Yall's Craziest Southern Stories - PART 2 | Community Questions

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[@stevenflebbe]

I can believe Hope found the vanilla extract relaxing and made her forget the toothache. Pure vanilla extract is 35% alcohol by volume... the same as Captain Morgan. 😂

[@privacyvalued4134]

People get carded for all regular alcohol purchases except for those conducted in the baking aisle. All of the liquid extracts are mostly alcohol. You wouldn't really want to drink any of them unless you were truly desperate. There are easier and cheaper ways to get buzzed/drunk. Back when everyone had groceries delivered, some old ladies would buy tons of vanilla extract. It was extremely taboo back then for women to drink alcohol. Pretty sure they were doing more than making baked goods.

[@pattywilliams788]

@@privacyvalued4134😆🤣😂

[@pattywilliams788]

Yep! You can make homemade vanilla extract with whole vanilla beans and straight vodka. Potent!

[@freedomcat]

​@@privacyvalued4134used it as perfume.

[@LUCKY7AUCTION]

Have to strain it through some light bread lol

[@carolynpoteet3945]

A friend in NC told me about her father having to drive himself to the hospital. On his tractor. They checked him in and hooked him up to an IV. But he got bored and wanted to go home to feed his chickens. So he left. In a hospital gown. With an IV pole. On a tractor. He fed his chickens and came back to the hospital. Needless to say, the nurses were flabbergasted that he was AWOL for several hours! 😂

[@markkollman870]

When I moved to N.C. some 28 years ago, I was told my first southernism. A coworker said" you can put your boots in the oven but that don't make them biscuits.". I still chuckle when I think about it now.

[@Ipomoea_Alba]

“Take the first left, just past the possum” 💀💀💀

[@bphipps312]

Well it's better than go down to Rowena's house you know the one who's blind in one eye and can't see out of the other then take a left or if you're coming the other way take a right duh southern logic ways works out 🤗

[@burnyizland]

@@bphipps312 Right? Like when I started driving and people started giving me directions based on street names and compass directions I was LOST. Gimme landmarks every day of the week. We also navigate using 'up island' vs 'down island' here and the up vs down determination doesn't come from the elevation, nor is it compassed-based. It has to do with whether you're travelling toward(down) the water or away(up) from it. I can't imagine how weird that must be for non-locals!

[@TiredMomma]

That sounds like directions to us 😂 New drivers sometimes can't find us cuz we don't exactly have a "road" to our driveway, you have to drive through a parking lot to get to our driveway.

[@gmj2025]

😂😂😂

[@bethrogers5656]

My aunt flew from the south to NY for my mom’s funeral, just a few months after 9/11, with a ham and cheese straws. When the airline attendants tried to tell her that wasn’t allowed, (for those old enough to remember, that’s when all the airline security became really tight) my auntie who is combo of a southern granny and Asian dragon lady (both forces to be reckoned with) told them that no way was she going to the funeral without her deceased sister’s favorite foods. And no one argued with that. And yes, southern country ham is MUCH better than what you get up north.

[@burnyizland]

Cheese... straws?? I've been drinking ranch all wrong!

[@bethrogers5656]

@@burnyizland 😉

[@shermantincher3417]

The hams come from the same place.

[@bethrogers5656]

@@shermantincher3417 22 years ago country hams like Smithfield were difficult to find in where we lived in the north, especially as a whole ham.

[@mwater_moon2865]

@@bethrogers5656 Smithfield is owned by a Chinese company now, and they own like 10 other pork/ham businesses, too.

[@tylerpaschall4363]

I'm from a rural area just North of Memphis, and I'm about to tell you about the day my dad stopped asking questions about what I was doing. I was 7 years old, and across the street was a big field that was normally filled with cotton plants, but for a couple months out of the year had a row of big round hay bales. What does a country Southern kid do when his parents kick him out of the house to play? He climbs on the hay bales. It should also be mentioned that on the corner of our street was a community dumpster that attracted a lot of stray dogs. My three siblings and I befriended every one of those dogs. It's a miracle none of us were bit. But here I was, a skinny 7 year old boy hanging out on top of hay bales when a 200 pound St. Bernard came around wanting to play. It got on the bales with me, and had it's head in my lap when my dad looked out the window and saw us. He saw me, saw the St. Bernard, and saw that we were on a round object about five feet off the ground. He opened the front door and called out, "Tyler, are you ok?" I yelled back, "I'm great dad. There's a new doggie!" I was told later that my dad went back inside, my mom found him and asked if he saw me. He said that I was on top of the hay bales across the street with a huge dog. My mom looked out the window at me and asked, "How did he get a dog that big on top of those hay bales?" My dad said, "He's happy and he's safe. From now on, that's all I'm asking."

