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Article: Have butter beans, will travel. (On Being Southern).(eating out on vacation)(Brief Article)
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- Mississippi Magazine
- Article date:
- May 1, 2002
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The biggest thrill of taking a vacation is planning where to go what to do, and most important to southern families, where to eat!
There are two ways to feed the body while traveling. One is to eat out and the other is to take your food with you. While most families these days eat on the road at fast food establishments or local restaurants along the way, it hasn't always been this way.
The notion of taking a vacation has just gained popularity in the last thirty years or so. The very wealthy have enjoyed traveling for pleasure for ages, I suppose, but for the majority of middle class southerners, vacationing has only been a commonplace activity since the ...