As a travel writer from Florida, I have been traveling and eating my way through the South for more than two decades.
I have stopped at roadside stands in the Mississippi Delta, eaten breakfast in South Carolina diners where the menu had not changed since 1978, and tried things in Appalacha that would never make it onto a food network show.
Here are 15 of the weirdest, most obscure, most deeply Southern foods that outsiders have almost certainly never heard of…