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Wed Nov-24-04 06:22 PM
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I've had them when I went to the Waffle House (Yuck) I also had some in Tribeca and they were yummy.
They're a little hard to find (next to impossible) in Canada.
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Wed Nov-24-04 06:23 PM
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grits are wonderful.
redneck polenta
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Wed Nov-24-04 06:34 PM
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20. Now polenta we can get here |
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I love them - the Italian in me. I made them at home once, my roommate was ooged out. Cornmeal and spaghetti sauce - she just didn't get it.
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Wed Nov-24-04 06:24 PM
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Wed Nov-24-04 06:24 PM
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3. I eat them from time to time. |
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Basically the same as polenta, except they are prepared differently.
Grits with a little butter are good stuff. But, if the grits are poorly made, they're nasty.
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Wed Nov-24-04 06:24 PM
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As a young lad in southern Florida, they were hard to find. Here in central Florida they're everywhere.
I remember we couldn't get grits anywhere in the northern states during the sixties and seventies.
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Wed Nov-24-04 06:25 PM
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Yeah go ahead and laugh... BamaLefty likes grits. It's a southern thang. ;)
I love the part in "My Cousin Vinny" where the man from New York doesn't know what a grit is? Too funny!
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Wed Nov-24-04 06:25 PM
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6. Never. No desire to try them either. n/t |
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Wed Nov-24-04 06:27 PM
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9. I wouldn't know it if I saw it. |
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Wed Nov-24-04 06:26 PM
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Try cooking grits in chicken stock with some garlic.
MMMMmmm good. Then, mix them with some cheddar, spread them in a baking pan, bake them, cut into squares and serve. Yowza.
That said, I would rather them with Country Ham, Eggs, Sliced Maters and soda biscuits.
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Wed Nov-24-04 06:41 PM
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24. Would you please STOP IT !! |
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I'm trying to lose a couple pounds before tomorrow !!! This kinda talk will lead me straight to the fridge. :evilgrin:
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Wed Nov-24-04 06:26 PM
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in every waffle house and flapjack shack here in south cackalakky. They are yoomie.
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Wed Nov-24-04 06:27 PM
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10. My bf always orders them... |
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but when he gets them, he will say 'please remind me to NEVER order grits again!".
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Wed Nov-24-04 06:28 PM
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11. You mean dry cream of wheat? |
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Don't like it. I'm from California. They don't serve 'em out here...just hash browns and refried beans with your eggs... hmmmm good!
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Wed Nov-24-04 06:29 PM
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Grits is corn meal - not wheat!
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Wed Nov-24-04 06:32 PM
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But it still looks like crm of wheat
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Wed Nov-24-04 06:34 PM
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21. Tastes totally different. |
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Texturally, you're correct, but sometimes, ya just gotta have the grits.
Of course, being in Texas, we have Mexican style breakfast and southern style, so I can indulge either quite easily. That's ONE good reason for living here.
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Wed Nov-24-04 06:28 PM
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12. Enjoy grits, but don't like Texas-style hominy. |
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The cafeteria at my former employer's steel plant often served the real down home hominy - complete with the kernel skins.
I have not seen grits served that way anywhere else.
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Wed Nov-24-04 06:29 PM
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14. My dad calls grits "Georgia Ice Cream" |
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I love them with fried eggs. Cheese grits are a must with fried fish in my family.
Most resturants cook lousy grits. Too much water and not enough salt.
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Wed Nov-24-04 06:29 PM
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15. me! With salt, please. Wuja believe some people use sugar? Ew! |
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Wed Nov-24-04 06:29 PM
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16. hell yeah!...eggs & grits was a staple in my house but there is a trick |
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Edited on Wed Nov-24-04 06:37 PM by ElsewheresDaughter
to eating them....i was born and raise in the south..
trick for to eating grits for yankees: serve them PIPING HOT, throw on some butter, pleanty of salt & pepper, and break them yolks and MIX them all up in the grits YUMMY! and eat them quick! nothing nastier than cold grits.
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Wed Nov-24-04 06:31 PM
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18. or cheese.... YYYEEEAAAAHHHHHH! |
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Wed Nov-24-04 06:30 PM
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I :loveya: me some grits!!!!!
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Wed Nov-24-04 06:38 PM
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either my wife or myself travel out to Ohio--where lots of ex southeners live--and bring back a case of Quaker Old Fashion grits. They are best cooked slow and eaten hot.
Like another poster stated " out here in California, most places don't serve them". But many places that cater to a Black clientel do. They are definitely a part of our culture.
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Wed Nov-24-04 06:38 PM
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23. Tribeca - as in Bubbies? |
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Edited on Wed Nov-24-04 06:46 PM by bpcmxr
One of my favorite breakfast spots down here.
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Wed Nov-24-04 06:47 PM
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I was with people from work - a local contact of ours took us out for brunch. The restaurant was hugely popular and very good.
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Wed Nov-24-04 06:44 PM
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25. The secret is...ta...da.... |
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Lottsa real butter and some pepper!
Warning: This may be hazardous to your health, but what a way to go!!
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Wed Nov-24-04 06:51 PM
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27. Love grits. Grits and eggs. Cheesey grits. |
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I love grits.
Nothing there to not love.
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Wed Nov-24-04 06:53 PM
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28. Where in Canadia? Come on down to Fargo and I'll make ya some |
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Grits are one of Nature's Most Perfect Foods.
Unlike that nastry Cream of Wheat stuff they make up in Grand Forks (I discovered after moving here).
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Wed Nov-24-04 06:57 PM
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30. I like Cream of Wheat |
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I live in Vancouver - a bit far off from Fargo I'm afraid.
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Wed Nov-24-04 07:00 PM
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32. If you like CoW, you'll love grits. |
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They're like Cream of Wheat with character.
The only thing I like about CoW was their old advertising character, who we will call Uncle Remus (cause I don't remember his name).
Favorite CoW advertising poster (in fact, second favorite slogan after that for Corn Dog Seven: Better than Good), was this, from a very long time ago:
"I don't know what vitamins is, but if dese bugs, dese none in Cream of Wheat."
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Wed Nov-24-04 06:56 PM
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29. I do, right after sex with my sister. |
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33. They're great while watcing NASCAR |
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Wed Nov-24-04 07:00 PM
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31. Lots of salt and pepper and butter. |
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Yum. I always get grits when I eat breakfast at a restaurant.
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Wed Nov-24-04 10:08 PM
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34. I ate a mussel that had a little bit of grit in it |
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I wish I didn't, I got food poisoning and threw up.
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Wed Nov-24-04 10:11 PM
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35. Born in Connecticut, but I still eat grits. |
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True story: When I was in the first grade, the nun asked us what we ate for breakfast. Just try explaining to a Polish-born nun what grits are. I finally brought an empty Quaker Oats grits box in to school to show Sister.
Neither of my parents was a Southerner, but we picked up the grits habit while living in South Carolina, and it took. Decades later, I still eat them occasionally.
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Wed Nov-24-04 10:31 PM
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With butter ... with red-eye gravy ... one of the perfect foods!
LOVE 'EM.
By the way, you can always tell a Yankee, because he/she will ask, "What's a grit?"
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Wed Nov-24-04 11:13 PM
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37. Grits and sweet tea on a weekend morning |
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Wed Nov-24-04 11:19 PM
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38. Grits with a little butter and sugar. Just like Momma used to make. Mmmm. |
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