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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
Lemonade
A
mint julep
Sweet tea
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Mountain Dew —originally made in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
Skillet
cornbread
Desserts and sweets
Cakes
Lane cake
Red velvet cake
Candies
Bourbon balls
Cobblers
An apple
cobbler
Cookies
Frozen
Bananas Foster
Pies
Buttermilk pie
Millionaire pie
Puddings
Bread pudding
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
A pan of
beef brisket , fresh out of the oven
Fried chicken
Jambalaya cooking in a pan
A pound of sliced, pan-fried
livermush garnished with parsley
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
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
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
Side dishes and condiments
Chow-chow is a
condiment
Sausage gravy served atop
biscuits
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
Macaroni and cheese
Soups, stews and boils
Brunswick stew
Brunswick stew —originated in either
Virginia or
Georgia
Burgoo —served at barbecues in western and central
Kentucky , similar to Brunswick stew
Chicken sauce-picquante—chicken cooked in a tangy stew with tomatoes and spices, often served over rice, a favorite in southern
Louisiana
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
[17] —a historical dish of Atlantic Coast states such as
Maryland and
Virginia
Vegetables and salads
Ambrosia salad
Collard greens (left), macaroni and cheese, fried chicken,
yams and cornbread
Mashed potatoes
Mashed potatoes —called "creamed" in some regions
Rutmus—potatoes boiled and mashed with
turnip bottoms and butter
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
Red beans and rice
Miscellaneous
Cross-section view of a
muffuletta sandwich in
New Orleans , Louisiana
A shrimp
po' boy sandwich
See also
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