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jcd · #1 09-09-2003, 07:14 AM

I'm eating my bowl of grits this AM,,,,,salt pepper and butter.

Truly a great breakfast.

Believe it or not....they serve grits on Tuesday and Friday AM here at work in NEW JERSEY!!!!

Anyway,,,,,I love grits.

JCD

Botnst · #2 09-09-2003, 07:59 AM

Ever seen, "My Cousin Vinnie"?

I'm there, jcd, but not in the summer. Too hot.

When I was a kid we'd pour bacon drippings on the grits rather than butter and drop a couple of eggs on the side with a 3-4 strips of bacon. Dang cardiovascular system ain't what it used to be. Pass the celery, please.

Botnst

jcd · #3 09-09-2003, 08:23 AM

I REALLY like the grits with salt, pepper, butter with a couple of sunny side up eggs mixed in. That's what I get when I stay in my usual Hilton in Baltimore. It looks like a major pile of glop....especially when I break up some pieces of toast and drop them into the whole mess.

I can clear out a dining room what that mixture, but it sure tastes good.

PS< ever had it with RedEye gravy???

JCd

Botnst · #4 09-09-2003, 08:37 AM

Not with Redeye.

Around here (So. Louisiana), though grits aren't "native", they adjust the flavor by dropping great splashes of Tabasco Sauce or LA Hot Sauce on'em. It gives the grits vaguely a pink-orange hue. Combined with a cup of cafe au lait that makes Espresso a pansy drink, a breakfast can be a major butt-burning, kidney-squeezer.

Most of my family members abuse their grits as you described. I am a purist: grits maintained within strict boundaries on the plate and never bastardized with cheese or eggs. I have a large family and we have lots of friends. Some, (mumbled confession) are yankees. Twice in the past decade (since we've had email) there has been open uncivil warfare on proper grit-iquette.

My brother (MY OWN BROTHER!) puts sugar on his. That ain't normal.

Robert Davis · #5 09-09-2003, 09:07 AM

I eat oatmeal mixed with prunes. (prunes has the highest amount of antioxidants of any food, also high in fiber.
Robert Davis

el presidente · #6 09-09-2003, 10:08 AM

I usually only have grits if I go out for breakfast (flying biscuit/original pancake house/cracker barrell, etc.) and I like to put a little strawberry or grape jam in the grits and mix it in. Often, the waitress will ask what I did to the grits (maybe she thought I was playing with my food)

I don't add the jam if I get the cheese grits at the O-hop or the flying biscuit though.

jcd · #7 09-09-2003, 11:00 AM

Robert,

I have to ask, do you eat the oatmeal with prunes because you like them or because they are good for you........I guess or both.

Botnst

Even for a non-purist,,,,I think,,,,,,your brother needs to have his chittlin's removed for putting sugar on his grits.

Tell him to turn in his coonass.

JCD

Botnst · #8 09-09-2003, 11:32 AM

[QUOTE]Originally posted by narwhal
[B]For those in Botnst's area its not a miracle--its the gris gris. My wife's great grandmother from New Iberia died last year at 96 and there was a filterless Pall Mall butt still smoking in the ashtray next to her chair as she expired. Didn't die of cancer or emphysema either. She was what they call a traton (sp?) or treater in cajun.
QUOTE]

I think that's a 'traiture' and they conduct 'traiton'; but I'm anglo, not cajun, so this is all unfolding as I live down heah.

If only granny hadn't smoked, she'd have lived a lot longer.

I used to smoke Camels. I was a kid fresh into the Navy. I guess smoking made me look like a grown-up, huh? Smoked for about 15 years, stopped about 15 years ago. I still miss smoking sometimes.

axlechassis · #9 09-09-2003, 11:37 AM

Eggs, Scrapple and Grits... yummy
Oh how I do miss Virginia sometimes.
If you ever drive through Front Royal Va. Have breakfast at the knotty pine restaurant.

G-Benz · #10 09-09-2003, 12:03 PM

Grits and eggs over medium...mix 'em up, YUM!

jcd · #11 09-09-2003, 01:48 PM

Now there is a great dish...............Slice it thin and fry it until it has a slight crunch........good stuff.

JCD

Marcb · #12 09-09-2003, 02:40 PM

Never had the chance to experience what grits are like... I guess they aren't popular in Washington?

Botnst · #13 09-09-2003, 03:16 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Marcb
Never had the chance to experience what grits are like... I guess they aren't popular in Washington?

MarcB, go rent, "My Cousin Vinnie".

It explains everything.

mikemover · #14 09-09-2003, 03:22 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by PaulC
It's a miracle that most Southerner's don't drop dead at the age of 20.

Hey, grits aren't bad for you, if you take it easy on the butter and salt and cheese and bacon grease and all that extra crap. :p Breakfast food is my favorite....scrambled eggs, grits, toast or biscuits, I LOVE turkey bacon....Mmmm, good!

Mike

Gilly · #15 09-09-2003, 04:34 PM

I have grits if I do a southern roadtrip, which isn't very often. I don't know if they're "good" grits or not, but I like going to these Waffle House places down south. I know, not fine southern cuisine, but we don't have them up north here. I also noticed some places called Huddle House, with identical signs as Waffle House, same amount of letters in the name and you'd only have to change the first 4 of them in the sign!
So grits are OK with me, I don't even think about them unless I'm down south. What they are to me are like this corn vegetable we had when I was growing up called "hominy", like that boiled white corn stuff, you take that and mash it up and that's pretty much what grits is.
I've tried them all different ways, salt, pepper and butter is fine, never tried bacon grease on them, but I've tried sugar and pancake syrup on them too, it's palatable. It's like you either treat them like mashed potatoes or you treat them like oatmeal. It doesn't have a real strong flavor of it's own. I could see putting cheese on them. I'm from Wisconsin, and up here we think most everything can be improved with the addition of cheese, even apple pie!

Gilly