What is the most redneck food?

[HEyHEY]

Now, before you say "Squirrel" and giggle at how clever you are.... I mean realistically. I say hot-dogs.

[CO Liberal]

Road Kill

All types....

[Magrittes Pipe]

1. Chicken-fried steak.

It is also one of my FAVORITE foods! :bounce:

[scarlet_owl]

26. One of my favorites, too!

I make it all the time.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Chicken fried steak

[johnnie]

3. Hot dogs???!!!

That's not redneck. That's American..not saying that rednecks aren't American..just sayin...

[HEyHEY]

9. The inspiration hit me a few minutes ago

Walking down the street in my quiet redneck whitebread mountian town and saw a bunch of freeper types going at hot-dogs like there's no tomorrow.

[DrWeird]

4. pork rinds?

pickled pigs feet?

[Red State Rebel]

53. I vote pork rinds.....

you do know they are actual pig skin don't you??? Blechhhhhh!!!!

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

90. Mmmm they're GOOD!!!!

[Solon]

5. Grits...

gonna get flamed, but my dad is a redneck, and eats that stuff all the time. I can't stand it...

BTW: Beaver is pretty good though. :evilgrin:

[northzax]

what are you saying?

I eat beaver all the time.










wait for it...

[RoyGBiv]

78. Hashbrowns...

I say that merely because on a road trip I took a few years ago outside the South, I stopped in a breakfast place and ordered hash-browns. I figured, ya know, since they were on the menu and all, I'd get some.

But, no. I didn't get hash-browns. I got home fries. HOME FRIES ARE NOT HASH-BROWNS!!!! Freakin' little ball bearings passing themselves off as potato bits is what I got, dammit. (Okay, sorry, I feel better.)

After traveling all over the Nawth, I realized no one north of the Tennessee River seemed to understand what hash-browns were, and I concluded this must be a Southern/Redneck thing.

And grits...good grits, prepared correctly, are yummy, and I've never met a non-redneck type person who knows how to make them.

Pork skins were a redneck thing, but they're an acceptable snack on the Atkins diet now.

[taxidriver]

chicken fried chicken.

and pig's feet.

[taxidriver]

6. chicken fried chicken.

and pig's feet.

[kingdamon]

7. HOG BRAINS AND EGGS

RC cola and Moonpies
ketchup spagetti
turtle stew
livers and gizzards
coon of any sort, served in any fashion
any type of testies, served in any fashion

[TheCentepedeShoes]

85. Guy walks into a store

and asks for an RC and a moonpie. The clerks says "You must be from Alabama" The guy says he resents that assumption. "If I asked for pizza would you think I was from Italy? If I asked for a eggroll would you think I was from China?" No, the clerk replies, none of those things had ever happened. "Then why," the guy asks, "do you think I'm from Alabama just because I asked for an RC and a moonpie?"
"Cause, son," the clerk replies, "this is a hardware store."

[Taverner]

8. Grits

[The Blue Flower]

10. twinkie pie

made with twinkies and vanilla pudding

[tandot]

11. armadillo - on edit: chitlins

tastes just like chicken...YUMMMMMM


on edit: Chitlins or Chitterlings

http://www.moo-oink.com/ChitlinHistory.htm

[AspenRose]

12. Deep fried twinkies, followed by moon pies and Nehi.

OK, that's just Southern...not necessarily redneck....

[ewagner]

39. Moon Pies and Nehi

absolutely!

Grew up in the south and it was Moon Pies and RC cola or Nehi if you could......also YooHoo Chocolate drinks in a bottle......big redneck hit!

[Burma Jones]

13. Tater Tot Casserole

Also:

Cheap Beer
Ham
Slim Jims
Deep Fried Pork Tenderloin Sandwiches
Fried Chicken (who doesn't like fried chicken though?)
Hamburger Helper

[cmf]

14. Squirrel, seriously

I knew a guy who bragged about his mom's squirrel spaghetti. People really do eat it.

