List of foods of the Southern United States explained
This is a list of notable foods of the Southern United States. The cuisine of the Southern United States has many various dishes and foods.
Beverages
- Alabama Slammer—a cocktail made with amaretto, Southern Comfort, sloe gin, and orange juice, served in a Collins glass
- Ale-8-One—made in Winchester, Kentucky
- Barq's Root Beer—first made in Biloxi, Mississippi
- Big Red—cream soda originally from Waco, Texas
- Blenheim Ginger Ale
- Bourbon—made in central Kentucky
- Brownie Chocolate Drink
- Buffalo Rock ginger ale
- Buttermilk
- Cheerwine—a North Carolina-based cherry flavored drink
- Coca-Cola—first made in Atlanta
- Double Cola—based in Chattanooga, Tennessee; also produces Ski soda
- Dr. Enuf—available in eastern Tennessee
- Dr Pepper—a popular drink in Texas before achieving national popularity
- Grapette—grape soda first made in 1939 in Camden, Arkansas; currently available exclusively at Wal-Mart stores nationwide
- Grapico—grape soda made by Buffalo Rock
- Hurricane Punch
- Lemonade
- Mello Yello—a lemon-lime soda product of the Coca-Cola Company, sold primarily in the South
- Mint julep—associated with the Kentucky Derby and The Great Gatsby
- Mountain Dew—originally made in Knoxville, Tennessee[1] [2]
- Muscadine wine and juice—usually homemade, though also commercially available from some regional vineyards
- Nehi soda—produced by RC Cola, including grape, peach, and orange flavors
- Orange juice from Florida
- Pepsi Cola—first made in New Bern, North Carolina
- RC Cola—first made in Columbus, Georgia
- Red Rock Cola—invented in Atlanta in 1885, predating Coca-Cola
- Rum—several small-batch varieties, primarily in and around New Orleans[3]
- Sassafras tea
- Sazerac cocktail
- Slurpee—frozen drink sold by 7-Eleven originally of Dallas, Texas
- Southern Comfort—New Orleans-based neutral spirit, with sweeteners and peach flavor added
- Sun Drop—citrus drink found in northern Alabama, central Tennessee, the Carolinas, western Kentucky, southeastern Missouri, and parts of Virginia
- Sunny Delight (SunnyD)—invented in Mount Dora, Florida in 1964
- Sugarcane juice
- Sweet tea—usually served with ice, lemon, and sugar, sometimes with mint
- Tennessee whiskey—Jack Daniel's and George Dickel are the two remaining brands
Breads
Desserts and sweets
Cakes
Candies
Cobblers
Cookies
Frozen
Pies
Puddings
Pastries
- Cream puff
- Hand pie[15] —biscuit or pie pastry filled usually filled with cooked dried apples, peaches and cherries, either baked or fried
- Fritters—apple, peach, or sweet potato
Meats, poultry and seafood
- Alligator meat—typically served fried
- Barbecue—usually pork or beef, but also chicken; seasoning and preparation vary greatly within the region, though most commonly pork-based in areas east of Texas
- Beef brisket—popular especially in Texas
- Boucherie—a style of barbecue common to Cajuns in South Louisiana where the pig is eaten snout to tail
- Bull roast—barbecue where the head and feet of an entire bull are removed and the whole thing is slowly barbecued on a spit over hot coals; native to Maryland
- Pork ribs—may be prepared "wet" or "dry" style
- Pulled pork—popular in Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia
- Pulled pork sandwich—a slow-cooked chopped, pork shoulder sandwich topped with crispy coleslaw or red slaw (the latter for "Lexington-style" North Carolina barbecue
- Beaver tail stew—consumed in Arkansas[16]
- Boudin—a spicy sausage, with rice as a central filler, from Cajun Louisiana
- Chicken and dumplings
- Chicken fried steak
- Chicken gizzards—fried
- Chitlins (chitterlings)—small intestine of a hog
- Country captain
- Crab cake—popular along the Chesapeake Bay (Maryland and Virginia), where the crab cake is typically not dredged in bread crumbs, and in Louisiana, where it typically is
- Crawfish—also called crawdad, crayfish
- Fried chicken—usually flour-battered and pan-fried
- Fried fish and seafood—battered or dredged in cornmeal then pan fried or deep fried
- Fried pork chops
- Fried turkey—deep fried using an outdoor frier
- Game meat—venison, rabbit, and game fowl are most common, but opossum, squirrel, and raccoon also may be eaten, especially in more remote areas
- Grits and grillades—a Louisiana brunch staple
- Ham—usually pan fried, roasted, or smoked; varieties include "sugar-cured" or "country" (salt-cured)
- Ham hocks
- Hot hamburger plate—a slice of white bread topped with a hamburger patty, French fries and gravy
- Jambalaya
- Liver—usually pan-fried pork or chicken liver, but also beef
- Livermush
- Lobster—typically only eaten in Florida where the Caribbean Spiny Lobster and the Caribbean lobster are native; these may be split and seasoned with piquant spices before being grilled
- Monroe Sausage—a specialty of Alabama.
