Wide Open by Rich Powell for October 08, 2013

That’s easy… none of the above. Plum

“SLAP-DANG OUT OF PORKCHOPS, but we have boo-skoodlins of them tee-ninecy baby-back ribs."

I have to agree with Plods, with one exception, in KY we say “PLUMB” with just a slight pronunciation of the b.

slam-dab

Georgia and Alabama are ‘slap’ out of chops. Another version, is ‘we give outta chops’ ‘is mornin’. There IS a place called Slapout, Alabama.

According to the locals, it was evidently called Slapout in the early part of the 20th century, because the “sorry excuse for a general store” that was there in the 1920s was always " ‘slapout’ of everything". The owner would answer whenever someone asked for something he did not have, which apparently was often, “I’m slap out.” (wiki Answers)

And a little north of Tigdi in Indiana* it’s also with the ‘b’.*Can’t remember if I’ve made the argument here, or not but I believe the south ends here in my county. It’s the northernmost county in the US where the predominant term for carbonated soft drinks is “coke” for example.

In our area it would be “fresh out of…”. This would imply that he customer just missed getting the last of a limited supply of the item and that the item was stocked in the amount to meet expected demand in order to avoid spoilage.

@Rich Powell

“I hear Slap a LOT in NC. Of course…there’s no one answer…it’s just a cartoon, you nuts!"

But…. but…. I wanted to say something, too!!It waz somethin’ about yard sails or ..no, that wun’t it… Oh crap… Maybe tomorrow….

When my grandmother was sent by her southern grannie to the general store for taters, he asked her whether she wanted eatin’ taters or sellin’ taters. He explained that eatin’ taters were the yeller ones, and the sellin’ taters were the white ones that they sell to those damn-yankees.