Southern United States Food
Created | Updated Jul 12, 2006
A techincal look at some of the things the great American South has to offer... Some things are truely wonderful, while some things here are just odd.
Corn bread*
: A bread made from yellow cornmeal, flour (regular, not self rising), baking soda, baking powder, salt, egg, buttermilk, butter or rendered bacon fat. It’s a very heavy textured bread, served with butter. (it’s best hot, straight out of the oven)
Sweet tea*: Tea (normally Lipton brand) with ungodly* amounts of sugar.
Corn dogs*
: A hot dog with a sweet batter (cornmeal, sugar, eggs, and a little water or milk) on the hot dog, deep fried, with a stick on one end. Usually served with ketchup or mustard.
Chicken fried chicken: A chicken breast, breaded with bread crumbs, deep-fried and served with breakfast gravy (white gravy with bits of sausage)
Chicken fried steak: Same thing as chicken fried chicken, but made from beef.
Moonpie: A confection made by the Chattanooga Bakery in Chattanooga, Tennessee that consists of two slices of a lunch cake type bread with marshmallow filling, dipped in chocolate or banana flavored coating. Goes hand in hand with RC Cola.
Turnip greens: The green, leafy part of a turnip, choppedup and stewed in water until soft and served with malt vinegar.
Grits: A more in-depth entry.
Hash brown Casserole*
: Shredded potatoes, fried in butter and then mixed with cheese (usually Colby or cheddar) and milk and cooked into a casserole form.
Country Ham (w/red eye gravy): A type of ham that’s been salt cured to where it won’t rot under any conditions. Is sold in grocery stores, hung from a wooden rack, covered in netting. Served after soaked in boiling water and then fried. Served with red eye gravy.
Red eye gravy: A gravy consisting of the water that the ham was boiled in mixed with coffee. The entire breakfast consists of Country ham, gravy, fried apples and biscuts with butter.
Biscuits and gravy: A soft, fluffy, yet heavy bread made from flour, eggs, and milk (not a tea biscuit). Served with the same breakfast gravy mentioned above.*
RC Cola: Royal Crown Cola, a regional cola to the South, made in Columbus, Georgia. Nothing truly special, but found in the South more than anywhere else in the states. Goes hand in hand with Moonpies.
Additional information:
Royal Crown Cola
Moonpie
Sweet Tea
