A hootin' and a hollerin'!

Hello, all!  Thank you for reading!

So today was a very "southern" day indeed!  And for me, authentic southern means "Cracker Barrel"!  Hahahaha...  Yes, I know, I am indeed a northerner... 

But I enjoy the southern feel of Cracker Barrel, and I even like the southern food... I have gotten accustomed to whole "biscuits and gravy" thing, I actually kinda like it.  In small doses.   And if I add enough butter and maple syrup to them, I like grits too - they taste like Cream of Wheat, which I love!   But again, if you add enough butter and maple syrup, you can make my flip-flops taste good.....  Man, maple syrup and butter - now I am hungry again!

If you haven't been to a Cracker Barrel, you should know that in addition to their southern cooking (I prefer their breakfast to their other meals) they have a shop.  Excellent business strategy, feed people and let them shop in one place... Well done!  And so after you eat, you pay the bill and walk out through the shop - just like when you get off of a ride at Disney or Universal.  And today, we saw that they have their fall and Halloween stuff out, and as part of that, they have their football collection.  As part of their football collection, you see a lot of "Gators", lots of "Seminoles".  Not that I am fans of those teams, but those logos are ubiquitous in Florida.

The sales guy was hovering around today, talking about the fall stuff, prancing around in a Halloween mask, just having fun.   And he started talking about football, and said that his team is Alabama.  Not really knowing anything about college football except that sounds like a team I have heard of, and I think they are Big 10 or whatever, and I smiled politely and said, "Oh, right, Alabama".  Then as I left, he told my husband that "Come a few weeks, my whole family will be sittin' around the TV, a-hootin' and a-hollerin!"  

And there ya have it.  Pure, authentic southern charm, about to be mocked by a cynical northerner... To be fair, he was nice and just being happy and excited.  But I couldn't help but wonder what other colorful euphemisms could be used to mean the same thing as "a-hootin' and a-hollerin'"... What do you think?  What might a northerner have said?  It couldn't have just been "celebrating", that is no where near as fun.  Living it up?  Partying?  Letting our hair down?  No, no... none of those work.  Carousing?  No, too scary....

What do you think?  Is there another phrase that a northerner would have used that would be both as charming and blog-worthy as the turn a phrase I heard today?  

Ah, the south.... This is going to be fun!   Bye for now!  Thank you so much for reading and sharing! <3