GRITS

[WDH]

Let the grit wars continue  .

[Gary_C]

I thought the war was over?   ;D

[Burlkraft]

I thought the war was over?   ;D

Who won?

[okie]

My favorite ways to eat grits are: Grits with bacon crumpled up and a dob of bacon grease and chopped green onions. We ate this alot growin up especially this time of year when the wild onions are comin up. My absolute favorite way, although I've been told it's a sin, is grits butter and honey. There just aint much better than that, and I promise you it's good honey n all. Course I'm just real fond of honey and butter.

[SwampDonkey]

Need a napkin? ;)

[Gary_C]

Who won?

Can't say or they'll get all riled up again.  ;D

[Tom]

It's not a War with a winner, it's a war of self defence.  For some reason, It's difficult to get grits in the South any more.  Well, in the traveling type restaurants anyway.  There was a time when it took an act of God to get them off of your plate.  If you order hashbrowns, as most foreigners did, they still came with grits.  Now you have to hunt for the small print in Denny's to find that grits are offered as a "side".   It began happening when we were inundated with all those foreigners who didn't know what Grits were and didn't believe in the old adage, "When in Rome......".   They sneaked in here, bought up the restaurants, took over the government, bought up most of the land and the staples (not you Don :D) of the south are all but dissappearing.  You have to know a real  Southerner pretty intimately down here  to be able to get real Southern Food.   :P :D

When they get through fixing us, there won't be anymore Southern stuff.  :-\

[SwampDonkey]

Well, cooking my smoked herring. Gonna scoop out a great big spoon of potato salad to. ;D Now, you's talk about hard to find grits. Herring is getting scarce as hens teeth. It's one of them good oily fish. This mess it wrapped in some plastic case and ya boil it in.  : We used to get it fresh and boil on top of the taters.  Talk about foreigners coming and taking our food away, only this is offshore. 

[Tom]

I like Herring.  But, the only Herring I've ever eaten were Kippered Herring cooked in a can like you would sardines.   They are super good.  I like them most anyway, but especially on saltine crackers with a dab of Salad Mustard.  Fine eating.  ;D

[SwampDonkey]

Brunswick or Connor Brothers? ;D

[Paul_H]

King Oscar  8)

[CHARLIE]

An old chines proverb says; "A hurt dog hollers the loudest."  Well, I mention grits and the taterheads started yowling.   :D

[Gary_C]

An old chines proverb says; "A hurt dog hollers the loudest."  Well, I mention grits and the taterheads started yowling.   :D

But I think Tom hollered the loudest. What was it you called him, a hurt dog?   ;D

[SwampDonkey]

I think Charlie kicked the dog.  :D :D

[Tom]

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[Jeff]

John, Grits is the Manna that is so good it feeds a person's soul.  Potato eaters haven't learned that yet but not that they haven't been educated.  I  believe they are hard of hearing.

This sounds like a retooled quote I just heard yesterday on an old rerun of Bonanza.

The guy was wearing a top hat and hauling around a wagon of some sort of elixir that was the cure all for everything that can ail a man. 

I forget exactly what it was Hoss called him.

[Corley5]

Oh ya  ???  Well I don't like baked potatoes in the least no matter what they're topped with.  With the purchase of her 1st mocrowave oven Mom fed Dad and I nuked potatoes at what seemed like every meal for too long.  I haven't eaten a baked potato in years and don't care if I ever do again    Grits with cheese and bacon sounds pretty DanG good  8) 8)  I haven't had any grits since my last Fl. excursion last fall.  All we can get up here is the instant kind and I don't want to violate any rules by consuming them  ;) ;D

[DanG]

Well I'm just tickled to death that most yankees and Canuckidadians don't care for grits.  It's bad enough that a few of the brightest members of those groups, like Corley5 and Paul_H have discovered them.  Can you imagine what would happen to the price if everybody up there started sucking all of them up?   Just look what happened when they discovered sweet taters! >:(  Next thing ya know, they'll figger out how good watermelons are and the price of them will go up over a dollar apiece!  Y'all just need to clam up about the grits before things get outta hand!

BTW Swampdonkey, we got taters too.  They're pretty good if ya put enough tasty stuff on them.

[thecfarm]

Them things you call sweet taters are just about like grits in these parts.Only a little small space is allowed for them.It's almost like a lot of things that come from the south.Like the way we treat flat landers in Maine.We only have a small space for that too.Most never get out of Kittery or Portland or the L.L. Bean area.We only give them a small piece of Maine to see.Of course if they do try to come inland more we just throw some snow on them and than they leave for good and never return to this cold state again and can't understand why anyone would live in such a state.  ;D
When I was growing up grits and them sweet things were not found around here.But some flat landers were to dumb to go back,even with the snow treatment.Every year we throw snow on them,but every spring they keep popping up like tulips do at this time of year.We won't give up.There is always next year.

[SwampDonkey]

Mom said she has to have her taters. She went on about why, but it might get a little testy in here. :D :D

BTW Swampdonkey, we got taters too. They're pretty good [stop]

Yup, I knows. ;)

[Mooseherder]

I finally made the first batch of Grits today from the bag I had bought from the extreme Grits man.  I used 4 cups of water to 1 cup of grits.
We had guests in town who were both Southern bred and they liked my Grits.  I asked them what they liked about them. ;D
One put sugar on them, one put butter on them.  They told me most people like cheese on them so I offered them some cheese.  :D  I had butter and salt on mine.  They were okay/good.  I made some killer Omelettes too!. :D

[WDH]

they leave for good and never return to this cold state again and can't understand why anyone would live in such a state.  ;D

Grits might warm y'all up a little bit and make y'all a bit more more sociable.  A person needs to keep learning and growing throughout life.  A few grits might make y'all more amenable  ;D.

[Chico]

Fried crappie  or catfish and cheese grits don't get no better
Chico

[Modat22]

fried crumbled sausage (hot) with extra onion and garlic, toss in pre-cooked grits and stir fry. then make a empty spot in the center of the frying pan and scramble 3 or 4 eggs. Mix it all up, add hot sauce to taste.

Tiss good stuff

P.S. don't use instant grits... (evil things)

[SwampDonkey]

I've come to the conclusion that some people will eat anything, just as long as they feel full. Doesn't matter what they put in there. I'm hiding the buckwheat pancake batter. :D :D :D