On today's video, we're going to take a light-hearted look at
the 10 words and phrases you need to know before moving to North Carolina.
Hi, I'm Chris Morton, real estate broker with eXp Realty in Raleigh, North Carolina,
and today we're going to take a look at 10 different words that you need to know,
that you need to educate yourself on about the right way of talking the way we talk here in
North Carolina. So I am from North Carolina, most of these I use on a regular basis,
here we go. Number 1... barbecue. So for most of you, BBQ is a verb. It's something you do
where you take hot dogs, hamburgers, steak, chicken, whatever, out of your refrigerator
and put on your grill gas grill, charcoal grill, etc. In North Carolina barbecue is not a verb,
it is a noun. BBQ is chopped or sliced pork served with either a Eastern North Carolina vinegar base
sauce, or a Western North Carolina tomato based sauce. So if you say to somebody... "hey let's
barbecue," they're going to tell you to get in the car and go down to the Smithfield's or whatever,
so there's that. Number 2 word you need to know is hush puppies. So hush puppies are these
deep fried cornmeal dough balls that are served instead of rolls at a
barbecue joint or a fish house, in other words a fried fish restaurant. Instead of rolls, they're
going to serve hush puppies. They're really delicious, some of them are salty tasting some
of them are sweet tasting. I like the sweet kind. But definitely learn about what a hush puppy is.
The number 3 word is actually a phrase... "bless your heart." And this is not just North Carolina,
although I do believe North Carolina takes this phrase to a new level of snarkiness. So
"bless your heart" has two meanings. The first meaning is concern for someone. So
if someone like breaks their leg and you see them you would say... "Billy Joe...
did you break your leg? bless your heart." Meaning I really care about you, I hope you're doing okay
bless your heart. The other phrase is a little bit more shade throwing snarkiness... "Beulah May
needs to stop trashing herself around town or she might catch herself a disease bless her heart."
That's what you'd say if Beulah May was not in the room. If Beulah May was in the room, it might be
something like... "Beulah May... you know those shoes don't match that dress don't you, bless
your heart, can't dress yourself for anything can you." So you see the meaning now. There's a famous
saying in North Carolina. If you don't want anyone to talk about you then don't leave the room. I
hope this "bless your heart" things makes a little more sense to you now. So there you go. The number
4 word you need to know about is tea. In most of the country, in most of the world, if you go
into a restaurant and ask for tea you're going to be served a cup of hot tea with a tea bag in it.
Not in North Carolina. In North Carolina tea is iced, meaning it comes in a big pitcher,
and a word of warning... iced tea does not mean unsweet tea. In North Carolina it means five or
six cups of sugar in there. So if you really want hot tea you have to say I'd like a cup of hot tea.
If you would like some unsweetened iced tea, you need to say iced tea please unsweetened.
Because if you say iced tea please it's gonna come loaded up. I typically get half and half
and they know what half and half means. That means half sweet, half unsweet. So there you go,
very important if you're a tea drinker. The fifth word to tell you about is "fixin'." So most people
have never used this word. It is a Southern word, but we definitely use it a lot in North Carolina.
Fixing is when you're planning to do something f-i-x-i-n apostrophe. So it would be like this...
"so hot out but i guess I'm fixin' to cut the grass."
Planning to cut the grass. So fixin'. The number 6 word to tell you about is "yonder." Also a word
found in the South, but we definitely use it in North Carolina. Yonder is a distance. It's a
a measurement of distance, so if someone says... "how do you get to the bp station," well you go
"down there yonder, and you turn left yonder." The number 7 word to tell you about is beltline.
And this is a word very important if you're moving specifically to Raleigh. The belt line
is an interstate that cuts through the middle of town... beltline get it, beltline.
And it will allow you to get from point a to point b a lot faster than having to take the main
back side roads, whatever. So beltline is the i-440 corridor that you're going to want to take
when you move to Raleigh to get from point a to point b. The number eight word to tell you about,
again if you're moving to the Raleigh area is Triangle. So Triangle is, if you look on a map,
Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina all form a Triangle, and inside that triangle
there's those three cities as well as Wake Forest, Cary, Apex, et cetera, et cetera,
et cetera, and also the Research Triangle Park is inside of that three city triangle, which is our
version of Silicon Valley. The ninth word to tell you about is Triad. So Triad is midway between
the Triangle and the mountains. Triad is made up of three cities also... Greensboro, High Point,
and Winston-Salem, North Carolina, form the Triad. So if you ever hear anybody talking about...
"I am thinking of moving from the Triangle to the Triad," now you know. And last but not least, the
tenth word to tell you about is "Cackalacky." This is a word that we only use here in North Carolina.
It generally just is a different version of the word Carolina, so some people in South Carolina
use it and they say South Cackalacky, but mostly North Cackalacky or just Cackalacky refers to
North Carolina. So there you have it, the 10 words you need to know before moving to North Carolina.
Thank you guys so much for watching, we appreciate it, hit the like, hit the subscribe,
and comment below if you have any questions. This has been Chris Morton, see you soon, bye bye.