[@TheOldPCTech]

Googled this one, and no, I’ve never tried it. Apparently spider silk is rich in vitamin k, and is a natural coagulant, so there’s merit to putting a spider web on a fresh cut. The ancient Romans used this method to treat wounds on soldiers… Look it up 😉

[@heddystgeorge3756]

I read that spider silk is stronger than steel

[@JHaven-lg7lj]

They used to use spider silk for small wounds all the time. It was still being used during the first world war

[@susanzeringue1641]

My son got five wasps stings at once. We gave him Benadryl and then took him to our local E.R. (he was wheezing) in our small town hospital. The nurses put tobacco on the stings. It worked like a charm. After that, I carried an epipen and tobacco with me at all times until he left for college.

[@AB2B]

Most southern remedy: I was still coughing from a cold, so my great grandma took a piece of rock candy, dipped it in honey, then dipped it in moonshine (I was young, and so did not realize it was moonshine). She popped it in my mouth, and after I was done breathing fire and could catch my breath, I just sucked on the honey covered candy, and viola! no cough. It completely disappeared. It also cleared my sinuses right up.

[@buggdell]

Mimis are the best !

[@pattilipscomb9898]

Talia, who can beat this? One of my Mother's Brothers had a heart attack the week we were to marry and were still in the hospital our wedding day. My Husband and I got married and our reception was at our restaurant we had and the hospital was a mile from the reception. A friend was driving us to the reception and we got him to stop at the hospital to let my Uncle see me in my wedding gown and my Husband in his tuxedo. The front doors were locked at the hospital and we went in thru the ER. An intern looked at us and asked did we need to go to the maternity floor.😂 We were able to go out the front doors and as we got ready to get back in the car, we looked up and people were looking out their hospital room windows. Word had gotten around the hospital about us and people were just waving at the windows.😂 Patti L.

[@shelcancook6731]

My Dad was in the hospital the day I got married. My husband and I left the reception and went to the hospital so my Daddy could see us in our finery. After the visit, we then drove off to our honeymoon. I'm not sure if anyone really paid attention to us, but I didn't care. 😂

[@TheSchnoodlemom]

LOL you two are a hoot! We had lived in Kenner Louisiana back in the 80's. We were trying to start our family. I found out we were going to have twins. One visit to the Doctor's office, the nurse said she could tell me what I was going to have. I just needed to put my hands out in front of me. Well, I put my hands out and one was palm up and the other palm down. She just looked at me and said "Why did you do it that way?" I had no clue, it just seemed natural. Palm up means girl, palm down means boy. Well come time for the twins to be born and one was a girl, one was a boy!

[@jwrockets]

I lost my wallet on a levy in Kenner back in the '80's following my one and only horseback ride. I was visiting a friend's family and lived in South Carolina at the time. A local kid found it and gave it to his parents. The next day in school, the kid was telling his friends about the wallet he had found. One of his classmates was one of the girls I had been riding with so she was able to describe the wallet. I had the wallet back in my hands less than twenty-four hours after losing it.

[@kittylynndale5264]

Southern wedding- it had a grits bar, had a gumbo station, had a moonshine toast, and the dessert table was a variety of Little Debbie’s. The ring bearer was a trained raccoon.

[@thattinawoman5119]

I love how ya'll singing "Spiderman" started out so strong and then quickly fell apart lol

[@WhiteTiger333]

My Granny put baking soda paste on our bee stings and sent us back outside. And, when we came home from summer camp, she would pour kerosene in a Mason jar, get out the Q-tips, and de-tick us by dipping the Q-tip in the kerosene and rubbing it on tick. The tick would back out. She would grab it and drop it in the kerosene.

[@jwrockets]

Insect venom is an acid and baking soda is a base. The soda neutralizes the acid like taking Tums for an upset stomach.

[@mwater_moon2865]

the baking soda works, but only on bees, some wasps are acid venom and need vinegar. Also works for fire ant bites.

[@ms.krueger2660]

My Mom put wet tobacco on a bee or wasp sting. It worked great. Witch hazel on bug bites.

[@sdgacademy]

Adolph’s meat tenderizer for any kind of sting. Contains bromelain (anti-inflammatory).

