with home churned butter, ice cold fresh brewed tea... After lunch cobblers, cakes, cookies, and pies on the side table. “Granny, can we take down your curtains, and make brides dresses/veils?”. “ Sure, darlin’s, let me help you!”
We always put sugar in our cornbread if we are having it with just with ham and beans, and no sugar if we are having it with greens and taters. Sugar in the cornbread isn't wrong, it's just made differently for different meals.
These are southerns raised in the city. If you lived down by the red light where the girl dog got ran over, you would of had some of these. Btw I was raised in California came to Alabama in 93 to Blount county.
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This is so weird!!! (1) I am 76 now, southern born and raised, and why I was a very young boy, my Dad (a "Georgia boy") used to make us banana/mayo/light bread sandwiches every Sunday afternoon! I haven't had that in 50 years, but you're making me want one now. I didn't know anybody else had ever eaten that! (2) My toothless old Georgia grandmother literally lived on cornbread-in-buttermilk for decades. I can't remember seeing her eat anything else. She churned the buttermilk herself, and she DID NOT put sugar into her cornbread. It CAN'T be bad! (3) That "Pot Likker" is better with the cooked greens it came out of. Add smoked ham hock, diced onions, and cornbread, and it is truly a SUPER FOOD. ~~~ Overall, this has been a wonderful nostalgia trip for me. Thank you!
Hats off to everyone who tried the food in this video. You are way, way braver than I would be with those dishes set in front of me. The final dish I would have enjoyed though.
When my grandparents had picked eggs around he house, they’d keep them on the porch and they’d be in an orange brine, that would turn the egg an orange-pink color.
I was born in Alabama but my family moved to South Dakota by my 5th birthday (60 yo now) and even I knew what those all were!! As for that banana sandwich, it's better with Miracle Whip! And same goes for my pineapple sandwich!! 😁 My daddy was raised in Alabama but not my Momma so we moved closer to her family but we still ate Southern!! Man!! I'm hungry now! I need to put me on a pot of black eyed peas with a hamhock now!!
Cornbread and buttermilk is a depression era meal. They were inexpensive and filling together. My great aunts and uncles used to eat it often when I was growing up. Not for me though 😣
And here is where I admit my ignorance and that I am new to the South, What's ambrosia? Or should I say, what is IN ambrosia? Really, I'd like to know a good recipe for it, to see if I'd like it.
@@ko676 what ambrosia did you eat that uses mayonnaise dressing? Or do you just mean the texture of the dressing? I have heard of people using some sour cream in it but I have not heard of mayo being used.
While I was born and raised in Michigan, my father was from Dothan, Alabama. Ya hit me right in the feels straight out of the gate with the banana-mayo sandwich. My dad loved those things and ate them all the time.
The banana sandwiches are fairly good and a southern childhood staple. Now my grandad used to add liver pudding to them - I like Neeses liver pudding on crackers with mustard, but not on a banana sandwich!
My mama lived her some buttermilk, with or without cornbread! I don't drink the stuff regularly, but get a strong hankerin' for it now and then...like now, right now!
When my grandpa was about the age I am now, his doctor told him he needed to gain weight. So, every day he fixed himself up a giant iced-tea glass filled with corn bread, about half a raw onion (diced), and buttermilk - then washed it all down with a tall-boy Schlitz. Great memories.
Pot likker out of a can is like telling a person that you're going to put Duke's mayonnaise on their sandwich and you use miracle whip instead😵. As for scary southern food wait until you see the expression on the face of a northerner when you tell them that you're going to feed them Frogmore stew😜 And the ladies do look cute 😁
I have had a banana and Dukes sandwich, but I have not even heard of a pineapple and mayo sandwich. I will try that. Have you tried peanut butter and banana sandwiches? Very yummy 😋
My great grandmother had to have her cornbread & buttermilk in the morning. A fresh pan of cornbread was made daily so she could have breakfast the next day.
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My definition of a scary southern snack “PIGS FEET”
You ain't lyin'! 😳😖
Pickled pigs feet and pickled eggs are actually pretty good day drinking food
So far these all seem very tame.