- Moravian chicken pie—a traditional dish from the Piedmont region of North Carolina
- Oyster stew—often eaten on Christmas Eve
- Quail
- Raccoon meat
- Reptiles and amphibians—most notably alligator and frog legs, eaten in much of the South
- Salmon croquettes
- Shrimp and grits
- Shrimp Creole
- Stuffed ham—a specialty in Southern Maryland
- Smithfield ham—a specialty of Smithfield, Virginia
- Souse meat—also called head cheese
- Squirrel meat
- Hot links
Sandwiches
Side dishes and condiments
- Apple butter
- Barbecue sauce—numerous varieties throughout the region, sometimes even within same state; most use a primarily vinegar, tomato, or mustard base
- Barbecue spaghetti
- Cane syrup
- Cayenne peppers
- Chow-chow
- Cole slaw—cabbage salad/relish, typically made with mayonnaise and sometimes sugar, except in parts of North Carolina and Virginia, where it instead may be vinegar-based and savory ("barbecue slaw")
- Cornbread dressing—similar to traditional stuffing, but using cornbread as a base and prepared separately from the meat
- Cracklin'—fried pork rind
- Deviled eggs
- Goober peas
- Gravy-served liberally over meats, potatoes, biscuits and rice
- Chocolate gravy—made with milk, fat, flour, cocoa powder, and sugar, served over biscuits
- Red-eye gravy—made with black coffee and meat drippings (usually ham), typically served with country ham and grits
- Sausage gravy—milk-based country gravy typically served over hot biscuits
- Tomato gravy—canned tomato-based, made in a cast-iron skillet with browned flour, served over rice
- Grits
- Hot sauce
Soups, stews and boils
- Brunswick stew—originated in either Virginia or Georgia
- Burgoo—served at barbecues in western and central Kentucky, similar to Brunswick stew
- Chicken sauce piquant—chicken cooked in a tangy stew with tomatoes and spices, often served over rice, a favorite in southern Louisiana[19]
- Conch chowder—mainly a specialty of Florida
- Étouffée—a very thick stew made of crawfish or chicken and sausage, okra and roux served over rice
- Gumbo—made with seafood or meat and okra; a Cajun/Creole delicacy
- Hoppin' John
- Low-country boil—any of several varieties
- Frogmore stew—made with sausage, corn, crabs, and shrimp; popular in coastal South Carolina
- Seafood muddle
- Peanut soup—one of the oldest dishes consumed in the South, brought by Africans, mainly a dish of Virginia
- Pilau—any number of dishes which combine rice stewed with meat and vegetables to serve with. Most popular being the chicken bog. (These dishes are popular in South Carolina due to the influence of rice cultivation on the history of South Carolina)
- She-crab soup—mainly served in the area around Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia from Atlantic crabs
- Tomato soup—stewed tomatoes, okra and corn
- Turtle soup—mainly a Creole dish in Louisiana
- Terrapin stew[20] —a historical dish of Atlantic Coast states such as Maryland and Virginia
Vegetables and salads
- Mashed potatoes—called "creamed" in some regions
- Okra—flour-battered and pan-fried or boiled, stewed, or steamed
- Onion—sliced Vidalia onion, whole green onion, onion rings
- Peas—often cooked with chunks of ham or onions
- Potato salad—usually made in the South with egg, mayonnaise, prepared mustard and pickle relish
- Ramp—wild leeks popular in the Appalachian mountains
Miscellaneous
See also
References
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