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Komentáře • 369

  • @stevenflebbe
    @stevenflebbe Před rokem +155

    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
      @privacyvalued4134 Před rokem +13

      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
      @pattywilliams788 Před rokem +1

      @@privacyvalued4134😆🤣😂

    • @pattywilliams788
      @pattywilliams788 Před rokem +7

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

    • @freedomcat
      @freedomcat Před rokem +1

      ​@@privacyvalued4134used it as perfume.

    • @LUCKY7AUCTION
      @LUCKY7AUCTION Před rokem +1

      Have to strain it through some light bread lol

  • @Ipomoea_Alba
    @Ipomoea_Alba Před rokem +102

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

    • @bphipps312
      @bphipps312 Před rokem +5

      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
      @burnyizland Před rokem +3

      @@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
      @TiredMomma Před rokem +2

      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
      @gmj2025 Před rokem +2

      😂😂😂

  • @carolynpoteet3945
    @carolynpoteet3945 Před rokem +17

    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
    @markkollman870 Před rokem +77

    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.

  • @tylerpaschall4363
    @tylerpaschall4363 Před rokem +23

    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."

  • @AB2B
    @AB2B Před rokem +58

    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.

  • @kittylynndale5264
    @kittylynndale5264 Před rokem +13

    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.

  • @TheOldPCTech
    @TheOldPCTech Před rokem +60

    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
      @heddystgeorge3756 Před rokem

      I read that spider silk is stronger than steel

    • @JHaven-lg7lj
      @JHaven-lg7lj Před rokem +1

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

  • @bethrogers5656
    @bethrogers5656 Před rokem +76

    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
      @burnyizland Před rokem +6

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

    • @bethrogers5656
      @bethrogers5656 Před rokem +1

      @@burnyizland 😉

    • @shermantincher3417
      @shermantincher3417 Před rokem

      The hams come from the same place.

    • @bethrogers5656
      @bethrogers5656 Před rokem +3

      @@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
      @mwater_moon2865 Před rokem

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

  • @susanzeringue1641
    @susanzeringue1641 Před rokem +26

    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.

  • @pattilipscomb9898
    @pattilipscomb9898 Před rokem +40

    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
      @shelcancook6731 Před rokem +3

      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
    @TheSchnoodlemom Před rokem +34

    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
      @jwrockets Před rokem +4

      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.

  • @WhiteTiger333
    @WhiteTiger333 Před rokem +51

    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
      @jwrockets Před rokem +5

      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
      @mwater_moon2865 Před rokem +2

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

    • @ms.krueger2660
      @ms.krueger2660 Před 10 měsíci +2

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

    • @sdgacademy
      @sdgacademy Před 8 měsíci

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

  • @auntie.shannon
    @auntie.shannon Před rokem +33

    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
      @pameladanbury4430 Před rokem +3

      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
      @mwater_moon2865 Před rokem

      @@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
    @kenwelch198 Před rokem +19

    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.

  • @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.

  • @andrewmccormack605
    @andrewmccormack605 Před rokem +13

    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.

  • @brendaokuda2158
    @brendaokuda2158 Před rokem +4

    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 🤣💖

  • @sallyoakes7709
    @sallyoakes7709 Před rokem +22

    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!

  • @virginiaw8608
    @virginiaw8608 Před rokem +18

    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
      @HealthyDisrespectforAuthority Před rokem +3

      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.

  • @thattinawoman5119
    @thattinawoman5119 Před rokem +14

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

  • @toodymouse
    @toodymouse Před rokem +25

    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
      @bluebirdonmyshoulder5633 Před rokem +2

      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
      @lisam8044 Před rokem +2

      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
      @toodymouse Před rokem +2

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

    • @sandrajordan3802
      @sandrajordan3802 Před rokem +1

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

    • @user-neo71665
      @user-neo71665 Před rokem

      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
    @CurlyAndCurvy Před rokem +6

    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 😂😂😂

  • @MrsAlmaTrumble
    @MrsAlmaTrumble Před rokem +17

    You two always brighten my day.

  • @wtfesme235
    @wtfesme235 Před rokem +8

    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
      @david.mcmahan Před rokem +1

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

    • @wtfesme235
      @wtfesme235 Před rokem

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

  • @Ms.Nobody13
    @Ms.Nobody13 Před rokem +7

    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.

  • @FleaChristenson
    @FleaChristenson Před rokem +5

    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.