I'm with you on ugh pig feet you can smell them all over the house when someone opens a jar
Of goodness...my dad (RIP) would come home from work and drink 6 pk of Pabst beer and eat jar of those disgusting things 😳
My grandpa made his own pickled eggs with garlic and dill and jalapenos and he and my dad would eat them and drink crappy beer. You didnt want to be ANYWHERE near them afterwards when the gas kicked in
I make sure that I don't drink crappy cheap beer.
My husbands father used to torment his sons with his gas starting from when they were little kids. he would eat all kinds of things like sardines and pickled eggs that would give him terrible gas and then he would fart and lock them in the room with it and so on. Their mother would laugh at them the whole time they begged for help. As teenagers they figured out that their fathers dog would get horrible smelling gas when she ate peanuts so one day they gave her a bunch of peanuts. They put the dog in their parents room that night and blocked the door. All of a sudden you hear their dad screaming and banging on the door to be let out. The dogs farts were so loud and so bad that their father started to dry heave. He never did that to them again.
@@shadowkissed2370 yep, nothing deadlier than dog gas.
Ahh ! Dad memories..💜
Been making my picketed eggs for at least 55 years.
I love me some cornbread and regular milk, it's one of my happy place snacks... Leave the buttermilk for making biscuits
With regular milk is the only way.
Fully agree!!
@@rollingwiththepunches1988 I could see that combo being pretty good, a little sweet and a little heat... I could get down on that.
Thank you for the "cornbread and buttermilk". My Dad grew up in the mountains of West Virginia (RIP 1985) and he used to sing "Cornbread an' buttermilk, and good ol' turnip greens"!
Nobody has potlicker alone. That's what cornbread was made for.
I drink the juice alone 🙋♀️
I used to get my tail whooped from drinking all the bean juice, butter bean juice, greens juice, sweet butter juice from the carrots...
Yes! And not out of a dang can! 🙄
Yeah, dunked the cornbread in the wrong cup.
Potliquor*
Amen.
3:43 - Turnt, we have no better southern word for bad food.
And its close cousin, "rurnt" ("ruined.")
@@MelissaThompson432 I've not had that problem in years. Anything turnt gets fed to the chickens.
Also heard when little “ He’s just turnt that a way”
That or "I believe this milks gone blinky".
I like the way that one lady OBVIOUSLY had Southern grandparents, because she knew what everything was, even if she hadn't tasted it before .... lol ...
When they brought out the pot liquor, I would have been asking for the cornbread back.
I was going to say this
I'm seriously starting to question the southernness of these people. 🤣 And for the record, ambrosia salad deserves 10 Stars!
Me too 🤷
Yes!
I'm a super villain according to Liz Dial.
Just glad they had the whipped cream version of ambrosia, I've been surprised by the Mayonaise variant. It's not bad (3/5) but you definitely need to know beforehand it's not going to be as sweet and light as the whipped cream/ Cool Whip kind (5/5).
@@Ulysses_DM_ I've never had it with mayo. I think sweet is probably better though. Speaking of mayo, I'm surprised pear salad wasn't on the list.
Mmmmmm. Ambrosia. That’s some memories of church suppers, right there.
When ever we have a family gathering I always am requsted to make ambrosia.
No church potluck in the South would be complete without it
And Christmas get together with family or Thanksgiving. Oh I miss them 😓
Not just the South, it's a Midwest thing too...
So love ambrosia. Not Christmas without it
"Is this egg nog?" SMH, No way you can confuse the two unless you haven't had either one.
No boiled peanuts? Now that's a good Southern snack!!
You got that right!!
Boiled peanuts are delicious! Deep fried peanuts are also fantastic.
Boiled peanuts wouldn't be considered scary this was all about southern snacks that not even all Southerners can agree on
It's a South East Asian thing too. Something bout Southern areas just knowing how to boil things.
I feel like boiled peanuts is more of a Louisiana/Mississippi thing or at least they’re not very common in other southern states
"It smells like it turnt..." Things a southern woman definitely would say.
Or rurn't
Not just turned, but TURNT. That's when you know it was sour af.
@@eyes_espresso4803 Either that or you can no longer tell if it was meat or cake.
Yep ... but that's what makes it sooo good
"This constitutes a salad in the south" I felt that.
Me too! Now I need to make some.
My granny only makes Italian food but that’s the only salad I remember her making until I hit middle school 😂
My family actually calls it fruit salad😂
So does pretzel salad
I'm in southern Illinois, and Ambrosia is often found at the salad bar.