[BiggJawn]

15. Another vote for Chicken Fried Steak...

I love the stuff, but help me, I just CAN'T think of anything that screams "Manufactored home resident" like CFS...

[AgadorSparticus]

16. SLIM JIMS!!!

[Richardo]

17. Pork rinds...

:puke:

[AlFrankenFan]

18. Crawdads, moon pies, sweet tea, and grits

All foods I love too!

[Swamp Rat]

31. That's not redneck food! That's REGULAR food! Just like alligator

Jambalaya. I might add Abita beer to go with the crawfish or at least a Barq's rootbeer or a Bigshot.

[Blue-Jay]

52. I had an alligator brat on July 4th.

It tasted a little too lizard-y for me.

Mudbugs (crawdaddies), OTOH, are mighty tasty! Remember to suck the head!

[Swamp Rat]

55. What's alligator brat? Is that a really nasty child to be cannibalized or

is it Bratworst? Alligator has to be cooked right or else it tastes like fishy chicken. Try it in gumbo and jambalaya, or in andouille (cajun sausage). Y'all have crawfish up thar in Ohio? I'm impressed that you know and CAN suck the head. Last time I did that in front of a girl from California she puked... ha ha ha!

[AlFrankenFan]

70. Regular food for us folks down South/from the South

"Redneck" foods to the Yankees. :P

[Swamp Rat]

100. Yep, and I'm glad they don't always like our food - more for us!

I keep telling folks that New Orleans is NOT the "South." This is a caribbean city. We eat critters that even the Southern rednecks don't eat, but we also eat what they do, though there's a tendency to add lots of spices, red peppers, etc. in a big pot with all the critters thrown in together. I'd also say that Southern folks in general who live on the Gulf Coast eat a lot more slimy critters than the land-locked folks.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

19. Bugles.

...they sponser NASCAR drivers, fer chrissakes.

[TX-RAT]

20. Beans, cornbread , and fried potatoes.

Although fried potatoes and onions, are a staple ,on Canadian fishing trips.

What did you do with the bear?

[LWolf]

21. Chickenfried steak.

I was shipped off to live with my 100% pure red-neck father for 3 months when I was 15; the only significant contact we ever had. Some other foods big on the redneck menu:

Spaghetti: noodles and hot tomato juice with a few seasonings.

Fried venison
Fried crappie
Fried liver & onions
Fried chicken
Baked beans with sliced hotdogs and onions.
Navy beans and smoked hamhocks
Fried and smoked ham.

Veggies included:

Canned corn and greenbeans
Fried squash
Fried okra
Fried potatoes
greens

Oh, and breakfast...fried eggs and bacon (or fried ham).

And lots of cornbread.

Did I mention that everything was fried?

Chickenfried steak was usually cheap, tough round steak. But they'd chicken fry top sirloin, too.

[RT Atlanta]

22. Moon pies and Pork Skins

Either of those two have to be near the top. Throw in RC Cola too.

[welshTerrier2]

23. gotta go with: Roadkill

doesn't matter what it is ... gotta be fresh though ... no good once the birds get at it ...

[DemoTex]

24. Chitterlings and collard greens.

Washed down with with Cold Duck "wine."

[GoddessOfGuinness]

33. I thought that was "Soul Food"...

except for the cold duck.

[Nevernose]

64. Up north it's soul food; down South it's just how poor people cook

Up north it's referred to as "soul food," and is marketed in black neighborhoods. I'm thinking of all those soul food restaraunts near Garfield park in Chicago.

In the South, it's referred to as "dinner" by people of all races.

Man, I'd sell my soul to the devil for a taste of ganddad's cooking right now: collard greens, fried okra, black-eyed peas...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

66. Black-eye peas

with salt pork or a ham hock...
mmmmmmmmmmmmm.........cholesterolllllllllllllll

[daligirrl]

50. No, no, no. . .

Redneck food has to be easy to cook. Chitlin's and collards are not that easy. And it's a classic "soul food". Try Ramen noodle and weiner casserole.

