Hunger Be Gone

It seems to me that people like to use the term "The South" as a blanket term to describe everything below the "Mason Dixon Line". I want to take this time to clue every one in. Most people in the south don't care about the civil war. They don't even know that the Mason Dixon line was originally a term to divide land for the William Penn familly. I don't know about you, but I wasn't alive for the Civil War. Has everyone heard of the term "New South"? The"New South" is all of the gulf coast states with some modifications. We trade Florida for South Carolina and Texas gets traded for Georgia. They weren't joking when they said Texas is like a whole other country. They should call Texas New Mexico and they should call New Mexico emtpy. Everything else that you thought was the south is now just considered red-neck.

The New South is a state of mind and all of the states are really different. This is why you have to be careful about restaurants that serve "Southern" food. If you go to Louisiana you get Cajun food. If you go to Mississippi you get good catfish. Georgia has peaches. They are all very different, but when you go to a "Southern" restaurant they try to mix everything together into a menagerie of tasty eclectic food. To bad they don't realize Texas doesn't count. I went to a Southern restaurant and took a look at the menu. Fried chicken liver,questionable but yummy. Fried green tomatoes, delicious but under utilized. Fried catfish and Crawfish Etouffee, marvelous. Jalapeno opossum, dammit I'm not hungry anymore.