Southern hospitality is definitely a thing of importance to us 😊

Yes, "southern hospitality" is a real thing in that part of America.

Collard Greens are a staple vegetable in the southern US. Its a member of the cabbage family. They are naturally bitter, so you cook them with some vinegar or some hot pepper sauce.

It's Country Gravy (milk/white gravy). If you want to make it here is how: in a pan over medium heat 2 tablespoons of ghee, add two tablespoons of white flour, cook for a couple of minutes to get rid of the flour taste, while whisking slowly pour in 2 cups whole milk, add 1/8 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon fresh ground pepper, (optional 2 dashes Worcestershire, because you can't taste one but you can taste three), bring to simmer to thicken (taste for salt level). Pour over fried chicken. Note: this is not the gravy for biscuits, there you start by cooking 1/2 pound of breakfast sausage while breaking it into small (1 to 1.5 cm) pieces and browning, check the fat level and remove all but about 2 tablespoons, then proceed with adding flour (no ghee) and the rest (skip the salt but taste for it at the end). Now you have sausage gravy for biscuits. It was baked sweet potato with pecan butter. Yes, the iced tea is usually bottomless and in the south it's Sweet Tea (unless you specify unsweet). The last dessert was Cappucino Ice Cream Pie. The best banana pudding is made like a custard not a pudding, An easy home version uses Jello instant vanilla pudding add one smashed up ripe banana allow to slightly set (about 20 minutes) then layer vanilla wafers, sliced banana, pudding, wafers, banana, pudding, and some rough broken wafers on top and let fully set. Do this in a single serving dessert glass (wide not tall) using mini-vanilla wafers for a great presentation.

I'm a Southerner. Saying hello, waving, talking and being nice to people we know or don't know is just our culture! We've never met a stranger. Lol Come visit us and see for yourself. We are the nicest people; we make the best food, and we have the best weather in the US.

I've been to many restaurants where the waitress/waiter are like this, and they are so helpful. I'm in the NorthEast as well where it's not considered the most friendly 🙂

I'm being honest here guys, collard greens are a leafy green vegetable, but the cook messed up by putting lemon in it. That ruins it. I'm an American gal that grew up in the Mid Atlantic region and I'm a U.S. Army "brat" that's lived all over the States, and overseas. NEVER have i ever seen anyone sane dare put lemon on cooked collard greens. It's already slightly bitter anyway. This is why many people, as my Mom used to, season it well and add garlic, onions, and beef or pork products w/ butter & olive oil too to enhance it. That makes it very tasty. Otherwise, everything else in the video is spot on delicious.

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In the USA, there are many types of gravy. In the UK , they are only familiar with brown gravy. Types of gravy depends on the type of meat or stock used. I know some people eat collared greens with hot cherry peppers and chopped raw onion.

Catfish is an interesting looking fish that is versatile for whatever dish. I had nuggets and in soup. Best ever. The flavor isn't like salmon but it has a different taste from chicken. It's fishy yes but it takes in the seasoning well.

I like grits with cheese but I also like grits for breakfast, with a little butter melting and a sprinkle of sugar...milk optional.

Banana pudding has a base of vanilla cookies, then a layer of sliced bananas, then a thick layer of vanilla pudding, then another thick layer of vanilla pudding. At this point some people add a layer of chopped, roasted nuts, either pecans or walnuts or hazelnuts or a combination of nuts for crunch, som e people don't, some people add a layer of mini or regular chocolate chips while some don't. Then the whole thing is finished off with a thick (sometimes decorative) layer of creamy, white whipped cream. Other families finish theirs off with a thick decorative layer of meringue that they cook/brown with a hand held kitchen torch. There are so many old family recipes, many passed down from generation to generation. Some are followed diligently they make their banana pudding from scratch while others think it's ok to take a short cut and use the mix from a little box that you just add milk to and simmer it on the stove while a lot of younger cooks take the most short cuts and buy the kind that you just pour the powder from the little box into a bowl, add cold milk, beat it with a hand mixer and it's done, no cooking needed. At the end of theday they're all forms of banana pudding, it's just how traditional and authentic they want their pudding to be.

White gravy is easy. Just butter, flour, milk, pepper

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As a southerner from the US… I hate corn pudding. Unfortunately my 95 year old grandma says that’s her signature recipe.

It's a southern thing most southern love when someone likes their food

My mom always put a little vinegar into both collard greens and turnip greens .

3:27 southern US culture thing. The sincerely nicest, kindest people you will ever meet. i like grits with salt, butter, cheese and sometimes bacon.

Definitely southern hospitality but certainly she was also excited for someone new who hasn't tasted southern food before so she was showing it off to them so they had a best experience with it.

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Grits are from a specific type of white corn called hominy. Hominy is a large- kernel editor corn used in Indigenous cultures in the Americas. Corn also comes in different types and colors besides yellow or white (blue, red, black, purple, multi-colored, etc.).

Here is a good way to think about sweet potato pie. If you buy a pumpkin at the grocery store, and you bake it and eat some, it will have a certain amount of flavor. If you buy a sweet potato and bake it, you will find it has more flavor than pumpkin has all by itself, without adding anything else for flavor. It stands to reason, then, that sweet potato pie will have lots of amazing flavor to start with.