[DemoTex]

61. Ever wonder why rednecks' breaths smells like pig shit?

I rest my case.

[Rainstorm]

25. BBQ....

....watermelon. I love it.

Glaze the melon strips with a sweet BBQ sauce and then smoke it at a low temp long enough for the sauce to caramelize. Nothing is better. You only get it at the better redneck eating establishments.

[newyawker99]

88. Hi Rainstorm!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[SiouxJ]

27. Chicken fried steak, w/extra gravy and a side of

gravy; and you don't need to bring the vegetables.

I was sitting in a restaurant in Kingman, Az and the guy next to me ordered that. We wouldn't want anything healthy to touch the CFS now would we? ;-) .

[tcfrogs]

28. I knew CFS was going to come up even before I looked at the answers

It's my favorite guilty pleasure food - from living in TX - don't hate me, please!!!

[SiouxJ]

30. Don't hate you, nor rednecks for that matter

I have a few close friends who are rednecks. And, if I still ate meat (been a veggie since '93), I'd probably indulge in a little CFS now and then. I just thought it was funny that the guy wanted soooo much gravy and didn't want the veggies on the plate. I was thinking I was gonna have to give him CPR at any moment. :-)

[tcfrogs]

37. That is a good story

I prefer some good corn-on-the-cob with my CFS.

Getting off topic - Wasn't Kingman, AZ one of the former homes to Timothy McVeigh? I think it was one of the areas that was a hotbed for militias...no offense intended if I'm remembering incorrectly.

[SiouxJ]

41. Yeah. I was just passing through

I have to go through there on my way to Vegas, twice a year (for business). It's a very redneck area.

[baldguy]

29. Brie, tofu & a nice Chardonnay.

oops, wrong thread.

[Swamp Rat]

32. Wrong food but they make good redneck names for children

[MichaelHarris]

34. I got it

first you move into a trailer, then you get some crescent roll dough, slice a weenie, put a wedge of chedder cheese in the weenie, wrap the weenie in the crescent roll dough and bake it. While its baking you take dry macaroni and make some art. Dry beans will work in case the gub'ment ran out of gub'ment macaroni. Good eats in any republican household.

[HuckleB]

35. Dinner: Chicken-fried steak from the freezer, canned peas, & Lonestar beer

It ain't hot dogs. That's city food.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

91. Make that Shiner Bock beer

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

36. Sweet Sorghum Molasses

When I was a kid in Arkansas I remember everyone having sweet sorghum molasses on their hotcakes for breakfast. They also would put sorghum syrup on slices of corn bread. Real molasses is made with cane sugar. But sorghum is a poor man's molasses, made with a type of grass. But it's very sweet and tasty and I prefer it even to maple syrup. And I love the way the word "sorghum" rolls off the tongue in a southern accent: "sohgm". But maybe I should note that not all the southerners I grew up around were ones I would call "rednecks", although many of them were.

[NMDemDist2]

38. pepsi with a peanut and pork rinds with tabasco n/t

[RoyGBiv]

77. Nonononono...

Real rednecks don't drink Pepsi. What, are you a freakin' Commie 'er somethin'? :-)

Rednecks drink COKE ... with peanuts and pork rinds and Tabasco.

Sheesh...people keep on screwin' 'round with the recipes. ;-)

[Rainstorm]

81. Coke??

You got to be kidding. Real rednecks drink R.C. Cola (however they do call it "RC Cokeacola"). There is no substitute.

[RoyGBiv]

86. Ya got me there...

I'm one o' them citified rednecks. My rednetiquette manual has been corrupted. :-)

Welcome to DU!!! :hi:

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

92. Good LORD

Rednecks drink DR. PEPPER!!!!

[RoyGBiv]

102. Of course...

That's what I said. As in, "Hey, want me to bring you a coke?" "Sure." "What kind?" "Oh, I'll take Dr. Pepper."

