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Mrs B&D and myself are taking a trip to the deep south into areas where tourists usually don't venture.
Any advice on what to sample and what to avoid on the restaurant menu?
We reside far enough north that the normal diet has whale blubber, caribou, pemmican and seal meat as options.
 
Some places people will eat anything that won't eat them.
In other words some of the things they eat, I would have to be starving before I would eat them.
 
1. Any hot sauce that everyone else tells you "try it, it's not hot".

2. If it has eyes and it's looking back at you from the plate.

3. If you smell it before it reaches the table.
 
I checked with the local "Grits and Possum" restuarant and they don't serve any of the above Whale, Caribou, pemmican or seal. Looks like you better stay up there or starve. Down here they might try to pass gator off as whale blubber to make you happy.
 
avoid boudan(sp?) sausage one of those things that must be an aquired taste, hard to choke it down and the more you chew it the worse it gets stick with red beans and rice,or jambalya those are alright okra gets slimy but is good in gumbo i visited louisana your destination may have different local delacasys
 
If you're in transit on a US interstate stop in at the local Cracker Barrel. If you really want a taste of the south order up some fried okra as a side. Maybe try some pinto beans with a bit of chow chow relish on the side with some cornbread muffins. Oh and try some sothern style dumplings too...(we dont eat those balls of raw dough that those yanks eat. Ours a flat, thin and tasty) :)

If you are in the Tennessee/Kentucky/Alabama/Mississippi area you might shoot for chess pie or even chocolate chess pie. It's area specific but I dont think you'll be let down if you have a sweet tooth.
 
Went to the south a few years back- was in a Shoney's restaurant for breakfast- cute little gal was pouring what looked like white cornmeal mush into a steam table. I asked her what it was, she said, "Them's grits, honey, where ya'll from?"

I thought grits were the white whole corn kernals that my grandma used to eat- turns out that was hominy- grits was the ground up stuff. I just bailed out of the whole nasty mess and went to a Waffle House. . .
 
Best if you explained what you mean by deep south. You could be talking Mississippi or you could be saying much more north or even be talking about Mexico. Each state has its own things so with out knowing more hard to say.
 
ah, i was expecting that. actually cheese grits and shrimp is all the rage on southern coasts. then there is bbq pork, fried chicken, mac and cheese, turnip greens and collards. throw in desperation eating; fried chicken gizzards and livers, hog jowls and do not forget chitterlings. youn's come on down, we will treat you good in so many ways you bound to like one of them.
 
Jackson Mississippi area and up to Houston MS. I assume that is Deep South USA ?
Flying Delta with a change in Atlanta so that will be an adventure on it"s own.
 
I live in Houston, MS. Small town with a couple of places with local "home cooking" and as stated next to Vardaman which is actually the sweet potato capital.
Should be here this weekend, have a tractor and engine show.
My email should be open if you have questions on the area.
 
Since your going to be in Atlanta...if you have time go to the "Varsity." It"s on North Ave at I75, near Georgia Tech. Chili dogs, chili burgers, fries, onion rings, fried pies with ice cream and a "Frosted Orange!" That will be a good pit stop for you.
 
B&D if you are driving, leave on a full stomach and once you get well down in PA, Eat&Park is a good chain, then once you get down in VA you can get what we would call Home Cooked Food in a lot of small places. You know them by the line up at the door to get in.
Later Bob
 
See you there. I'm the grumpy looking middle aged guy with a mustache, 6ft tall, no tan and speaking English without an accent.
 
Here's the way I do it.
Avoid chain restaurants, fast food and most
everything that you've already tried.
Try everything else.
Sample sizes recommended!
 
Don't forget to try some turkey fries, a real southern delicacy. For the uninitiated, turkey fries are the mountain oysters of the turkey. Used to be you had to get on the waiting list at the turkey processing plant for these.
 
My mother's side of the family was all French Canadian, pork chops with ketchup on fried eggs type people.
When she was an Acadian translator for the Red Cross, she was always taken it by cajons as a long lost relative, so lots of home cooking, all the swamp creatures and sea food from the bayou. She loved it all, and taught the red cross crews to just stop in at the dingy looking roadside diners, try out their high school French and just order 'today's special'. Probably the most unusual meals you will have on mainland North America, no one ever died from it.... except a few cases of 'human spontaneous combustion'.... it can get spicy...
I'll tell ya, the weather would be more enjoyable 2 months ago than 2 months from now...
 
My advise would defiantly be fresh shrimp you can't get really fresh north of Memphis. Fried crawfish tails will melt in your mouth but you will need to go as far as Boloxy. I'm not sure if they are still in Business but Primo's cafe in Jackson used to be the best but that was back in the 60's
 
As long as you are that far South, venture over to Denton Tx & see if Joe will run his machine for you.I am sure you will be amazed. Tell him I sent you.
 
No chain food, look for the little dive places that appear run down or a little scary to even go in, they will have the best local food.

In my 20 years of travel for work, I have found this to hold true everywhere from Montreal to Dallas and everywhere in between.

Gator, all the different fish, crayfish. Any of those will a good cajun sauce. Avoid the rocky mountain oysters.
 
(quoted from post at 19:41:16 04/24/13) See you there. I'm the grumpy looking middle aged guy with a mustache, 6ft tall, no tan and speaking English without an accent.
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From Canada no less. :wink: It's our little secret..
 
Ok since I spent a number if years in Cleveland MS I sort of know the area. Went to High School in that town.
Grits are big in that area.
Crawdads and also big.
Catfish and many sea foods also.
Mississippi is not well known for any foods that ire not common to others areas of the south.
Now if you where going to LA and New Orleans that is a different story and there is a lot of good foods there and odd foods
 
In Jackson look up penns fish, stop in at starkville and eat a cappies for their plate lunch, then 70 miles north of houston is Corinth, MS go to the white trolley its a white block building on hwy 72 and get a slug buger. they are great comes with pickle mustard and onion if you want directions let me know and i will get them for you
 
Tried and enjoyed turnip greens and catfish at the restaurant called "Cockofthe walk " near Jackson. Excellent but heavy food and good company. Never had draft beer served in a dented aluminum mug before.
Had the pleasure of meeting John K and friends at Houston. Great people and a good show.
Chicken on a stick at the Houston show was excellent.
Lots of loot for sale at Houston. Wished we had driven instead of flying. Always wanted a JD stationary engine.
 
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