  • @heidihandschin3488
    @heidihandschin3488 Před rokem +36

    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?!

  • @privacyvalued4134
    @privacyvalued4134 Před rokem +4

    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.

  • @kamikazecassidy
    @kamikazecassidy Před rokem +9

    She said ‘oh, hun’ 🤣

    • @ItsaSouthernThing
      @ItsaSouthernThing  Před rokem +2

      This is a very common interaction between them 🤣

    • @kamikazecassidy
      @kamikazecassidy Před rokem +1

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

  • @johnnyhoover5870
    @johnnyhoover5870 Před rokem +5

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

  • @polarbearicequeen
    @polarbearicequeen Před rokem +8

    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.

  • @jenniferbriski567
    @jenniferbriski567 Před rokem +13

    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.

  • @TheTroystreet
    @TheTroystreet Před rokem +5

    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.

  • @michaelclemons1761
    @michaelclemons1761 Před rokem +10

    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.

  • @StarrREVA
    @StarrREVA Před rokem +9

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

  • @annem4203
    @annem4203 Před rokem +14

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

    • @WinkTartanBelle
      @WinkTartanBelle Před rokem +2

      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
      @ImnotassweetasIusedtobe Před 3 měsíci +1

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

  • @randalbuhler9042
    @randalbuhler9042 Před rokem +1

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

  • @mardaenglish417
    @mardaenglish417 Před rokem +7

    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. ❤

  • @krisrowan
    @krisrowan Před rokem +16

    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.

  • @richd6362
    @richd6362 Před rokem +6

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

  • @Heartwing37
    @Heartwing37 Před rokem +2

    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!

  • @simdoughnut659
    @simdoughnut659 Před rokem +5

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

  • @jpc3603
    @jpc3603 Před rokem +7

    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
      @Miss_Kisa94 Před rokem +2

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

    • @jpc3603
      @jpc3603 Před rokem +1

      @@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
      @HealthyDisrespectforAuthority Před rokem +4

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

  • @rssvss
    @rssvss Před 11 měsíci

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

  • @tejloro
    @tejloro Před rokem +20

    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.

  • @MichaelSweet-nn5bg
    @MichaelSweet-nn5bg Před 5 měsíci +1

    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.

  • @bethanywilliams1752
    @bethanywilliams1752 Před rokem +15

    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!

  • @calebburdette3222
    @calebburdette3222 Před rokem +5

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

  • @gmj2025
    @gmj2025 Před rokem +3

    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.

  • @calvingifford9442
    @calvingifford9442 Před rokem

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

  • @mikeoglesbee6861
    @mikeoglesbee6861 Před rokem +4

    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
      @ryanupchurch9683 Před rokem

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

  • @jenniferdesilva7899
    @jenniferdesilva7899 Před rokem +2

    When Talia said "oh honey"😂

    • @lindsayhaugen7660
      @lindsayhaugen7660 Před rokem

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

  • @bphipps312
    @bphipps312 Před rokem +5

    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
      @janeflanagan2283 Před rokem

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

  • @taylorread2407
    @taylorread2407 Před rokem +1

    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.

  • @RavynGuiliani
    @RavynGuiliani Před rokem +4

    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.)

  • @3doggymom
    @3doggymom Před rokem +1

    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........

  • @chrisdawson6714
    @chrisdawson6714 Před rokem +4

    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. 😂

    • @user-oy3fk5zz5w
      @user-oy3fk5zz5w Před rokem +1

      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...

  • @debrajeffcoat6095
    @debrajeffcoat6095 Před rokem +2

    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

  • @andimorgan6240
    @andimorgan6240 Před rokem +1

    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.

  • @christaylor3193
    @christaylor3193 Před rokem +1

    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.

  • @stevengrvp
    @stevengrvp Před rokem

    I love y'all

  • @amandagrayson389
    @amandagrayson389 Před rokem +2

    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’)

  • @jackielinde7568
    @jackielinde7568 Před rokem +10

    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
      @allorynwiggins6066 Před rokem

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

  • @libbymelton1567
    @libbymelton1567 Před rokem

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

  • @cottagekeeper1044
    @cottagekeeper1044 Před rokem +1

    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

  • @stephaniewarthen
    @stephaniewarthen Před rokem +2

    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.

  • @brandy4716
    @brandy4716 Před 5 měsíci

    Yes, Ive met many people who wash greens in the wash.

