Notes From My Travels In The Deep South

(From my travel journal)

Sign outside a Louisiana restaurant: “Eat here are we both go hungry.” (Yes that's are.)

Another Louisiana restaurant sign:
Daiquiris and Beer
Drive through

In New Orleans
Huge neon sign over a restaurant:
DAIQUERIS
[below, very tiny print] fresh seafood.

In a store window:
Children’s Books
Voo Doo Dolls

Another store window:
Formal Wear Rental
Bike Parts

You see lots of signs in the south advertising “Deer Processing.”

On Alabama hotel marquee: “Prayer Works We have Dippin' Dots”

In restaurant menu: “Our special light breading will make your tongue slap your gums.”

It was very difficult to find healthy food. Some menus contained almost nothing that wasn’t fried. A few especially interesting menu items:
Fried alligator
Fried potato salad
Fried dill pickle chips
Fried corn kernels in tapioca
[on a breakfast menu] Fried Bananas Foster Cheesecake

At a Ft. Morgan State Historic site, signs referred to the Civil War as “the War for the Freedom of the Southern States.”

On a Florida restaurant menu, in four languages: “In the United States waiters and waitresses are paid a substandard wage. For this reason we suggest a tip of 15%.”