Evidently, Pimento Cheese Awareness Month was not long enough.* In the HuffPo, some dude named "Meathead Goldwyn" asserts that "Carolina caviar" is a "nickname" for pimento cheese. As Cod readers know, pimento cheese is a subject of some interest here, and I've never heard it called that. It does not make a lot of sense, in that the one does not have much to do with the other -- it would be like calling sweet tea "Alabama Armagnac." On the other, alliterative nicknames that involve the name of a Southern state are usually pejorative -- Tennessee Tuxedo, Louisiana Limoncello, Mississippi Mustache, etc. I do not have the resources of the DARE at my disposal, and it is possible that somewhere, someone besides this Meathead has referred to pimento cheese as "Carolina caviar," but a cursory search of the phrase indicates that it actually refers to an entirely different dish, a salsaish dip with blackeyed peas** providing the caviarish element. So the "Carolina caviar" headline in the HuffPo is not so much wrong as misleading and confusing. I guess the HuffPo, and its readers, get what they pay for.
**Without a rooting interest beyond the Cormac McCarthy fantasy that will be outlined here, is there a way I can get down a prop bet on Fergie soiling herself during the SB Whatever halftime show?