Alabama Products
Alabama is known as the Heart of Dixie, and they have a heart for some good old southern cooking. Some of the foods you may want to experience while you’re there are the rabbit sausage, baked cheese grits, corn bread, tea cakes, peanut butter banana bread, fried green tomatoes, she-crab soup, chow chow, red eye gravy, pickled okra, cajun frog legs and grilled catfish with strawberry salsa served on a nice Birmingham Platter.
If you don’t finish your bottle of wine with dinner, use the collectible wine stopper to keep it fresh until you can finish it later.
You can use the Alabama state cookie cutter to make a batch of fresh cookies shaped like the state of Alabama.You say you also want to have some pie? Here are some of the pies you can expect to find in Alabama :
peanut butter pie, lemonade pie, pecan pie and potato chip and pretzel pie. Other sweet treats to consider are their peanut brittle, sweet potato cake and Alabama pound cake.
As you set out to explore the state, be sure to check out Mobile, Tuscaloosa, Decatur, the ballooning capital of Alabama and don’t miss historic Montgomery, the capital.
The pride of Alabama is it’s Crimson Tide Football. You’re sure to get a taste of the Crimson Tide barbeque sauce on your burgers at the tailgate parties. Add a pitcher of your favorite beverage and get the celebration started.
Even the little ones can get in on the act with their own Crimson Tide dinnerware and sippy cups. They learn early to cheer for the Crimson Tide.
If you’re a nature-lover, keep your eye out for the state bird, which is the “yellow hammer”, and the state flower, the “red cemellion”. Bring home a keepsake mug to show your friends.
According to “Alabama Facts and Trivia” :
* It was Alabama workers who built the very first rocket that put human beings on the moon.
* The Monarch butterfly is the state’s official insect.
* These famous people were born in Alabama :
Baseball players Hank Aaron, born in Mobile in 1934 and Willie Mays
born in Westfield in 1931.
Boxer, Joe Louis, born in Lexington in 1914.
Singer/entertainer, Nat King Cole, was born in Montgomery in 1919.
Star of stage, screen and radio during the 1930’s-1950’s, Tallulah
Bankhead was born in Huntsville in 1902.
No matter how you slice it, there’s a lot to see and do in Alabama. Y’all come and see us sometime.
