We love grits down south, anyone else like them? We have them with bacon and eggs for breakfast

Shrimp and Cheesy Grits is one of my favorite dishes :o)

I’ve never tried them. I like cream of wheat and oatmeal so probably would like grits.

Absolutely!

That shrimp and grits sounds good!!!

Never had them.

Grits n' redeye gravy!

What is a grit uncle hanco?

Not much of a menu item up here. I’ve had them on vacations down south. I do like them with breakfast.

Ron

A thick cut of centercut country ham along with.

Girls Raised In The South? Of course.

The grits we eat has velveta, butter, and rotel. With a side of heavily buttered toast and cup of coffee.

Hell yes I love grits even tho no one around here really serves em.

My son makes shrimp & grits for me for my birthday & Father’s Day.

Waffle House rules for their grits.

I love to salt & pepper them lightly, take the yolks from my OE eggs and put them in the grits, and eat the whites on my toast. Perfect breakfast IMHO!

Cooked thick to remove the water.

Place on top of eggs over easy.

Salt and pepper to taste.

Add butter.

Mix.

Biscuits gravy and a good cup of coffee.


Mmmmmm

I LOVE grits and hot sauce.

Oh yeah! Rough cut, fresh when available, hard to beat. Great for breakfast for fried fish. Shrimp and grits is a southern tradition, hard to beat.

This is the recipe I use to make mine, give that a try hanco you will not be disappointed, I add white wine to my sauce instead of lemon about a 1/4 cup and reduce it. Important not to over cook the shrimp :o)

I make my grits the way that nice gal makes hers, really creamy. I use Extra Old White Cheddar Cheese; I like the sharpness. Irish Cheddar Cheese is excellent as well.

Absolutely…….but, I am from the South. But, as you mentioned, grits are just part of the breakfast. I usually mix with fried, ground pork sausage, sometimes a little cheese, with eggs over easy!

My wife convinced me to try Cream of Wheat…….once! 😁 Hideous! Until I added sausage, and eggs over easy….made it palatable! memtb

I liked Grits Gresham on American Sportsman. Grits to eat? Never had them and probably never will. I talked to some guys who had them on their travels to the southern states and they all said they sucked.

How about grits and grillades?

Same diff as what I posted in other thread about cream of wheat AFAIC.

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbt...-anyone-like-cream-of-wheat#Post17692539

The only thing worse than Cream of Wheat is Red River Cereal! lol

I was stationed in Memphis for training in the late 60s. I tried grits when I was there. They were bland by themselves. So we would add all kinds of stuff to make them palatable. Butter, salt & pepper was good. Hot sauce too. Gravy on top was great. So it's not the grits that you taste but what you put on them that tastes good.

Grits are simply a filler…..much like potatoes. Potatoes alone, no seasoning or added condiments are pretty “tough to swallow”…..Pun Intended! 😉 memtb

Butter, salt, and pepper, and maybe a healthy splash of Tabasco. Sugar and milk on grits- - - -ya gotta be a damyankee to do that! Coarse ground grits from heirloom corn, slow simmered with lots of butter, makes the store bought stuff taste bland and boring!

I use dry grits with a charge of Bullseye instead of Cream O Wheat as a case filler when fireforming brass for wildcat cartridges.

Dats how dem wimmen break Dey husbins from running round….

Throw hot grits on em while they are sleeping.

😂🤣

That would suck...
😬😬😬🤣🤣🤣

I might make some for lunch with deer sausage

It’s the same folks that think that you put sugar in corn bread! Why don’t they just call it Corn Cake? memtb

Damn that looks good

Why waste grits, boiling water would work on them darkies!

Love grits, with two eggs over easy, bacon with toast or biscuits and hot black coffee. Great breakfast.

Yep, with gravy or butter and salt.

I do!

Cause dem grits stay stuck! White napalm!

I like mine as hot cereal with milk

Oh yeah 🤤

Had eggs, country ham and grits for lunch yesterday. Don't like 'em too thick and don't like 'em too runny.

To each his own, but I love potatoes and have yet to come across a bad way to cook em... Hell as a boy I would even eat them raw. Still steal a slice or 2 while cutting em up to cook.

LMAO

Love my grits! Was raised on them and still eating them.

Love both Polenta and grits

I do. Have them with breakfast a lot.

Yes, I love grits.

I didn't grow up eating them. Dad was from Western Kentucky and didn't like them, so mom never cooked them. But my wife introduced them to me after we got married. They need a dab of butter, or some cheese melted in with them. Or served with something else on top. But yes, I do like them.

It’s a good way to sneak butter and or cheese into your belly. Otherwise they taste like cardboard.
A stick of butter and a handful of cheddar cheese and they taste good.

That's crazy talk. lol

All GOOD corn bread has some sugar in it.


Clyde

Yep, and honey is good as well:)

Now you are talking...

I don't trust anybody that doesn't like dogs or grits.

I like Gamekings.

Love 'em. And I live in NYC LOL.

-Ken

Grits to you Southern boys, sounds like rice to the chinks! Eat with any/every meal. 😀😀

Not going to lie Ft Sill chow hall I thought it was cream of wheat. I dump sugar, milk on them take a bite lord wtf is this nasty stuff. DS comes up milk sugar on grits?????

I have them every Monday for breakfast with country ham and eggs. I put butter and hot sauce in my grits. I like redeye gravy in them too.

I like them properly cooked. Not crazy about runny undercooked ones.