[@sallyoakes7709]

I'm a transplanted Midwesterner, but I've lived in the South 38 years! The craziest thing I've ever done came about in an odd way. My husband is from Boise, Idaho and their family has a cabin in the central part of the state and they had family reunions every Summer. On the drive from Boise desert to forested mountains, there was a wonderful vegetable stand called Volcanic Farms (thanks to irrigation, Idaho grows great produce in their lava-enriched soil) and we would stop for provisions. Everyone took turns cooking and I thought I'd cook them Southern fare, so I looked for green tomatoes at Volcanic Farms. I didn't seeany, so I asked the clerk, who laughed, got a puzzled look on her face and asked "Why do you want GREEN TOMATOES?" I was surprised and I told her, but I chose another menu after the supermarkets (such as they are in a small town) also had none. The next year, I got smart and bought a bunch of green tomatoes at the vegetable stand down the street from me in Georgie and put them among my clothes in my suitcase to give them a cushion and flew them from ATL, through Minneapolis St P, to Boise, and drove them up to McCall. Fried green tomatoes were a hit even for the kids. I had to use canned greens, though. Left a mess to clean up after frying tomatoes for 18 people!

[@auntie.shannon]

About the vanilla extract on the toothache: Pure vanilla extract has alcohol in it. That's why they were so relaxed; they were drunk.

[@pameladanbury4430]

I have made homemade Vanilla. I have use Vodka and bourbon with vanilla bean halves. Both work well and either can be used when baking.

[@mwater_moon2865]

@@pameladanbury4430 I had to make some for a cousin of mine allergic to corn (most booze in the US is corn based), I used pure sugar cane rum. Worked great.

[@kenwelch198]

My cousin got married under the oak tree in the yard. We had to move the entire living room furniture outside for everyone to sit on including the recliner for gramps.

[@virginiaw8608]

During a hurricane back in the early 2000s we had no power for several days and non stop rain. I was beyond over not being able to get clean, so I went out in my swimsuit and washed myself with shampoo in the rain runoff from the roof. Not the cleanest wash but it was better than 4 days of grim. We lived in the deeps woods and nearest neighbor was a mile down the road. This was in North Florida, just over the state line from Georgia, so yes, southern 😂

[@HealthyDisrespectforAuthority]

no need to wait for a hurricane to shower in the rain..or rain run off. Tarp the back of a pickup in a good rain and it's bath time.

[@MrsAlmaTrumble]

You two always brighten my day.

[@grantmartinbeansinyojeans1629]

The most southern thing that has ever happened to me was a couple years ago. I was probably 8 or 9. I was with my older brother and my grandpa in South East Arkansas. We were in my grandpa's farm truck with his Kabota in a trailer hooked to his truck. We were going to mow his farm when all of a sudden the front right tire pops. So, my grandpa has the bright idea to drive back to his house on the Kabota to get his other truck. 1 adult and 2 kids on that lawn mower was a tight sqeeze. It took us over three hours to get back to his house even though it was only about a 20 minute drive. We get his other truck and go to his farm. We told my aunt about this story and she said that she could've picked us up, but my grandpa didn't want to waste her time. I'm now 14 and we will pass this story to my kids just like we pass the mashed taters at dinner.

[@user-neo71665]

I'm from SEA and frankly nobody would bat an eye if they seen 2 kids and an old man riding a tractor on the road.

[@grantmartinbeansinyojeans1629]

@@user-neo71665 very true

[@LaShumbraBatesAuDHD]

Saying "taters" is also very southern. 😂

[@grantmartinbeansinyojeans1629]

@@LaShumbraBatesAuDHD I love the word taters and the saying Whut in tarnation!

[@LaShumbraBatesAuDHD]

@@grantmartinbeansinyojeans1629 That's a good one too. 😄

[@andrewmccormack605]

When my dad retired he sold realestate for a while down at the lake. He had a client from up north actually ask him if the locals dyed or painted th dirt this lovely red color. He had to smile and tell her , no ma'am that's just good ole Franklin County red clay.

[@toodymouse]

Watched a gentleman come out of Dollar General on his walker. He folded the walker and with bags in hand sat down on what I thought was an ATV. When he drove away I saw the ATV was actually a riding lawn mower. He chugged away off the sidewalk and down the street.

[@bluebirdonmyshoulder5633]

There was an elderly man that used to run all of his errands on a lawn mower when I lived near downtown Greer SC. That was a fascinating place to live. I'd walk into the local seafood restaurant and see DMX treating his mother to oysters. Kinda miss living in that area some times. Edited due to typos

[@lisam8044]

Small town in Ontario, Canada called Tiverton and theres a man who rides his lawnmower like a car all over the tiny town its so funny everyone loves seeing him

[@toodymouse]

bluebird - I live in Greenwood SC, maybe it’s a SC thing with the riding mowers! 😁

[@sandrajordan3802]

I knew a man that would drive his lawnmower whenever he went because he had his drivers licenses revoked because of drinking.