I’m weeping for the future of the south.
You just KNOW that these children have no problem -- and would find no bad associations -- with any given fast food selection. If only they knew. Bless their hearts.
Why??
How have these "Southerners" not ever seen or tried these snacks?
I think the point is, they AREN'T Southerners. They are just trying Southern foods that are more or less foreign to non-Southerners.
No Tom they are supposed to be Southern. That is what’s so bad about it they they never heard of these.
@@homerwiggins3965 👍
Some of them are not just Southern, but regional.
I'm a Southern girl and while I know all of these I've avoided eating them. Cornbread and milk is awesome but I've never used nasty old Buttermilk. Now Buttermilk cornbread is another story, it's awesome. Actually I have had Ambrosia, I never knew it was a Southern thing. I don't much like it. I'm weird I guess.
I still love boiled peanuts! Now that's a southern snack!
Spicy is the best!
Specially if you toss the dpicy boiled peanuts in full-sugar coca cola.
Exactly! Looooveeeee those!
Gross
I love boiled peanuts, never had any in Arizona... I miss Mississippi
Goober Peas!
Peanut butter, banana, and bacon sandwiches pan fried in butter - The “Elvis”!!!
On raisin bread with apple butter
Never done it fried with bacon but darn sounds good 🤤. Maria I love raisin toast with apple butter 💗
Or peanut butter, banana and marshmallow fluff
@@braelynnpruitt6340 that's a Yankee thing.
Crunchy peanut butter, banana and honey for me
Ambrosia only happened at Thanksgiving and church supper. Man I miss that dish
Some fresh, hot cornbread with some cold buttermilk is a Mississippi delicacy...so good!
Must be city southerners.🤗 Up in the hiills, folks eat all that. The collards have to be homemade, though.
When he said he doesn’t like Slimy food snd 90% of it was slimy foods felt for him 🤢
Lol... how is he gonna eat okra?
Yeah, I can't stand okra because it so slimy, but if you fry it up then I love it.
@@greywolf065 I was saying the same thing!
That’s me, I hate slimy food.
Bananas and eggs are a no-go for me.
I was surprised he was okay with mayo because mayo is super slimy
Mmmm! I love cornbread and buttermilk!
This is what my grandparents thought were great snacks 🤣
Ambrosia salad’s the bomb. We used to always have that at Christmas.
@Jessica B. I’ve never heard of it. Must be a local thing. Diversity is wonderful - food, flavors, and people!
We pickle the eggs with beets. It turns them bright pink, but they are delicious.
Oh yes. Nummers.
I cannot eat pickled eggs unless they’re pink. I don’t even like pickled beets, but they better be in with the eggs!
Jennifer C Same . . . Why do you think that is?
I have a lot of food sensitivities, but if I roll up on a salad bar and it has pink pickled eggs, I’m happy!
@@llamasugar5478 Oh yes!
That’s the only way my mom eats them too.
Crushed pineapple and mayonnaise sandwiches are a close second to banana and mayonnaise sandwiches.
We use sliced pineapple.
Wait what happened to the pickled pigs, feet? True southern snack.🤣
Now, if you'd tossed the cornbread into the pot likker...
YES!!! That's what I said! YUM
Amen!
And buttermilk
I thought that same thing as I was watching. Yum!
Use Mandarin oranges in ambrosia. The slight bitter taste contrasts all of the sweet and tells your tastebuds to pay attention to what's going on.
how are your mandarin oranges bitter? Are you getting them at the wrong time?
Mandarins are super sweet, consistently, in my experience. They are sweeter than standard oranges. That's not an opinion, it's a known fact.
@@aaronmontgomery2055 I think they may have meant sour, since there is a slight acidity to mandarin oranges
I love ambrosia but with cool whip instead
That's how my mom always made hers. I miss it so much!
How are these people "southern" if they have never had these foods 😅🤔
Bingo!
I know, right!
Get some REAL southerners folks. These Yankees just ain't cutting it.
You have discovered the point of the video! It would be boring if it was people who just liked all the stuff.
Pimento cheese on bread or Fritos dipped in it
is Bomb and southern
Yes I agree!!
