Finding True South – a real Southern Buffet in central Mississippi

We braved “Bloody 98” today!  After a bit more research, we were able to bypass the nasty bit in Alabama, and jumped on in Mississippi.  It turned out to be a great drive.  The four-lane divided highway (unlike Bloody 98 in AL) was well paved, had no traffic, and shed the water dumping down from Tropical Storm Don easily.

Best of all, it took us through Magee, where we used another old tech solution to finding a good restaurant – the “parking lot meter”, as Yelp is as yet undiscovered here as well.  Berry’s Seafood and Catfish house had a huge parking lot, and it was nearly full at around 1pm, which either meant that there was nowhere else to get a meal for miles around, or it was good.  We headed in to find out. 

My wife and son went to the buffet first, while I hung out at the table to watch the valuables and order drinks.  They came back looking mystified, carrying plates full of macaroni and cheese and bread.  I asked “was it that bad?”  They replied, “no, but we have no idea what any of it is, and we didn’t want to accidentally eat that possum you keep talking about”.  I realized that they had never been in the South, having lived only in Florida.  I fetched two platefuls of real Southern food – fried catfish, fried green tomatoes, fried okra, fried chicken, green beans and ham, sweet potato pudding, collard greens, corn pudding, cole slaw, and pecan pie.  We proceeded to enjoy a real Southern feast.

Now this is a pecan pie, not that hockey puck thing they tried to serve us in Washington D.C.  OK, so there are a few bites missing, but I stopped them in time to snap this with the Droid 3.

Yes, it is a small slice, but I had to try the lemon cello-like dessert, and the chocolate pie as well, which yet again I have no picture of as they disappeared too fast.