FanFic Help - Deep South THANKS

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> This is way off topic, but I was wondering if we have someone from
> the deep south (USA) or familiar with the deep south.
> 
> SETUP-
> 
> Through a long series of events, Dobby and Harry are meeting with a
> southern plantation owner (a wizard). ...
> 
> QUESTION #1-
> After offerring Harry refreshment, they decide on lemonade;.... 
> So when the house-elf bring the tray, what else should be on it? 
> ...
> I'm looking for an additional treat, probably finger food, that 
> would reflect southern cooking. ...edited...
> 
> QUESTION #2-
> 
> I need some common (stereotypical) slave names (for the elves), both
> male and female, ... I've come up with is Eliza and Toby. 
> 
> bboy_mn

bboy_mn:

Thanks to everyone who replied. I got some great ideas, especially
about the proper way to present it. I hadn't even thought of that. I
was just going to have the elf bring three glasses of lemonade on a
tray. But three glasses of ice with a pitcher will actually work
better. Plus the special ice teaspoon, small tray of lemon slices,
etc... will all help create a much more vivid mental image.

A couple people contacted me off-line and wanted to know where this
was actually taking place since different areas of the south have
different traditions and foods. The location will either be Virginia
or Georgia (I'm leaning toward Virginia). For story reasons, it has to
be near South Carolina. There is a ginger ale company in South
Carolina that Harry and Ron know about (it's a long story), and they
will briefly contemplate whether they should go there and get some
ginger ale. 

That geographic location also make the Peach Turnover idea a good one;
an idea that hadn't occurred to me. It's a somewhat elegant finger
food. Far more elegant than common donut shop sweet rolls. The peach
turnover idea also open the possibility for Harry to confuse them with
'pasties', which as you know from reading the story are a pastries (of
sorts) that are more like 'hot pockets', sort of a meal in a pastry
shell. 

I'm open to more ideas either on-line or off, and thanks again to
those who responded.

Steve