Courtesy: Krystal

When I was a senior in high school, my best friend agreed to take me home after classes one day. Along the way, we stopped for an afterschool snack. He suggested Krystal.

I was confused. I hadn't had it since I was very small. I didn't think it would be tasty or fill me up.

He reassured me, ordering a menagerie of food, laying it out on a tray, sitting down it in front of me.

But, that was the day my life changed. I've held a silent love for Krystal since the very moment we walked out the glass doors of that restaurant.

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It's hot out there, y'all.

Some folks would say it's because of the humidity, some would say it's because of the blistering high temperatures and some would say they don't care what the root cause is as long as somebody lets 'em take a nap in the deep freeze.

If there's one thing we can all agree on though, it's that summer in the South is a different kind of heat -- the kind of heat that has inspired a colorful Southern expression (or 13.)

Sure, the South has plenty of phrases for when it gets hotter than Georgia asphalt outside (you can find them here), but there's always room for more. After all, we're not going to run out of unbearably hot days anytime soon so you might as well have a few extra expressions handy.

That's why we decided to use our Just Like Mama Used to Say card game to cook up a few expressions of our own for those days when it's so hot the swimming pool starts boiling. If you want to come up with a few of your own, you can grab a copy of the game here for $24.99.

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Say It Southern - Style Yourself Chic

Join Sarah Stone Smith and Courtney Goolsby, co-hosts of the Say It Southern Podcast, as they highlight the latest women movers, shakers, and taste-makers across the South. This episode features Megan LaRussa Chenoweth with Style Yourself Chic in Birmingham, Alabama.

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