Huh! “Lesser Carolina” is not a term I’ve heard before, but from what I’m reading, it’s totally not the state I was thinking of. More like the home state of a former peanut farmer…

No one in Southern California calls it SoCal.

Aw. It has a nice ring to it, but I’ll abide.

I moved from North to South so I had a pretty good justification for coming up with a better name.

SoCal is like SanFran. It’s a shibboleth that tags one as an outsider.

Sorry to hear that.

But at least you have nopales.

And livermush. I was delighted to find when I moved to the Carolinas that there was a whole new breakfast meat in my life.

Oh rabbits, that sounds… remarkably like what we refer to as “scrapple,” roundabout the town where I grew up in, a bit yonder, North.

Liver mush is made with just the liver and as much tastier.