Comments on: Your road trip just got a whole lot more delicious

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for perusing the Southern Foodways Alliance website. For the correspondent who wondered why no Big Apple Inn of Jackson, MS, why no pig ear sandwiches, please allow me to direct you to our SFA film about the same, wherein ears are everywhere:
http://www.southernfoodways.org/documentary/film/smoke_ears.html

By: Matt Staggs

Matt Staggs — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ah, dammit. Boing Boing profiles the foodstuffs of my home state (many of which I’ve never actually gotten out and eaten despite being a lifelong Mississippi resident) just months after I resolve to eat heathfully – - which sadly, doesn’t include pig ear sandwiches and fried chicken.

Maybe if I step outside sniff the air really hard I’ll at least be able to smell the Three Sisters chicken. (I work just a couple of blocks away.)

By: lookinland

lookinland — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The really amazing thing here is that Ms. McCain is cooking chili filling in a white cable knit sweater and there’s not a spot on it.

By: That Evening Sun

That Evening Sun — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mississippi Delta style hot tamales are like manna from heaven rolled up in corn husks. If one is fortunate enough to be offered deep fried Mississippi hot tamales, then one has found one’s way deep into the Delta cuisine scene.

By: blackanvil

blackanvil — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Remarkably useless, unless vineyards are your thing. I just plotted a route from northern virginia, where I live, down to Anderson, South Carolina — clearly a very long, very southern trip, one I take fairly often to visit Mom. Nothing but 3 vineyards in the database. I smell payola and advertising, not an oral history of food, or even a halfway-decent tool. Just more ways to get eyeballs to look at crap they don’t want or need.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Only one restaurant in Jackson MS and it isn’t the Big Apple Inn with their pig ear sandwich?
That is a crime.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

anything like this for the rest of the country? heading from seattle too vegas this summer and i’m thinking about driving.

By: Bill Barol

Bill Barol — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Wow. Tough room. For the record, I plotted a route from Washington DC down to Austin and found more places than I could possibly visit. Sorry the thing didn’t meet your needs, but there’s no reason to cry foul.

By: Patrick Austin

Patrick Austin — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

FWIW, you can get a kml file of the restaurants reviewed at Roadfood.com and load that sucker on your phone. It will make you happy.

By: EH

EH — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I wouldn’t say there’s “no reason,” just that the jury is still out.

By: That Evening Sun

That Evening Sun — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been years since I’ve had a sack of red hots, and I miss them.

Fried chicken at Two Sisters Kitchen is an absolute must if visiting the old Bold New City. I can’t stress this enough. Corner of George St. and Congress St., in the shadow of the great halls of Mississippi legislation.

By: RexallWodehouse

RexallWodehouse — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The New Perry Inn? Nope.
Um…The Varsity? Nope. Not gourmet, but holy cats, if you can’t find oral history there, man, you ain’t gonna find it.
Anyplace that serves up Brunswick Stew? Didn’t see any.

On the other hand – do make a side trip to visit Sweet Grass Dairy. Some of the finest cheeses I’ve had anywhere — Europe OR America.