If Southerners lived up North ...

[downeast]

Grit would do well on a snow and ice covered road if you needed to leave the house to go to the hospital or get to the grocery store to buy some Grits.
Grit is sand.  Grits are corn.  They are good to eat.  They stick to your ribs.  They don't take a whole paycheck to feed a family.  And, They go with just about any savory dish you could think to serve. 
Grits can be eaten alone, but nobody does it.   They are served as a side dish for breakfast and generally  will take up a third of the plate, or more, when accompanied with eggs, bacon and toast or biscuits.  In this instance they may have a pat of butter on them, or even a spoonful of bacon grease from the pan (especially if you can get some of those little bacon giblets in it too).   A real connoisseur will learn from childhood that he can mix his sunny-side or over easy eggs in his grits for a real delicacy, and sprinkle some bacon chips on top for a garnish.
Grits go good with fried fish dinners.  They also go good with broiled fish dinners. You could eat them with poached fish, I guess, but we don't eat a lot of poached fish.   They are good with fried clams (yep, we have them), shrimp, conch, crab (even boiled), and especially good with baked or fried ham.  You can use the drippings from a baked ham on them, or make a gravy, but the drippings are best.
No breakfast of eggs or pork should be served without grits, even if you have to move them over a little bit to get the requested potatoes on the plate.
Grits that are left over from Breakfast, can be fried in bacon fat for supper.  Grits left over from Supper can be fried in bacon fat for breakfast tomorrow.   You just spread them out thin on a cookie sheet and cut them into squares after they congeal.  Then wrap them up and put them in the refrigerator.  When you want to use them, you dip the squares in an egg wash and fry them.  They get served the same as if they were fresh, except you don't have to put anything on them.
Grits are nothing more than ground field corn.  Hominy grits are just ground Hominy.  Hominy is field corn that has been soaked in lye water until the husks and germ fall off.  Hominy can be eaten fried in butter or just heated in a little water and served the same as grits with breakfast, or as beans with supper.   But, if it's dried and ground, it makes a wonderful grits product and even releases its nutrients much more readily than fresh corn.
Grits can be served alone, with butter or drippings, as a snack, or a cereal in a bowl.
Grits keeps the poor from starving and the rich, humble.  But rich or poor, grits binds the soul of the south.
While you can properly say Grits (as a product) is good, you will be identified, in the South, as not being from around here, if you do.   Grits are plural and Southerners will generally refer to them as "they". 
To lambaste grits may be OK in the confines of the North, but you hurt the feelings of a hospitable people if you persist in doing it in the South.
It has always amazed me how a society, such as exists in the North and Midwest, that grows miles and miles of corn, has existed for so long without discovering the wonderful ground product of their fields.

You Tom are now Professor Grits.  :D  I will give you tenure for that exposition. Thanks.

BTW: Maine has few corn fields. What is grown on flat field corn is cattle/dairy feed. or potatoes.
You do want to know this. No "lambasting" grits from this Downeaster, just wanna know. So many of my men and other officers were from the South. ( Why ? ) I never did understand the affection and love for grits........now I do.
8)

[Mooseherder]

Here is some Pre-Grit photos of some animal feed.


Some Northerners may bust out these bags during the spring floods to use along the Dikes if ya ain't careful.

[Banjo picker]

Did you get that bag of grits in Hellen Ga ?   They would get my vote for the best there are...Just a little sugar and a touch of milk ....Yes please thank you....Tim

[Mooseherder]

Yes they came from Helen.  We have friends that live in Sautee and they go to Helen often.
Beautiful area and people.
This bag has been in my pantry for a while.  I still have the Bag I bought from the Extreme Grits Man. ;D
Crying shame ain't it.

[Tom]

I did not mean to offend all southerners,

Nah, Stonebroke, you're cool.  I'm just playing the game like I'm s'posed to.   If I I didn't puff up a little, y'all wouldn't have any fun.  :D :D

We've been at this grits thing for too many years to take it too seriously.  :D :D

[Bro. Noble]

So many of my men and other officers were from the South. ( Why ? )
8)

When you live in Maine,  isn't just about everyone from the south? :D :D

[woodbowl]

I won't name any names, but a certain Jeff was at Tom's house as the same time as I, a few years ago.  Tom made a pot of grits for breakfast, and this unnamed Jeff was lapping them up and scraping the pot for more, but he still rags us for eating grits.  We have had just about as much fun talking about grits here as we have talking about sawdust! 8) 8) 8)

I was sitting across the table eating my grits and I just happened to have my camera.  ;)  https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php/topic,17189.msg254246.html#msg254246

[beenthere]

Eatin grits may be akin to waterboarding....and gets a fella to say anything.  ;D

[downeast]

Eatin grits may be akin to waterboarding....and gets a fella to say anything.  ;D

Ahhh, the "offense" thing again. Boy you rebs are sensitive.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot , it's only food boys !