Even better when it’s jalapeño pimento cheese 🙌🏻
@@angelg.8462 wow I’ve never had the two mixed! That sounds delicious😍
My grandparents were from Missouri and we would dip BBQ chips in pimento cheese. 😋
100%
I was nearly a self made widow when I caught my new husband 30 years ago POURING OUT the pot liquor from the greens I'd worked so hard to season just right. I'm plating up the rest of the dinner. He picks up the pot of collard greens, I turn away to get a bowl for them and he commences to pour my pot liquor down. The. Drain. It was touch and go there for a minute...then I decided I didn't look good in orange, so he survived. 😜
You would have gotten off. That’s justifiable in the South. 😁
Honey I would have bailed you out! And after we told them what happened, you would have just been let go on your way!
@@NewportMamabear ❤ hee... every now and then i remind him of that incident. I was standing over the sink with a ladle of pot liquor this Thanksgiving carefully pouring it into a Mason jar when he laughed and told me he thought I was pouring down the sink. Haha honey... no.
Told a girlfriend what Pot liquor was and she thought I was kiddin especially after I told her you use pan fried corn bread AKA ho cake to soak it up!!LOL!! It don't get no better!!!!
I bet that was the one and only time he did that.
"is this egg nog?"
😂🤣😂😂🤣
I've never had buttermilk alone but my dad drinks it straight. Dunking cornbread in it sounds amazing actually...
Cornbread and sweet milk,ya'll!
🙌
Yes!!!!
My Dad used butter milk, me and Mama used sweet milk. My Mawmaw used to always call it sweet milk. Haven't heard that in a while.
We make cornbread with buttermilk but drinking buttermilk outright is just disgusting
Or cornbread and buttermilk, I love them both.
Canned f'ing greens?!! You gonna tell me none of you could make some greens. How the heck is pot likker scary? It's broth.
I’m so mad about it! Fresh pot likker is amazing
Pot likker is delicious! Btw, I'm a Yankee.
It is scary because it did come out of a can
Broth is boiled meat. Are you tellin me your collard greens have meat in the south?
@@kaldo_kaldo yeah, they’re cooked in broth. Some people cook them with bacon, too. There’s history behind it.
Growing up my mother introduced me to buttermilk and cornbread. She said it was a traditional Sunday evening meal after a heavy Sunday dinner. I love cornbread and buttermilk.
these folks are refreshing & their humor is on the mark- so reminds me of years past satire (2nd city tv ,snl,......!
My now late wife years ago, noticed I was experiencing a bad case of thrush (from antibiotics). So she got a small carton of buttermilk and made me drink it. It cured the thrush but I think it was the spasming and jitterbugging across the floor.
They should have had cornbread with the pot likker
🙌 I said the same...YUUUUMMY
Oh my god NOW THAT IS EATING !!
Yum! I could live on cornbread and biscuits
No no not with BUTTER MILK. Just with regular MILK 🥛
Your gonna catch some nasty replys eventually for that comment but I hate buttermilk so I'm with you on that.
"Snacks" never ate pot likker as a "snack", nor ambrosia. Ambrosia WAS a time consuming labor of love made for special occasions and church potlucks until Cool Whip came along and they started using canned fruit 😩. Maybe leftover ambrosia could be considered a snack? I dunno, that's a stretch, lol.
I never heard of "leftover Ambrosia"! How do you get that?
From the heart of bama country. You ain’t southern if you got a problem with a freaking banana sandwich!!
Originally from the North of England, we too partake in banana sandwiches, they are bloody amazing !
@@smit7120 haha well I’ve ate a many of tomato sandwiches and mayonnaise sandwiches as well in my younger years 😂😂. Made me a better man tho
@@bulgarianfarmadventure7202 that’s very interesting.
@@smit7120 btw I’ve always been very interested in the Appalachian. I know a lot of great music come from them hills!!
Yes sir. I used to love this channel now I just feel betrayed.
Southerners popular favorite snack is Little Debbie's!! Haven't met one I didn't love.
I have like 15 boxes at my apartment now.
Can’t go wrong with Little Debbie’s!! 💜💜
I met someone from Massachusetts and they didn't know what a honey bun was!
