Interviewer
Nothing like a good ol'
{D: pool}
of water on a hot day.
Okay I was asking you
if a group of people came
to see you in the same car
and uh
and you looked outside and noticed that the lights were on
what might you tell 'em?
Oh well I'm talking about if they were already in your house you see and they left their car parked
and you noticed that they had left
Oh yeah.
Do you ever say, I know you you probably say y'all {C: rooster crowing}
Oh no not necessarily. {C: laughing}
If uh what about a
do you ever say uh
would would you pa-
might you say something like uh
uh the lights on y'all's car?
{X}
Say something like is that's y'all's car? {C: rooster crowing}
You would say something like that?
Oh yeah.
Let's say that
that uh
some people you know at the end of a party
and you hadn't been able to go
and you wanted to know everybody who was there
you would ask, what would you ask them?
{X}
{D: Oh yeah.}
Well what about if you were asking you know just in general,
{NW}
you might say you know not asking about anybody specifically {C: rooster crowing}
but you might say well who?
Or let's say that you
couldn't get to church on Sunday for some reason.
And you were asking somebody afterwards what the preacher had to say?
Everything they said, you'd ask
Or maybe
you said you
you said you might say ask
who all was there, do you think you might say well what all did he say?
Or what all did he have to say?
Something like that?
Let's say
this is uh, another expression.
You might say well, {C: rooster crowing}
if no one else will look after them, {C: rooster crowing}
you'd say that they've got to look out for?
{NS}
Right. But just say a group of people talking about 'em together.
You might say about 'em well, if no one else will look after 'em,
they've got to look after?
Or maybe just they've got to look after
themselves or
something like that
Or you might say
uh
if no one else will do it
Sure.
Mm-hmm.
Oh! Okay.
Should've brought a handkerchief or something.
{NS}
Okay.
{NW}
{X}
Yeah.
{D: I bet about doing that.}
It's something you can't help though.
Mm-hmm.
Kinda cools you off you know.
{NW}
{NW}
{X}
Let me ask you this.
Let's say uh you might say
if no one else will do it for her
you say he'd better do it?
Tell me about
different types of
{D: breads that stove out.}
You mentioned flapjacks, have you ever heard people call those anything else?
Pancakes?
{X}
Talking about pancakes
you hear?
{X}
{X}
{X}
You mentioned cornbread
uh
have you ever heard of any type of cornbread that people talk about making
maybe on a board at a part of the fireplace?
Or something like
that?
Ash cake?
Really made it in ashes?
I like it a little bit.
Ash cake?
{D: I don't believe it.}
Seems like it wouldn't do much.
Seems like it would make it taste bad to me.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
{NW}
Mm-hmm.
Talking about molasses
is there anything else people called that?
Is that the same thing?
Molasses and
sorghum syrup?
Yeah.
Talking about corn bread
what do you call these
big round and it's about
about that size and?
{D: Now would you}
they cook it in a
pan with
so many holes in it?
Well what about these aren't muf- muffins, but they're
they're shaped like little balls?
Have onion in them, uh
you know
{X}
{NW}
Fish stick?
Mm-hmm.
Oh yeah.
I don't think I've ever seen anything like that before.
{NW}
Now this is, this isn't the same thing as uh, talking like a hush puppy is?
Oh yeah.
Mm-hmm.
I wouldn't either
{D: I hadn't ever seen I I hadn't seen any}
{D: thing like that.}
{X} {C:dog barking in background}
{NW}
Hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
{NW}
Well let me ask you, have you ever seen any kind of cornbread that was made uh
deep pan and it's
pretty soft, almost as, so soft you could just kinda spoon it out you know almost like mashed potatoes?
You got a kind of cornbread like that?
Yeah have you ever heard of anything called spoon bread?
{NW}
{X}
Mm-hmm.
{NS}
{X}
Have you ever heard of anything called a corn dodger?
{X}
I'm not sure what it is, it's, it seems to be different things to different people what you call a
uh
a corn stick or uh
or fish stick
something like that,
some people call corn dodgers
some people.
Mm.
What about okay.
Yeah.
Some people say that they're really only
two kinds of bread, there's a
the homemade bread and then there's a kind
that you buy at the store that's called a
the uh homemade bread and you got?
Just light bread?
You ever heard of people call that store bought bread or
bought bread?
What about this uh
these things that you make out of
out of batter?
And you fry 'em in deep fat and they have a hole right in the middle of them?
Have you ever heard of taking some donut batter
and just dipping it in the deep fat?
and cooking it that way?
Is that right?
I haven't had uh
I haven't had
gosh a home
homemade donut in
ages
probably hadn't had it more than one or two times.
Yeah?
{NW}
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
{X}
So tell me when you make bread, what is that stuff that you put in the bread to make it rise?
Is there anything else you could put in it to make it rise?
What about yeast?
Oh.
Well what about?
