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	Be sure to wave! Tip Rating:

By Astrobuck on September 8, 2004

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I'm not sure how the rest of the United States goes, but being from North Carolina, when you are trying to pull out of a gas station, store, or whatever onto the road with your car, and someone lets you out because of a traffic jam, you wave to them. This means "Thank you." Living in Texas and Colorado, I don't see it, which is sad. I am always courteous, and when someone lets me out, I wave to them. So be courteous and wave when someone lets you out in front of them. They would surely appreciate it.

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	Tar Heel Pie Tip Rating:

Updated By b1bob on August 26, 2006

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Tar Heel Pie

by b1bob

North Carolina's nickname is the Tar Heel State. The recipe for Tar Heel Pie is from an old North Carolina recipe:

1 cup chocolate chips
1 stick butter, melted
1 cup chopped pecans (out of their shells)
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup plain flour
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 eggs, beaten

Pour warm butter over chocolate chips and stir. Blend all remaining ingredients and stir into chocolate chip mixture. Pour into an unbaked pie shell. Bake in a 350-degree Fahrenheit (180-degree Celsius) oven for 30-40 minutes (30 would be preferable, but add 2 minutes as needed). Overcooking can make the pie too hard.

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Updated By b1bob on August 26, 2006

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Moravian cookies

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Moravian cookies are traditional Christmas cookies in Moravia, Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovakian immigrants settling in North Carolina (the Winston-Salem area) brought this cookie to the United States. Matt and I picked up tins of these cookies at the cashier's desk at the perfectly awful food court at Mount Vernon, Virginia in mid-October, 2004 and they turned out to be the best part of the meal.

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	Outer Banks cornbread Tip Rating:

By b1bob on July 5, 2003

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Outer Banks cornbread

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1/2 stick butter
1 cup yellow cornmeal

1 tablespoon flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
pinch salt
2 teaspoons sugar
1 cup cold milk
1 egg

Preheat oven to 425°F. Place 1/2 stick of butter in 9x5" oblong pan. Put in oven to melt butter and heat pan. Mix meal, flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar in bowl; add cold milk and egg- just beat together for a minute. Pour into hot pan with butter. Bake at 425°F for 20 minutes.

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	Hush Puppies Tip Rating:

By b1bob on July 5, 2003

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hush puppies

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Hush puppies are fried balls of cornbread so named as to quiet canines begging for food at fish fries and outdoor barbecues.

2 cups white corn meal
1 finely chopped onion
1 cup sweet milk, more if needed
4 tablespoons vegetable oil or shortening
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs, beaten well

Mix all ingredients. Form into balls. Fry in deep hot fat. Serve piping hot.

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	¿Se habla español? Tip Rating:

By b1bob on March 29, 2003

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This is Wilson, NC, folks!

by b1bob

No, the scene in the picture is not in Florida, Texas or California, but in North Carolina. Furthermore, it is not in a major North Carolina city such as Raleigh or Charlotte. This Spanish advertisement for a Pentecostal church service is on the side of an old building in rural Wilson, North Carolina. This bears witness to the kind of diversity seen in Charlotte is happening statewide.

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	Friendly neighbours on the train Tip Rating:

Updated By b1bob on April 9, 2004

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Cy, the railroad
volunteer

by b1bob

On both the north and southbound runs of Amtrak's Carolinian, the North Carolina Department of Transport puts on volunteers to supplement conductors in providing information, helping out crippled passengers get on and off, and giving information about North Carolina, rather like embedding friendly neighbours. They can be seen on board from Rocky Mount through to Charlotte. Pictured is Cy, our "railway host" on the northbound Carolinian.

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	North Carolina barbecue Tip Rating:

Updated By b1bob on September 1, 2007

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North Carolina barbecue

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You often hear of North Carolina barbecue. Well, there is no single kind of North Carolina barbecue. What is generally regarded as North Carolina barbecue is the Eastern variety, for which whole pigs are usually cooked with a vinegar-based sauce and served with white or yellow slaw. There is a tomato-based version in the western part of the state which is often incorrectly called Virginia barbecue. This style of barbecue only uses the shoulders and served in a tomato-based sauce with red slaw. The line of demarcation for barbecue should not be the state line, but rather the fall line. There are numerous barbecue festivals across North Carolina, but the biggest one is in Lexington.

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	Calabash seafood Tip Rating:

Updated By b1bob on September 1, 2007

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Calabash-style seafood

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Calabash, North Carolina is home to a style of dining. This small southeastern North Carolina town has become synonymous with a style of cooking that involves corn meal battering and frying. Fresh seafood is caught in the Atlantic and the locals like to fry it up, pile it high on the plate, and accompany it with fries, hush puppies, and a side of malt vinegar. Calabash style dining isn't for those who are minding the calories or the cholesterol, but I say, try it once and live a little! Many restaurants across parts of the United States attempt to imitate the style and call themselves "Calabash seafood restaurants" even though they may be hundreds of miles away.

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	Where Krispy Kreme got its start Tip Rating:

Updated By b1bob on September 1, 2007

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Krispy Kreme

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Many Americans and even foreign travelers are familiar with the chain of doughnut stores called Krispy Kreme. However, very few people from outside the South are aware that the chain had its humble beginnings in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In 1937, Vernon Rudolph bought a secret recipe from a French chef in New Orleans. He rented a building in Winston-Salem where he sold his first doughnut on 13 June 1937. They became so popular, that Mr. Rudolph opened the original Krispy Kreme store which still operates today.

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