Talk:Carolina Caviar

Other senses

• Sometimes defined specifically as the roe of some species of other in particular, e.g. trout or menhaden or sturgeon (from the Carolinas or elsewhere in the South).
  • 1994, Wildlife in North Carolina:

    Sometimes it's even called Carolina caviar, though the same name is applied to shad roe as well. Not many years ago it was common to see roe drying in the sun on tables and benches near the fish docks . In judging mullet roe for the […]

• Pimiento cheese.
  • 2009 April 28, Julia Reed, Ham Biscuits, Hostess Gowns, and Other Southern Specialties: An Entertaining Life (with Recipes), St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:

    But I must have drawn a subconscious line when it came to pimento cheese, otherwise known as “Southern pate” or “Carolina caviar.” For all the current popularity of Southern food and Southern cookbooks, it is one of those things like […]

  • The Fried Green Tomato Swindle and Other Southern Culinary Adventures (Revised & Expanded Edition) (publisher: Robert F. Moss), page 17:

    It has been dubbed “the pâté of the South” and “Carolina caviar.” In The Place Setting, Fred Sauceman writes that pimento cheese “lines up alongside barbecue, grits, and cornbread as one of the foods that define the South.

  • 2015 October 1, Gabrielle Balkan, The 50 States: Explore the U.S.A. with 50 fact-filled maps!, Wide Eyed Editions, →ISBN, page 83:

    1954: The Pimento Cheeseburger, made with pimento cheese, or “Carolina caviar,” is purportedly invented in Colombia. JULY 6, 1957: Althea Gibson is the first black American to win Wimbledon; she goes on to win the U.S. Open in September […]

  • 2020 September 29, Steve Doocy, Kathy Doocy, The Happy in a Hurry Cookbook: 100-Plus Fast and Easy New Recipes That Taste Like Home, HarperCollins, →ISBN:

    The ham was fancy thin-sliced Italian prosciutto, and it topped a perfect-size portion of pimiento cheese dip, which we refer to at our house as Carolina Caviar—because we first fell in love with it in South Carolina. It was so good.

Other forms:

Souther / Texas / Redneck caviar:

• 2013 December 17, Damon Fowler, Essentials of Southern Cooking: Techniques and Flavors of a Classic American Cuisine, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 41:

  Southern caviar with corn bread madeleines (or mini hoecakes) / There is an almost ubiquitous black-eyed pea salad that has become popular under the names “Southern,” "Texas," or just "Redneck" caviar. It's delicious, but that isn't what I'm talking about here. I mean the real thing, sturgeon roe, harvested from Southern waters [...] use mini muffin pans or just lightly grease a cookie sheet 4 ounces Georgia or Carolina caviar  […]

North Carolina caviar:

• 1992, Hugh W. Foster, Someone of Value: A Biography of Robert Ruark:

  You should taste that skillet grease in the black-eyed peas - called North Carolina caviar - and equally in the string beans. You can still taste it even with a premium on fryin' fats - and what they are using to wet down the iron I […]

• 1992, Mildred Jordan Brooks, Southern Stuff: Down-home Talk and Bodacious Lore from Deep in the Heart of Dixie, →ISBN:

  North Carolina caviar, n. The roe of the menhaden, a fish. / northside manners. If you observe this kind of manners in “Chollston,” S.C., most likely you were to the manner born. (It all had to do with the unique architecture […]

- -sche (discuss) 16:25, 6 May 2023 (UTC)