[@user-neo71665]

My Grandpa had his drivers license taken away because his eyes got too bad and he would drive a 1970 cub cadet 13 miles to town to go grocery shopping and drive the 13 miles back. Took him all day. Too stubborn to call any of his 12 kids to come help.

[@CurlyAndCurvy]

The possum as a landmark story had me cracking up because I once got lost driving home after playing music for a wedding. I *thought* I was going in circles, but I wasn't sure until I passed the same possum 2 or 3 times 😂😂😂

[@wtfesme235]

I live in the piedmont now, but I grew up in the mountains. To this day, my family gives directions through a main side street of downtown Waynesville as, “Go past the old SkyCity and turn right at the church.” Friends, the SkyCity closed in 1989.

[@david.mcmahan]

And folks from WNC are thinking: "of course!"

[@wtfesme235]

@@david.mcmahan ❤️. I’m just glad someone knows where Waynesville is. 😂

[@kamikazecassidy]

She said ‘oh, hun’ 🤣

[@ItsaSouthernThing]

This is a very common interaction between them 🤣

[@kamikazecassidy]

@@ItsaSouthernThing I adore you all. So much. It’s a taste of home and I sincerely appreciate it.

[@TheSassyOneByHeidiLiesel]

I actually pet a black bear by accident a couple years ago thinking it was my dog! About the same size as my dog; it was a young male black bear who was gorging itself on the black raspberries outside of the barn. Gosh, did that startle me, AND the bear! Both of us went seperate directions; me back into the chicken coop and him down into the woods. Is That Southern Enough For Y'all?!

[@chrisastoria9382]

I accidentally tried to pet a mountain lions

[@brendaokuda2158]

My wedding back on Valentine's Day in 1999. We had the wedding at a friend's house & bought all the food from Walmart to serve afterwards. The vows were said & we turned to greet the crowd as man & wife. There in the middle of the "aisle" was a big red cooler full of beer. Turns out everyone was grabbing drinks DURING the whole ceremony. Half the people, mostly men, were 1/2 crocked in the short time it took us to say our vows! Oh! Did I mention that someone had also set up a liquor stand just behind the chairs? Yep. The only thing missing was Pa with a shot-gun. But we're still happily married almost 25 yrs later 🤣💖

[@mardaenglish417]

Love your videos and love y'all. I am VERY Southern, and y'all hit the nail on the head every time. LOL!! Thank you for all the laughs. ❤

[@polarbearicequeen]

So I am not Southern, I grew up in California. But I have Southern or raised-by-Southerners grandparents and that's seeped into me. I moved to England for a year and my British flatmates decided for me that I was Southern bc apparently I act Southern. Not my fault chicken fried steak is so good! Also, they had no idea what sausage gravy/country gravy (or however you call it) is nor what a biscuit actually is. But that's the most Southern thing that's happened to me. -Jennifer H.

[@Heartwing37]

I love seeing the two of you paired together! This is really fun. I feel like U2 are the happiest and most cheerful of the group!

[@johnnyhoover5870]

My grandpa always did the spider webs in a cut to us when we were little. He was really southern, like from Mexico lol.

[@jenniferbriski567]

I'm so glad I wasn't the only one wondering if she smelled like deer scent (deer pee) after just getting back from hunting and just brushed her hair and teeth! Thanks, Talia. I'm not sure if mine counts since I'm not southern, but putting mud on wasp bites really does take the swelling/ stinging out within minutes.

[@privacyvalued4134]

I knew a guy that who was the living definition of "southern redneck." He wore a nice sweater vest over a tank top everywhere, had the beater pickup truck and the dog, and he even found half of a car and installed it in his living room on the wall like a trophy. These were intentional choices. He was only about 24 years old at the time and made decent money from his construction business and, other than half of a car in his living room mounted to the wall, the house that he built for himself was actually pretty nice and he was rather intelligent as well.

[@Ms.Nobody13]

My grandfather's remedy for every cut, bump or sprain was kerosene. I had a bad habit of climbing magnolia trees and reading for hours, fell asleep and than fall out of the tree! One time I climbed the tree next to his old wood pile (meaning scraps of used wood he had collected) I of course fell asleep and fell directly into said woodpile. I thought I was fine until I stood up with a short piece of wood and a long rusty nail sticking into my knee! I walked into the house told my grandfather what I had done and he snatched it from my leg! My mom passed out and he made me stand on the back porch while he cleaned it with kerosene. I did not go to the doctor or get a tetanus shot. I have the scar still today and my minions love to hear the story of how mom fell out of a tree.

