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If you’ve ever spent time in the southern US — especially the Deep South — you know that it’s practically a whole different country compared to the northern states. So when u/iwanttheworldnowaskedthe AskReddit community, “How can you tell you’re entering the Deep South in the US?” people had a lot of suggestions.
Some were stereotypical, some were surprising… Here are the most-upvoted ones:
1.“A sign that says HOT Boiled Peanuts.”
2.“Every convenience store clerk wants you to have a blessed day.”
— uracil / Elusive_Dr_X
3.“Yelp’s highest rated restaurant in the county is a grill/biscuit spot inside a gas station.”
— u / msb2ncsu
" safe food you ’ll ever eat , half the sentence . The other half , well … "
— uracil / Ion_bound
4.“Waffle Houses start being at every exit.”
— uracil / daddytyme428
5.“There will be billboards for Jesus next to billboards for strip clubs.”
6.“I am from New Orleans, and was [driving back there from Boston] with minimal stops. At another random rest area, I got out of the car to walk my dog, and the first person I saw gave me a nod and said, ‘How’s it going?’ I hadn’t been spoken to by a stranger on the street in months. It was jarring. That was how I realized I was back in the South.”
— u / waterboy1321
7.“The harder people are to understand, the deeper yer' gettin!”
— uracil / itzYumii
8.“Drove down to Georgia to visit my sister; we stopped on the way, and I saw a sign in a window that said ‘Fried Bologna is Back!'”
— u / MannyHec
9.“Grits are on the menu in restaurants.”
10.“Suddenly Buc-ee’s, Zaxby’s, and Waffle House signs are everywhere, and there are ‘Are you injured?’ lawyer billboards every 20 feet on the highway.”
— atomic number 92 / TakeoGaming
11.“Biscuits instead of toast with breakfast, biscuits instead of dinner rolls with supper.”
— u / Heinz37_sauce
12.“My grandmother (south Alabama) would write ‘sweet milk’ on her grocery list. This meant regular milk instead of buttermilk.”
— u / Alive_Baker_3696
13.“When you order iced tea, nobody asks if you want sweetened or unsweetened.”
14.“You’ll hear a lot of sir and ma’am and please and thank you.”
— u / xMarked4Deathx
15.“If you were to throw a pebble in any direction, it’ll hit a church. If it bounces off, it’ll hit a Waffle House.”
— u / stalagit68
16.“Gas stations in the middle of nowhere with signs saying they’ll skin the deer you just shot for you.”
— u / CautiousWrongdoer771
17.“The fastest way to get to a location with a GPS is going down a 50-year-old two-lane with no road markings, with nothing but forest and the occasional mobile home on the side.”
— uracil / ThatGuyFrom720
18.“When you tune into local radio stations and there’s one talking NFL, another talking college football. And a third talking high school football. And it’s March.”
— u / Adorable - Lack-3578
And finally:
19.“The f****** humidity.”
