Romney: Learning to like grits on Southern swing
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Source: USA Today
Mitt Romney is trying to be a Southerner.
I am learning to say y'all and I like grits, and things, he joked with
a Mississippi audience last night. Strange things are happening to me.
Romney, who campaigns today in Mississippi and Alabama ahead of primaries
there next week, has acknowledged that the next two states are an uphill climb.
The former Massachusetts governor told a Birmingham radio station that the
South isn't a natural for him. I realize it's a bit of an away game, Romney said,
before adding that he's confident that he'll pick up delegates in the two states.
Read more: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2012/03/mitt-romney-grits-mississippi-alabama-primaries/1#.T1oCOGBAfbw
Mitt Romney, I am learning to say y'all and I like grits. He has to be the most awkward
f***ing man in the world.
What is next is he goin' to fix up a mess of catfish and have some read beans and rice?
Afterwards is he is goin' to go out and sling some drilling pipe on an oil rig?
This is halfway fun and halfway painful to watch.
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Edit Does he not have some sort of handler that tells him what to say and not to say
@ his appearances? I remember helping with a campaign that had people coming
into speak and always there was a person to tell the speaker .... the place you were at,
the local pols you should thank and call out, what "off the cuff things to say," and to
he or she looked over the speech to make sure it was on point and didn't piss off the locals.
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Maybe that will shut him up.
You gotta be a fifth-generation Southerner to eat that without retching.
Don't want to get him hooked on something good that is southern!
Boiled okra, yep ... that'll do it!
Give me a muffaletta, some black beans and rice, dirty rice,
a po-boy, jambalaya, in season fresh water melon, fried chicken,
and maybe some crawfish along with some beer and I could be happy
...... a little zydeco music and some dancing would also work.
Sorry but I can skip the grits ...... although I like polenta 
But I wouldn't dream of dropping a y'all or try to fit in as a "good old boy."
I just read* yesterday that people in a small town in Alabama said they
thought Mitt was a fake although they liked him more than the "black guy."
* http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-romney-south-20120307,0,6068553.story
Come on Romney, you can do it..
Just like us common folk do
Anybody have a verdict on instant grits, btw?
(I've had cream of wheat and made a certain way it kinda tastes like grits...........a good substitute but I want the real thing. 
I was atttending a small college in the South, and my room mate was from New Jersey.
On his first trip down, he stopped at at breakfast place and when the waitress asked if he wanted grits, he asked "Well, how many come in an order?"
Her reply, "I don't know a couple hundred or a thousand maybe".
He was an English and grammar wonk who also had a problem with the Southern term "fixing dinner".
"What's wrong, is it broken", he would mock.
My mom told me she taught me to eat mine "Yankee-style", with butter and sugar. Most Southerners I know go with salt and pepper, with a little butter.
Or maybe some red-eye gravy.
Just came back from visiting the family in New Orleans, and I ate food from Zea's for the first time. All I can say is, there had better be a Zea's in Heaven, or I will investigate alternative places to go! (Maybe that's why the city has so many ghosts?)
Anyway, they served "Corn Grits." Kind of redundant, right? No way! It is large kernels of roasted corn in fluffy clouds of butter-infused grits. Absolutely ambrosia! It almost made me forget the "Wet Ribs" with yummy sauce and meat falling off the bones; grilled portobello musroom caps, asparabus, carrots, and God knows what else; Mediterranean hummus with olive oil and basil and garlic; and on and on. But what I dream about at midnight, when the hungries hit, is a mountain of "Corn Grits."
Can't wait to go back and do more "power dining!"
whatta joke
