Southern hospitality for y'all!

Next time I come to America, I'm going down south. At this point, I will refuse to attend any work related activities up here in the northern part until I get a chance to enjoy the southern hospitality.
The reason is the picture my friend from Mississippi has drawn of the great southern.
Everytime we go out for lunch or dinner (supper) he has some crazy story to tell which usually involves deep frying or catching some animal which is more likely to catch you first.
But if you look through the dangers of the wilderness (or frying), you'll see kind and welcoming people just waiting to lure you in like a fish. Once they get hold of you, you're in a five star hotel, all inclusive!
A week down there would probably speed up my shed project, but then again, I don't want no rusty toes!

I'd like to let you in on a few of the specialties, but I really don't want to spoil the fun. If half of what I'm hearing is true, it will be worth it's money. You should go see for yourself, I sure will!

If you have balls of steel and straight fingers, you would probably want to try noodling for catfish. You might want to start of with a few beers and possibly a tequila shot. It will help you calm down and ignore that anoying voice that keeps telling you what not to do.
Then, with the help of one of our friends from down south, get your self down to one of the small lakes that form after the flooding has retreated. Out in the water, you would hopefully find a submerged barrel or something similar. Inside of it rests your prey.
This is where your straight fingers comes in. Keeping those fingers staright as an arrow and nice and tight together, you ram you hand through one of the holes on the side of the barrel. Before you know it, you're going to have a catfish halfway up your arm. This is where you want to stay calm and grab hold of it's gills, but you'll probably shit your pants and loose the fish and a couple of fingers.
If you do keep calm, you can just fire up that fryer and you'll be eating catfish for supper (that's dinner for you yankees)!
Check out this video if you don't believe me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LksuKTD8y0o

I'm not much of a hunter, so the following weekend activities just sound really cool, but I think they're not really my kind.
But if your bored in the south (which I think is impossible) you might want to try snake catching, Aligator hunting, hunting for Wild Boar or hunting Nutria rat. A Nutria rat lookes like a cross between a rat and a beaver, which is probably why they call it a beverrat in Dutch. Any of these specialties can be deep fried and will probably taste good with a side of fried green tomatoes.
For a pig or a Boar, your southern friends will make a big fire and roast the hole animal on that. Later on, the kids can enjoy some marshmellows from the fire, and you'll be in heaven as long as you can ignore the dog sized mosquitos.

No, seriously, I think I'd love the south. They might have some crazy stories for you, but the hospitality is unbelievable. I can't stop thinking, what would Norway be like with people like that?

My friend from Mississippi has promised to pick me and my family up when we come and visit Mississippi. He might also fix us a house while we're staying, and the thought of five (!!!) bathrooms is probably worth the trip alone...