{"id":212430,"date":"2025-05-07T11:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T15:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/?p=212430"},"modified":"2025-05-07T14:00:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T18:00:37","slug":"landon-bryants-new-book-is-a-hilarious-field-guide-to-the-southern-drawl-yall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/articles\/landon-bryants-new-book-is-a-hilarious-field-guide-to-the-southern-drawl-yall","title":{"rendered":"Landon Bryant&#8217;s New Book Is a Hilarious Field Guide to the Southern Drawl, Y\u2019all"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Landon Bryant never set out to go viral. The former art teacher and native of Laurel, Mississippi, just had a knack for spinning a good yarn\u2014and a wife who was tired of being his only audience. \u201cWe\u2019ve known each other since second grade,\u201d Bryant says of his wife, Kate. \u201cShe\u2019s heard all my stories. One day she goes, \u2018Why don\u2019t you just tell the internet?\u2019\u201d So he did.<\/p>\n\n\n<!-- Promo shortcode start --><div id=\"nlf-1c\" class=\"gg-promo topic-tots\"><div class=\"grid\"><div class=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/promos\/talk-of-the-south-v1.jpg\" alt=\"stairway\"><\/div><div class=\"right\"><form id=\"nlf-1\" method=\"post\" class=\"form\" action=\"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/newsletters\/\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"gg_form_submit\" value=\"nlf-1\"><div class=\"hed\">Stay in Touch with <em>G&amp;G<\/em><\/div><div class=\"dek\">Get our weekly Talk of the South newsletter.<\/div><div class=\"action two-items\"><div class=\"input-left\"><input type=\"text\" name=\"email\" class=\"email-input\" value=\"\" placeholder=\"you@example.com\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"group_id\" value=\"97139188\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"shortcode_form\" value=\"nlf-1\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"subscription_384\" value=\"on\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"prev_page_id\" value=\"212430\"><\/div><div class=\"gform_footer\"><button class=\"g-recaptcha button button-primary after-email\" data-sitekey=\"6Lc-hRkaAAAAAI84hbB81Jl48pGievR_C_UgHdnY\" data-callback=\"on_submit_nlf_1\" data-action=\"submit\">Sign Up<\/button><script>function on_submit_nlf_1(token) {document.getElementById(\"nlf-1\").submit();}<\/script><\/div><\/div><div class=\"captcha-terms\"><p>This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google <a href=\"https:\/\/policies.google.com\/privacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Privacy Policy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/policies.google.com\/terms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p><\/div><\/form><\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- Promo shortcode end -->\n\n\n\n<p>With a flowing mane of brown hair and a warm Southern drawl, Bryant started speaking straight to the camera on his Instagram account, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/landontalks\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Landon Talks<\/a>, serving up nuanced observations about life in the South. Pollen? \u201cA thick blanket of misery covering everything you know and everything you love.\u201d Boiled peanuts? \u201cYou gotta boil them till they\u2019re soft as a politician\u2019s handshake.\u201d And humidity? \u201cIt\u2019s like walking in someone\u2019s mouth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His homespun hot takes were already gaining traction, but Bryant really blew up in 2023 after some celebrities became fans. \u201cJennifer Garner and Chrissy Teigen shared my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/C4B20LCvAmJ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bless Your Heart<\/a> video in the same weekend,\u201d Bryant recalls. \u201cI<strong> <\/strong>literally had to pull over on the side of the road to the gas station to be like, \u2018Hold on, pause. Either we have to delete all this or really think about it.\u2019\u201d He held on. Today, he has 476K Instagram followers and counting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part entertainer, part accidental anthropologist, Bryant has carved out an unexpected role: keeper of a vanishing Southern tongue. Raised at the elbow of his great-grandmother Elva (that\u2019s pronounced <em>Elvy<\/em>, if you please), a woman who could sermonize on prayer lists and whip up a perfect yeast roll without breaking a sweat, Bryant absorbed more than family stories. He inherited a whole Mississippi dialect\u2014a way of speaking that\u2019s undeniably Southern but distinctly its own. And that\u2019s another thing Bryant is here to remind you: The South is not a monolith. \u201cIt\u2019s a region full of variables,\u201d he writes in his new book, <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/1939\/9780762488322\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bless Your Heart: A Field Guide to All Things Southern<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p><div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1121772\" class=\"ad-container