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I just realized nobody on this thread has mentioned BOURBON.

― Millar (Millar), Monday, 18 August 2003 22:16 (twenty years ago) link

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― Millar (Millar), Monday, 18 August 2003 22:17 (twenty years ago) link

Oh my god, I need to go to the south, the only reason that I ever even EAT breakfast is for syrup.

I made a list once, just at a run-of-the-mill grocery store that wasn't anything special. I don't think I have a copy, but off the top of my head, it included:

* Maple syrups: fake and two grades of real
* "Indeterminate" syrups labeled things like "waffle syrup" or simply with a brand name -- distinctly different from fake maple syrup, but not just corn syrup either.
* Cinnamon syrup
* Praline syrup
* The fruit flavored syrups: strawberry, blueberry, cherry, apple-cinnamon
* Molasses: light, dark, blackstrap
* Cane syrup (my preference; FUCK, I forgot to tell my friends to bring me some)
* The many kinds of honey you can get now

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 18 August 2003 22:18 (twenty years ago) link

Oh yes! And how could I have forgotten THIS:

http://www.centralmarket.com/images/cm/nav/cmLogo.gif

It's a Texas thing, you know. :)

You guys had Whataburger in Phoenix as well? ROCK ON! They're expanding further than I anticipated. I know they originate in Corpus Christi, so hurrah for the area team.

― Just Deanna (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 18 August 2003 22:18 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah there was a Whataburger on my way home from school, sometimes we'd stop there. It was next to the gas station that would sell us cigarettes. I loved that street corner.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 18 August 2003 22:20 (twenty years ago) link

The last thing I can imagine wanting to eat in Corpus Christi would be a hamburger.

― Millar (Millar), Monday, 18 August 2003 22:23 (twenty years ago) link

We also have Jason's Deli

Yeah, my ex's dad is from NY but lives in San Antonio now, and this is the only place he'll get cheesecake or deli sandwiches from. I never got around to trying em cause I was so busy with BBQ AND CHACHO'S.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 18 August 2003 22:26 (twenty years ago) link

Krispy Kreme (yes it's nationwide now but so is bbq right)

― Millar (Millar), Monday, 18 August 2003 22:37 (twenty years ago) link

Based on the web site alone, Mellow Mushroom Pizza

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:01 (twenty years ago) link

I mean, for fuck's sake, they're totally continuing the Sid & Marty Krofft legacy right here right now, and they MAKE PIZZA!

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:02 (twenty years ago) link

I am not so crazy about their sandmiches

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:03 (twenty years ago) link

In the south you can order a SWEETENED iced tea without getting a dumb look from your waitress...followed by, "you mean peach/mango tea?".

FUCK NO I DIDNT MEAN PEACH/MANGO TEA.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:04 (twenty years ago) link

??? You can do that in New York too, you know.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:06 (twenty years ago) link

thank god - after reading that I thought "I will never venture north again"

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:07 (twenty years ago) link

mind you, it's not like I'm ever venturing north again anyway

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:08 (twenty years ago) link

Not even to see me? :(

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:11 (twenty years ago) link

what's the point now? haha

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:11 (twenty years ago) link

I immediately regret posting that

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:12 (twenty years ago) link

has anyone mentioned Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears yet?

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:13 (twenty years ago) link

cuz they southern

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:13 (twenty years ago) link

Hrmph.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:13 (twenty years ago) link

they are!

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:14 (twenty years ago) link

Nice diversion, Rico Suave.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:15 (twenty years ago) link

Ive been listening to a mix of Justin Timberlake's "Justified" album and Ice Cube's "Predator". They compliment eachother well. Somehow.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:15 (twenty years ago) link

Ding dong el timbre suena
Tu madre abre, que vieja mas buena
Le digo ¡Hola! Pero no para bola
Que se ha creido vieja chola

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:17 (twenty years ago) link

Ruffles' Cajun Spice potato chips, back inna day.
Zapp's.
Harry Connick Jr.
Gambit, yo.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:20 (twenty years ago) link

My fav things about the South in order:

-porch sitting
-double hashbrowns covered
-Beach music
-Link Wray
-Jockey's Ridge
-the junction in Athens, GA which has, like, 4 Waffle Houses about 1/4 of a mile from each other

― Carey (Carey), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:29 (twenty years ago) link

Amen, i need a waffle house. Closest one to me now is an hour towards Richmond...and thats just not worth it. So many years i took those bottomless cups of coffee and bitter waitstaff for granted...

