History Funny / FriedGreenTomatoesAtTheWhistleStopCafe

* Idgie teaches young Stump to tell a [[TallTale fishing story]] that ends with "...and it was this big!" while spreading his singular arm, leaving listeners baffled as to how big the fish actually was. That's not the funny part. The funny part is when we find out he's still doing this to his teenage daughter's dates thirty years later.

--> '''Evelyn:''' "[[IronicEcho Face it, girls, I am older and have more insurance.]]"

* Two younger women steal a parking spot Evelyn had been waiting for and mock her when she protests, crowing, "Face it, lady-- we're younger and faster". [[DisproportionateRetribution In revenge, Evelyn backs up her husband's bigger car into theirs about six times.]]

* The detective assigned to investigate Frank Bennett's disappearance tells Sipsey that Big George's barbecue is "the best damn barbecue I ever ate". Sipsey cryptically remarks that "The secret's in the sauce", [[spoiler: keeping it secret that the meat he'd had eaten included Frank Bennet's dead, chopped up body.]]

--> '''Idgie:''' "Just his wife, the child came later.
--> '''Lawyer:''' "How much later?"
--> '''Idgie:''' (''looking at him as if it were obvious'') "[[DeadpanSnarker The usual-- nine months]]."

* The detective assigned to investigate Frank Bennet's disappearance tells Sipsey that Big George's barbecue is "the best damn barbecue I ever ate". Sipsey cryptically remarks that "The secret's in the sauce", [[spoiler: keeping it secret that the meat he'd had eaten included Frank Bennet's dead, chopped up body.]]

* Earl Adock Sr. leaving his wife and son in the 1940s, after he feels that he has done his manly duty of raising his son to adulthood, despite his wife treating him like a child and not even [[TheUnfavorite the favorite one]], coming after his own son. He leaves and then leaves a PS, to tell Vesta not to yell all the time.

* Earl Adock Sr. leaving his wife and son in the 1940s, after he feels that he has done his manly duty of raising his son to adulthood, despite his wife treating him like a child and not even [[TheUnfavorite the favorite one]], coming after his own son. He leaves and then leaves a PS, to tell Vesta to not yell all the time.

--> '''Idgie:''' "The usual time; nine months."

* Grady and the policemen from Valdosta are complimenting Big George's barbecue. Big George thanks them and say that "The secret's in the sauce!" [[spoiler: Unaware that the meat they had eaten included Frank Bennet's dead, chopped up body.]]

* Angry when a pair of girls take Evelyn's parking spot she had been waiting for, they mock her for being old and slow. [[DisproportionateRetribution In revenge, Evelyn backs up her husband's bigger car into theirs about six times.]]

--> '''Evelyn:''' "[[IronicEcho Let's face it, honey, I am older than you are and have much more insurance than you do.]]"

* After Gray tells Idgie that she shouldn't sell food to the blacks through the backdoor, Idgie says she'll think about it... and promptly puts up a menu at the backdoor that lists all of the café's items, but a nickle or a dime taken off the price, stating that it's only fair, since the blacks are not going into the café or sitting down.

--> '''Woman:''' "What the hell are you doing!? Are you crazy?!"
--> '''Evelyn:''' "[[IronicEcho Face it honey. I am older than you and have much better insurance.]]"

* After Gray tells Idgie that she shouldn't sell food to the blacks through the backdoor, Idgie says she'll think about it... and promptly puts up a menu at the backdoor that lists all of the café's items, but a nickle or a dime taken off the price, stating that it's only fair, since the blacks are not going into the café or sitting down.