[@gmj2025]

I swear I was laughing so hard I couldn't breathe about the tobacco juice spit on the eye to heal the sting 😅😂😂😂. 6:06 My dad said his folks used to do that.

[@annem4203]

My gramma put river mud on a jellyfish sting. "It'll stop hurting before you get married." I was about 10

[@WinkTartanBelle]

When I was about 12 a car pulled out in front of me and I crashed my bike into the side of going about 20 mph. Split open my left eyebrow and left me stunned. A bystander sat me on the curb to check me out. “You’ll be ok. It’ll heal before you get married.” Fifty years later and I still think that’s the weirdest thing anyone has ever said to me.

[@ImnotassweetasIusedtobe]

Lol that's a Russian saying but used often: "зажевёт до свадьбы" ака it'll heal before the wedding

[@michaelclemons1761]

The most Southern thing I've ever seen was when I passed a car that pulled off on the side of the road in a snowstorm, and I saw a guy in dress slacks and a Christmas sweater kneeling over something the snow. Thinking that he may have been trying to help someone on the ground, I turned around went back to help. When I got close enough to see better, I saw he was butchering a deer that I think had been hit by a car. I just drove off.

[@jpc3603]

Regarding remedies, I like in some of your previous skits when the Grandma's suggest drinking 7up or Cola when feeling unwell - I love that this was actually a thing!

[@Miss_Kisa94]

The ironic part is that doctors really hate this remedy because it can make things worse 😅

[@jpc3603]

@@Miss_Kisa94 That's hilarious! I hadn't really thought about that but I can definitely see that it probably intensifies a stomach ache for example 😂

[@HealthyDisrespectforAuthority]

In my family, it was ginger-ale, sometimes homemade

[@richd6362]

Wouldn't carrying Duke's with you on a layover make it a mayover? 🤣

[@MichaelSweet-nn5bg]

My wife and I had the most Southern elopement ever. We both called in sick to work and drove over to Eureka Springs Arkansas and got married at Judge Roy Bean's Old Fashioned Photos and Marriage Salon. Still married 23 years later.

[@krisrowan]

Went to deridder for a wedding, it was in the justice of the peace front yard, and the justices dog kept trying to hump everything, then decided to pee on the bride and her wedding dress. That was not the end of that tragedy cause the groom slipped on poo as they left.

[@teresaellis7062]

Oh no!

[@taylorread2407]

I had family that lived in the hills of Arkansas. My mother visited them when she was younger. The boys were all wearing patched up overalls with no shoes or shirts. Their mother was sitting in the rocking chair with a shock gun in her lap and a spittoon to her side as she chewed her tobacco. They grew corn for moonshine and fed the remnants to their pigs they raised. My mother was a little traumatized.

[@FleaChristenson]

I grew up south of New Orleans. My friends would raise baby alligators in their bathtubs. Raise raccoons. I raised a mockingbird when I was in high school, complete with crawling around hunting for bugs at the break of dawn. My pastor could call alligators, which was fun to watch when they’re coming straight for you.

[@debrajeffcoat6095]

A few years ago, during COVID, my cousin died. Instead of hiring a hearst, my cousin's brother bought the casket to the church graveyard in the back of his pickup

[@randalbuhler9042]

Y'all Ain't Right, Bless Your Hearts😢😂😅🙀👍💯‼️

[@StarrREVA]

Talia saying "oh, honey" to Ryan -- she just shortened "Bless Your Heart".

[@TheTroystreet]

The most southern thing I’ve ever seen was at camp in 5th grade it was a week long field trip and during that week another school came to the camp and every single person from that school had the thickest southern accents we ever heard(I’ve lived in Georgia my whole life) and during that week we heard the kids of the other school argue over who’s momma made the best cornbread they argued the whole week.

[@catwhisperer9489]

Sometimes, after supper, my great aunt would throw the leftover biscuits out, into the back yard, for the chickens. One time, when she did this, she hit a chicken in the head, and killed it!! You can imagine us kids thinkin' "Geez, if them biscuits killed a chicken, what're they gonna do to US, after eatin' 'em"!?!? LOL

[@3doggymom]

I LOL'd way too hard at this!!

[@catwhisperer9489]

@@3doggymom 😂

[@calvingifford9442]

Awesome! And love Ryan's 'Cowboy Bebop' shirt!!