And moon pies 😭❤️ I haven’t had one in years
@@jennifergragg1850 I agree wholeheartedly
Oh wait... this Alabama girl has had all these snacks😂. They just not getting it prepared right in this vid.❤️
We had the sweetest neighbors across the road. When we moved in Howard greeted us to the neighborhood with a jar of homemade bread and butter pickles. Best ever! He would grow both a full summer and winter garden. He would bottle everything from piccalilly to candied watermelon rind. I hope his kids wrote down his recipes. A true Southern Country man. Even put 5 unshelled pecans in when cooking his greens and said it kept them from getting bitter.
I would ❤️ a neighbor like that!
I grew up on banana & Mayo sandwiches... also pineapple & Mayo sandwiches
Omg both are awesome
Should've put the cornbread with the mixed greens "juice" YUM
YES
For real. How are you gonna drink potlikker without cornbread?
@@marlascrafty5390 exactly!
For real!
Exactly
I used to eat banana and mayo sandwiches all the time. Also ate pineapple and mayo sandwiches...they were good !
3:13
*Inhales*
😡"Uh-uhh"
😂😂😂😂 His face changed so FAST!
My grandma churned her own butter and the buttermilk that was left didn’t taste anything like the buttermilk in grocery stores. Always looked forward to drinking it with cornbread crumbled up in it. Sooo.. good
That's because it was real buttermilk not the cultured crap they sell now.
Blanche Konieczka is right. Modern commercial buttermilk is pasteurized and homogenized milk to which they basically add lactic acid
@@XianHu and it isn't as good as real buttermilk.
@@blanchekonieczka9935 You are correct; it is definitely not.
She probably made sweet cream butter, which produces butter and buttermilk that is similar to regular low-fat milk. A different way of making butter soured the milk first, producing butter and cultured buttermilk. If I remember correctly, this took less work to churn then sweet cream butter.
Pot Likker with a chunk of cornbread to sop it up is AMAZING... That's where all the vitamins from the collards go anyway.... The catch is, it's gotta be GOOD collards with a ham hock an some bacon in it.
You know you cant even buy ham hocks in NE Ohio? And I even called snobby meat markets! Gibblets are scarce as hens teeth too!
You've all earned your junior associate southern cards now, bless your hearts lol
When did Mrs. Swan from mad TV join "Its a southern thing"
Put a little salt and pepper on that egg, a whole new taste, pot likker should be poured over your cornbread, its not for drinking. What part of South Dakota are ya'll from?
I happen to love pickled eggs. I can get an entire jar and finish it off in less than 30 minutes. but then I also love pickled hot sausages.
Same here. I make my own and I use the bulk size pickle jar and 36 eggs. They don't even normally last long enough to fully pickle unless I make two jars (and 72 eggs) at once. If I do that then the second jar sometimes makes it over a week or two before I open it.
Not sure if it is a thing or just something I created. But deviled pickled eggs. You use pickled eggs to make deviled eggs.
Nobody drinks the pot likker with out the collards
The hot sausage is AWESOME!!
@Duke00x omg yessss i made picked deviled eggs the other day and they were so good. Never seen a recipe for em though. Great minds think alike!
How lucky are those of us to have had these experiences growing up. Ours were at Granny’s, out on the farm, in the south, fresh killed chicken , fried crisp, boiled to death greens with farm grown bacon, doused in vinegar, cornbread baked in great grandmas black cast iron skillet, ( I still hav it) with home churned butter, ice cold fresh brewed tea...
After lunch cobblers, cakes, cookies, and pies on the side table. “Granny, can we take down your curtains, and make brides dresses/veils?”. “ Sure, darlin’s, let me help you!”
Lord was my Mamaw or Mama in your kitchen? We must be kin.
My grandparents always gave me cornbread and milk and I loved it. It's like an odd cornbread cereal! 😂 I cannot imagine buttermilk though! 🤢
I was/am beginning to wonder if any of them are from the south, especially sugar in cornbread lady
Ikr.....noooooo sugar and I'm a sugar freak
We always put sugar in our cornbread if we are having it with just with ham and beans, and no sugar if we are having it with greens and taters. Sugar in the cornbread isn't wrong, it's just made differently for different meals.
I’m born and raised in the south and sugar and cornbread is amazing. I hate it any other way. Only a little though, we’re not making cake 😆
These are southerns raised in the city. If you lived down by the red light where the girl dog got ran over, you would of had some of these. Btw I was raised in California came to Alabama in 93 to Blount county.