:evilgrin:

[fishnfla]

40. boiled peanuts

goobers

[IronLionZion]

42. venison with mashed potatoes and corn on the cob

and bison steaks are good too.

[DoNotRefill]

43. What's wrong with squirrel?

I've got a friend who makes the BEST Squirrel gravy for breakfast.

I don't think he's a redneck. He's a VERY responsible lawyer.

Now possum.....I've yet to find a recipe that makes possum edible...

[geniph]

44. 'Possum. 'coon, squirrel, and fried potatoes with gravy

and yes, I've eaten all of the above.

[Blue Gardener]

45. Rocky Mountain Oysters

Disgusting.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

67. Here's a recipe:

Recipe By : Texas on the Halfshell ISBN: 0-385-17904-9

2 pounds bull testicles*
1 cup flour
1/4 cup cornmeal
1 cup red wine
salt
black pepper
garlic powder
Louisiana Hot Sauce
cooking oil**

*aka: calf fries, Rocky Mountain Oysters (sheep or turkey testicles may be used also)

** pure hog lard is the best, but a mixture of 60% peanut oil and 40% vegetable oil will do

With a very sharp knife, split the tough skin-like muscle that surrounds each "oyster." Remove the skin. Set "oysters" into a pan with enough salt water to cover them for one hour (this takes out some of the blood). Drain. Transfer "oysters" to large pot. Add enough water to float "oysters" and a generous tablespoon of vinegar. Parboil, drain and rinse. Let cool and slice each "oyster" into 1/4 inch thick ovals. Sprinkle salt and pepper on both sides of sliced "oyster" to taste.

Mix flour, cornmeal and some garlic powder to taste in a bowl. Roll each "oyster" slice into this dry mixture. Dip into milk. Dip into dry mixture. Dip into wine quicky (you may repeat the procedure if a thicker crust is desired). Place each "oyster" into hot cooking oil.

Add Louisiana Hot Sauce to cooking oil (go wild with it, buy watch out for repercussions -- hot splashes). Cook until golden brown or tender, and remove with a wire mesh strainer (the longer they cook, the tougher they get).

Serve in one of those cardboard beer cartons that four six packs come in, layered with paper towels. Eat 'em, don't wait for nothin'! Chase with beer.

Variations include serving cooked "oysters" on a real oyster half shell with a sprig of parsley and a few drops of lemon juice.

[Calico Jack Rackham]

46. Mountain Oysters

:evilgrin:

[Guy Fawkes]

47. raw meat... like steak tartar (nt)

[KamaAina]

48. Redneck haute cuisine: Frito Pie

1) Nuke one of those single-serving pop-top containers of chili.

2) Open bag of Fritos.

3) Pour chili directly into bag.

4) Enjoy (?)

There are also highfalutin' recipes out there, involving embellishments like cheese, and even the use of an oven,

http://www.texascooking.com/recipes/fritopie.htm

but at this point we have crossed out of the realm of the redneck.

[GOPisEvil]

57. Hey man, Frito Pie is some good vittles!

My high school made that in the snack bar! :9

[rppper]

71. oh gawd i miss Friday night football stadium made Frito pie..........

...that was a f'n delicacy in east Texas if there ever was one....

i can't tell you about the rest of the rednecks, but sonic drive ins made a meal deal consisting of 'tater tots and a foot long chili/cheese dogs(with a cherry coke no less...). that was a little slice of artery clogging heaven....

then again there is the whataburger chain of restraunts...they are the best heart stopping burgers money can buy....mmmmmmmmmmm....there is nothing...and i mean nothing....like a double bacon cheese whataburger with fries and a shake to kill your hunger...ask just about anyone from Texas on this board...waaaaay better than DQ.....

[daligirrl]

49. What's wrong with you people?

It's Cheez-Whiz!

