Forget Halle - Southern men lust after grits

via Internet | July 10, 2003 | Tammy Carter

[patton]

THANK YOU! I thought I was alone, and I was goin' to kneel on Granpa's grave out in Culpepper, and apologize.

[savedbygrace]

"Just eat it and don't ask."

;-)

[evilC]

http://www.grits.com/

See also http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porridge

[savedbygrace]

It tastes great. Sliced thin, fried crispy, put between two slices of buttered toast, it's heaven on earth.

Just never, never, never, never, never think about what it really is.

[The Coopster]

I did my boot at MCRD San Diego (USMC), and they used to serve grits. I put butter, salt, and pepper on it, and it was pretty darn good.

Then one day, I saw a fellow recruit putting milk and sugar on it. I said "What the sam hill are you doing"?

He replied: "Fixing up my oatmeal".....

The scary part was, we were both right. The generic substance tasted like grits the way I prepared them, and oatmeal with his prep method.

To this day, I'm still not sure which it was......

[annyokie]

MMMMmmmmmmm, love grits! Mix your fried eggs in and crumble bacon over=heaven!

[semaj]

Being a Califronia boy and all, I used to make fun of people who ate grits. That is until I had my first taste of grits when I joined the Corps. Delicious! The perfect side with eggs and bacon, eggs and ham, egg and sausage, and even by themselves.

[My2Cents]

You haven't LIVED until you've had Black Bear scrapple!

GAG!

[William Terrell]

There are people in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi who will shoot you in the head, if you put sugar in their grits.

I will shoot you in the head if you put sugar in your grits.

[The Coopster]

See my post #105 for a flashback.....

[stands2reason]

Hominy is what Southerners do to your nice corn...

[xJones]

I am originally from Alabama....I hate grits.

I'll bet you had to leave Alabama one step ahead of the neighbors when they found out you hated grits. :)

Grits are the sauce and sustenance of Southern breakfasts. They are very bland, yes, but that allows them to snuggle up to fried eggs, swim in red-eye gravy, and bask with biscuits. The Waffle House chain, for instance, has complimentary grits, where countless Southerners have enjoyed the lowly but noble grits. Yankees have their fried slices of pork-mush called scrapple for breakfast, but the South has grits.

[William Terrell]

Whats a grit?

It's a tiny grain of specially processed corn that gets hung between your teeth and increases your intelligence.

[Ichneumon]

A really good gumbo will make you think of the ocean when you taste it.

...and should look like dredgings from the bottom of the Mississippi river.

[Servant of the Nine]

Learn Southron Grits PING

So9

[annyokie]

Fried okra is to die for! You yankee, you!

[Capriole]

What about people who put sugar in their corn bread? (*Shudder*). Although, I have to say, a bowl of corn bread topped off with a little molasses is mighty tasty for breakfast. I just naturally want to eat southern food. Fried catfish. Butterbeans. Okra. Corn bread. Turnip greens with pot likker. Fried green tomatoes.

Sugar should be confined to tea and juleps. Sugar on or in cornbread is a heathenish yankified practice. It is symptomatic of the creeping yankification of Southern culture. Anyone over the age of twelve who does that should be sent to a reeducation camp, made to confess his/her ideological impurities, and failing that, just purged. ;-)

Molasses is good on cornbread. Molasses with sausage is even better.

All the Southern food you mentioned is glorious but you forgot country ham with biscuits, sausage, pork chops, bacon, and the other fruit of the pig.

[duckman]

If you mix grits with tomato sauce and sausage it's great. Called pollenta.

[ricpic]

It's all polenta to me.

[annyokie]

Gumbo is a stew of shrimp, tomatoes, okra, green peppers, celery and onions with sassafras,served on rice. It is delicious!