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Oh, that's for SURE

22. My mom is from Charleston, SC.

38.. Shit i country as Hell..

You only haven't had one. Which one?

Shit the only one I aint had was Chess pie

I’m from Philly and I got 21. But it tracks, most of us have southern roots 🙃

29

18 cause I’m southern, but I’ve always been picky 😅

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20. But I’m from VA so my southernness has always been questioned.

35. I currently live in Maine, but my dad was a Marine so I lived all over as a kid. I have personally made at least 20 of these and a lot more that aren't on the list. A bunch are common anywhere folks are poor or came from being poor. At least that was my way in.

27 I’m from Cali

19 that I’ll admit to.

17 just enough I guess

21, Florida girl!

22!

28. Not eating no frog legs. And I no longer eat pig feet

22 baby

damn 22, i know its cause of my granny

32

0(zero) but I am from the UK 🇬🇧

8 and I’m not southern at alll 😂

20 ☺️☺️

22 as well. I was raised in CT but my family is from NC and GA. I'm back in GA but I don't eat most of this stuff anymore. My friend teased me cuz I make kale instead of collards these days.😂🤣

29 for a Florida man. Gator's not bad if it's prepared right

21 🫶🏽

27... Yeah ya boi is Southern!!!

27. Lived in NC for 19 years, after moving down from CT. But half this stuff I had had long before I moved south. Fun story about "chess pie" from a coworker who made really good ones for our office parties. He was pretty sure it comes from "just pie," in response to "what kind of pie is this?"

I’ve heard it explained as pecan pie without the pecans.

My coworker used to bring in chocolate chess pie. It was almost like a brownie. But your description makes sense together with his explanation - without the pecans, it's not pecan pie. It's just...pie.

13

32. I’m from NOLA

34 baby, damn didn’t know I was that deep in my roots!

5 and I only liked 3 lol I’m def not southern lol

36 and a couple that are not even on there.

15 based on current palate, 20 on growing up and I didn’t have a choice, I ate what was cooked period. #blacksky

25

25

23 lol

I Got 22 as well.

28 😅

31

25.

I only got a six but I'm in Canada. A 6 US has to be, what, at least a 12 CAN? Is that the exchange rate? Admittedly, not a 22.

Not bad for a Canadian.

2. A tomato sandwich and a rabbit stew I'm British / Australian I'm sure some of these have different names in the UK The only Southern I can claim is South of Watford Gap (not near Watford)

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24. Philly live

18. sho'nuff 🤠

20 💃🏾

I’m at 16 😤

I got 29 and I’m from downstate Illinois

23. My grandmother would tear up some fried chicken liver and gizzards. #dasouf

I love fried gizzards.

29, from from North East/mid-Atlantic. But I love sampling food cultures from all over so I am a bit of an outlier probably. Like I had frog legs with French cuisine not southern cuisine. But a lot is sampling of, and loving, of various food cultures rooted in the south as well.

24

18

I got 24, but I might have had others but was too young to remember. Spent a lot of Summers in the Carolinas when I was younger

25 and im from nyc lol

22 gang rise up✊🏿

28!

28

24 of em

I'm a Yankee, I got a 7.

Barely squeaked in at 18

same

23

32 and I'm a New Yorker

23

Same

Damn we all southern asf🤝🏽😂

Hey, @coach0819.bsky.social what did you get?

Get ready…..I got a 28!! But I’m a native South Carolinian, with folks from eastern NC. 🤭💙🦋

Did a recount and I got a 25. I’m in Seattle though…born and raised. Both grandmas grew up in the south though and made sure we knew.

I got 19 and I'm from Philly

25 🤭

22…. Cali-born with southern grandparents

27

I got 20. I figured I would check out. I do live in Southwest Michigan 😜.

28

27, somehow??

15, and I ain't had fried gizzards in forever.

Yankee with extended family in the DMV but don't do pork so...18.

I need one of you Southern bumpkins to tell me what Fatback is 😩heard of no such thing

It is exactly what it sounds like fat off a pigs back. Generally used in a pot of beans or greens. It can also be deep fried like pork skins/rinds.

If you've eaten Bush's or B&M or most other baked beans, you've had fatback. It's that chunk of bacon looking thing in there.

