This post is ONLY for Southerners

[TotallyOz]

Or, anyone else interested in amazing food like Paula Dean would bake.

 

If you were born in the South in the USA, you most likely had the divine experience to taste Pecan Pie. I grew up with this and I love it beyond words but it is really high calorie and very sweet.

 

But, yesterday while at the grocery store in Siam Paragon, I found a vendor that sells these. I purchased a piece with full knowledge it would not tastes like my families recipe.

 

I was so surprised when I tasted this. It was delicious and tasted just like the pies I grew up with in Alabama.

 

Yumm!

[Rogie]

Or, anyone else interested in amazing food like Paula Dean would bake.

 

I've heard of Betty Crocker and 'Aunt Mary'. Is this woman something similar?

 

Yumm!

 

That's what they all say!

 

Catch 22. If you don't say it you're in trouble and if you do your waistline is.

[MrBill]

I was so surprised when I tasted this. It was delicious and tasted just like the pies I grew up with in Alabama.

 

Yumm!

One of my greatest travel experiences was in Alabama at the Tutwiler Hotel in Birmingham. I was doing a training session and at lunch in the hotel, someone in the group (of mostly Yankees) asked our waitress, "Who makes the best ribs in Birmingham?" We anticipated she would give the name of a local restaurant where we could go that evening. Surprisingly, her response was, "My mama do!" My colleague, looking for a restaurant name then asked, "Besides your mama, who makes the best ribs?" This time the waitress responded, "I do!" Long story short, she and her mama made ribs and all the 'fixins' for us the next afternoon, having convinced the hotel manager to allow them to use the kitchen facilities after the lunch rush. Awesome meal, and yes there was pee-con pie

[kokopelli]

I've heard of Betty Crocker and 'Aunt Mary'. Is this woman something similar?

 

 

Oh, I think that Paula Deen is more akin to Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben.

Paula just luvs those black folk and even has a special name to call them.

It rhymes with trigger.

[Rogie]

I've just been reading and contributing to the Lone Ranger thread in the Beer Bar, so when I saw Trigger I immediately thought of Roy Rogers. 

[kokopelli]

Sorry Rogie, I didn't have Roy Roger's horse in mind when I wrote trigger.  Other rhyming words are rigger, jigger, bigger, digger, figger, bidder, stripper, snicker, shipper, etc. It is just a good-old-boy expression kind of like when we use the term boy to refer to a younger Thai guy.

[Rogie]

I know full well the word you had in mind Koko. I just preferred to ignore it!

 

By the way, I haven't done a search engine on this nor had a lookie in a dictionary - never heard of figger before. Figure, yes, and finger, yes, but not figger!

 

Figures of expression can often be cute. An old guy addressing a younger man might call him 'old man'. A young man (or boy!) addressing his senior might call him 'old boy'. Sort of jocular usage. 

[MrBill]

By the way, I haven't done a search engine on this nor had a lookie in a dictionary - never heard of figger before. Figure, yes, and finger, yes, but not figger!

"figger" is oft used particularly in the U.S. South. I visit New Orleans often and as a visitor encountering a local you'd likely hear... "I didn't figger y'all was from deese here parts 'cause da way y'all talks."

[TotallyOz]

"figger" is oft used particularly in the U.S. South. I visit New Orleans often and as a visitor encountering a local you'd likely hear... "I didn't figger y'all was from deese here parts 'cause da way y'all talks."

One of my best friends is from New Orleans and I love the area. I have only been there 2 times since the flood and have not made a Mardis Gras since the flood. I promised her this year I'd be there to help her celebrate. I can't wait for the great New Orleans hospitality and delicious food.

 

Mr. Bill, I know the hotel in Birmingham you mentioned very well. Great place. It is amazing how much Birmingham has changed over the years and my first visit there I went to the statue and we stayed at the hotel. Lovely place.

[Guest jomtien]

 

New Orleans is the greatest place on earth.

 

Nuff said!

[Rogie]

New Orleans is the greatest place on earth.

 

 

 

You could be right! I would never argue against somebody's favourite city unless I had been there myself and so far New Orleans hasn't been on my itinerary (although I'd love to go - I think for the cajun food mainly).

 

By the way is it ever abreviated to NO? Or NOC? (as in NYC)

 

"figger" is oft used particularly in the U.S. South. I visit New Orleans often and as a visitor encountering a local you'd likely hear... "I didn't figger y'all was from deese here parts 'cause da way y'all talks."

 

Thanks Mr Bill. I liked your imaginary example of usage.

 

I find I sometimes pronounce 'figure' exactly as in your sentence above, other times I say fig-yer. I believe the latter is common in the US whereas in Britain it's pronounced figger more often than fig-yer.

[Guest jomtien]

By the way is it ever abreviated to NO? Or NOC? (as in NYC)

 

It is often referred to as NOLA. (New Orleans, Louisiana)

[MrBill]

One of my best friends is from New Orleans and I love the area. I have only been there 2 times since the flood and have not made a Mardis Gras since the flood. I promised her this year I'd be there to help her celebrate. I can't wait for the great New Orleans hospitality and delicious food.

I spent 3-4 days a week in NOLA for about a year for work. It is such an awesome place, and like Thailand is full of contradictions (e.g. the French Quarter is all Spanish architecture) Locals told me that Jazz Fest is a better time to visit than Mardi Gras. Most people never get off Bourbon Street which is a shame. If you do go, check out Corner Pocket Bar. Fridays is New Meat night with boys dancing on the bar. Not quite like the bars in BKK or Pattaya, but stuff a few singles in their G-strings and watch their inhibitions fall

[kokopelli]

One Mardi Gras in New Orleans was enough to make me never want to return; and, no, I did not enjoy Mardi Gras.

 

One may say, New Orlinz, New Orlunz or New Or-lee-ans (oh so French).

[TotallyOz]

My first Mardis Gras was when I was 10 years old. My parents took me that year and many other years as they both loved it. But, the only thing I remember from back then is looking into the bars (open doors back then) and seeing people fucking on stage and several naked ladies in other ones. I think that is what made me gay?

[Rogie]

1. One Mardi Gras in New Orleans was enough to make me never want to return; and, no, I did not enjoy Mardi Gras.

 

2. One may say, New Orlinz, New Orlunz or New Or-lee-ans (oh so French).

 

1. Having read Michael's story I'm not surprised.

 

2. Mais Non, the true Frenchman would say nooo-vo (perhaps?)

 

1. My first Mardis Gras was when I was 10 years old. My parents took me that year and many other years as they both loved it. But, the only thing I remember from back then is looking into the bars (open doors back then) and seeing people fucking on stage

 

2. and several naked ladies in other ones. I think that is what made me gay?

 

1. I'm not aware of anything like that happening in staid Britain. The best we have to look forward to is a few pancakes.

 

2. Methinks perhaps they took 'Fat Tuesday' a tad too seriously.

 

The date for NOLA Mardi Gras 2014 is Tuesday 4th March

[kokopelli]

2. Mais Non, the true Frenchman would say nooo-vo (perhaps?)

 

 

 

 

 

I believe it would be Nouvelle-Orleans.