What about the two parts of an egg, you got the white and the?
What color is it?
What about some different ways to cook an egg that you know about?
{NW}
What do you call that piece of meat that you make to go along into the greens?
{X}
{X}
Yeah I was trying to ask you if
that had a lot of lean on it or not?
What about
this is a a type of meat that a lot of people like to eat for breakfast
it comes in slices you know and?
Now is that the same
what if you wanted to buy
a lot of it and you didn't want to get it sliced, you might buy yourself a whole?
Now is smoked meat the same thing as bacon?
{NS}
{NW}
Mm-hmm.
What what about
if your meat's been kept too long, you'd say that it's now what?
{D: Old?}
It's not necessary to spoil 'em?
{X}
Okay.
Tell me about what you can make for with uh the meat from a hog's head?
{NW}
Have you ever heard souse called head cheese?
Same thing?
What about
making something by grinding up
hog liver and uh
cooking it, you ever heard of anything like that?
Beg pardon?
Have you ever heard of making anything by
cooking it and grinding up hog liver?
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Now tell.
{NW}
So tell me, have you ever heard of anybody
making something out of hog's blood?
I don't know, it doesn't sound too appetizing to me.
Yeah.
And what about, have you ever taken
or have you ever heard of anybody taking
the juice from the souse
and mixing it up with some
corn meal and some hard meat maybe and
and uh
cooking it
and then uh
maybe after it gets cold, slicing it up and frying it that way?
{X}
Okay what about if
if you kept your butter too long
and it doesn't taste good
you'd say it's?
{D: Rancid?}
Have you ever heard anybody say that their butter
had a funky taste
or something like that?
Is that right?
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Well what about, what do you call thick sour milk that you might keep around the kitchen to make things out of?
You ever heard people call that clabber?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
{NW} {C: laughter}
Well have you ever heard of people making
stuff like
can you make cottage cheese out of that?
{NW}
{NW}
Uh-huh.
Well what about after you've just uh?
No I'm okay.
Uh
what about after you've
just uh milked a cow
and you wanna get the impurities out, what do you have to do with that?
Mm-hmm.
{NW}
{X}
Well what
you know some people will pour their milk through a
kind of a fine wire
mesh to get
the impurities out?
{D: What do you call that?}
But they they'll say that?
Mm-hmm.
What about something that you might make out of make might make for dessert?
Let's say out of, might make it in a deep dish with uh
slices of fruit and it has a thick crust on top?
Not exactly a pie but something like it?
Has fruit in it, you know just like a pie will?
It's like what?
It's got sliced fruit in it
Mm.
You could uh
most people most people at uh the times I've just you know
dip it out with a spoon.
Peach
cobbler?
Mm.
Yeah alright.
A pie and a cobbler are the same thing?
Mm-hmm.
{NW}
Oh wee.
Oh yeah.
Before I left for college.
Before I left home
{D: and I put some}
some friends and I and we picked some huckleberries.
But yeah
you can make a pie, cobbler out of that.
Huckleberry.
Y'all have those around here?
They're kinda like a blackberry.
They're smaller than blackberries.
Takes more of 'em.
Little round things.
{NS}
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
{X}
I don't know that there is one.
Hmm.
{D: I don't know what.}
{X}
{X}
Mm-hmm.
Well let me ask you, what about if somebody had a
a real good appetite, you might say well
he sure does like to put away his?
You ever hear of people say he likes to put away his vittles?
{NW} {C: laughs}
What about let's say if you had some gingerbread or something like that, what do you call that
that sweet uh liquid that you might pour over it when you serve it?
That's some kind of?
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
What do you call food that you eat between meals?
Say you're gonna have a what?
A snack?
Yeah.
And uh
{NS}
what about if uh you have some people over
to eat
and everybody was just standing around the table
you might tell them well why don't you just go ahead and?
Or if they were still standing up, you might just tell them well just go ahead and?
Okay.
Well what about if somebody offered you something
that you didn't
really want
you might say to 'em what?
Mm-hmm.
What do you call food that's been
uh cooked and served a second time?
{X}
And you say the food's been?
Or warmed over maybe?
What do you do when you put food in your mouth and uh?
Chew it?
Did you tell me about
uh anything like
uh
yeah you did, talking about
cush?
Something like that?
The same thing some people call mush?
Uh-huh okay.
What about uh
oh
oh I don't know
this stuff that
that a lot of people here in the south
like to eat, especially for breakfast?
Uh
made out of uh
oh
and you know it's served with sausage and eggs
and it's made out of ground corn? You know it's boiled?
{D: About white colored?}
Yes ma'am.
White colored, some people put butter on it and.
Hominy, well that's kind of whole uh.
Yeah.
This is ground up real fine you know like that.
Like grits?
Mm-hmm.
It's uh.
Uh.
Is that right?
Well what about
uh along with your meat
or a meal you might have potatoes or
what else would be good with meat?