It’s so good fried. If you at a Spanish spot, order chicharrones

With the guacamole dip. 🔥🔥🔥

Cómo está el yummm 🔥🔥🔥

15 😭

10

34 and it wasn’t 35 only because I don’t like tomatoes but my wife eats tomato sandwiches all the time.

Shonuff southern!

17 🤭 there’s just some stuff im not finna eat though 🫱🏼‍🫲🏽😂

25

32.

I got 14 and I’m bored and raised in Jersey.

27

30

7 NC 😆 but in my defense, I was looking for chicken feet

How did you only get 7?

😆 I'm a picky eater

15 which is crazy cause I’m from the bay. But my family is from Louisiana 🤷🏾‍♀️

11

36 Apparently I'm a bumpkin... 😬

Barely made it with 17. Some things on this list I just refuse to eat!

Born and bread!!!

26 over here

This isn’t fare my father people from Mississippi 🫣🤭 I’ve maybe NOT had 5 of these things.

I misread this at first and was about to say he must have been from some other Mississippi than I was, but you got me beat. I’m at 27.

🤣yea we’re real southern. Oh My dad & grand dad are fisherman & hunters. Ate deer meat & all.

I feel like that’s not just southern, that’s real country too. I mean I got some deer meat out in my freezer but I wasn’t out hunting for it! 😂

Yes, they’ve been called Country as hell!

31

11 & most were introduced to me by my Houston exes & Houston hubby

I got 27

18 born and raised in DC

I got 22 also!

16 and straight out of Brooklyn!

Damn I only got 6, but I was raised in the midwest most my life so 🤷🏽‍♂️

7 but I am from & still in a different country, lol

21

35 but I wouldn’t eat some of them again.

Since when are corn bread, tomato sandwiches, devilled eggs & congealed (ie jello) salad exclusively southern?

23

21

28 from Florida 😊✌🏾

22

32, cause my dad's from Mississippi.

21🤘🏿

13

33

25. From Virginia.

22 😮‍💨

36

From the Northeast and I got 27.

19

25. Spent my summers in Texas as a kid, got hooked on soul food in Oakland as an adult.

30!

Jesus. 33 for me.

17 and I’m trying to figure out how? 😂😂

23 for me

16

15 and I'm from NY 🤷🏽

I got a cool 22

26 😭

"Co-cola Cake" *southern grammar cops 😘

25, doing ok. Haven’t tried Coca Cola pie, but now I want to.

27

19

15 for me [originally from Louisiana]

32, what it do!? 😜

Everything but that Coca-Cola nonsense

23!

Sitting around 26. Several I need to try.

24

I got 24

I’ve never in my life seen “congealed” paired with “salad”.

You aren't missing anything. Trust me.

South Carolina - i Got a 16

14 and my parents are immigrants lol

30

I got 21 but I question this metric. I’ve been to New Orleans 5 times, but I live in MARYLAND

21. Souf Cak 🫡

14, some of these sound fake like they're bedroom positions

Considering that a lot of slang used to refer to sex sounds like carpentry and/or violence, you can go ahead and believe ’em. I assure you they’re real.

Oh I don't doubt they're real. But it makes me laugh thinking about someone tellin' me they got the "ol' Hoppin' John" and the description ensues.

19

25

24. i had a southern granny ☺️

I got 25!

8, NY

i got…..23??? 🥲 my GOD???

This list is definitely missing some things.

I have at least 24. There may be more that I’ve blanked from my memory because I only ate them once or twice or didn’t know the name back when.

24

30. l’m from NYC but my family left the south in the 50s

27

30. This GA peach is definitely #CornbreadFed 🙂‍↕️🍑

Same. 😎

26 from the sipp

26

Down in the bayou we eat critters..

22 🙂‍↔️ sorry but chitilins, corn pudding, congealed salad ???? That ain’t black or southern just nasty🤮

These are definitely Southern, although I agree that congealed salad (which ain't black) is nasty. The other two are great.

37 but I’m in Maine now lol

14 lol

Y’all left off turtle stew

24🤘🏾

25. :>

22 but not from the south

21😅 my people from Chicago but💀

22 👍

I'm in deep with 24!

18

I got 26. I'm from the North, but roots are pure South!

24

33. Still need to try poke salad!

I got 31. I'm a true Southern girl.

I got 21

29 cuz I'm the Asian Cajun