"No pork on my fork"

[Mullins, Bill]

You can't really use Huntsville as a guide for Alabama or southern
speech.  Remember, this is the city where, when Wernher von Braun was
speaking to a bunch of aerospace executives during the Apollo program in
the 1960's (he had arrived just before the boom -- he caused the boom --
in 1950), "You can tell us Huntsville old-timers by our southern
accents" (spoken with a very correct Prussian accent . . .)

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> What! Long-o and open-o are not preserved before /r/ in
> Alabama! I don't eat no barbecue made by no vowel conflaters.
>
> dInIs (who knows his horse from his sore throat)
>
> >There's a barbecue restaurant here in Huntsville that has the slogan:
> >"Too much pork for just one fork".
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> Dennis R. Preston
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