Close call

chet · March 21, 2006, 08:00:53 PM

Da wife and I stopped for some breakfast on our way back north this mornin' on Hwy 10 just a little south and west of Jeff's and Tammy's place. After a quick glance at da menu I ordered da hungry man breakfast. As usual ya get choices, how ya want yer eggs, sausage or bacon, kind of toast. But then I git asked taters or grits.

Now dat's a first, I ain't never been asked if wanted dat stuff before. I had ta take a quick look around ta make sure dar weren't no smilin' southern forum member laughin' at da next table. :D

tnlogger · March 21, 2006, 08:05:18 PM

now chet ya'll knows dem are northen GritS so you woulda been safe ta eat um.

It take a true southern gentleman ta eats real GritS :D :D :D :D :D :D

DanG · March 21, 2006, 09:30:36 PM

It just goes to show ya, Chet. Culture is coming to your part of the world, whether you like it or not. At least they asked...down here, they just bring the grits. That works for me. ;D :D :D

sandman2234 · March 21, 2006, 09:34:19 PM

Probably those instant grits anyway. He still don't know what real grits taste like.
David from jax

chet · March 21, 2006, 09:37:26 PM

Dat der waitress musta thought I didn't look southern enough, so she had better double check first. :D

chet · March 21, 2006, 09:40:11 PM

Even if she wooda just brung um, I wouldn't have had a clue. ??? Ain't never seen um before. ;D

Jeff · March 21, 2006, 09:42:03 PM

They follered me home!

maple flats · March 21, 2006, 09:46:32 PM

can't ya send them back south Jeff? 8)

Jeff · March 21, 2006, 10:54:05 PM

If they taste like the last ones Tom made for me I'll keep em. If they taste like all the other times, they'll go back by themselves.

sawguy21 · March 21, 2006, 11:00:45 PM

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D

CHARLIE · March 21, 2006, 11:48:45 PM

It could be that the restaurant decided to upgrade their menu and hired a Southern cook. A Southern cook knows that ya can't have a real breakfast without grits. ;D 8) Maybe da restaurant decided to start offerin' gourmet items. ;D

getoverit · March 22, 2006, 12:00:58 AM

them Grits will put lead in your pencil..... if you can find somebody to write to :D

crtreedude · March 22, 2006, 05:23:09 AM

See - it is what I said, Grits are Yankee Food.

CRTreeDude - from the DEEP south....

Down here, everyone up there is a Yankee... ;D

You'll be safe down here Jeff.

Kirk_Allen · March 22, 2006, 08:34:39 AM

Quote from: Jeff B on March 21, 2006, 10:54:05 PM
If they taste like the last ones Tom made for me I'll keep em. If they taste like all the other times, they'll go back by themselves.

I think that is an official acknowledgment that the Boss likes GRITS 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

crtreedude · March 22, 2006, 10:18:27 AM

Boss - don't go to that bad place.

I will correct something here, the Ticos like Grits, why, just the other day I saw someone using them for soaking up oil in a garage... ;)

shopteacher · March 22, 2006, 11:19:26 AM

Jeff, you telling me you didn't like them instant grits I sent ya? Man, I carried the all the way from Richmond, Va.

Jeff · March 22, 2006, 11:25:12 AM

Those instant grits is somewhere, someplace, with several forum member signatures on the box. I dont know who has em right now. But they will show up I imagine, somwhere somehow, when you least expect them to.

I won't go as far as to say I like grits in a blanket statement. I will go as far to say that I REALLY liked the grits Tom made for and afternoon breakfast for DanG and Woodlbowl and I. I actually asked for more and they was all gone. And when I asked if we could have em again before I left we didnt have time.

I got an idea there is good grits and bad grits and those southern gentlemen have some sort of plan to keep us from getting the good ones but getting us to eat up all the bad ones.

Texas Ranger · March 22, 2006, 05:29:48 PM

Hey, big guy, how much weight did ya gain eatin off Tom's table?

Jeff · March 23, 2006, 12:18:29 PM

I gained some for sure.

dundee · March 23, 2006, 12:57:31 PM

Having read this thread on "GRITS"------what are grits? (as a matter of interest)----see, I am learning new words here, like "WHACK OF" "GRITS", when I get to the States again should I order a "WHACK of GRITS"

just wondering !!!
Richard

Minnesota_boy · March 23, 2006, 02:03:52 PM

I wouldn't recommend ordering a "whack of grits", but I'm not from the southern United States either. I've eaten them and I can eat them again, but I wouldn't cross the street for them. ;D

dundee · March 23, 2006, 02:16:53 PM

Thanks Minnesota---but I still do not know what they are !!!! without offending anyone ;D whatever they are, the sound of "GRITS" is the stuff we feed to our chooks downunder

Tom · March 23, 2006, 02:31:17 PM

Nah! A whack is a timber measurement here on the forum. Grits are generally just ordered by the serving. Most of us in the Southern USA want a "big" serving. Most of those in the Northern USA don't want a serving at all. Those in the West will say "Grits? What is grits".

That's something to remember if you want to look like you know a little bit about them. Don't say "Grits is", say "grits are".

Grits are a coarsely ground corn product, generally white corn, that is eaten in the South of the USA. Usually when you reference the south here, you are talking about the area from Texas to Florida and north Arkansas and Virginia. This was the Confederacy during the War Between the States which took place from 1860 to 1865. There are some states immediately to the north that were called "Border States" and even today have citizens who claim to be either Northern or Southern.

Times were tough back then. It wasn't just the war, it was tough even before that. Southerners ate many things that weren't common to the rest of the country because they couldn't afford to waste anything. Grits was one of these things as well as organ meats. The term used for a pig was that it was all used but for the squeal and that would have been eaten if it could have been caught.

Don't expect to find Grits prepared or served outside of the Southeastern USA. They are good as a breakfast food and are served with salt and pepper, butter or gravy along with eggs, bacon and sausage.

Grits are also a regional joke, laughed at by most here, where the Southerners tout them and the Northerners loathe them. You will find many post referring to grits and much conversation explaining them from both sides.

Those who think they should onlyl be used to soak up spilled automobile oil are true northerners. Those who can't get by a day without a serving are the Southerners.

Google "Grits" and you may be amazed at the importance some place on this regional food.

If you make it over here, come to the south and enjoy Grits, ham hocks, backbone, neckbone and rice, collards, cornbread, sweetened iced tea and buttermilk. You will be welcomed.

dundee · March 23, 2006, 02:49:26 PM

Tom, I thankyou for your concise interpretation of GRITS, actually, they sound OK, I was close when I suggested we feed the stuff to our chooks (corn).

I do intend heading up your way on a couple of matters on the West Coast, I would definatley take a flight to the South and put on my "to-do" list to "rip into" the GRITS

Wonder if Den Socling consumes the stuff????

SwampDonkey · March 23, 2006, 02:58:52 PM

Quote from: DanG on March 21, 2006, 09:30:36 PM
It just goes to show ya, Chet. Culture is coming to your part of the world, whether you like it or not. At least they asked...down here, they just bring the grits. That works for me. ;D :D :D

I'm glad I'm too far north for culture. :D :D :D