You might be a Yankee if

[mawil]

# You think barbecue is a verb meaning "to cook outside."

# You don't have any problems pronouncing "Worcestershire sauce" correctly.

# For breakfast, you would prefer potatoes au gratin to grits.

# You don't know what a moon pie is.

# You've never had grain alcohol.

# You've never, ever, eaten Okra.

# You eat fried chicken with a knife and fork.

# You've never seen a live chicken, and the only cows you've see are on road trips.

# You have no idea what a polecat is.

# Whenever someone tells an off-color joke about farm animals, it goes over your head.

# You don't see anything wrong with putting a sweater on a poodle.

# You would rather vacation at Martha's Vineyard than Six Flags.

# More than two generations of your family have been kicked out of the same prep school in Connecticut.

# You would rather have your son become a lawyer than grow up to get his own TV fishing show.

# Instead of referring to two or more people as "y'all," you call them "you guys," even if both of them are women.

# You don't think Howard Stern has an accent.

# You have never planned your summer vacation around a gun-and-knife show.

# You think more money should go to important scientific research at your university than to pay the salary of the head football coach.

# You don't have at least one can of WD-40 somewhere around the house.

# The last time you smiled was when you prevented someone from getting on an on-ramp on the highway.

# You don't have any hats in your closet that advertise feed stores.

# The farthest south you've ever been is the perfume counter at Neiman Marcus.

# You can't spit out the car window without pulling over to the side of the road and stopping.

# You would never wear pink or an applique sweatshirt.

# You don't know what applique is.

# Most of your formative high school sexual experiences took place within the context of a football game.

# You don't know anyone with two first names (i.e. Joe Bob, Billy Bob, Kay Bob, Bob Bob)

# You don't have doilies, and you certainly don't know how to make one.

# You've never been to a craft show.

# You get freaked out when people on the subway talk to you.

# You can't do your laundry without quarters.

[renegade600]

Some of those are so true. Until I moved to Akansas, I thought a barbeque was a cook out, and I still won't touch okra.

[mawil]

I love okra if it's fried really crisp. If it's boiled, it's slimy.

[oink]

Okra is great. If you add a touch of vineger to the water it isn't that slimy. It's easy to grow and when it seems done producing you can beat the branches off with a stick and it will produce again. Pickled okra is very good.