No joke, you should see the looks I get when I ask the stores up here "will you check into getting boiled peanuts in stock" they are like what?!! get what?? and then i get embarrassed and mumble nevermind...lolol[/QUOTE]
That's so funny - I was in Baltimore a couple of years ago with a group I work for. One of my friends search high and low for grits at breakfast. Everyone at the breakfast bar cracked up and begged her to ask for them again just so they could hear her talk.
We also discovered that you can't get fried shrimp there either. Or sweet tea!
And I thought Maryland was Southern