@@almafigueroa7277 I live in Blount County Tennessee
Every time Talia tried something she hated and made that face. Was reminded of her line from a previous video "Tastes like college and regret!" 🤣
Which one is Talia?
@@eoa363 she's the beauty with the bangs!
That was fun to watch! Thank you!
Thank you makers of It a Southern Thing. You have given us something to laugh about and de-stress. You set a good example for social distancing and mask wearing. Thank you for getting us through this year. Keep it up and stay safe.
This is so weird!!!
(1) I am 76 now, southern born and raised, and why I was a very young boy, my Dad (a "Georgia boy") used to make us banana/mayo/light bread sandwiches every Sunday afternoon! I haven't had that in 50 years, but you're making me want one now. I didn't know anybody else had ever eaten that!
(2) My toothless old Georgia grandmother literally lived on cornbread-in-buttermilk for decades. I can't remember seeing her eat anything else. She churned the buttermilk herself, and she DID NOT put sugar into her cornbread. It CAN'T be bad!
(3) That "Pot Likker" is better with the cooked greens it came out of. Add smoked ham hock, diced onions, and cornbread, and it is truly a SUPER FOOD. ~~~ Overall, this has been a wonderful nostalgia trip for me. Thank you!
pickled watermelon rind... that was around our house when I was growing up in KY.
Oh c’mon y’all! I’m a Californian with Oklahoma and Tennessee roots, and most of these things are awesome! Granny would be proud to hear me say that!
About the Ambrosia - "I think we have a cure for depression right here." I agree...
Try cornbread in the milk that is true buttermilk. When you made butter, you get butter and real (not cultured) buttermilk.
And add salt to taste!
We call that ’ crumble in.‘
The tasters are from the big cities. That's all you need to know. According to Liz Dial I'm a super villain. Cornbread and Buttermilk is a goop snack.
Goop indeed
Hats off to everyone who tried the food in this video. You are way, way braver than I would be with those dishes set in front of me. The final dish I would have enjoyed though.
Must not be Southern bless your heart.
When my grandparents had picked eggs around he house, they’d keep them on the porch and they’d be in an orange brine, that would turn the egg an orange-pink color.
you need to take a drive into the country and find some authentic southerners.
Right!
Idk but my guess is they're from Atlanta.
Bingo!
I was born in Alabama but my family moved to South Dakota by my 5th birthday (60 yo now) and even I knew what those all were!! As for that banana sandwich, it's better with Miracle Whip! And same goes for my pineapple sandwich!! 😁 My daddy was raised in Alabama but not my Momma so we moved closer to her family but we still ate Southern!! Man!! I'm hungry now! I need to put me on a pot of black eyed peas with a hamhock now!!
Don't let Matt hear you recommended sugar in cornbread. He fought a Backporch Bickering agin it!😱🤣
I can't abide Sweet cornbread
Right? It's not Southern to put sugar in cornbread.
Savory cornbread is obviously better but nothing wrong with the sweet stuff either.
"Ya'll lied to me." 🤣
Loved "Why did I take such a big bite?" Cuz i was wondering that myself - he had a loaded fork!
"This feels mean..."
Correct
Cornbread and buttermilk is a depression era meal. They were inexpensive and filling together. My great aunts and uncles used to eat it often when I was growing up. Not for me though 😣
Or just a depression meal. For those days when it just isn't worth it.
My paternal grandparents loved it and so does my daddy, but I hate it.
I love it, with cornbread or just plain. It's definitely an acquired taste.
The cornbread and milk 🥛 reminds me of my daddy.
My great grandparents ate cornbread and buttermilk. Some of my cousins do now. I never had it because my mom hates buttermilk
Cornbread never had this. Yet cornbread and Elmers glue just had me in stitches
Banana and Mayo sandwiches are so good. And so is Buttermilk and cornbread. ALL of these snacks are so good.
They didn’t serve the pot linker right! They needed cornbread!
I'm less than 2 minutes in and afraid ambrosia is going to make an appearance😬
Edited to add: 7:58 I knew it! I just knew it!
You say that like you think ambrosia is nasty or something. 😅
And here is where I admit my ignorance and that I am new to the South,
What's ambrosia? Or should I say, what is IN ambrosia? Really, I'd like to know a good recipe for it, to see if I'd like it.
