I spent a good chunk of my life in the Southern US some decades ago, and while I do have a longish list of things I very emphatically do not miss about the South, I do miss the food. The South is certainly not the only place you can get deep-fried food, but I enjoyed how they went all-in with it. No apologies. A mountain of batter-fried shrimp, accompanied by a mountain of batter-fried okra, and a basket of hush puppies (which are basically batter-fried batter). If you manage to eat all of the hush puppies, they bring you more.