Salted peanuts in a bottle of Coca Cola?

Motorik said:
I think that might be the nicest thing anyone's ever said about me. :thu: And it would explain a lot. :idea:
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If there's anything you can do from within your cinematic prison to get the film released, please do! It sounds like a film I'd like to see
 
yabba said:
If there's anything you can do from within your cinematic prison to get the film released, please do! It sounds like a film I'd like to see
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My efforts to get the film released could form a metafictional part of the film. :idea:
 
I've been to Alabama several times..... I just cannot picture anyone with a regional accent stepping up to any microphone (other than SEC football) and saying something like....


"Well, I reckin' what we got here is a rocket... and we gonna pump that bastard full o' go juice and fir' that sumbitch up and see what planet our asses end up'on." :eek:

(This is the part where my wife gives me the side eye and tells me that I'm sounding all "judge-y". :helper:
 
baimun said:
I've been to Alabama several times..... I just cannot picture anyone with a regional accent stepping up to any microphone (other than SEC football) and saying something like....


"Well, I reckin' what we got here is a rocket... and we gonna pump that bastard full o' go juice and fir' that sumbitch up and see what planet our asses end up'on." :eek:

(This is the part where my wife gives me the side eye and tells me that I'm sounding all "judge-y". :helper:
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A musician friend of mine and the leader of my last band works at Redstone for a contractor testing the new big boosters.
He's a millwright working on the testing platform. They fire them sumbitches up and see how they work.
 
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Motorik said:
Dothan, Alabama is apparently the 'Peanut Capital of the World'.
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I lived there from 1997 to 2007. They have a big Peanut Festival fair every fall. Evidently a large portion of the worlds peanuts are grown within a 100 +/- mi radius of Dothan, in SE Alabama and SW Georgia. When they dig them in the fall the dust containing certain molds aggravates everybody's allergies.
Boiled peanuts are everywhere in the fall. Gas stations, stands on the side of the road. I'm from N AL, TN Valley so that was a new thing for me, but I found out I loved em. If your ever traveling thru that area and see a boiled peanut stand you should defiantly give em a try.
 
Pine Apple Slim said:
I lived there from 1997 to 2007. They have a big Peanut Festival fair every fall. Evidently a large portion of the worlds peanuts are grown within a 100 +/- mi radius of Dothan, in SE Alabama and SW Georgia. When they dig them in the fall the dust containing certain molds aggravates everybody's allergies.
Boiled peanuts are everywhere in the fall. Gas stations, stands on the side of the road. I'm from N AL, TN Valley so that was a new thing for me, but I found out I loved em. If your ever traveling thru that area and see a boiled peanut stand you should defiantly give em a try.
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Ha, small world.

So my best friend, the guy who told me about peanuts in Coke, is from Dothan. He has a peanut allergy, so when talking about that a long time ago I learned about the Peanut Festival (he says there's some other place in Georgia that claims they're the Peanut Capital). At some point, peanuts in Coke were mentioned, so that's the original source of what might have seemed like a really random bit of information when I started this thread. :)

How did you like Dothan?

I love boiled peanuts, by the way. They were really common when I lived in Japan, not so common here in China, but I still get them some places. I can eat a million of 'em.
 
Lol, small world indeed. I was living there when I joined HC and eventually wound up here.
Dothan was a pleasant but boring place. The people in general were pretty laid back, never in a hurry and friendly. A long way to any entertainment to speak of. Only an hr to the beach was nice until the PC and Destin beaches got choked out with high rise condos. Hated the climate. Always 98% humidity and only 2 seasons, hot as hell and 45 degrees and raining. Year round allergies. Peanuts didn't bother me so much, for me it was the bermuda grass. Or the mold that grows on it according to the doctor. I took Claranex and 2 different nose sprays year round to survive the whole time I lived there. When I moved back to the Tennessee Valley all that cleared right back up. But all in all, there's a lot of worse places to live.
 
Race relations were better, in a way. Of course the schools were still highly segregated due to the white flight to private academies in the 60s. The black kids went to public school and the whites went to the private schools. And of course the whites had all the money and major property. But because there were way more black people in general, day to day interaction between the races was more friendly and personable. The neighborhoods tended to overlap more. Here in North Alabama the culture has more of a historical Appalachian character. Black neighborhoods are more isolated and theres less personal interaction and trust. Poor whites greatly outnumber the black. Here I can go a month and hardly see a black person unless I make a special effort, and despite that fact theres more outright hostile redneck racism expressed in the culture.
 
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I have family in Huntsville. Buddy of mine worked at Redstone for a few years in IT. He was convinced they were building laser cannons and otherworldly munitions in that place. LOL
We used to drag race on a long open road just outside one of the unused gates to Redstone.
 
