Can I Mess with My Grandma’s Sacred Dressing Recipe?

BY RICK BRAGG

We like to joke about the things we will fight over, down here, but it’s posturing, mostly. I have never seen anyone actually go bare-knuckle over the Alabama-Auburn game, though once, in New Orleans, I did see a pretty good dustup between Florida and Florida State fans on Bourbon Street. It was great. The preamble—mostly cussing and shoving—took so long I had time to get me a root beer, and a good place to lean. By the time the first punch was thrown, everybody was pretty much wore out. I don’t think people in boat shoes and khaki shorts should go into battle, anyhow, even in the French Quarter. My point is, we rarely follow through on our big talk about beat-in’ somebody like the proverbial ugly redheaded stepchild, which…

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