[@tejloro]

I went to a wedding where the food was fancy unpronounceable stuff labeled "Women's table" and pizza rolls and chicken strips on a table labeled "Men and kids". Best. Wedding. Meal. Ever.

[@christaylor3193]

Back in the late 90's before TSA, I would travel from NC to California to visit my best friend, at the time, every year. He was originally from NC also, and I would have to carry him 2 jars of Duke's Mayo, a dozen Bojangles biscuits that I would freeze the night before, and several cans of Luck's beans and Chicken and dumplings.

[@libbymelton1567]

Yea, I know exactly where the dead opossum is!🤣😂 I've done the golf cart thing too, 40 some years ago! 😂🤣

[@BradleyBoy]

Love Ryan's shirt

[@jenniferdesilva7899]

When Talia said "oh honey"😂

[@lindsayhaugen7660]

She was a hog's hair away from saying, "Bless your heart!"

[@bethanywilliams1752]

Most Cajun thing I’ve ever done: when I travel somewhere up north where they don’t know how to cook, I carry a bottle of tony chachere’s and an assortment of tobasco sauces. Gotta season my food!

[@HealthyDisrespectforAuthority]

I took Tony's to Germany when I was going for two+ years.

[@bphipps312]

OK the tobacco thing is so true y'all! My great grandma use to chew redaman tobacco and would put it on our stings she wouldn't spit on it but it helped - KY boy here 😉

[@janeflanagan2283]

KY girl here and I was slathered in tobacco or snuff more times than I can count. Bleh

[@rssvss]

Love Ryan, bless his heart, somebody need to take him to deer camp. He will have a blast.

[@nancywest1926]

Its impssible to drink something while watching this 😂

[@southernpossum625]

My most southern moment, I stopped to pick up a dead possum and had it on the front seat of my truck. While driving and peeing in a beer bottle the possum came too and ran across my lap and bit my ball sack. Being startled, I jumped and all the contents of the beer bottle ended up in my lap.. I was worried about rabies so I went to the minute clinic. I had to get 3 stitches on my sack. The worst part was trying to explain what happen to the doctor. Thats how I got the nick name Southern Possum. Also have a scar to prove it.

[@ryanupchurch9683]

Bro. You win. Lol

[@calebburdette3222]

No that was a BBQ cook off where she had the wedding in Memphis

[@chrisdawson6714]

In the early 90’s, a friend of mine was asked to sing at a wedding. He asked what love song they wanted him to sing. The bride requested the Alabama song “Old Flame” because she thought it was pretty. The bride had gotten divorced right before she started dating the groom but neither of them seemed anything was wrong about having a song about the fire from a former lover burning brighter than anything the new lover could match being sung at their wedding. 😂

[@PaulDakin-u7b]

I don't know if this is particularly Southern, but I once officiated at a wedding followed by a reception at the local fire hall. They had a dj spinning tunes. First song he played was a song popular at the time--Stevie Wonder's "Parttime Lover."😮 P.S. I don't think they lasted more than 2 years...

[@RavynGuiliani]

OK, as a teenager I moved to Atlanta from New Jersey..... (I know right?) and so my new best friend's granny died and I went to the funeral with her. At the service there were tons and tons of huge flower arrangements, but the largest and most "colorful" one that stood out was a 6 foot round one done in all shades of pink flowers with a pink plastic telephone in the middle surrounded by the words "Jesus called and Granny answered" -- I was mortified. (Pun intended.)

[@Sheerkat7]

I live in North Florida. When people need directions to my house, I tell them to turn right where the Tree steakhouse used to be. Keep going straight. When they think they're lost, they are only half way there. So go twice as far, then turn left on my street.

[@jackielinde7568]

This wasn't me, but something my mom claimed. My dad was in the US Air Force and due to "clerical issues" (my dad still insists forty years later he did the paperwork correctly) instead of the family coming back to Phoenix, AZ, USA from three years in Aviano, Italy... We ended up in Jacksonville, AR, USA because he got stationed at Little Rock AFB. Mom claims she stopped AN ENTIRE RESTAURANT in Jacksonville because she was eating chicken with a knife and a fork. (Heads turned and everything.) To be fair, my mom immigrated to the US from England as a small child, and grew up in Chicago, IL, USA. (I was born in Evanston, IL, USA... So Yay Chicago?) So flatware was always an option for her. And, to be really fair, often I will eat fried chicken (usually thighs, so go suck an egg you white meat lovers) with a knife and fork due to the grease. Drum sticks are more a coin toss if flatware is to be used.

