On being up north...............

[Bob Wright]

The summer of 1976 I was sent up to Decatur, Ill. for about two months doing some field engineering on a plant there. My wife and I had a small apartment for the time there. We went to a supermarket to buy some groceries one evening.

Searching the shelves for purple hull peas, we found none. Helpfully the store manager came and offered assistance.

"Are green peas all you have?" inquired my wife.

"I didn't know there was any other kind," was his reply.

And ordering sweet milk in restaurants got my wife all kinds of strange looks and responses.




But the folks up north were nice. We got a lot of "Y'all come back now, ya hear?"

Bob Wright

 

[BlkHawk73]

Illinois is "north"?

 

[Big Old Boy]

I have milked my share of cows and hauled bulk milk to the creamery and I have never heard of sweet milk. Please tell what it is.

 

[Taterman]

One more to add to the MANY reasons I'm hoping to move to TN in the next year or two.

 

[wwb]

Bob, we've never met, but I look forward to your posts. However, we have to sit down and talk about geography. I was born and raised in Hibbing, Minnesota.... I'd say that better defines "up north" than Decatur.

 

[Big Old Boy]

I found the answer, sweet milk is whole milk I have never been in a restaurant that serves anything but Whole milk.

 

[graygun]

IL is north of TN.

 

[Jeepnik]

Growing up around dairies, in California, the term Sweet Milk is familiar, as is the term Blue Milk.

 

[32magfan]

I have never lived anywhere that most normal people would describe as North. Justin Wilson used to say on his cooking show that Northern Louisiana was "up North" so I guess it is all relative.

I only have two hard rules about where I care to live:
1. They must know what "sweet tea" is. If the waitress points to the little holder on the table with the sugar, Splenda, Sweet &Low, etc., I know I do not belong there.

2. When you are leaving the town there must not be signs along the roads that say "Hurricane Evacuation Route". Not gonna do it, no sir.

Of course, the place must be gun-friendly. So far, Central Kentucky, Eastern NC (too close to breaking #2 for comfort) Western KY and Middle Tennessee have been really good for me.

Bob, IL is "up North" to me. I like your posts.

Thanks,

32Magfan

 

[Jeepnik]

I have never lived anywhere that most normal people would describe as North. Justin Wilson used to say on his cooking show that Northern Louisiana was "up North" so I guess it is all relative.

I only have two hard rules about where I care to live:
1. They must know what "sweet tea" is. If the waitress points to the little holder on the table with the sugar, Splenda, Sweet &Low, etc., I know I do not belong there.

2. When you are leaving the town there must not be signs along the roads that say "Hurricane Evacuation Route". Not gonna do it, no sir.

Of course, the place must be gun-friendly. So far, Central Kentucky, Eastern NC (too close to breaking #2 for comfort) Western KY and Middle Tennessee have been really good for me.

Bob, IL is "up North" to me. I like your posts.

Thanks,

32Magfan

How do you feel about Tsunami evacuation route signs? Got one down the street, but there hasn't ever been a Tsunami here. I guess the politicians felt we needed to identify with other pacific rim areas so they put them up after that one in Japan took out the nuke plant.

 

[JFB]

....:
1. They must know what "sweet tea" is. .

I was working PA so I knew "sweet tea" was not available, but I did order "iced tea".
the waitress brought out a bottle of wine!
"What's that?"...
"It is the Asti Spumante you ordered"

North of I40 is northern

 

[graygun]

....:
1. They must know what "sweet tea" is. .

I was working PA so I knew "sweet tea" was not available, but I did order "iced tea".
the waitress brought out a bottle of wine!
"What's that?"...
"It is the Asti Spumante you ordered"

North of I40 is northern

:lol:

 

[Fox Mike]

Illinois is "north"?

Of everything South of it; yep.

 

[bogus bill]

Unnnh Sacrebleu! Dere go weasel head pete of de frozen waste!

 

[gramps]

I have milked my share of cows and hauled bulk milk to the creamery and I have never heard of sweet milk. Please tell what it is.

Sweet milk is the opposite of buttermilk. I was raised in Atlanta, Ga. The farmers used Sweet Milk to make butter. In the mid 70's l lived in SouthWestern Va. The farmers there made butter with slightly fermented milk. I didn't like it at first, but on introspection, it tasted like a fine cheese spread on my hot toast. 8)
gramps

 

[Dan in MI]

I'm an hour north of Detoilet (Detroit) and make the commute daily. One day a guy at work was complaining about wrecking his boat trailer that weekend at a launch "up North" and all the hassles of getting the trailer repaired and the boat home. After about six weeks of his whining he was finally going to get his boat. I asked how far "up north" he had to go. He replied naming the boat launch 500 yards from my back door.