[Red State Rebel]

54. Or for the redneck on the go.....spray cheese! n/t

[LTR]

51. Poppy Bush's favorite food: Pork rinds

Dee-lish!

[charlyvi]

56. Corn Bread and Butter Beans

The corn bread can be interchangeable with buttermilk biscuits, but the butter beans are a must. With banana pudding for dessert.

[gmoney]

58. Fried bologna sandwiches

or more likely "baloney"

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

93. Dayumn

it took FOREVER for someone in this thread to get it right!!!

Congrats, gmoney. You hit it. Fried bologna on white with mayo and some Kool-Aid with four times more sugar than it needs.

There you go. Contest over. The ultimate redneck food.

[JVS]

59. Poutine

[HEyHEY]

74. Dammit leave the quebecois alone!

;-) or else WE (English Canada) are gonna here about it for the next year.

[Mojambo]

60. Combos Pizza snacks and Mountain Dew

and for desert...
Malamars!

[texas1928]

62. This is not "redneck" food.

All of this is just Southern food.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

68. You're right! True redneck cuisine...

...is found at McGonads, Booger King, etc...

[Nevernose]

63. Anything called "soul food" is just Southern cooking

Up north it's referred to as "soul food," and is marketed in black neighborhoods. I'm thinking of all those soul food restaraunts near Garfield park in Chicago.

In the South, it's referred to as "dinner" by people of all races.

[kodi]

65. marlboros and a budweiser

.

[tlcandie]

69. Pickled eggs found in bars......

BTW, talking real red neck bars i.e., honky-tonks, beer joints, etc... NOT clubs!

[democracyindanger]

72. Hmm: If you go to an English pub

you'll find the same thing. Which raises the question: Are pickled eggs really an English thang, or are pickled eggs the food of rednecks around the world?

[T_i_B]

79. NOOOOO!

Plicked eggs are usually found in fish & chip shops, and my local beer festical has a pickled egg stall. And yes you can get them in pubs if you are so inclined.

But seriously, pickled eggs are to be avoided unless you want the ultimate in flatulence.

As to redneck food, anyone for beef jerky?

[NecessaryOnslaught]

73. Ned Beatty asscrack.

[sasquatch]

75. Boloney sandwiches are redneck food #1

They love that low brow meat.

[LostInAnomie]

76. Apparently it is human flesh

[peacefreak]

80. Miracle Whip on white bread

only Wonder Bread will do.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

94. That's a jam sandwich

take two pieces of bread and jam 'em together.

[andino]

82. Jesus, you can tell that some of you guys don't know any rednecks

If you did you would know that they all LOVE Moon Pies and RC Colas...

[fishnfla]

83. yes, this is the classic redneck cuisine for sure nt

[tlcandie]

87. Well, let's see I am 48 years of age and grew up in small

REALLY redneck town in north central Texas. Those vanilla moon pies aren't the true ones...they were only chocolate originally. As for RC Cola...no only Coke period.

I remember grape NEHIS!!! Yummy, my favorite! Dinner consisted of fried bologna/fried weiners with fried potatoes and some canned vegetable such as spinach with homemade biscuits or cornbread. The other meal staple was beans...red beans, navy beans, lima beans, black-eyed peas...all with hammock.

During the summer our meals would be supplemented by wonderful garden foods including: fried okra, fried squash, fresh green beans which were canned and used during the winter; plums (also made into jams/ jellies), peaches, watermelon, canteloupe, and fresh tomatoes, onions, and cucumbers (put into white vinegar and eaten with salt..chilled slightly).

Lunch consisted of goose liver, pickle loaf, or bologna sandwiches on white bread (Mrs. Baird's ONLY) with Miracle Whip or mustard, and a sprig of lettuce.

My breakfast consisted of cinnamon toast made with shortening, oatmel, cream of wheat or raisin bran and Donald Duck orange juice.

