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Waffles and Grits a White House Favorite, First Lady Says
Foxnews.com ^ | 2/23/09 | Lee Ross

Posted on 02/23/2009 5:02:20 AM PST by paulycy

The guests at Sunday evening's black tie White House dinner for the nation's governors feasted on servings of Chesapeake crab agnolottis, wagyu beef, Nantucket scallops and huckleberry cobbler for dessert. But thanks to First Lady Michelle Obama, a bit more of the day-to-day eating habits of the new family living at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave has been learned.

"There are some mean waffles and grits that are made in the morning that have become a regular staple for some of us," Obama said. But she didn't reveal exactly for who that breakfast pairing has become a morning favorite. Though she was quick to add that she's not the one who eats waffles every day

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: grits; michelleobama; waffle; whitehouse
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

“What’d you expect from a $315,000/year hospital outreach vp?”

That job, for those that don’t know, was created especially for Michelle. It was created when he was elected jr. Senator and disappeared when the Zero won the election. He or she were being paid back for something.

Doe’s anyone know what brand of bacon they use at the Whitehouse?


81 posted on 02/23/2009 6:39:11 AM PST by panaxanax (Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those that don't.)
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To: paulycy

I was young. Early eighties. What can I say.

Once the Regan economy took hold. I was no longer looking
at pig guts.


82 posted on 02/23/2009 6:44:05 AM PST by TomHarkinIsNotFromIowa (Just so you know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Kenya.)
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To: TomHarkinIsNotFromIowa

I didn’t realize grits was a staple in Chicago...


83 posted on 02/23/2009 6:45:23 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Beowulf9
You're right. This is nothing more than PR, as much as was the elder Bush's affinity for pork rinds or Clinton's fondness for McDonald's hamburgers. The idea of projecting an image of being one of “da peepul” is an old one. As far back as 1840, William Henry Harrison, raised on a plantation in Tidewater Virginia, campaigned for the Presidency as a frontiersman living in a log cabin who drank hard cider. The image was to cotnrast with Martin Van Buren, who was really a self-made man, but was attacked as a New York dilletante.
84 posted on 02/23/2009 6:45:59 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: paulycy

The only thing I can agree on with The Messiahs - I love waffles and grits.


85 posted on 02/23/2009 6:46:54 AM PST by peggybac (Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. Ronald Reagan)
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To: CholeraJoe
I may vomit! The woman who orders room service lobster and champagne at a fancy hotel eats waffles and grits?

To be fair, that room service story was fake - she wasn't even staying at the hotel where it supposedly took place

86 posted on 02/23/2009 6:48:04 AM PST by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: peggybac
I love waffles and grits.

Both at the same time? What do you put on them?

87 posted on 02/23/2009 6:49:05 AM PST by paulycy (BEWARE the LIBERAL/MEDIA Complex)
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To: newfreep

Every black male I work with says that Oprah is a lesbian and they’re surprised when they learn this is news to a lot of people.


88 posted on 02/23/2009 6:50:55 AM PST by jla (Sarah! sarahpac.com)
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To: paulycy

Next it will be chipped beef on toast...what mt dad called SOS


89 posted on 02/23/2009 6:51:29 AM PST by jrd
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To: Carpe Cerevisi
Yeah, and white people put mayonnaise on everything, right?
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No, that's the Japanese. Really.
90 posted on 02/23/2009 6:58:51 AM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/)
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To: jrd
I can remember my dad making chipped beef gravy on toast to this day.

Grits, fried okra, black eye peas I miss them all!

You can take the boy out of the country but you can take the country out of the boy.

91 posted on 02/23/2009 7:21:24 AM PST by sausageseller (http://coolblue.typepad.com/the_cool_blue_blog/)
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To: snoringbear
"You must not be from the south. Grits are eaten by all sorts of persuasions here in the south and southwest."

Chicago is in the South?

92 posted on 02/23/2009 7:34:40 AM PST by LADY J
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To: LADY J
Chicago is in the South?

Chicago has a large population of blacks who are one to three generations removed from the mid-South, especially the Mississippi Delta. It's no different than Polish Americans favoring pierogis or Jewish Americans bagels, except that African American food preferences did not originate from ancestors who came from overseas 90-130 years ago.

93 posted on 02/23/2009 7:47:16 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: theDentist

“So, Mr. Tipton, how could it take you 5 minutes to cook your grits when it takes the entire grit-eating world 20 minutes?”


94 posted on 02/23/2009 7:49:14 AM PST by Karma Police ((optional, printed after your name on post))
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To: paulycy

I prefer them separated but will eat them together if I HAVE to. :-) I love maple syrup on my waffles and lots of butter, salt and pepper on my grits. Now I’m starving!!


95 posted on 02/23/2009 7:50:15 AM PST by peggybac (Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. Ronald Reagan)
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To: paulycy

WH=Waffle House


96 posted on 02/23/2009 7:51:10 AM PST by nufsed
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To: paulycy
"But she didn't reveal exactly for who that breakfast pairing has become a morning favorite."

It's hard not to figure that one out with her fat a$$.

97 posted on 02/23/2009 8:06:19 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: LADY J

“”You must not be from the south. Grits are eaten by all sorts of persuasions here in the south and southwest.”
Chicago is in the South?”

LADY J, are you sure you meant to send your posting to me? Suggest you re-read my postings. I have made no mention of Chicago nor suggested that it is in the south. I am from Texas, God Bless Texas...


98 posted on 02/23/2009 9:13:06 AM PST by snoringbear (Government is the Pimp,)
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To: paulycy
funny pictures of cats with captions
more animals
99 posted on 02/23/2009 9:30:11 AM PST by Miss Behave (When seconds count, the cops take minutes.)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative; CholeraJoe

“To be fair, that room service story was fake - she wasn’t even staying at the hotel where it supposedly took place”


Thanks for posting, I did not know that, after seeing your post I went to factcheck and saw this.

“The New York Post, which originally reported the fabricated story as true on October 17, has retracted its article. Darragh Murphy, the director of Puma PAC, has also retracted the flyer and apologized for perpetuating the hoax.

-Jess Henig

Clarification: Michelle Obama was in New York on the evening of Oct. 15 to attend the final presidential debate but did not stay in the Waldorf-Astoria, according to the Obama campaign (and the New York Post retraction). She left Indiana after her afternoon speech. The receipt is dated 4:04 pm, at which time the campaign says Obama had not yet arrived in New York.”


100 posted on 02/23/2009 9:35:37 AM PST by ansel12 ( Am I the only freeper that has been held in an American internment center?)
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