List of foods of Arkansas and the South:

Beverages

• Sweet tea - usually served with lemon and sometimes with mint
• Tennessee whiskey - Jack Daniel's and George Dickel are the two remaining brands
• Bourbon - made in central Kentucky
• Muscadine wine - usually a homemade product
• Lemonade
• Coca-Cola - first made in Atlanta, Ga.
• Pepsi Cola - first made in New Bern, North Carolina
• Buttermilk
• Orange juice from Florida
• Orange Nehi
• R.C. Cola - first made in Columbus, Georgia
• Dr. Pepper - a popular drink in Texas before it achieved national standing
• Mountain Dew - originally made in southwestern Virginia

Meats, poultry and seafood

• Barbecue - sauces vary regionally
• Chicken and dumplings
• Chicken Fried steak
• Chicken gizzards - fried
• Chit'lins - fried small intestine of a hog
• Quail
• Crawfish - also called crawdad
• Fried chicken - usually flour battered and pan fried
• Fried fish - cornmeal battered or dredged and pan or deep fried
• Catfish - usually fried
• Game meat - venison, squirrel, rabbit
• Ham - pan fried, roasted, or smoked; varieties include sugar cured or country (salt cured)
• Ham hocks
• Liver - usually pork or fried chicken liver
• Smithfield ham - a specialty of Smithfield, Virginia

Vegetables and salads

• Beans - often cooked down with chunks of ham, bacon grease, or onions
  • Butter or Lima beans
  • Pole beans
  • White or great northern beans
  • Green beans
  • Pinto beans
• Greens - seasoned with some kind of meat or meat grease. The liquid left after cooking is known as "pot likker".
  • Collard greens
  • Turnip greens
  • mustard greens
• Carrots (cooked with butter and brown sugar)
• Congealed salad
• Corn
  • Boiled corn, often "on the cob"
  • Fried corn fritters
  • Creamed corn
  • Corn pudding
• Mashed potatoes - called "creamed" in some regions
• Okra - flour-battered and pan-fried or boiled, stewed, or steamed
• Onion - Sliced Vidalia, or whole green onion
• Peas - often cooked with chunks of ham or onions
  • Black-eyed peas
  • Purple hull
  • Field peas
• Squash - often cooked down with onions or fried like okra
• Tomatoes - sliced ripe, also eaten at breakfast
  • Fried green tomatoes
• Sweet potatoes
• Macaroni and cheese
• Yams

Breads

• Biscuits - traditionally prepared with buttermilk
• Cornbread
• Cracklin' Cornbread - has pork cracklins in it
• Corn pone - also called hoecake, Johnny cake
• Hush puppies

Side dishes and complements

• Peanut butter
• Muscadine jelly
• Cane syrup
• Apple Butter
• Deviled eggs
• Dressing - stuffing, but with cornbread as a base and prepared and served separately from the meat
• Gravy is used liberally on meats, potatoes, biscuits. May be milk-based (country gravy) or based on coffee (red-eye gravy) mixed with the fat drippings leftover from cooking meat
• Hot sauce - some are made in either Louisiana or Texas
  • Tabasco sauce - trademarked of aged hot sauce
• Grits
• Sorghum molasses
• Cracklin' - fried pork rind

Miscellaneous

• Cornbread sunk into a tall glass of milk or buttermilk
• Peanuts in Coke
• Pimento cheese sandwiches
• Vienna sausages

Desserts and sweets

Cakes

• Coconut cake
• Pound cake
• Red velvet cake

Candies

• Peanut brittle
• Pecan brittle
• Moon pies
• Goo Goo Cluster
• Pecan Divinity
• Pralines

Cobblers

• Blackberry cobbler
• Peach cobbler

Pies

• Apple pie
• Fried pies - peach, apple, cherry and chocolate are most common
• Key lime pie
• Lemon ice box pie
• Mississippi mud pie
• Pecan pie
• Sweet potato pie

Puddings

• Banana pudding
• Bread pudding