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Most would agree that a Pepsi (Or RC or Dr Pepper) and a Moon Pie is the ultimate redneck breakfast, but another classic is Grits with Coca-Cola Hot Dog Red-Eye Gravy. Red-eye gravy needs Coke and Coffee.

To go upscale, use Country Ham on the side and skip the hot dogs. Here's another classic: Hot Dog Gravy & Biscuits. Everybody loves biscuits and gravy, but spare me the hot dogs.

Posted by The News Junkie in Food and Drink at 14:17 | Comments (13) | Trackbacks (0)

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South Georgia. 1960s. Late summer evening. Fishing with my grandfather out in the woods. Frogs and cicadas singing, whippoorwills calling. Moon Pie and NEHI grape soda as we head home in the truck with a stringer full of brim (bream). Sigh. Wishing I could go back ...

#1 Cleve Watson on 2017-03-15 15:57 (Reply)

In North Carolina all good 'necks skip the Co-Cola and get Cheerwine. Great with Jack too, though thats for lunch not breakfast

#2 RickinJax on 2017-03-15 16:05 (Reply)

I've lived in the deep south almost all the last 60 years, mostly coastal SC and south AL. Hotdogs were around, but not a big item, and never for breakfast anywhere I frequented.

#3 BillH on 2017-03-15 17:02 (Reply)

Absolutely. Born and raised in Atlanta. My parents occasionally made red-eye gravy, but only from ham drippings and coffee. Hot dogs and Coke (shudder), never. The other good topping for grits was tomato gravy.

#3.1 Eb on 2017-03-17 12:20 (Reply)

Bowdon's Shady Rest, a black owned BBQ NW of USF back in the 60's. We would park our motorcycles under old live oaks, eat BBQed goat, sweet potato pie on picnic tables, no inside dining, almost heaven.

#4 Oldblood on 2017-03-15 17:44 (Reply)

Four slices of thick bacon not too crisp, two eggs over easy, toast and strawberry jam, either biscuits and gravy or pancakes with lots of butter and syrup. And coffee.

#5 IdahoBob on 2017-03-15 18:16 (Reply)

You do realize this is a joke, and no one ever eats any of those things, don't you?

#6 LWS on 2017-03-15 21:14 (Reply)

You never lived in the South. Seen it with my own eyes.

#6.1 Oldblood on 2017-03-15 21:34 (Reply)

I don't like biscuits and gravy.

Not even a huge fan of bacon.

#7 DrTorch on 2017-03-15 22:14 (Reply)

DrTorch: Heresy, I say. Don't admit that anywhere in the South (and probably other places). You will be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail.

#8 oolioo (Link) on 2017-03-16 09:59 (Reply)

Heaven forbid - not Pepsi! It's RC Cola and Moon Pie, but I don't remember it for breakfast down in southwest Georgia in the 60s. Redeye gravy was made with country ham drippings and coffee. My own grandmama never cooked that kind of breakfast - you got Frosted Flakes and milk or hard crunchy toast with jelly and maybe a scrambled egg and bacon.

My mom (in her 80s now) asked for a Co-Cola here in Nashville, and the young waitress had to get me to interpret. Funny, I don't remember Mom saying it that way until recently. It's more of an affectation for her.

#9 tnxplant on 2017-03-16 10:08 (Reply)

Born in Ohio, raised in Florida, live in Alaska.

One thing I do not miss about the south & southern breakfasts;

grits.

#10 Jim O'Neil (Link) on 2017-03-16 14:51 (Reply)

In 1968 I drove from the West coast to Florida with a buddy who was headed back home to Florida. We drove in shifts, all night/all day. We crossed the Mississippi into Natchez at 7:30 in the morning and stopped at this little roadside restaurant. The waitress couldn't have been 18 and she was just finishing up the night shift and looked tired. She asked us "what would y'all like?" My buddy said finally I'm back in the South. I want two eggs over easy, grits with butter and a slice of ham.

#10.1 GoneWithTheWind on 2017-03-16 17:15 (Reply)

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