in-line-ad mobile inContent\" data-ad-size-mapping=\"inContent\" data-ad-path=\"\/68000349\/in-between-modules\" data-ad-sizes=\"[ [336, 280], [300, 250], [300, 50] ]\" data-ad-channel=\"\" data-ad-type=\"In-between Modules\" data-page-terms=\"flagged\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-4928263\" class=\"ad-container in-line-ad tablet inContent\" data-ad-size-mapping=\"inContent\" data-ad-path=\"\/68000349\/in-between-modules\" data-ad-sizes=\"[ [336, 280], [300, 250], [300, 50] ]\" data-ad-channel=\"\" data-ad-type=\"In-between Modules\" data-page-terms=\"flagged\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-8155906\" class=\"ad-container in-line-ad desktop inContent\" data-ad-size-mapping=\"inContent\" data-ad-path=\"\/68000349\/in-between-modules\" data-ad-sizes=\"[ [336, 280], [300, 250], [300, 50] ]\" data-ad-channel=\"\" data-ad-type=\"In-between Modules\" data-page-terms=\"flagged\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"756\" height=\"1100\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/9780762488322_RetailCover_RetailAndCatalog-756x1100.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-212432\" style=\"width:622px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/9780762488322_RetailCover_RetailAndCatalog-756x1100.jpg 756w, https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/9780762488322_RetailCover_RetailAndCatalog-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/9780762488322_RetailCover_RetailAndCatalog-768x1117.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/9780762488322_RetailCover_RetailAndCatalog-825x1200.jpg 825w, https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/9780762488322_RetailCover_RetailAndCatalog.jpg 1650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through punch lines and porch wisdom, he\u2019s documenting a fading culture and language one \u201ccattywampus\u201d and \u201cfixin\u2019 to\u201d at a time. But the new book is more than a collection of sayings. It\u2019s a love letter to the people who raised him and the culture that shaped him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHonestly, my grandparents\u2019 generation is disappearing,\u201d Bryant says. \u201cSince I started working on this book, my wife and I have lost three grandparents. So in many ways, this became a collection of the things they passed down to us.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a time when his eleven-year-old son speaks what he calls \u201cthe global YouTube language,\u201d Bryant felt a deep urge to preserve the voices of his neck of the South, a place he describes as only he can: \u201ca collection of people all stirred together in a hot, wet soup of humid air.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What else does Bryant have strong feelings about? We decided to ask him in a rapid fire Q&amp;A:<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p><div id=\"div-gpt-ad-9925916\" class=\"ad-container in-line-ad mobile inContent\" data-ad-size-mapping=\"inContent\" data-ad-path=\"\/68000349\/in-between-modules\" data-ad-sizes=\"[ [336, 280], [300, 250], [300, 50] ]\" data-ad-channel=\"\" data-ad-type=\"In-between Modules\" data-page-terms=\"flagged\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-4264024\" class=\"ad-container in-line-ad tablet inContent\" data-ad-size-mapping=\"inContent\" data-ad-path=\"\/68000349\/in-between-modules\" data-ad-sizes=\"[ [336, 280], [300, 250], [300, 50] ]\" data-ad-channel=\"\" data-ad-type=\"In-between Modules\" data-page-terms=\"flagged\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-2558128\" class=\"ad-container in-line-ad desktop inContent\" data-ad-size-mapping=\"inContent\" data-ad-path=\"\/68000349\/in-between-modules\" data-ad-sizes=\"[ [336, 280], [300, 250], [300, 50] ]\" data-ad-channel=\"\" data-ad-type=\"In-between Modules\" data-page-terms=\"flagged\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sweet tea or unsweet?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sweet tea, culturally, but personally unsweet because I am working on my triglycerides and blood sugar.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Most divisive topic you\u2019ve ever posted about (other than <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/landontalks\/reel\/DGg6vW0yS-M\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Parker Posey\u2019s <em>White Lotus<\/em> accent<\/strong><\/a><strong>)?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That one got me, but I think the most controversial was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/CvvRgwbtDVI\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deviled eggs<\/a>. I was listing options of how to make them and I said you could put crackers in your deviled eggs. That got me a call from the Food Network. 