Randy Cassingham's Blog

I've been in Georgia and South Carolina all week, there for my first time to attend a conference, eat my fill of seafood (hard to get in landlocked Colorado!) and enjoy a bit of Southern Hospitality.

Southerners really do know how to make good fried chicken (but watch out! I got a second-degree burn on my lip it was so dang hot!) And I got a taste of Krispy Kreme doughnuts.

But the South is ...well... different. Where else can you see a restaurant called "Squat and Gobble", or people shop (apparently without feeling any sense of irony) at a grocery store called "Piggly Wiggly"? (Say it with a drawl for the full effect.)

On the other hand, gasoline is 75 cents per gallon in Georgia, all taxes included (for you overseas readers, that's about 20 cents per liter; you do the math for your exchange rate...!) But watch out for the state troopers: they use radar, and consider the speed limit mandatory, not a suggestion (as it practically is in the western half of the country). And, much to my shock, service in most of the restaurants was terrible! But I had a good time and shall return, suh!

That fried chicken was served at Mrs. Wilkes' Boardinghouse in Savannah -- and Mrs. Wilkes herself was still there, watching over things. In 2002, Mrs. Wilkes was featured in True's Honorary Unsubscribe.