If a Southerner warns she’s going to put a spider on your biscuit, it means she’s about to give you bad news. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Spider in Your Biscuit”
Grant, how would you feel if I told you I was gonna put a spider in your biscuit?
A spider in my biscuit? Well, I know the spider, that’s the part of the stove that the skillet goes on, right?
Yeah, yeah, but no relation.
No relation. I don’t know, I guess I would be a little worried that you’d gone over the deep end finally.
Finally, she’s finally there. What is it?
Well it’s an expression that means to communicate bad news or to injure a person or put a spider in your dumpling.
Put a spider in your dumpling, grand. I’m gonna put a spider in your dumpling.
But you know we’re gonna have to, yeah, you know, walk home. Nobody wants a spider.
No, nobody wants a spider in their biscuit.
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