I don't recall ever eating out....hmmmmm. OH, the real treat was Sunday dinner at my dad's family which included roast with gravy and the whole nine yards with strawberry cake made from jello and canned strawberries! Banana pudding was served when there were OLD bananas to be gotten rid of...YUCK!!!

The only thing that the people drank the majority of time was iced tea and water. Sodas were special. I do remember drinking Dr. Pepper's with raw peanuts dropped into them. Also, I remember drinking Squirt.

I think that about does it! :hi:

[amazona]

99. grape Nehi's

Oh Lord they were the best. Are they still around? I don't get to the mountains as much as I would wish any more. Sigh.

I had cousins who would get a job at the RC bottling plant, work there long enough to fill a truck full of stolen product, and resign their employment. That was the 60s/70s...with that work ethic, who knows where they are today, maybe one of them changed his name and become Bernie Ebbers!

[bhunt70]

84. damn I love a lot of this food.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

89. Okay now, you've gone and made me hungry.

Rednecks love deer hunting and deer meat would be my vote.
In the south everyone eats what's called "soul food" on a regular basis.
But with the deer, there's guns (and sometimes beer involved) and pride with their skill at cooking it.

[amazona]

95. Bacon

A friend is always trying to get me to give up bacon but this hillbilly don't play that way!

[DemBones DemBones]

96. I'd vote for some casserole combining Velveeta,

canned biscuits, hot dogs, pork rinds, mayonnaise, frozen peas and carrots, and cream of mushroom soup. If there is not a recipe for it yet, some redneck will invent one eventually.

And for dessert, something involving Cool Whip, Jello, canned fruit, maybe a cake mix, and way too much sugar or other sweetener. You know, the kind of thing that's so sickly sweet your teeth are screaming "No!"

[Fleshdancer]

97. cheez whiz??

pork rhines or maybe beef jerky.

What's W's favorite food???

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

98. Grew up in Dallas raised by people from Cooper, Texas

(that's in northeast Texas near Paris).

Here's what we ate:

Ranch Style beans, macaroni and cheese, cornbread, Kool-Aid (when we could afford the sugar), Dr. Peppers (an even bigger luxury), chicken fried steak, fried chicken, biscuits, my mother's peanut butter gravy (had no peanut butter in it, but was a country gravy as thick as peanut butter...we used to smear it on the fried drumsticks and it would just hang on....made with meat drippings of course), crawdads we caught in this nasty creek near our house, fried bologna on white, olive loaf, pickle loaf, pb&js, tamales, tacos, pork rinds, saltines, chili, ribs, my mother's beer cheese soup, white rice, black-eyed peas. You get the idea. Oh and my dad ate something called cornbread mush: leftover cornbread put in a glass, pour buttermilk on it, then put sugar in it, mush up and eat. It was considered a dessert and he LOVED it.

Oh and chocolate milk. Yeah, we ate good, didn't we?

[Nlighten1]

101. Chitlins

Hands down the most redneck food.

[foxy]

103. Hey HEyHEY how would you know rednecks?

I thought you were from Canada they're not rednecks there they're 'canuks' right?

Is that how you spell it?

To answer the question I think it might be 'puddin' tane'

But that's just my experience around them.:evilgrin:

had to edit for mispelling

[politicat]

104. Don't know about the food, but know the Beverage: Sweet Tea

You can't order plain iced tea in the South!!

Pcat.

[politicat]

105. I vote for Pimento Cheese

I have never seen it available anywhere but in the south and midwest - it just may be one of the foulest foods I've ever come across and something only someone born and bred to love it could like.

Pcat

[PartyPooper]

106. ********************Hush Puppies********************

Hands down!

:D

[AwakeAtLast]

107. I can't believe no one said

Goo-goo Clusters! The only people I know who eat them are redneck friends (and a few relatives).

BTW, I also have a relative who makes a great squirrel gravy. We've been eating it for years! I have also had fried squirrel, but would not recommend it. Unless my friend's mother prepared it incorrectly, it was not good.