[@allorynwiggins6066]

Thighs are the best. As tasty as the breast but without the dry.

[@3doggymom]

There's a lot of stories but here's one. While out driving in a small TN town after we just moved here (I'm born and raised Southern), I came upon a funeral procession and of course every one pulled to the side of the road out of respect. About the 12th vehicle passed and there was a pick up with a 4 wheeler in the bed of the truck........

[@susanyoung6635]

I'm from the Bay area but I've lived in Texas for 29 years. The "oh Hun" was just as good as "bless r heart ❤️

[@marshaworkman2764]

😂😂😂😂😂I love these!!❤️

[@amandagrayson389]

I want to address the spider web for a cut. You actually need a cobweb because it is thicker. And this remedy goes back a lot further than the existence of the South as we know it. Shakespeare references using a cobweb for a cut in one of his plays. (‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’)

[@stephaniewarthen]

I ride my lawnmower on the side of the highway to my neighbor's house to avoid traffic. My cousins and I used to break chunks off the (licked) pink cow blocks, stick em in our overalls top pocket, and suck on them all day. Put a pig in the ground to cook and put a gravestone on the dirt pile it was under.

[@Lopal12]

This is most Sothern thing I have done we used to live in a trailer park in wnc, there was a park across the street and every time it rained it made a huge puddle about 20 feet long and I used to go swimming in that puddle.

[@simdoughnut659]

Video Subtitle: How to Spot a Southern City Boy and a Southern Country Gal.

[@janmcclure551]

I was invited to a pot luck at a local school. The principal walked me to the room where to potluck food was laid out. He pointed to a crock pot and put what I thought was beef roast on my plate. I took a bite and it was good. As he was pouring me some sweet tea, he said, " My momma made that possum, and it is good!" I stopped for a hot second and continued eating and said," Tell your momma it was good!"

[@Aeis_Kalt]

for teething babies, frozen waffles. not sure How Southern that is, but the wife and I did it 7 times with our kids. works every time.

[@cottagekeeper1044]

Most southern thing I’ve ever seen. Our rival high school the yellow jackets at the other side of the county had Dolly Parton come and sing as a fundraiser. So our school needed to have a fundraiser as well. The faculty decided on a fall festival. We had the largest turkey shoot in the county. They pulled in an old wrecked car, and for a dollar you could take a sledgehammer and the car. We also had a haunted house with chainsaws and weedeaters with no blade or strings. People jumped out chased you with them inside the haunted house, which was located in the gym locker rooms. The scariest part of the haunted house was the surgery room where they had used the pig remains from the hog slaughter. As a seven year old, I was scared out of my mind for years. Honestly, I think it was a very successful fundraiser but traumatizing.😂❤ The barbecue plates were delicious🎉-Karen Lee

[@theresaconner185]

The spider web thing really does work, or at least it's supposed to. The most Southern thing that I've ever heard .... my sister took her children night fishing and heard some "frogs" croaking, only to be told that it was actually the sound of nearby alligators grunting to each other.

[@mikeoglesbee6861]

cut off a wart put it in a tree stump and the witch that cursed you will get it back. I recommend the foxfire series of books for old hillbilly remedies

[@ryanupchurch9683]

Omg I had that book. I haven’t heard of it in years! I wonder if I still have it?

[@randallgreen4084]

Is Ryan wearing a Cowboy Bebop t-shirt. He just moved above Talia on my list of favorites. Sorry Talia, you are now number 2.

[@warmsteamingpile]

My momma always washed collards in the washing machine.

[@davidkimball4415]

My grandpa built a sled. Since we live in Oklahoma, we only get enough snow to go sledding once or twice a year, but we figured out that his pond dam was steep enough that we could sled down it with or without snow on the ground. We would be out there in the middle of July sledding down his pond dam all day.

[@andimorgan6240]

This is pre Hurricane Katrina: i would ask my mother to bring Community Coffee, Zatarain's crawfish boil, and Blue Plate mayo. Did not have these in North Texas.

[@jimpemberton]

I was a younger kid yet and these older kids in the neighborhood invited me to go dove hunting with them. I didn't have a shotgun and they knew it so I thought maybe they had a shotgun i could use. However, when we got out to the field they were going to hunt in, I asked if they had a shotgun, but they gave me a ballcap with a big bill on it, told me to put it on, walk most of the way to the other end of the field, and turn around. When I got there, I turned around and didn't see them. I only saw a row of brush on the other end of the field. I called out, "Hey, where are y'all?" I heard from the brush, "Shhh! Be quiet." After a couple of moments I heard the flapping of wings behind me. Then the other boys popped up from behind the brush a little bit and fired in the air over my head. Then they ran over and picked up their kills off the ground. They were only using me as the decoy. They didn't even give me any doves to take home.

