A couple of Southernisms you can use to praise the cook: I could eat this with my toe in the fire and I could eat this with one foot in the milk bucket. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Eat with Your Toe in the Fire”
In parts of the southern United States, if you really like the food you’re eating, you can say so with your feet. Specifically, you say something like, “I could eat this with my toe in the fire,” or “I could eat this with one foot in the milk bucket.” Oh, how about that? I don’t think i I knew that.
You know, suggesting that the food is so delicious that you can ignore the circumstances. You could also do it with your feet by walking up to the counter and putting in another order.
Right.
I’ll have some more of that fried catfish, please. That’s right. Burn a few calories between the chair and the counter.
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