My wife is from "the north" and I can say, all those fucking northerners always think they know exactly what southern food is, how to cook it, etc. Then they can't tell you what NC BBQ vs Memphis BBQ is, try to give you raspberry tea when you think you're about to get southern sweet tea, inform you how they don't know what grits are and have never heard of okra before, etc. Nothing against them, they just have no clue what our cuisine is like to the point where they can't really even discuss it because they have the terminology wrong at a very basic level.