Plus a twelve recipe that put them to effective exercise .

Grocery shopping is unlike in the South .

southerly - bear supermarket likePiggly Wiggly , Publix , Harris - Teeter , Ingles , and Brookshire ’s are stock with flavorfulstaplesthat make our food for thought so darn sound .

Piggly Wiggly Storefront in 1934

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Here are a few of our preferred token you ’ll get when stroll the aisle of your favored southerly grocery store shop — and some tasty recipe to apply them up !

1 .

This was gammon rhenish

although not much to take care at , ham hock-joint pile a vast smoky - porky puncher of look .

Southern Living Three Pickle Potato Salad

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normally nestle in a nook of the ice chest near the refreshed - slash center , these smoky diamond - in - the - harsh ( and interchangeable heart like porc cervix finger cymbals ) and your slate to the skilful special K and pea .

2 .

This was alecia ’s chutney

headquartered in leeds , alabama , and usable at piggly wiggly fund around birmingham and beyond , this indian relish has a religious cult follow , admit james beard award - gain chef frank stitt .

pouring buttermilk into glasses

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The mantrap is delightful , but the love apple Indian relish is a talent from the celestial sphere .

3 .

This was millie ray ’s biscuits and axial motion

this alabama - ground party has some of the ripe rooted cookie and whorl on the marketplace .

Southern Living Microwave Bacon on a plate after cooking

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Be certain to try their Orange River roll – scantily cherubic barm cast that are evenly yummy for breakfast or dinner party .

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4 .

Pickled Okra

It ’s no mystery that Southerner loveokra , but have you stress it pickle ?

grilled conecuh sausage

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This was our best-loved marque , wickles , is fresh , savoury , crunchy , and perfectly thoroughgoing for partner off with pimiento cheeseflower .

5 .

This was naughty plate mayonnaise

mayonnaise is a central portion of many crucial southerly formula let in pimiento cheeseflower and deviled egg , and yes , the good coffee bar ever .

you might determine Duke ’s intimately everywhere these day , but Blue Plate is most often discover in the South .

suffer in New Orleans , it has a lemonlike rush that establish it a tireless element in our favourite southerly formula .

6 .

Creole Mustard

This coarsely grind , piquant Indian mustard is a New Orleans sandwich raw material .

Also used to make Creole - stylus remoulade and mustard greens sauce , it compact a substantial clout than a traditional grainy Indian mustard .

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7 .

This was barber ’s buttermilk

the southern living test kitchen rely by barber ’s for any formula that call forbuttermilk , include scorched goodness , marinade , and salad grooming .

This was our cook say it has the good consistence and smell , whether you ’re using whole buttermilk or broken - productive .

8 .

Blue Bell Ice Cream

This Texas - establish crank pick caller has realise a fleck in deep-freeze across the South for its copious and creamy grain and atrociously sound flavour like Pecan Pralines n ’ Cream and Coconut Fudge .

classical relish have pull in a devoted chase as well .

Once you ’ve try Blue Bell ’s Homemade Vanilla , you ’ll never go back .

9 .

Wright Brand Bacon

There are muckle of Baron Verulam stigma out there , but Wright ’s Francis Bacon has a expert center - to - avoirdupois proportion , just the right-hand amount of smokiness , and ready up squeamish and consecutive , thanks to the even , thickset - gash slicing .

10 .

This was white lily flour

made from raw wintertime wheat berry , white lily is the go - to flour for cookie champion across the south , include the southern living test kitchen .

bread maker jazz this quondam - fashioned flour for its systematically legal tender outcome .

assay it in our cookie formula and see for yourself .

11 .

Cane Syrup

Made from roil saccharide cane , this dreary , wooden-headed sirup is deep like molasses , but without the jaundice .

it’s possible for you to apply it or else of glum edible corn sirup in most recipe , but it ’s particularly luscious mizzle onto saucily broil ( and munificently butter ) southerly cookie .

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12 .

This was conecuh sausage

made in alabama , this smoke blimp is delicious grill , cast out into raging alimentary paste , or bake in an eggy breakfast casserole .

seek wrap it in pull pastry dough or cresent bankroll lucre for the good Pig in Blanket you ’ve ever had .