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^yep …
I traveled on business from Baltimore to Miami to New Orleans and lots of small towns in between for years…
grew up the former The Sock Capital of the World and spent five formative years after school in the City That Was Too Busy To Hate… with two years in between down in sunny FLA…The South ain’t what it used to be…
and then that could be perceived as another moral dilemma… both ways…Every State in the South is really two States….
the one you hear and read about when you’re out of State, in North Carolina’s case that’s 10 counties…
and the rest of the State… I call that “The Other North Carolina”…there’s no moral dilemma there for me… the Other North Carolina has been abused, ignored and forgotten by our Moral Leaders…
Do you really think George, given the opportunity, would send big bucks to Burgaw, Roxboro, Morganton or Plymouth?
I’m thinking the same for the rest of the States…
they are as bipolar as political candidates for high offices…1) The South is still the South. It stands as the last vestige of traditional western civilization in that its ties are to the faith, kin and land.
Knot headed supporters of equity have no concept of community. Theirs is a construct which is a by product of the 14th amendment and since they have no loyalty to blood they have tossed aside any birth right passed down to them.
2) There are cultures within states. One must exempt cities and cul de sacs since they generally lack culture and have been thrown together by market forces unless those cities/cul de sacs are ethnic in nature.
Throwing out the cities once again, there are around 15 different dialects native to North Carolina. Walt Wolfram at State has done a nice job of noting the differences.
3)The other North Carolina has been forgotten. False notions on trade doomed many of those places and people.
4) Yes, Soros money has a far reach.
A local police department down here threw a flash grenade into a home burning a child. The child was a minority (Loatian), the local whites were not happy but they became very unhappy when someone bused in protestors to the county seat from Atlanta.
Soros money at work. If it can reach here it will get to Plymouth or Swan Quarter.
McCallum
bill,
I am very regional sort in the Fugitive Poets manner.
Travelled the southeast heavily and spent a good bit of time just hanging out in towns, talking with the locals and breaking bread.
Ive been in suspended animation in Georgia since late 2005.
McCallum
Johnson’s ain’t all that.
They open at a certain time, cook only x amount of burgers and then they close.
A bit greasy but not Varsity in Atlanta greasy. Nothing special in my opinion.
The better place is Kidd’s up in Liberty.
McCallum
Maybe the BBC can provide the Twitter video of the white guy in the parking deck whose parents didn’t give him the “talk” John Derbyshire described so well.
Fragile lil flowers.
McCallum
The funny thing in all this is that the Charoltte Observer has disabled the comments section online. I would have loved to have seen the comments.
McCallum
Henry James never ran out of anything.
No specials, no limited supply etc.
Pretty good restaurant IMO. Low key but they kept slinging the food.
Kidds in Liberty was decent as well. Curbe service, another Piedmont NC specialization.
Now the worst restaurant in North Carolina is Sherris between Star and Biscoe on old 220. I’m not sure how it survives but it struggles along from year to year.
I believe they last changed the grease for the fried fish when Neil Sedaka released All You Need is the Music.
McCallum
Women’s soccer is now ranked.
It is not about firing someone if they don’t rise to this or that. Dapper Dave is a mile in over his head, improvement is not on the horizon and the jack leg kept the inept defensive coordinator.
McCallum
Piedmont NC is mustard, chilli, slaw, onions. (Not some soupy mayo based crap but a light white slaw with a hint of carrot, celery salt, pinch of sugar, touch of vinegar and a wisp of mayo)
Zac’s in Burlington can go to hell. They are unc fans.
Henry James on the south side of Asheboro on old 220 had the quintessential Piedmont hotdog. Yes the steamed bun is key.
Monica’s in DC could really handle some wieners in the day. They specialized in a small brand from Arkansas but closed down in the late 90s.
McCallum
Roast Grill since 1940.
Jogged down there all the time back in the day.
Good not great, ran by nice Greeks and don’t ask for ketchup.
6 1/2 Coke in the bottle.
McCallum
The best part was after submitting the paperwork, the paperwork getting forwarded to the physical plant, the physical plant sending out a structural engineering to inspect my 86 Toyota pickup and the cooker (we only burn wood), the lecture on protecting bricks, students and myself was the guys from the physical plant driving their trucks all over the bricks (trucks much heavier than mine).
Even better was the maintenance guys from the physical plant coming to eat with us (driving their heavy trucks across the bricks) and telling me they put me through the ringer because they hated to be pestered by the students.
State being State.
Pretty analogous to the way they handle everything else.
McCallum
I used to a be Carolina Packer man CD.
I subscribe to Cooks Ilustrated and they did a taste test on hot dogs and declared Nathan’s the best.
Nathan’s, a yankee product, aroused my suspicions but the damn things are goodt.(yes, goodt)
McCallum
I can’t put much faith in an institution that required me to meet a structural engineer from the physical plant to examine the possible damage to the bricks from the pickup truck and pig cooker I want to pull across the brickyard.
All that AFTER I filled out two pages of paperwork to request the ability to cook a pig on the brickyard.
Any place that reeks of that level of bureaucractic control will not stand for any fun to last long.
McCallum
Basic rules
1) no apologies
2) use turn signals
3) no ketchup on hot dogs
4) no roll on deodorantsEverything else will take care of itself.
McCallum
but what’s his position on the national anthem and the bathroom policies?
No MOAR of that if you please.
When you speak of bathrooms let’s keep it to single ply versus double ply.
You wouldn’t want any cesspools to compete with dapper Dave’s up coming display.
McCallum
I was at the pool tables watching from a distance.
She’d had a kid or two and couldn’t stop lactating.
McCallum
The Foxy was a fine place in its day.
When Squirt got booted for spraying breast milk on the patrons by the health department, that was the day it all started to decline.
McCallum
