re: Southern Food

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South Carolina - pulled pork butt with mustard based bbq sauce

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I enjoy vinegar-based BBQ myself, but I do enjoy the occasional Maurice's sandwich with their spicy yellow sauce. For some reason, that is the only way I'll eat mustard-based BBQ. If I am at a buffet, I will go for vinegar 100% of the time.

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Dale’s used to have a steakhouse in Florence, AL. It was really good, but they put Dale’s marinade in everything. Of course, the steaks were heavily marinated in it. The French onion soup had a Dale’s flavored broth. Even their house salad dressing had Dale’s in it.

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I went to college at UNA in Florence. Restaurant was almost right under the O’Neal Bridge next to the Tennessee River. If you wanted a fancy dinner date, Dale’s was the place.

For Florida, it'd probably be meth and Marlboro reds. Not enough money after the cigs and meth to buy and cook food.

Mizzou Menu

Cashew Chicken from Springfield
Burnt Ends from KC
Brisket from KC
Smoked Ham from Burgers Smokehouse in California, MO
Toasted RAV from St Louis
BBQ Ribs from St. Louis
Gooey Butter Cake from St. Louis
Watermelon, Cantaloupe and Peaches from Bootheel Region
Wickers Marinade from Hornersville, MO
Purple Hull Peas with bacon and Peach Pie from my Grandma's Kitchen
White Tail Backstrap sliced into breakfast steaks and cooked in butter.
Fried Spoonbill Catfish, Channel Cat, Crappie and Bass. Lake of the Ozarks and Truman Lake area.
Corn on the Cob, Northern Missouri.

TX A&M = fruit salad

Order some Edams cheese from the MAFES store for State and have some with a piece of a cow.

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I have a lot of friends and relatives who live in or are from, Texas. Putting beans in chili is about 50/50 with them

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I don't know who your friends and relatives are that live in Texas...

But they need to be warned that putting beans in chili in Texas is a capital crime..

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South Carolina

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BBQ. The real thing that requires a commitment from both a pig and a hickory tree. Not roast beef slathered in ketchup.

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Auburn

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Not from Auburn but certainly from Alabama but smoked chicken and the white sauce is pretty damned tasty....I know it sounds disgusting but its pretty damned good. It ain't BBQ despite what some will claim because, again, BBQ requires a commitment from a pig and a hickory tree.

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LSU,

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There ain't enough room in the internet to list the possibilities......if it can be cooked and eaten odds are pretty damned high that folks in Louisiana do so and do so at a high level.....

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Florida

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Seafood - grilled if you are learning them about coastal elitism but for true southern fry it like its done in the Panhandle...also what Texans call BBQ is also done in Florida and done better....and they also make actual BBQ in Florida, which, again, requires a commitment from a pig and a hickory tree....

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Bootheel of Missouri

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Pork steak is the filet mignon of the Bootheel.

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Gravy is an art.

Every family's granny has her secret recipe.

Dang, bring on some biscuits and gravy!!!

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I messed around and married a Florida grad who from a second generation Italian family from Chicago and the first thanksgiving I spent at her Granny's house they began discussing and cooking the gravy on Monday morning. I grew up in the south from Scotch-Irish Appalachian stock so I knew a thing or 2 about gravy....it was quite a surprise to me to find out what the term meant in Italy LOL.....A very pleasant surprise....those women could and still can, if they ain't dead, put on a show that would cost a couple $500 in a Michelin 3 star Italian Restaurant. My wife can do what they do and what the women in my family can do....I am a lucky bastard! Their gravy is made with as much love and devotion to the art as the gravy my mama made even if the ingredients are way different. I was also shocked to learn what macaroni was to them LOL....when they said they were cooking macaroni and gravy I was, to be honest, a little put out....