Thanks, Rebel...
Learned to eat them while I was competing in North Carolina during my college sports years. Then became employed in a inner city hospital, working with lots of black folks who hailed from the south. Began to eat the foods they brought in from home and fell in love with that "southern cookin'".
The best fried chicken a guy ever had, sweet potato pie, grits, ate a fatback sandwich once, not bad, beans to die for and some kind of "game" in a gravy with biscuits that was fantastic. Was afraid to ask what the game was, as it could have been roadkill for all I know, but it sure tasted good.
I'll eat in the south anyday!!!