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Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit, nearly 1000 of y’all voted to send your favorite Southern bites and beverages to the Elite Eight! Welcome back to the 2014 Southern Weddings Mason-Dixon Madness Tourney!

Today, we are saying goodbye to pecan pie (Lisa’s championship pick) and Emily’s beloved deviled eggs. Krispy Kreme and Cheerwine, both native North Carolina delicacies, survived and advanced. Sweet tea is sweetly sailing along through the competition–I can’t say I am too surprised!

I am betting that the Elite Eight match-up this week between fried chicken and BBQ is going to be a doozy. I was born in the BBQ capital of North Carolina, but good gracious, I do love a good piece of cold fried chicken. My advice? Take your time before making your picks and daydream about your favorite memory of eating each delicacy before making your final selection. :)

Here’s how our bracket is looking now:

All four #1 seeds are alive and kickin’, with spots in the Final Four AND bragging rights as category winners up for grabs! Your vote counts!!

RSS readers, be sure to click through to access the poll!

This week has been so busy, I haven’t gotten around to having my ham biscuit quite yet. To honor it after being voted out this week, I think I will have one for breakfast tomorrow. Feel free to join me, perhaps with a big slice of red velvet cake on the side?

kristin Written with love by Kristin
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  1. avatar Brittany reply

    This IS getting too hard ya’ll! BBQ vs Fried Chicken? I just can’t..

  2. avatar Lisa reply

    It pains me to choose any food over biscuits, but macaroni and cheese has my vote forever!

  3. avatar Emily Alice reply

    This is literally the hardest decision I will make today! I can feel it.

  4. avatar Taryn | Formal Fringe reply

    I think it’s fixin’ to be Sweet Tea vs. Mac and Cheese in the finals!

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For the love of BBQ and sweet tea, welcome back to the 2014 Southern Weddings Mason-Dixon Madness Tourney! From the number of votes cast during the Round of 32, it seems like y’all called your best friends, mamas, grandmamas, and neighbors in an effort to make sure your favorite Southern delicacies made it into the Sweet Sixteen. For my own part, I am sad to report that all my efforts didn’t earn my beloved pimento cheese a victory, as cornbread advanced to the next round.

As you may have seen from our social media chatter, a couple of match-ups were neck-and-neck going into the final day of voting. Krispy Kreme pulled off the upset victory against the #2 seed, banana pudding, thanks to some Twitter pleas from Team Krispy Kreme and a strong response from the “Hot-n-Now” lovers among us. Cheerwine smoothly rolled along, much to the delight of Emily and our NC cohort, and Coca-Cola (a questionable “Cinderella” as a 10-seed) is proudly marching on as the lowest-ranked bite or beverage in the final 16!

If your head exploded over having to choose between hushpuppies and biscuits in the last round, be prepared to consider holding a head-to-head taste test when making decisions this time around. Trust your tastebuds! BBQ vs. shrimp and grits? Ham biscuits vs. fried chicken? May the best bite win!

Here’s how our bracket is looking now:

After analyzing the final tallies, rest assured that your vote counts! The match-up between ham biscuits and chicken and waffles came down to a dozen votes out of hundreds and hundreds cast. To ensure your favorites make it another round, keep voting!

Has anyone been inspired to try a new-to-you Southern delicacy or mix up an old favorite? Sound off below–I, for one, have been craving a ham biscuit for the last two weeks!

kristin Written with love by Kristin
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  1. avatar Laura reply

    Nooooo! I had Pound Cake going to the Final Four! My Champion is still in it to win it though :)

  2. avatar Lisa reply

    This is getting so intense!!

  3. avatar Kristin reply

    RIP Pimento Cheese :(

  4. avatar Graham reply

    Go Sweet Tea, Go Sweet Tea, GO!!!!!!

  5. avatar Emily reply

    My poor deviled eggs – I don’t know if they stand a chance against biscuits :(

  6. avatar Tony Kubik reply

    I like voting for food we like.

  7. avatar Mark Ridenhour reply

    How do you vote? I want to vote for Cheerwine!

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Welcome back to the 2014 Southern Weddings Mason-Dixon Madness! The votes have been cast and we are sadly saying goodbye to 32 bites and beverages, including my beloved pralines and butter beans. If the first week of voting was any indication, decisions are going to get harder and harder as the weeks go by.

For those of y’all who were rooting for an upset, you got your wish! We had a 5 v. 12 upset in the main dishes category, with crawfish boil beating out oysters–seems that we have some serious Louisiana fans in the bunch!

My husband would have died if pecan pie lost in the first round; I know its opponent, divinity, is a staple at many a Southern wedding and party, but I was still surprised that 16 percent of y’all voted for it! (Which necessitated a phone call to my mama to ask her what on earth divinity is.)

The 7/10 match ups were quite contentious, with the 10-seed in each bracket emerging victorious! It seems that everyone is ready for warmer weather and that seasonal foods go right along with that feeling — watermelon beat out sweet potato casserole and key lime pie trumped coconut cake (sorry, Em!). Bring on summer!!

Here’s how our bracket’s looking now:

While it was a long shot for a Kentucky Hot Brown or benne wafers to make it out of the first round, I have a feeling that these Southern delicacies (and more) might have been added to a few “must try” lists after first round research.

Did you try out any new-to-you recipes for research? Did you learn anything about your beau or best friends as you completed your brackets? Share what you learned, and what you’re pulling for, in the comments below! Second-round voting will be open until March 19th.

(RSS and mobile readers – click through or visit your computer to see the embedded poll!)

kristin Written with love by Kristin
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  1. avatar Molly reply

    It makes me LOL how serious you guys are taking this. Also, choosing between biscuits and hushpuppies?! That is so wrong.

  2. avatar Kristyn Monaghan reply

    Whoever picked beignets over pralines must have never had a praline! I’m pulling for sweet tea and biscuits!

    • avatar Kristin reply

      Kristyn! I couldn’t agree more with your disappointment about pralines. My grandmama makes the best pralines in Dixie! Sweet tea and biscuits are pretty solid choices for a championship battle! Can’t wait to see who ends up in the final round :)

  3. avatar Stephanie reply

    Chicken & waffles versus ham biscuits?! Impossible choice!! This is such a fun tournament, though it makes me so hungry every time I look at it!

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  5. avatar Trey reply

    Biscuits. versus. hushpuppies?!

    *brain explodes*

  6. avatar Carl Mabe reply

    Good ole Cherrwine

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