“‘Roxie, where are the Memphis mints?’
    ‘Great big pasteboard box yonder in de pantry, Miss Tempe,’ called Roxie. ‘Have to untie you de ribbon to git you a taste. But you ought to see dem Memphis ice slippers! Green!’
    Tempe went from the pantry to the back-porch icebox. ‘And hard as rocks—I know,’ she said. ‘And slippery—! People’ll lose them off their plates and they’ll slide across the floor from here to yonder, oh  me.’”

—Eudora Welty, Delta Wedding, 1946.