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High quality grits are now a VERY popular base/side for many dishes in fine dining restaurants around the South; most around here use this local product:

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I tried 'em once when I was in Basic Training, didn't care for them, haven't tried them since.

Exactly.

Didn't sell me any grits, but I loved "Shoot Low Boys, They're Riding Shetland Ponies"...read it out loud when my wife was in labor with kid #2...was supposed to be a girl and came out a boy. Powerful stuff.

Shrimp and Grits are a favorite!

I love grits with breakfast, I have eaten cheese grits and garlic grit casseroles also.

I Haven't Understood Anything Since 1962 is a great read, even though some will manage to find some communist bits in it.

Thanks Cruiser. I’m going to order some grits that they offer.

I first ate a grit at Jump school at Ft. Benning, it was then that I understood why the south lost the war. Fast forward >50 years and I had Pork Belly w/ cheese grits at Fleming's Steak House, if prepared properly they are OK but will never be a substitute for hash browns.


mike r

I believe that all Bibles down that way state that the manna that came down from Heaven was actually grits.

OCS or Armor Officer Basic for dad down there....or maybe it was Jump School.


He said grits were bad, and the south had no idea what a Hot Roast Beef sandwich was.

Best grits I ever ate are Cracker Barrel's. They come with the Grandpa's Breakfast, which is the only thing I ever order when I'm there, regardless of what time of day......……… All I add is a little salt.

Funny deal...……. South of the Mason-Dixon, the meal comes with grits. Pennsylvania...……. Ohio...…….. Indiana, etc, they ask you "You want the grits with that ?? In Michigan.........you gotta ask, "Where's the grits ??"

So there is corn grits and hominy grits?

Benning was my 1st experience in the south, I expected more having grown up in the oil business. Then I was sent to Ft. Sam in Texas, Dante wrote about that place. Going to RVN. was an upgrade


mike r

Dad said the people were okay. The food was weird.


Who doesn't know what a ditch is or a hot roast beef?

Dad did say that 37 was too old for jump school.

I am going to order some as well.

Because they are a national chain Dennys has grits, even if they don't show on the menu. The California cooks had no idea how to make them, so I had to teach them that they should be the consistency of oatmeal, not soup.

I like them with fried egg yolk, gravy or cheese.

For breakfast, salt, pepper and butter. They can be great as a side with a cheese corresponding with the main dish. A heavy-flavored braised beef with a good, strong cheese-grits can be an out-of-this-world pairing. And, if you're a wine snob, you can turn it into something really fabulous.

Had cheesy grits this morning at a diner. Had cheesy grits this past week right here at home.

I make the 30-minute kind. When they're about half done in the simmering water, I add a tablespoon or so of milk and some dried chives. I salt the water first, so all I need to add at the table are the shredded cheese and some pepper.

Grits are NOT a hot cereal, no matter how many uneducated Yankees say they are. They're a substitute for potatoes, and you dress them with the same things you'd dress hash browns - which does NOT include sugar. Stir in some cheese, or crumbled bacon, or butter, or green onions, some black pepper, or even a bit of garlic powder. But no damn sugar.