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The article explores how southern food in entwined with the culture, history, and traditions of the Southern States and is part of its cultural identity. Based on the findings of the Spring 1992 Southern Focus Polls conducted by the Center for the Study of the American South and the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina, the author compares the attitudes towards food of people living in the South to those people who reside outside the Southern States, as well as between White Southerners and African American Southerners. Some of the food items asked about were: okra, chitlins, fried tomatoes, pork rind, sweet potato pie, catfish, boiled peanuts, and moon pie.