North Carolina

A bunch of us were sitting around talking at lunch one day. In the group was a coworker who had just moved there from the North, perhaps Pennsylvania or some such state. He was a nice fellow, but had trouble understanding some of the ways of the South, such as grits for instance.

Anyway, the discussion had turned to a grape arbor that one guy had built in his back yard, and he was complaining how slowly the grape vines were growing to cover it. Someone suggested he plant Kudzu, and it would be covered in a couple of weeks. That was considered pretty funny until someone realized that he was serious, at which point a lynching party was considered.

The conversation went on about the evils of Kudzu, and how Kudzu might be prevented from burying the entire state, until the guy from "up north" came out with, "Well hell, I would have thought you people would have figured out how to boil it and eat it by now."