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[WoVeU]

I usually stick to pop (that's soda for you southern folk ). I grew up on a diet primarily consisting of Taco Bell and Mountain Dew

Coffee black, cigarette
Start this day, like all the rest


Well not black...but potent as all get out! Mountain Dew is sugar water...humming birds will feed on it, honest!

[Spence]

I rarely drink soda either. Too many wasted calories. My daughter is diabetic, so it is pure poison to her and I wouldn't want to set a bad example anyway. My drink of choice mostly is water. I don't drink coffee - another acquired taste, so other than a beer every now and then, I drink water or iced tea (the non southern kind) - again because of the sugar. And yes billybud I know molasses is sugar. I just prefer the non sugar kind with lemon.

[Derek]

I usually stick to pop (that's soda for you southern folk ). I grew up on a diet primarily consisting of Taco Bell and Mountain Dew

I love me some Taco Bell and a Mountain Dew or Dr Pepper.

I HIGHLY suggest the Cheesy Gordita Crunch.

[Eric]

Taco Bell's menu is pretty much the same throughout, just presented differently. Or at least that's the way it always seemed. They used to have some kind of bacon chalupa thing that was the best thing they had going for them, but they dropped it.

[WoVeU]

2-Chalupas + 1 Soft Taco + that big ridiculously sized Dr. Pepper.

When I was teaching Math at Gaston College this was my dinner due to the logistics of work and school.


Seriously, why are their drinks so enormous, that has got be what 40+ oz. An entire family can drink on it!

[billybud]

Well..on southerners.

Yep...we have the market cornered on barbeque, bourbon, and snake handlin'...we ain't much into Starbucks, any plain old thick black joe will do if Louisianne isn't available. Oyster stew? Heck no...give us a bowl of gumbo. Grits are groceries and corned beef hash is dog food eaten by misguided yankees.

We are inordinately fond of old 70's detroit steel with that big mill thumping as the cam romps, Kentucky bourbon (is there another type?), beautiful women, vintage double barrels, music that has the "high lonesome" sound, and football played on saturday.

And we don't shovel snow.

[Spence]

Well..on southerners.

Yep...we have the market cornered on barbeque, bourbon, and snake handlin'...we ain't much into Starbucks, any plain old thick black joe will do if Louisianne isn't available. Oyster stew? Heck no...give us a bowl of gumbo. Grits are groceries and corned beef hash is dog food eaten by misguided yankees.

We are inordinately fond of old 70's detroit steel with that big mill thumping as the cam romps, Kentucky bourbon (is there another type?), beautiful women, vintage double barrels, music that has the "high lonesome" sound, and football played on saturday.

And we don't shovel snow.

From what I hear, plenty of southerners are shoveling snow and breaking ice today. Unless you don't consider Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, Virginia, or North Carolina sounthern states.

..And I know a little bit about Kentucky bourbon and Bourbon, Kentucky. As a matter of fact I could drive to Bourbon (actually outside Bourbon county) and get a bottle, drive home, and sit a watch a several football games before you could get there. I know a bunch about corn whiskey. My grandma and great grandma supported their family making corn whiskey after my grandfather died in 1939.

[billybud]

From what I hear, plenty of southerners are shoveling snow and breaking ice today. Unless you don't consider Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, Virginia, or North Carolina sounthern states

West Virginia IS NOT a southern state...they split from Virginia in support of the Union...Kentucky isn't really a southern state, they are just south Ohio. Heck, they voted to be "neutral" as the Civil War broke out and Kentucky's government was pro union. Kentucky was never a member of the Confederacy so they lack an essential southern heritage. They are as southern as Kansas. They are southern when we want to claim them (for their bourbon, and that is about it).

Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia all can proudly stand in the pantheon of the states who supported the boys in grey. It pains me that citizens of those fine states must shovel snow, but that is their penance for being located too close to the Mason Dixon line.

[WoVeU]

Oh, where do I start. For not too dissimilar reasons, Kentucky & West Virginia are neither Suthun' or Yankee...many of the rural kids always claim suthunship! Southern Ohio, So. Indiana, Western PA, and No. Virginia are all neither. But S. Florida (Northern Cuba) and most large southern cities and Texas (South America) are not Southern either for entirely different reasons.

I don't like grits! Cornbeef hash is alright! I really like Starbucks (the coffee...not the atmosphere or attitude.)

I find myself to be a "Country Boy" some say I don't fit that designation by the lacking of an accent and having a moderate vocabulary. Other than that I'm an American!

And I'll put America's modern day country boys up against the rest of America any day. Many of these are southern boys, but they are also from Montana, Washington, Wisconsin, Mid/South New Jersey, upstate New York, Michigan, Utah, and Maine boys. We got the shotguns, rifles, and the 4-wheel drives...and most certainly can survive. We have the Militias (for better or worse) the arsenals and now we are even educated. We are the boys who took care of the land before it was a political movement, but it doesn't mean we don't use it, we invented organic, inorganic is a class in chemistry. We invented gun control...a steady hand or a fence post, we invented energy and water conservation through mother necessity, but we grew up on 4-barrels. Reload is how you keep plenty of ammo on hand, and the Metallica CD in the floor board, we made our liquor when it was prohibited, yet we went to war when Uncle Sam called.