[@KathySwampQueen]

Grandma's snuff dip was our cure for everything...stings...bites...cuts...abrasions etc....I'm still alive 😆But Granny had her own potion for cough syrup....peppermint in moonshine....they never thought twice about giving it to kids...cured the cough tho 😆

[@jamadavisii]

Hilarious 😂

[@iamTW64]

Talia's reaction to that wasp sting remedy. 😂😂😂😂

[@LungsOutJem]

My bro has a Bebop shirt on. Hell yeah!

[@butterbeanqueen8148]

A city council member came into city hall (small decrepit house) and said “there’s a dead dog on the bridge. What are we going to do about it?” The city clerk replied “write a song”. They proceeded to sing 🎶 there’s a dead dog on the [blank blank] bridge stinking to high heaven 🎶 in perfect harmony. I left out the name of the bridge to protect their identity. 😂

[@maddie.h8195]

My grandad used to wash his greens in the washing machine! They were good greens too.

[@Rickettsia505]

It rained tree frogs on me, driving in the swampland of SC, on a clear night. Looked like popcorn on the slick road.

[@Genevieve24]

Picking up my younger brother from school, there was a truck pulling a horse trailer with a horse in it. Held up the whole doggone pickup line

[@lorenstribling6096]

Years ago I worked as bookkeeper at my hometown doctor's office. We had a patient come in with a second degree burn on her leg. Her grandma had covered the burn in wood ash from the fireplace and covered it with spider web. Yep, it was infected.

[@bernardflood8289]

Greetings from Ireland. Spider web's really do work although we normally use them for livestock injuries but I have used it on myself, it stop's the bleeding instantly.

[@stevengrvp]

I love y'all

[@datnurse5062]

I was working for emergency management in southwest Louisiana after a hurricane. My coworker and I pulled up to a gas station in the middle of nowhere to get snacks and use the restroom. I have never been to this place or this city before, mind you. On the way in I joked that I bet the bathroom was a concrete structure out back and they would hand use a key attached to a big wooden stick. We asked if we could use the restroom, and sure enough, we were handed a key on a stick and told it was in the building behind the store!!!

[@Willysmb44]

When I was about junior high age, the MOST Southern thing I can recall doing was coming back from a civil war re-enactment as a participant and going into a convenience store to buy peanut butter crackers, RC cola and a Moon Pie for the family, dressed as a Confederate artilleryman, and not ONE person in the place finding how I dressed to be odd in any way, or having them asking any questions (and I have photos if y'all want to see them). Blasting yankees in front of spectators was a great hobby to have as a kid!

[@tammyrussell2169]

one wedding I went to: couple got married in the living room at the house, hog roast/party out in the back yard. cake table was in the kitchen, it was more of a 'bring your own casserole and lawn chair' event. another wedding: church wedding, but reception was at a local VFW where they served -KFC! One of the families had a lot of very larger-built folks, and they enjoyed dancing on the tables... just letting y'all take that visual how you will. LOL last wedding I went to: in the couple's back yard, bride & bridesmaids wore super short tshirts and daisy dukes, the 'aisle' was plywood sheets laid out because the yard was muddy.

[@karenashton5053]

My great aunt had a two seater outhouse. In the summer it was safer to go in the cotton field because of black widow spiders or rattlesnakes.

[@sallyferriter4868]

A fella from up north came down here to work at our school. We took him to a hole in the wall diner with some of the best southern food. He ordered a chicken sandwich. When his order came we just all watched his reaction to his “chicken” sandwich… he looked at it and said, “I ordered a chicken sandwich!” I said, “That is a chicken sandwich.” He said, “It has bones in it!” … he was looking for a chick-fil-a type sandwich and what he got was a fried chicken leg quarter on white bread🤣

[@natalieblue6066]

I grew up using cobwebs on cuts to stop the bleeding. Get the broom and reach it up to the corner of the room that had the cobwebs. Works every time!!

[@lissa783lissa783]

I can't get behind putting greens in the washing machine but perfectly willing to hand wash my church clothes and spin them out in the salad spinner before hanging them to dry. I feel like this is safer than the laundry mat at the apartment that I will be (hopefully) moving to. I'm not above using a laundry mat, but I'm going to be too broke paying rent. Not like I use it for salads.

[@erinstanger416]

At my cousins wedding the guest started the Arkansas hog call.