 

[Colonialgirl]

Bob, we've never met, but I look forward to your posts. However, we have to sit down and talk about geography. I was born and raised in Hibbing, Minnesota.... I'd say that better defines "up north" than Decatur.

My Ashley was born in Aurora and lived there until they moved to St Paul. Finally on down to Warren Ohio. Ashley's Dad and a couple of uncles are all back up in Aurora (1850 Population). Did you ever visit the
Soudan Underground Mine State Park and take the mine tour? WOW !!!

 

[RonSwanson]

I have never lived anywhere that most normal people would describe as North. Justin Wilson used to say on his cooking show that Northern Louisiana was "up North" so I guess it is all relative.

I only have two hard rules about where I care to live:
1. They must know what "sweet tea" is. If the waitress points to the little holder on the table with the sugar, Splenda, Sweet &Low, etc., I know I do not belong there.

2. When you are leaving the town there must not be signs along the roads that say "Hurricane Evacuation Route". Not gonna do it, no sir.

Of course, the place must be gun-friendly. So far, Central Kentucky, Eastern NC (too close to breaking #2 for comfort) Western KY and Middle Tennessee have been really good for me.

Bob, IL is "up North" to me. I like your posts.

Thanks,

32Magfan

I like your list, although during my career with Alabama Power Company, I was most likely going the wrong way on those evacuation routes.

One more rule: There must be no sugar in the cornbread!

 

[BlkHawk73]

Just guessing you're not gonna find yourself where these are common then. It's what you find "up north".

 

[contender]

32magfan,,, I noticed you mentioned eastern NC as a pick,,, but the hurricane route signs can cause you to pause.
Try WNC,,, where we have mountains,,, enjoy plenty of sweet tea,,, enjoy our guns,,, and if there are things about ENC,,, or even Ky,,, neither are too far away to visit. (As well as a lot of good places in-between or nearby.)

 

[Bob Wright]

I have milked my share of cows and hauled bulk milk to the creamery and I have never heard of sweet milk. Please tell what it is.

Sweet milk is whole milk, and not buttermilk. What you were hauling was sweet milk.

Bob Wright

 

[Bob Wright]

Bob, we've never met, but I look forward to your posts. However, we have to sit down and talk about geography. I was born and raised in Hibbing, Minnesota.... I'd say that better defines "up north" than Decatur.

On my map, that is defined as "way up north."

Bob Wright

 

[Fox Mike]

One more rule: There must be no sugar in the cornbread!

Who ever heard of putting "sugar" in cornbread? That is 'UnAmercan'!

 

[powder smoke]

North of me is Canada. Guess were lucky its not Mexico! ps

 

[Rick Courtright]

Growing up around dairies, in California, the term Sweet Milk is familiar, as is the term Blue Milk.

Hi,

Must be terms that have migrated out here over time, cuz I never heard them growing up. But then our nearest dairy WAS a quarter mile away!

They had two drive in stores, one at each end of the dairy, where we bought either whole or skim milk. They also had buttermilk which I thought was only for cooking--couldn't believe my Granny actually drank that foul stuff, and liked it--and chocolate milk, but Hershey's and Ovaltine both tasted better than their commercial stuff so we made our own. I don't think that greatest ever of dairy product marketing ploys, or what's called "2%" around here today, was even conjured up yet. But we're talking 50-60 years ago, too.

Rick C

 

[exavid]

I would have guessed right about what 'sweet milk' was but know for sure what sour milk is.

 

[GP100]

I would have guessed right about what 'sweet milk' was but know for sure what sour milk is.

Yup. been there, done that.. Sour milk has a taste you'll never forget..

 

[#1rugerman]

Gramps got it right on the milk. Them folks up north have strange eatin habits, they put sugar on grits, they call a coke "pop", lots of strange things goin on up there.

 

[Jeepnik]

Growing up around dairies, in California, the term Sweet Milk is familiar, as is the term Blue Milk.

Hi,

Must be terms that have migrated out here over time, cuz I never heard them growing up. But then our nearest dairy WAS a quarter mile away!

They had two drive in stores, one at each end of the dairy, where we bought either whole or skim milk. They also had buttermilk which I thought was only for cooking--couldn't believe my Granny actually drank that foul stuff, and liked it--and chocolate milk, but Hershey's and Ovaltine both tasted better than their commercial stuff so we made our own. I don't think that greatest ever of dairy product marketing ploys, or what's called "2%" around here today, was even conjured up yet. But we're talking 50-60 years ago, too.

Rick C

Blue milk is skim milk. If the light is right it has a bluish hue to it. Clear bottle of course, not these disgustingly wasteful plastic things they foist off on us today.

 

[Armybrat]

Anywhere north of the Brazos is "up North" to us.