In Defense of Hillbilly Heaven
Title and context stolen from Don Surber
Don is a genuine professional writer and I won’t try to top him.
OK, that is perhaps the least surprising headline imaginable for a West Virginia blogger, but I must defend Hillbilly Heaven BBQ in Hamilton, Ontario, whose owner Cameron Bailey has posted signs that include: “Things we don’t have and never will: halal, rice, kabob, shawarma, fries, wings, ¼ chicken, Mexican, burgers.”
Pretty much, you go into the restaurant and order barbeque.
And not just any old barbeque. Another sign reads: “What would make you think this was a Korean BBQ? Do you see any f’n ducks in the window?”
And perhaps the least offensive sign of all: “To better serve you, our staff speaks English.”
Don, like Jonn, is not a native born hillbilly, but this easily qualifies a Sunday Silly post regardless. The PC police in Canada are in a snit… Just imagine what would happen here?
Category: Geezer Alert!, General Whackos
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In my defense, my paternal grandmother’s family residence in WV goes back to the Civil War years. My father graduated from high school in Clarksburg just six years before I was born. Family legend has it that we’re distantly related to Stonewall Jackson whose name was on the family-owned hotel in downtown Clarksburg. So apparently, my family existed in West Virginia before West Virginia itself existed.
Jonn Lilyea #2: Dang… not TOO sensitive? Yet you fancy NY beer?
I fancy NY beer because I haven’t developed a taste for WV meth.
Hmmm…I fancy salsa from new york city!?! NOT!!! Make mine Carolina’s (pronounced Kah-roh-leena’s) at 12th St and Mohave St in Phoenix! *looking all around* Shhh it’s better than mom’s.
Carolina in Phoenix is pronounced karohleena? Damn, my grandkids make fun of me for pronouncing Charleston(the original one) Chahleston and Charlotte(up north in NC) Chahlotte. Geez! And sorry, I’m southern, but not a redneck. Altho I like the name West-by God- Virginia, it’s so in your face.
Thank you all for your support!!
A little drop of news in a local paper up here seems to have stirred the unrest of a vast majority of Canadians – people rarely stand up to the vocal micro-minority, but I ain’t going to let anyone tell me what to do.
By the way, it’s KC style BBQ….i know, not exactly “Hillbilly”, but it’s what I like and if we don’t well it, I gotta eat it.
Be well.
@6 – Joseph Brown:
“And sorry, I’m southern, but not a redneck”
Joseph, I suggest you investigate the meaning of ‘redneck’. I’m right proud to consider myself one. There is a difference between the actual and what appears to be your (PC) interpretation. Well, maybe not, but then that would make us enemies …
Dawg @8 I’m not trying to be PC, but where I come from you’re considered a redneck if you like country music and live in a single wide. I know the original meaning was a farmer who usually had a red neck from working in the fields. Working on a flightline can give you one, too. The first 5 years my wife and I were married we lived in a very small, by today’s standards, single wide outside Whiteman AFB. As an E3, it’s all we could afford.
Yat Yas–how much do I have to send you to get you to ship me one of everything on the menu from Aunt Chollada’s?
Seafood and Italian food in NH–da bomb.
Mexican food in NH–sucks ass.
Us sons of Ontario farmers have red necks too, but can remember when Ontario was a very sensible place to grow up. Our expat blog in S.E. Asia has covered this story too.
http://rossrightangle.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/eat-your-words-pinko-hamilton-ont-what-it-used-to-be/