[WoVeU]

We are inordinately fond of old 70's detroit steel with that big mill thumping as the cam romps, Kentucky bourbon (is there another type?), beautiful women, vintage double barrels, music that has the "high lonesome" sound, and football played on saturday.

My 99 aluminum block will thump that 70's thumpin steel. But I admit it was built in the same spirit of those V-8's!

[Spence]

From what I hear, plenty of southerners are shoveling snow and breaking ice today. Unless you don't consider Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, Virginia, or North Carolina sounthern states

West Virginia IS NOT a southern state...they split from Virginia in support of the Union...Kentucky isn't really a southern state, they are just south Ohio. Heck, they voted to be "neutral" as the Civil War broke out and Kentucky's government was pro union. Kentucky was never a member of the Confederacy so they lack an essential southern heritage. They are as southern as Kansas. They are southern when we want to claim them (for their bourbon, and that is about it).

Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia all can proudly stand in the pantheon of the states who supported the boys in grey. It pains me that citizens of those fine states must shovel snow, but that is their penance for being located too close to the Mason Dixon line.

So the guy with roots in Wisconsin is claiming Kentucky corn whiskey as southern, but saying the state has no southern heritage. Considering that most of the population of Florida are transplants from the north east and midwest with no more than a couple of generations separating them, I would think it would be tough to call Florida a southern state based on that criteria. Maybe a US territory from the caribbean. I would wager that their are more citizens of Florida who's ancesters fought on the blue side of the civil war then those who wore grey.

My Dad was born about a block from William T. Sherman's house in Lancaster, Ohio. It still stands today, unlike most things that got in his way during his trip to the south in 1865.

[Eric]

Reload is how you keep plenty of ammo on hand, and the Metallica CD in the floor board

I'm pretty sure the Black Album is their best, but that's just my opinion

[WoVeU]

It has to be. I don't think there is a bad song on the album. I worked swings and the grave yard at the PO after that album was out and the Black Album and Bullet-Proof Coffee easily got me through the night. Many nights I'd have my headphones and be sweating to my knees!

[billybud]

So the guy with roots in Wisconsin is claiming Kentucky corn whiskey as southern, but saying the state has no southern heritage. Considering that most of the population of Florida are transplants from the north east and midwest with no more than a couple of generations separating them, I would think it would be tough to call Florida a southern state based on that criteria. Maybe a US territory from the caribbean. I would wager that their are more citizens of Florida who's ancesters fought on the blue side of the civil war then those who wore grey.

Oh...Florida isn't southern anymore...it's a kingdom of carpetbaggers, they have over run us...heaven's waiting room for all the retired or weary snowbirds from the Northeast and Midwest...Florida is a magnet state where 70.1% of the population was born somewhere else. But, North Florida? It is still somewhat like the Florida of my youth. Still Alabama and Georgia folks proliferate up here and are as southern as you can get...in fact, across North Florida, you are never more than 50 miles from the Georgia or Alabama border. My Florida is southern...I, and most old Floridians, don't recognize anything south of Ocala as the real Florida...that's just Jersey moved south.

But Florida up here is southern and proud. The towns, small and large, all have monuments to their confederate dead, the Battle of Natural Bridge is replayed annually here in Tallahassee. The battle where the young students at FSU (actually then named then the Seminary West of Suwannnee) marched out and whipped the Yankee invaders keeping Tallahassee the only confederate capital east of the Mississippi that was not captured by the union.

Re Kentucky...it really isn't a southern state...they weren't part of the southern experience of the Confederacy, the lost cause and the occupation by foreign troops. Paducah isn't any different than southern Illinois and Lexington isn't much different than Cincinnati...and they didn't eat grits. THEY ATE HOMINY..YUCH...Might as well have Yankee tattooed on your forehead. Kentucky only has vestiges of southern culture that have seeped in from Tennessee.

Kentucky desperately wants to be southern...they play up the mint julep and "Kentucky Colonel" schtick. They slyly portray their bourbon makers as "good ole boys"...The last Kentucky genuine southerners were the McCoys...LOL.

[billybud]

My friend Ricky rides a Boss Hoss 502...502 HP and 515 Ft pounds torque..in a 1200 pound bike. It's not my cup of tea as a bike, but I do like hitting the trigger and getting to triple digit speeds really, really quick. But, you can't be squeamish and get off the throttle when the rear breaks loose and comes around...you have to just let her wag back and forth and settle down...get off the throttle and it will throw you down.

He also has a V8 Chopper with a Dart built 350...it's 800 pounds and also terribly quick, but better mannered than the Boss Hoss.

There are Boss Hoss bikes built with the aluminum 606 (I haven't ridden one) and they are expensive and blinding fast.