At a banquet:
Person A: What IS this? It kind of tastes like grits.
Person B: I think it is polenta.
Person A: What is polenta?
Person B: Italian grits.
At a private residence:
Person A: What’s you cat’s name?
Person B: Atticus.
Person A: Atticus? Y’all are liberals, then.
Person B: Yes.
At the airport:
Person A: Have y’all been to France before?
Person B: No, the only time I’ve ever been out of the country was when I went to Hawaii.
–Ann Bartow