  • @Aeis_Kalt
    @Aeis_Kalt Před rokem +2

    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.

  • @jamadavisii
    @jamadavisii Před rokem

    Hilarious 😂

  • @BradleyBoy
    @BradleyBoy Před rokem +2

    Love Ryan's shirt

  • @southernpossum625
    @southernpossum625 Před rokem +4

    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.

  • @Lopal12
    @Lopal12 Před rokem +2

    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.

  • @nancywest1926
    @nancywest1926 Před rokem +3

    Its impssible to drink something while watching this 😂

  • @janmcclure551
    @janmcclure551 Před rokem +3

    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!"

  • @LungsOutJem
    @LungsOutJem Před 11 měsíci

    My bro has a Bebop shirt on. Hell yeah!

  • @maddie.h8195
    @maddie.h8195 Před rokem

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

  • @Sheerkat7
    @Sheerkat7 Před rokem +2

    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.

  • @warmsteamingpile
    @warmsteamingpile Před rokem +2

    My momma always washed collards in the washing machine.

  • @bernardflood8289
    @bernardflood8289 Před rokem +1

    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.

  • @randallgreen4084
    @randallgreen4084 Před rokem +5

    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.

  • @catwhisperer9489
    @catwhisperer9489 Před rokem +2

    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

  • @scallywag1716
    @scallywag1716 Před rokem +2

    Despite what southerners think…you cannot get a ham bone anywhere.

  • @Rickettsia505
    @Rickettsia505 Před rokem

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

  • @butterbeanqueen8148
    @butterbeanqueen8148 Před 5 měsíci

    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. 😂

  • @rosencain
    @rosencain Před rokem

    My husband had an aunt who washed greens in the washer (like in the 60's) and it just shredded them. Last time anyone asked her to wash the greens for them.
    Vanilla on a toothache, it has alcohol in it. Alcohol will numb the gum.
    Tobacco or a teabag on a sting works - wet it, no need for spit.
    I think I read where our ancestors used spider wed for like the first gauze and to pack a wound.

  • @tammyrussell2169
    @tammyrussell2169 Před rokem

    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.

  • @kirstenc9383
    @kirstenc9383 Před rokem +1

    My boyfriends grandma had a bad ear ache when she was a kid and her parents response was to put hot maple syrup in her ear. It didn’t work and now she is deaf in one ear and the sugar is still there, just fully hardened. Has to be one of the most southern things I’ve ever heard of. She also doesn’t know what year she was born since she doesn’t have a birth certificate and her parents would fight about what year she was born in.

  • @MrsFox721
    @MrsFox721 Před 6 měsíci

    From what I've been told, No one ever got sick around my Great Grandma. She was from West Virginia and her remedy for any sickness was an enema with a garden hose.

  • @CeriseGrist
    @CeriseGrist Před rokem +5

    Ok, does the egg in the baby sock need to be raw or hard boiled?

  • @datnurse5062
    @datnurse5062 Před 11 měsíci

    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!!!

  • @DanielleBaum
    @DanielleBaum Před 7 měsíci

    the greens in the washer/dryer is an Alton Brown thing...i can't remember if its to clean a big batch or dry them fast. but i do remember you put them in a mesh laundry bag dedicated just for that

  • @1ofus
    @1ofus Před rokem +4

    Cowboy Bebop FTW

  • @karenashton5053
    @karenashton5053 Před rokem +2

    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.

  • @deborahpetipas9365
    @deborahpetipas9365 Před rokem +2

    My mother in law washed her greens in the washer. It was to get the sand out, then she rinsed them in the colander.

    • @user-neo71665
      @user-neo71665 Před rokem +1

      My granny had an old wringer washing machine on the back porch she washed her veggies in. That was up till the early 00s before her health started going bad and papa passed away

  • @michelleg2454
    @michelleg2454 Před rokem

    At my dad's and stepmoms wedding we did a kick line to Garth Brooks " Friends in Low Places".

  • @Willysmb44
    @Willysmb44 Před rokem

    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!

  • @BiornBear
    @BiornBear Před 4 měsíci +1

    GO DAWGS!!!!!

  • @iamTW64
    @iamTW64 Před rokem

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

  • @thatbitchashley828
    @thatbitchashley828 Před rokem +1

    The town my grade school was in has one stop light and one day the MAYOR was driving down Main Street on a tractor just checking on things.