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font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/CvvRgwbtDVI\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\">A post shared by Landon Bryant (@landontalks)<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p><div id=\"div-gpt-ad-6398595\" class=\"ad-container in-line-ad mobile inContent\" data-ad-size-mapping=\"inContent\" data-ad-path=\"\/68000349\/in-between-modules\" data-ad-sizes=\"[ [336, 280], [300, 250], [300, 50] ]\" data-ad-channel=\"\" data-ad-type=\"In-between Modules\" data-page-terms=\"flagged\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-4929942\" class=\"ad-container in-line-ad tablet inContent\" data-ad-size-mapping=\"inContent\" data-ad-path=\"\/68000349\/in-between-modules\" data-ad-sizes=\"[ [336, 280], [300, 250], [300, 50] ]\" data-ad-channel=\"\" data-ad-type=\"In-between Modules\" data-page-terms=\"flagged\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-4197125\" class=\"ad-container in-line-ad desktop inContent\" data-ad-size-mapping=\"inContent\" data-ad-path=\"\/68000349\/in-between-modules\" data-ad-sizes=\"[ [336, 280], [300, 250], [300, 50] ]\" data-ad-channel=\"\" data-ad-type=\"In-between Modules\" data-page-terms=\"flagged\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your signature Southern saying?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Might could. I love might could. I think it\u2019s so fun because it means so much: You might; you could; you have the option to, and you might.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What\u2019s always in your fridge?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Duke\u2019s Mayo. And sweet tea. I make a very good sweet tea.&nbsp;<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p><div id=\"div-gpt-ad-6309296\" class=\"ad-container in-line-ad mobile inContent\" data-ad-size-mapping=\"inContent\" data-ad-path=\"\/68000349\/in-between-modules\" data-ad-sizes=\"[ [336, 280], [300, 250], [300, 50] ]\" data-ad-channel=\"\" data-ad-type=\"In-between Modules\" data-page-terms=\"flagged\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-7659721\" class=\"ad-container in-line-ad tablet inContent\" data-ad-size-mapping=\"inContent\" data-ad-path=\"\/68000349\/in-between-modules\" data-ad-sizes=\"[ [336, 280], [300, 250], [300, 50] ]\" data-ad-channel=\"\" data-ad-type=\"In-between Modules\" data-page-terms=\"flagged\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1980406\" class=\"ad-container in-line-ad desktop inContent\" data-ad-size-mapping=\"inContent\" data-ad-path=\"\/68000349\/in-between-modules\" data-ad-sizes=\"[ [336, 280], [300, 250], [300, 50] ]\" data-ad-channel=\"\" data-ad-type=\"In-between Modules\" data-page-terms=\"flagged\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dream dinner party guest, dead or alive?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dolly Parton.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Southern phrase you secretly hate hearing?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hate anything that\u2019s exclusive or anything that is like talking down on people. 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The regularity of coming together as a family, that really hits.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cotillion: a Southern tradition worth saving or naw?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"div-gpt-ad-6967539\" class=\"ad-container in-line-ad mobile inContent\" data-ad-size-mapping=\"inContent\" data-ad-path=\"\/68000349\/in-between-modules\" data-ad-sizes=\"[ [336, 280], [300, 250], [300, 50] ]\" data-ad-channel=\"\" data-ad-type=\"In-between Modules\" data-page-terms=\"flagged\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1759626\" class=\"ad-container in-line-ad tablet inContent\" data-ad-size-mapping=\"inContent\" data-ad-path=\"\/68000349\/in-between-modules\" data-ad-sizes=\"[ [336, 280], [300, 250], [300, 50] ]\" data-ad-channel=\"\" data-ad-type=\"In-between Modules\" data-page-terms=\"flagged\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-4743101\" class=\"ad-container in-line-ad desktop inContent\" data-ad-size-mapping=\"inContent\" data-ad-path=\"\/68000349\/in-between-modules\" data-ad-sizes=\"[ [336, 280], [300, 250], [300, 50] ]\" data-ad-channel=\"\" data-ad-type=\"In-between Modules\" data-page-terms=\"flagged\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Okay, so cotillion sounds like something that doesn\u2019t have the best history, but there is something to learning the etiquette of a place and learning how to exist in that space so you\u2019re comfortable. Like I can go from a farm to a jackets-required dinner because I know the rules. That can be a good thing to have in your arsenal of tools.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Best advice your great-grandmother Elva ever gave you?<\/strong><br>To learn as much as I can, whether it\u2019s exploring the woods and finding a new flower or enjoying a book. And love people. That\u2019s what I learned from her.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Boat shoes: Southern gentlemen staple or strictly coastal convenience?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think they\u2019re a Southern gentlemen staple. They work real well for a day party. They work real well for a crawfish boil. But you do got to keep them clean. 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