Mm-hmm.
What's something else that you might pour gravy over?
Chicken or?
Or what else, what kind of grain?
You know it's white stuff and grains or Uncle Ben's uh?
{X}
Do you like rice?
What about if I had a belt that was made out of cow hide, it was pure cow hide and nothing else?
I might tell somebody now this isn't artificial cow hide, it's?
Mm-hmm. Or it's it's um {C: background noise}
it's
you know I might say it's genu-?
{NS}
This is something else that you might uh put on your biscuits besides
syrup you know made out of uh different kinds of fruit, you can spread it on
something like that, what?
Syrup or
this isn't exactly, well it might, it's kind of like preserves, but it's?
Or.
{NW}
{NW}
Mm-hmm.
{NW}
What about if uh
if uh
I don't know, if you were trying to tell me where somebody lived
you might, might you might say well he doesn't live
here, close by, he lives?
Or you might
in telling somebody how to do something
you might say well
don't do it that way, do it?
And what about uh
if you have a lot of fruit trees
say a lot of
peach trees together
you'd say you have a what?
Have you ever heard of people calling that an orchard?
Mm-hmm.
{X}
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
What about, I'd like to say something like uh
when I was a boy, my father was poor.
But next door was a boy?
What what about some of the different types of fruits you have growing around here?
Hmm.
Did you ever hear
of what kind of fruit tree it was that George Washington was supposed to have chopped down?
What do you call it, the hard part the inside part of the cherry?
That, that hard thing that you might
break a tooth on
if you bit down on?
What about the inside of a peach, that's it?
That's what?
Oh yeah.
You know, there there's some kind of peaches that uh you know
{NW}
the fruit is real tight against the?
And the other type is?
{NW}
{NS}
When what, and after you eat an apple, what's that part that's left?
Well let me ask you, have you ever heard of uh
uh
cutting up some apples or peaches and letting parts dry?
Is there anything special you'd call that?
Just dried peach?
Okay.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Oh yeah.
What about
a kind of nut, I, it, I don't imagine it grows around here, but you see it around Christmastime a lot you know?
They're kind of long and gray colored?
Mm-hmm.
What?
I was, I don't know, is that the same thing as almonds?
Something like that?
Oh yeah.
Okay what about that fruit that uh
you know a lot of it grows in Florida?
And uh
{D: Yeah.}
Mm-hmm.
Yeah?
Let me ask you about uh
this uh this little
red colored root vegetable that tastes
I don't - about that size, you know tastes kind of hot and peppery?
Yeah?
Well what about these things that'll make your eyes water if you try to slice 'em?
What about, what about the ones that uh
you know, they're small and they have a long stalk?
What?
Is that what you call 'em?
Mm.
{NW}
{NW}
Yeah.
{NW}
Oh yeah.
Mm-hmm.
{NW}
Mm.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah?
Mm-hmm.
Mm.
Oh yeah.
Mm.
Uh-huh.
So you were kept?
Yeah.
Okay and what about uh
some of the vegetables you might put in a vegetable soup?
Mm-hmm.
What about
if you left like an apple around in the sun it just gonna dry up and be
{X}
what?
Does it dry or?
And shrivel up?
What about uh a leafy vegetable that people grow around here a lot?
{X}
What about if you were sending somebody
to the store to buy you some lettuce? You'd tell them to do what?
You'd say go get me?
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
What about if man had a
s-
let's say about seven boys and seven girls.
Yeah I was referring to the to the number of children he had and you say he had a whole?
A-huh.
{NW}
Yeah.
Do you know other people say
uh he had a whole passel of children?
Mm.
Mm-hmm.
Talking about vegetables,
{NS} {C: rooster clucking}
corn,
what do you call the things on the outside of the corn that you have to
strip off?
{D: That's the shuck?}
And the stuff that grows out of the top?
And what about the stuff that you have to brush off of the?
That's the silk.
That's the silk, hmm.
What about these things that, you know, you said people uh
like to get 'em around Halloween is good
for uh?
Oh yeah.
What about some different kinds of melons?
Called what?
Oh yeah yeah.
Mm.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What do you call these things I don't, I hadn't seen any since I've been in Tennessee but
sometimes they grow up in people's yards, they have uh
kind of a slender stalk, and then the top kind of spreads out? Looks kind of like an open umbrella
about, some of 'em about this tall you know?
{NS}
Some people eat 'em, for dinner chop 'em up slice 'em up?
Mushrooms?
Oh I have and I like 'em.
I like 'em.
Mm.
Is that right?
Hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm.
Say what?
Oh. {C: rooster crows in the background}
{D: And so he}
{X}
I said I don't know what you're talking about.
{X}
{D: But I said you're talking about a turkey.}
{D: But he didn't call it a turkey.}{C: a rooster crows in the background}
Hmm. {C: rooster crows in the background}
Mm-hmm.