Mitt Romney’s grits and catfish act goes too far for Southern critics

Boston Herald ^ | March 13, 2012 | Hillary Chabot

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Yup. You nailed it. John Kerry 2.0.

Disgusting and slimey with his garages full of Cadillacs.

By the way, I made my man eggs, country ham, CHEESE grits and biscuits for breakfast today. We ain’ nevah heared of no chaesey gruhts bafoh.

Do you know the difference betweet yankees and damn yankees?

Yankees go home.

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John Kerry II.

[NKP_Vet]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-njjQNN0En8

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[N. Theknow]

If you're really a Southerner, you should know that it's "ice tea" -- no "d" after the ice!

And "sweet tea" says it all.

There is no need to say "ice sweet tea" cause it's is unnecessary.

Sweet tea is ALWAYS served with lots of ice!

Otherwise it's like saying, "Can I have a hamburger with a bun please?"

Never could stomach sweet tea in the North. Gotta ask for iced tea with sugar. Pour in the sugar to tea that's cold and has maybe 3 ice cubes in it, stir like Hell to try and dissolve it, and then think why did I bother to order this? Imagine ordering a Co-Cola and the waitress bringing you an unsweetened Co-Cola with a pack of sugar.

ONLY way to make sweet tea is to put sugar in it while it's still hot from boiling. Cool it and grab a half gallon jug, fill it with ice, sit down and commence to supperin'.

[Heart of Georgia]

My cheese-lover son uses cheesy grits as a dip for his biscuits :-)

I don’t care for the cheesy grits at all. But give me a plate of soft scrambled eggs, bacon, and grits with butter and salt and I’m in southern cuisine heaven.

[TomGuy]

If you're really a Southerner, you should know that it's "ice tea" -- no "d" after the ice!

I was tryin' not to confuse the outsiders. They might think tea comes on a popsicle stick. And ice or 'iced' distinguishes it from hot (with a cup) tea.

Now, you wanna talk about pop and Coke??? lol

[MomwithHope]

Hold muh beer while I start up my Cadillac!

[NappyOne]

I heard this discussion this morning driving into work (Huntsville, AL). The radio host never heard of “cheesy grits” either. I figure Romney was thinking of Eric Cartman’s favorite snack and got all flummoxed and tongue tied.

Anyway, why should Romney respect the intelligence of all us Yahoo’s in Crackerland? Unless, of course, you are a Yahoo in Crackerland Mississippi.

LEE PAPA: “Who’s saying she’s hurting Obama because of the GOP’s stance on women’s issues now. You can’t turn back the clock, and that’s what they want to do. They don’t want to conserve what exists, they want to actually turn it back.”

STEPHANIE MILLER: “So what happens in Crackerland this week, as we like to say? We have, what, Alabama and Mississippi coming up tomorrow.”

PAPA: “I think Santorum and Gingrich split the yahoos in Alabama and Romney just flat out wins Mississippi.”

The NappyOne

[dfwgator]

"Awww don't feel no ways tard...ahve come too farrrrr from where I started frum."

[CatherineofAragon]

"BTW, one of my nieces just married a couple of months ago - good ol’ Southern boy (college educated), hunts, fishes, can fix anything, and dearly loves God, country and my niece. She chose well .... and she’ll vote for ‘true grit’ as well, along with a lot of other Southern women who find the shallow pandering drawl & grits comments offensive. Still waters run deep & so do Southern women."

My niece, who just turned 20, is model-gorgeous, sweet and pleasant as the day is long, and loves hunting and pickup trucks (she got a new shotgun for Christmas and was running around, showing it off to everybody). Her mom's husband---her stepfather---was from up north, and he was so worried that she might end up marrying some Southern redneck.

They're divorced now, and he's back up north. :)

[Darren McCarty]

Song, song of the south
Mitt talks too much,needs to shut his mouth
Gone, gone with the wind
He's gonna lose won't be back again.

[CatherineofAragon]

"Eatin’ grits is a sterotype of southerners. I’ve lived in Mississippi or Alabama for 49 years. I can count the number of times I’ve consumed a grit on both hands. Waffle house is the only restaurant I know of that serves them. And “cheesy grits”? What the hell is that? I’ve got to go- my possum is gettin cold."

LOL. I hate grits---just the sight of them makes me sick. But no one I know eats them. And the only restaurant I know of that serves "cheesy grits" is a jumped-up pretentious place that is more into "presentation" than serving edible food.

[NappyOne]

I learned that the hard way. Got quite a culinary jolt when ordering iced tea for the first time in Huntsville, AL. I learned then and there to order unsweet iced tea (this Westerner perfers it that way), but I still get sweetened tea half the time at the drive-through window.

The NappyOne

[kalee]

This southerner does love pizza. :)

[Wallace T.]

Rick Santorum, who is also a Yankee, does not play-act faux Southernness while campaigning in the Deep South. Granted, western Pennsylvania is not as urbanized and elitist as Massachusetts (they hunt, fish, and drive pickup trucks in that part of the North). Nonetheless, there is a cultural gap between a Northern Catholic of northern Italian ancestry and the largely Anglo-Celtic Protestant South. With Santorum, what you see is what you get. He is the same in Iowa as in Arizona or Alabama. Whatever his flaws, a lack of consistency is not one of them.

[kalee]

Saving that act for Nebraska. ;)

[kalee]

Pop? Coke? Where are you from? It’s Co-Cola, no matter what it is.

[Hepsabeth]

“Then these same people run for office and change the very things they like! We’ve had enough of those kind of outsiders.”

How are these people getting into office? Obviously, they’re getting votes from somewhere.

[Darren McCarty]

Slime is right. I don't know how it is in your area, but I got 15 robocalls in 4 days here in Michigan, mostly telling me how much of a bad person Santorum is.

I still voted for Santorum.