Some of the enthusiasm is no doubt the tip custom but a lot of the friendliness is just liking your job and interacting with people. I’ve dealt with many servers who just make you feel welcome.

Many of my friends were waitresses at some point in their lives…and they enjoyed being waitresses! They talked about their experiences and they were overwhelmingly positive times!

Collard greens are like spinach but more bitter. Like boiled spinach, both best with wine vinegar.

You have to compliment them for saying how they feel about whatever it is they are eating. That includes them > not < liking some foods.

Yeah. In America: unlimited refills on drinks. Tea, soda, coffee, water and juice are common at refill stations. And some people like pickles plain. For me it depends. Some times I like it on its own but for the most times, I have it in my hamburgers.

Every kind of meat will have its own gravy. You will fry your meat which is breaded in seasoned wheat flour. You will leave a few tablespoons of the cooking oil and add some of the seasoned flour and let that cook about a minute. Then most will add milk or milk and water mixture and cook. The flour will thicken it up and you will also season this to taste. This can be chicken, pork, beef we don't really eat goats or sheep where I'm from. Grits are good but the water cooked in has to be salted or grits are horrible. I'm from Georgia and this is real and how most of the waitress treat you. Southern people are very nice and welcoming.

Nuts on meat is good. Pinon nuts where I live, milder taste than pecans. Some people are allergic to peanuts ;-(

I live in the Southeast corner of Alabama & it's fairly common for people to be polite but there are going to be rude people too. Both country fried steak & chicken fried steak, grits, collards, catfish, & sweet potato pie are staples. Sweet tea or lemonade is pretty much the standard drink. The waitress was right about people getting upset if a restaurant doesn't have banana pudding. Those guys are lucky the waitress didn't give them hot sauce

Pecan is properly pronounced "pah-kahn" or "peh-kahn". A "pee can" is something one uses when one does not have indoor plumbing.

Sweet potato fries sometimes comes with a creamy marshmallowy pecan sauce that is *amazing*

Yeah, we're gonna need 2 separate plates.

In the south, you will find your servers very helpful generally - and friendly!

That's a baked sweet potato with pecan butter

love the ractions ! LOL

In my family we don't make them bitter like that. We make ours with hammocks and bacon lol

Catfish isn't a good fish, they eat all the refuse at the bottom. If you grew up poor, particularly in the south, it was an alternate source of protein in times of hardship, just by going to the pond or creek. That's why it's fried, to hide the bad taste. Today, at restaurants, you can only find farm-raised catfish fed grain, but still has a distinctive flavor. It's more nostalgia than a high-class food.

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Wait until you look at British students try Biscuits and Gravy from Jolly. It will have you laughing and like...yeah...we need to try this.

the gravy has flour and milk in it

A god baked sweet potato is a good healthy desert

Northerners generally aren't fans of grits but the rest is great.

You need to fix your audio mix. What we have is one loud guy and one partially muted, muffled woman in an echo chamber. We can’t hear her. Please fix it because I want to know what she has to say.

If you have a Korean community near you, you might be in luck of great fried chicken

I need bacon with my grits.

they weren't eating the collards properly...if they aren't to your taste you should season them, then drop a little bit of hot sauce or some other food enhancer on them.

I'm from the nearby (to Savannah) South Carolina Lowcountry... y'all would LOVE our cuisine!! Like New Orleans cuisine, but BETTER!

Why in the world would you watch other people eat? And why in the world would I watch you watch other people eat? 😁

I'm sorry I don't know your names, but the young lady is hard to hear. The last couple of videos I've watched with her in them it's been difficult to hear what she's saying. Her voice sounds muffled like she's talking with her hand over her mouth, which clearly she isn't or her microphone is covered up. I've noticed in those videos her earbuds have been hidden under her top. If her microphone is attached to her earbuds maybe could she pull out the microphone so it isn't covered. I'd like to be able to hear what she has to say. His voice is almost too loud and her's is nowhere near loud enough. Thank you....

Please get her a microphone!! It sounds like she’s sitting in a barrel! Can barely hear her! That said ( for the second time ) Sweet potatoes are used in as many ways as regular potatoes - except the sweet potato pie - it is a requirement for Christmas Day lunch at our house - my family doesn’t like pumpkin pie. Southern hospitality is the real deal . . . People at the next table will talk with you, other servers will stop & say hi, if you were at their table on your last visit ( I’m talking locals eating places, regular customers) Grits are great, but need butter, salt & pepper. Okra & corn pudding need some getting used to . . Collard greens, too. Cat fish is great - no bones to worry about, firm texture & takes on the flavor of whatever spices you add ( Old Bay ). Chicken - southern fried “six ways to Sunday” - LOTS of options for flavor & coating. . . Crunchier the better.

The female Loud guys is not loud enough. You can barely hear her and only picks up some of what she says when she talks over the video. She sounds like she's in a cave or something, not very clear.

It's not sweet potato butter it's pecan butter and pecans are a nut.

trust me you would like banana pudding-sweet and creamy banana/vanilla taste