When I worked at a bagel shop down in NC, we had 4 vats of tea. Sweet and unsweet in caf and decaf. Always were pouring out the unsweet when I worked closing. You MUST add the sugar when the tea is still hot. Else you don't get the syrupness. God, we used a lot of sugar.

I picked NASCAR for another thing you'd tail gate for.

And they have some mega setups too.

I left off the Athens restaurant and the tailgate, because I honestly couldn't think of one. Even though we do tailgate at baseball games, it occurs to me belatedly.

And here in St Albans practically a short jaunt from the Canadian border I've found TWO restaraunts that have fresh brewed sweet and unsweet tea!

Little known fact: sweet tea can be pretty readily found in Ontario. God knows why.

That WAS fun.

I put "sweet tea" for flavor of iced tea, which is also cheating, probably.

Call me a cheata'

I, too, said Paula Deen.

I chose French as one of the represented cultures. Thinking of the Acadians.

My father's family came from England, but spent a half century (and beyond) in Mississippi. Hattiesburg, to be specific. I would never consider myself Southern, but many of those answers came pretty easily to me. Something in the genes, I guess.

My choice for a food not eaten in the North...probably wrong, but there you have it...okra.

I also love Paula Deen. She was hysterical on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me a couple of years ago.

You MUST add the sugar when the tea is still hot. Else you don't get the syrupness. God, we used a lot of sugar.

Oh god yeah. I couple of pitchers full for one of those restaurant tea dispenser thingys.

All I could think of for potluck was "covered dish supper" which was stretching it.

Amy, I put covered-dish too. And mentioned horse races for tailgates.

There's a barbeque place near my grandmother's that made the most amazing seven-bean side dish. I swear it's called bergu. But I can't find anything to back me up.

Rose hip iced tea.

My choice for a food not eaten in the North...probably wrong, but there you have it...okra.

That's what I put. And for alcoholic drink, Budweiser.

Amy, I put covered-dish too.

I went with box social, even though it's not really the same thing.

horse races for tailgates.

Good one! Do they tailgate at rodeos?

I chose a particularly Northern alternative to potluck...progressive dinner. I originally thought of 'hot dish' but heard Garrison Kealler's voice in my head and thought better of it.

My problem is that New Orleans does not equal the Deep South. Some of that questionnaire was incomprehensible to me.