Do any of y’all read the Kelly’s Korner blog? She wrote {a really interesting post} the other day, opening it up for her readers to discuss regional differences across different parts of the US. It was so interesting! I stayed up and read every single comment (there were a lot) while C was out seeing a movie with a friend one night. Some things I didn’t realize were not done in other parts of the country, like bridal portraits. My good friend here reads that blog too and she is from Kentucky and Georgia (I think) and she had never heard of bridal portraits.
I wrote down some of the things were said about Texas or the South that I have also experienced. Here they are:
- Hobby Lobby
- sweet tea
- ”bless your heart”
- Saying yes ma’am, no sir, etc.
- chick fil a
- Calling adults by Mr and Mrs with their first name (Example Mr John and Mrs Anna)
- frito pie
- fireflies are called lightning bugs
- grocery carts are buggies
- “katty corner” for diagonal
- saying coke for all sodas
- y’all
- fried okra
- tornado drills
- have your picture “made” instead of taken
- mums (for homecoming)
- biscuits and gravy
- ro-tel
- taking food to someone’s house for a funeral
- college and high school football
- waving or saying hi to someone as you pass them on the street or hall
- beef bbq
- seasonal door wreaths
- bridal portraits
I am curious, what other things can you think of that relate to Texas or the South? Or if you are from somewhere else, what is different where you are from?