@@keithdavis4649 its basically a mix of fruit (normally the canned variety) with whipped cream and marshmallows.
I don't like it. The fruit, the mayonnaise-y dressing it's tossed in, the texture. It's just not my cup of tea 🤐
@@ko676 what ambrosia did you eat that uses mayonnaise dressing? Or do you just mean the texture of the dressing? I have heard of people using some sour cream in it but I have not heard of mayo being used.
Another vote YES for pickled eggs in pickled beet juice. Yum!
I think those are Pennsylvania Dutch. Both my grandmothers made these. (I’m not from the south.)
“Haha, Y’all lied to me” and Talias faces are the best things I have ever heard and seen
While I was born and raised in Michigan, my father was from Dothan, Alabama. Ya hit me right in the feels straight out of the gate with the banana-mayo sandwich. My dad loved those things and ate them all the time.
Yesss that right there is my childhood with my dad being from Georgia.
One of my faves
Wishing I had some bananas right now to make me a sandwich
And it’s not a snack, that’s called lunch
The banana sandwiches are fairly good and a southern childhood staple. Now my grandad used to add liver pudding to them - I like Neeses liver pudding on crackers with mustard, but not on a banana sandwich!
Im confused why ambrosia is on this list 😂
I feel like ambrosia went out in the 60s, not just in the South, everywhere
They definitely still make it. Here in Kentucky they do. I see it mostly at baby showers or easter dinner.
Pickled eggs: disgusting to you today, disgusting to everyone else tomorrow. 😂
"oh you plopped it right in there!"
My wedding night in a nutshell
😂😂😂
Thanks for the laugh!
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Pickled Weines and pickled eggs with saltines was a great meal !
my grandfather ate buttermilk and cornbread everyday
So did my grandmama
My mama lived her some buttermilk, with or without cornbread!
I don't drink the stuff regularly, but get a strong hankerin' for it now and then...like now, right now!
My grandpa loved to drink buttermilk. For dessert he would pour a tall glass of it and toss in some torn up biscuits.
My step mother does...assumption is correct🤣
My dad loved buttermilk,and the addition of cornbread was a bonus.
Pickled eggs are a gift from God! ❤️ They’re SO good!!!
All of these are hard core Southern. I grew up with all of these. Must be city folk in this video.
When my grandpa was about the age I am now, his doctor told him he needed to gain weight. So, every day he fixed himself up a giant iced-tea glass filled with corn bread, about half a raw onion (diced), and buttermilk - then washed it all down with a tall-boy Schlitz. Great memories.
That's how my moma used to eat hers... buttermilk, cornbread, onion and pepper
Ok. That sounds good. I did not say this. I am not here.
Pot likker out of a can is like telling a person that you're going to put Duke's mayonnaise on their sandwich and you use miracle whip instead😵. As for scary southern food wait until you see the expression on the face of a northerner when you tell them that you're going to feed them Frogmore stew😜
And the ladies do look cute 😁
😂😂😂
I am a Yankee and love Frogmore Stew! Yummy!
They could have at least used Glory brand greens.
Hey! Really scare them and tell them you're giving them a Slugburger....
Rust Bucket you scared me when you said to use dukes instead of Blue Plate... 🤣
8:34 is so true. This dish was always the “salad” at the reunions and gatherings.
"Not the worst thing I've ever eaten, not taking another bite" That line made me snort!
Like all the girls and their shorter haircuts! Merry Christmas Ya'll!🎅🎄
Diana's hair looked better before
That's the "Karen cut"...no bueno
Banana and Mayo Sandwich, Yum! And oh, a pineapple and Mayo Sandwich.
@@angelg.8462 if you buy anything but Dukes Mayo you can’t be southern , I agree 😂
I have had a banana and Dukes sandwich, but I have not even heard of a pineapple and mayo sandwich. I will try that. Have you tried peanut butter and banana sandwiches? Very yummy 😋
I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one eating pineapple sandwiches. LOL
Bananas? Pinneapple? On a perfectly good mayo sandwich?
Mayo and tomato sandwich, can’t wait for mine to get ripe
So common snacks we do is peanut butter, jelly, and mayonnaise sandwiches, cornbread in regular milk, and love some ambrosia!
My great grandmother had to have her cornbread & buttermilk in the morning. A fresh pan of cornbread was made daily so she could have breakfast the next day.