Now the clincher: where can this Northern boy buy those gourmet grits ? Seriously you may PM me for the street address.

And, yes, we are elite with reason: everywhere is "South" from here   ;D ;D

[chain]

What I like about living in Missouri, most folks don't know if we're North, South, Midwest, Midsouth or what, as the southeastern[bootheel] most part of Missouri is south of Kentucky, and further south than the northern borders of Tennessee, and Arkansas. Best thing is, we're West of the Mississippi river, but we still have some issues...

"I thought I was dead until I woke up and realized, it was just that I was in Nebraska" :D

[LOGDOG]

Snowing in the South (North LA) this morning. Didn't see that coming. All the trees were flowered out and blooming and this morning it's blowing snow. Good morning for a nice hot breakfast. If I had some grits I'd maybe try .... no, no I wouldn't.  ;D Only if Dang or Tom were here to cook them.

[downeast]

Eatin grits may be akin to waterboarding....and gets a fella to say anything.  ;D

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot , it's only food boys !

Now the clincher: where can this Northern boy buy those gourmet grits ? Seriously you may PM me for the street address.
And, yes, we are elite with reason: everywhere is "South" from here   ;D ;D

Yes, we do have friends from down there--like Mobile, Pensacola ( is that really 'South' ? ).
Repeat: where can you send away for those gourmet grits ? Please. We have a snowbird buddy here that crawls back to Alabama each December (chicken he is ), then sneaks back around Black Fly season in May. He's always whining about the lack of true grits here.
BTW: if you rub cooked grits on your skin, will it keep the Black Flies off ? :D

P.S. For our eyes only: it is ,as we speak,  spitting snow flakes. It's been an AlGore Feb and March with snowdrops up and flowered, daffs about to bloom, now it's back to our normal, teasing Spring.
P.P.S. Maine saying: "There's a big difference between the first day of Spring, and the first spring day."
P.P.P.S. Stoves running once again full bore this morning. Thought you'd want the info. ;)

[LOGDOG]

First day of spring here and it snowed all day. Seems to have let up here for the moment. Drove 80 miles south to check on a gas well today and it was like we were in one of those snow globes all the way down and back. Supposed to be in the 60's tomorrow I think.

Not sure about those grits you're lookin for. My wife would know though. She eats 'em.  I'll ask her.

[fishpharmer]

We had some snow over here too.  By late afternoon the blossoms on the Bradford pear were falling off the tree.  The wind was the worst.  Even the cows looked cold, they all huddled together on a south facing slope.  That bowl of steaming grits sure was good.

It is 36 F now and supposed to get upto 52 today.  Then spring comes back Wednesday with high of 77 predicted.  8)

[LOGDOG]

Yep ... it was shirtsleeve weather this afternoon. I always like the Bradford Pear trees when they're blooming and the Tulip trees are my favorite probably. (Not sure if Tulip Tree is the proper name - likely not.)

I had forgotten what it was like driving in all that blowing snow. Kind of did a number on my eyes. I think I'm gettin soft.  :-\

[easymoney]

 there are a lot of southerners living up north. or used to be. i know a lot of folks that went north seeking jobs after ww2 a lot of them stayed and raised their families there. some came back to the south after a few years. some came back when they retired. the problem is that some tried to bring the northern ways with them when they came back so they had a hard time fitting in the south after learning the city ways. some of those city women dont know a thing about skinning a squirrel or cleaning fish.

[DanG]

Repeat: where can you send away for those gourmet grits ? Please.

Can't really tell ya about those Gourmet grits, Downeast, but here's a place you can get some really good ones.

www.lakesidemills.com

That's where my favorite yellow grits come from.  I get them in the store here in town, but they have an online store where you can order them from the website.

I guess Mooseherder is just trying to protect you from yourself, but he's a Yankee ya know, and you know how Yankees are. :

;D

[isawlogs]

It must be the heat in the south that makes for them grits to be edible cause I tried them and it must be that we was too far north for them to have kept there flavor .  :P

[WDH]

Marcel,

I like your attitude ;D. 

[Coon]

Eating grits ranks right on up there with fryin' bacon nekkid.... just something you ain't gonna see me do.  :D

Coon.

[LOGDOG]

Now that paints a picture.