[Sca-cooks] chowder - OOP

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Also sprach Elaine Koogler:
>Actually, it's Virginians and the rest of the true South that say that about
>Floridians!!  After all, it's made up of more snowbirds and other immigrants
>from the North than most anything else.

Maybe. I always figured the Panhandle was immune to that... that it
was The True South, while the peninsula was just a Yankee Annex.

>
>Kiri
>----- Original Message -----
>  Of course, this is Massachusetts, and just as
>Floridians are sometimes apt to say Virginia isn't the real South, I
>expect someone from Maine might argue that Massachusetts cheowdah
>practices are of dubious orthodoxy.

I think the general idea is that wherever you're from in the South,
it's the only True South. Everyone else is a Yankee in disguise. ;-)

I think, overall, in all my fairly extensive dealings with
Southerners (I mean, for a Yankee), the most surreal experience was
listening to a roomful of [maybe eighteen or twenty] Southerners
cheerfully telling each other that, unlike themselves, the other guy
or lady was from a state that was not truly Southern. Vectors were
irrelevant, as was the Mason-Dixon Line; someone born to the south of
you could still be a Yankee while you weren't. It got even better
when they all realized that _all_ of them, without exception, either
came from a town called Fayetteville, or lived sufficiently near to a
Fayetteville as to use it immediately as a map locator. As in, "I'm
from _______. You know. Twenty miles west of Fayetteville...?" But
there were maybe eight or nine different Fayettevilles being
discussed. Maybe more. Is there a Southern State that does not have a
Fayetteville?

Must be like Springfield in the North and Midwest, but, I suspect,
even more prevalent.

Adamantius (who does not put sugar in cornbread)
--
"No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes
deserves to be called a scholar."
	-DONALD FOSTER