MonkeyZero said:
I have family in Huntsville. Buddy of mine worked at Redstone for a few years in IT. He was convinced they were building laser cannons and otherworldly munitions in that place. LOL
We used to drag race on a long open road just outside one of the unused gates to Redstone.
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I've retired back in my hometown, a small bedroom community of 10,000 or so around 30 miles of Interstate from Huntsville, and 50 miles to the Shoals. Just about all the available gigs or any decent entertainment are in Huntsville or Madison. Theres still quite a bit of opportunity for some top notch musical entertainment in the Shoals if you keep close tabs on the goings on over there.
If you want to go out and partake of any nightlife, its best to get a hotel room unless you wanna risk spending the night in the drunk tank and loosing your license. Of course with the current situation thats a moot point as far as I'm concerned.
 
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Pine Apple Slim said:
Race relations were better, in a way. Of course the schools were still highly segregated due to the white flight to private academies in the 60s. The black kids went to public school and the whites went to the private schools. And of course the whites had all the money and major property. But because there were way more black people in general, day to day interaction between the races was more friendly and personable. The neighborhoods tended to overlap more. Here in North Alabama the culture has more of a historical Appalachian character. Black neighborhoods are more isolated and theres less personal interaction and trust. Poor whites greatly outnumber the black. Here I can go a month and hardly see a black person unless I make a special effort, and despite that fact theres more outright hostile redneck racism expressed in the culture.
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Just showed your post to my buddy, who says that is 'a very fair assessment' of Dothan, and guessed it was a while back that you lived there because of the mention of the condos going up at PC and Destin. He was wondering if you live around Decatur or Moulton?

In another 'small world' coincidence a different friend of ours here in China has just moved back home to Madison.
 
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Your buddy nailed my location. Im just on the western outskirts of Hartselle +/-10,000 people. 10 mi S of Decatur, 15 mi E of Moulton. Grew up here, went to Auburn graduated in 1980. In 85' got a job w Dept of Agriculture, FmHA, now called USDA Rural Development, doing Farm and Rural Housing credit, and spent the next 12 yrs or so in the Anniston/Talledega area, east of Bham. The move to Dothan was necessitated by budget cutbacks and to keep my pay grade.
I moved to Dothan in 1997. Left in early 2008. Fortunately got a transfer back to a Huntsville office as I was an only child and both my parents went downhill almost simultaneously. There're both gone now but I decided the old home town wasnt too bad a place to retire. In 2013 Obama offered us a pretty sweet deal on early retirements and I jumped at the chance.
For the first 3-4 years I was in Dothan PC was still mostly funky old 50s-60s style 1-2 story small mom and pop motels along the strip, but by 08' if you ride down the beach front road you could no longer see the beach for the high rises. Destin had more high rises early on, but got even worse by the time I left.
 
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Pine Apple Slim said:
Your buddy nailed my location. Im just on the western outskirts of Hartselle +/-10,000 people. 10 mi S of Decatur, 15 mi E of Moulton. Grew up here, went to Auburn graduated in 1980. In 85' got a job w Dept of Agriculture, FmHA, now called USDA Rural Development, doing Farm and Rural Housing credit, and spent the next 12 yrs or so in the Anniston/Talledega area, east of Bham. The move to Dothan was necessitated by budget cutbacks and to keep my pay grade.
I moved to Dothan in 1997. Left in early 2008. Fortunately got a transfer back to a Huntsville office as I was an only child and both my parents went downhill almost simultaneously. There're both gone now but I decided the old home town wasnt too bad a place to retire. In 2013 Obama offered us a pretty sweet deal on early retirements and I jumped at the chance.
For the first 3-4 years I was in Dothan PC was still mostly funky old 50s-60s style 1-2 story small mom and pop motels along the strip, but by 08' if you ride down the beach front road you could no longer see the beach for the high rises. Destin had more high rises early on, but got even worse by the time I left.
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My buddy was at high school at the time you moved to Dothan, says it's a small place and you probably crossed paths. He knows good folks in Hartselle, and (this being the food sub-forum) says I should ask you about Nesmith's Burgers in Moulton.
 
Motorik said:
My buddy was at high school at the time you moved to Dothan, says it's a small place and you probably crossed paths. He knows good folks in Hartselle, and (this being the food sub-forum) says I should ask you about Nesmith's Burgers in Moulton.
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Not familiar with Nesmiths. I will check it out.
 
Pine Apple Slim said:
Not familiar with Nesmiths. I will check it out.
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Looked them up. Appears to be similar to CF Penns in Decatur. Old timey greasy spoon kinda burger stand where they still use the same grease from the 1950s, lol.
If similar, its an acquired taste, but one that I can deal with once a year or so. Ill check it out.
 
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