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:32 (twenty years ago) link

if only the south weren't so damned hot!

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:47 (twenty years ago) link

I lived in the South and I do a damned good accent - does it count?

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:48 (twenty years ago) link

God it's so humid. I'm never leaving the house again.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 18 August 2003 23:51 (twenty years ago) link

I lived in the South and I do a damned good accent - does it count?

I would nominate you as honorary southerner but wasn't actually born there myself, so I'm not sure I can. My father's from the South, maybe I've inherited his title.

And yeah, it's hot, but -- even though I like the AC cooler than most people, etc. -- I'll take the heat over the cold any day. It's never so hot outside that it hurts.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 00:08 (twenty years ago) link

haha Tep you haven't spent enough time outside

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 00:30 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, that statement makes me think Tep's never been to New Orleans, much less lived there.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 00:33 (twenty years ago) link

Well, it depends on just how hot, I guess, but I'll take anything up to a hundred degrees with saturated New Orleans humidity, for hours on end, over ten below plus windchill for ten minutes.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 00:33 (twenty years ago) link

It's not that bad! I mean, don't get me wrong, it gets fucking hot, but you sweat, maybe you get woozy (luckily in New Orleans, when it's at its hottest it's rarely bright and sunny) and nauseous. It sucks. But it's better than that "ow, my face feels like it's being frozen into thin sheets which are going to slough off and reform into a Tep puddle in the spring, and the two of us -- Real Tep and Puddle Tep -- will have to fight for the right to the Tep name" thing.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 00:35 (twenty years ago) link

you are insane. Ten minutes of ten below is not nearly as bad as hours of New Orleans heat.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 00:42 (twenty years ago) link

And all you southern girls got a way with your words, and you show it

kingfish, you get it.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 00:46 (twenty years ago) link

no, Tep's right in the sense that cold is more directly painful than heat, but cold is a lot less dangerous - but one football season spent travelling fm blistering heat to blistering cold in the same woolen uniform with a metal instrument over your shoulder playing 'Rocky Top' over 20 times + assorted other fun tunes - heat can hurt just as bad. I'm not a fan of any extremes.

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 00:48 (twenty years ago) link

When it's ten below you at least get a new white landscape, which has its charms. Heat is just hot. And besides, in the cold you can layer, you can wear a parka, you can buy silk thermal underwear, whtever it takes. In the heat, you can't get naked, and it wouldn't help if you could.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 00:50 (twenty years ago) link

Bad thing about the South -- hardly ever a justifiable reason to wear a big soft cable-knit sweater.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 00:51 (twenty years ago) link

Millar, you were... I'm going to have to guess... a Civil War soldier who carried his banjo to entertain the troops?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 00:53 (twenty years ago) link

At football games?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 00:54 (twenty years ago) link

Yes that's exactly it, Kenan.

Unsurprisingly, I like the cold and the snow.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 00:56 (twenty years ago) link

exactly, except it was a sousaphone

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 00:56 (twenty years ago) link

Carpetbagger.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 00:57 (twenty years ago) link

Oh! Band! I see!

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 00:59 (twenty years ago) link

No. Millar is really Bob Log III.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:00 (twenty years ago) link

i can't stand the NYC heat, i stay indoors all nice and air conditioned. how the hell would i be able to tolerate the Walls of Heat down south?

and i like winter and the cold, thankee much. it's the slavic blood, see.

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:01 (twenty years ago) link

Racists.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:01 (twenty years ago) link

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