We had a good dinner last week in Vegas that my wife ordered of shrimp and grits that was excellent.

Cooked right they are great, otherwise they make good chum.

My first exposure to it was whenever I'd visit my grandparents in southwestern Virginia, starting as a very young child. In fact, when I was just a toddler, they took care of me for a few months when my mom was in the hospital (and/or recovering from cancer surgery at home) in New York (she survived, and lived well into her eighties).

Anyway, grandma always made me some mysterious and delicious food for breakfast (or any time I asked for it) that she called "mush." She'd serve it to me topped with butter. I loved it. Every time we visited there, grandma would have to make me some mush, till she got so old my mom told me to stop asking.

It was years after she stopped making it for me that I discovered that it was the stuff other people call grits, and I started making it for myself.

Anytime meal!

I've only ever had good grits south of the Mason Dixon Line.... Mom and Pop diners are usually the best bet I've found when traveling.

Love the grits at Cracker Barrel !!!!

Funniest thing............ I always get a Grandpa's Breakfast at Cracker Barrel. It includes a bowl of grits. South of the Mason-Dixon, "And here's your grits !!". Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana........... "You want your grits with that ???". New York, Michigan, Wisconsin............. "Excuse me, Miss. But Where's my grits ???".

Georgia Ice Cream?

HELL NO!!!

Grits---Girl raised in the south I like em!

I had a girlfriend in college from up north for a while and she asked me to cook her a grit. I did. She had a hell of a time finding it on her plate to eat it.

Louis Grizzard always said--I made a million bucks selling grits trees to yankees-

Being a Northern boy, I'd never had a grit until my late 20's on a business trip to Atlanta. Wasn't that impressed with them at the time but do like them now. Cook up a batch a few times a month.
Vacuum sealed 20# in mylar bags for the coming apocalypse.

I love grits. What bugs me is most people forget the salt. The salt really brings out the flavor. Throw in some pancake syrup and you have a tasty addition to any breakfast.

kwg

Grits are NOT cereal, they are a potato substitute/equivalent. Cook 'em low and slow in salted water, and if they get too thick, add a bit of milk. Serve 'em with butter and pepper or some cheese. I like to add just the tiniest smidge of garlic powder to mine - and a dash of hot sauce goes good, too. To make a meal of grits, cook as described and stir in some diced ham or crumbled bacon, two eggs cooked with runny yolks, and top with a pinch of chives.

Garlic and cheese grits! Love em' !

Yup. Didn't really grow up in traditional grit culture, but l like them well enough to eat them fairly regularly.

No [bleep] 👆

I have never tried them. What exactly is a grits ?

That’s when you drag your woman to bed by the feet instead of by the hair. You get grits in the snatch. 😉

That's good stuff right there. Yes, I like grits.

Sunday morning breakfast at our house is eggs, yeast-leavened waffles (batter made the day before and rises all night in the refrigerator), Danny's maple syrup, bacon and/or ham and grits. I make a big pot of grits with sharp cheddar and gouda cheese mixed in...make enough so I can have some every morning the rest of the week if I want to (I usually do.)

When we moved to South Carolina I told my wife she'd have to stop putting milk and syrup on her grits or she'll get us kicked out. She's happy to eat them properly now. Every good restaurant in Charleston has their own shrimp and grits recipe, they're all a little different and they're all good.

Corn meal cooked in salted water till desired thickness.

I’m a southern boy, of course I love grits.😊👍

I must agree.

Thats like asking if anyone likes herpes.

That's how you do it!! GOOD STUFF!

It sounds like lots of us like grits. Grandkids eat hell out of them.

I can eatem, with hot sauce.

Plain white grits with a teaser of grandma grease

Corn cakes are Ho cakes

Cornmeal pancakes for the confused

That was filmed on Hwy 441, south of Eatonton, Georgia. At the time of filming I lived 9 miles away on Lake Sinclair.

Love me some grits........load em with onions, bacon, cheese, sausage gravy, peppers.......

Grits are a staple with fried fish down here.

Seemed like when I was growing up in Central Fla, every old man at least once a day would somehow incorporate “US441” into every park bench or side or after church dinner conversation.

Garlic cheese grits using chicken broth instead of water.
Good!

Boil the chicken stock, add garlic powder and stir in, add grits stirring regularly and simmer til done then add a handful of shredded extra sharp cheddar cheese. Stir in well. Serve.

Shrimp and grits Red Neck version starts with Jimmy Dean sage sausage.
Boil the heads and hulls with salt and old bay.
Y’all can figure it out from there.

Some fresh sliced homegrown tomaters goes real good with that!

I live close to it. It's called 13th Street as it goes through town.

It is. Especially when you saute the shrimp with chopped bacon. Yeah, I like grits.

I'll eat them with butter and salt, but I can't say I "like" them. Probably years since I have eaten any.

Rocky got it right—Grits are a potatoe substitute—Yankees think it’s like Cream Of Wheat breakfast cereal and try to ruin them with maple syrup

No - No one likes Grits

Yes, I've always like the girls.

Grits is groceries... several times a week...

Sausage/bacon and grits...

Fried fish and grits...

Shrimp and grits...

Doves fried and and cooked in gravy over grits...

I feel like Bubba in "Forrest Gump"

I never heard of them until I got to Ft Lee in VA. I didn't have a choice one morning got a bowl.
Tried them plane and didn't like it! Being a training unit you had to eat everything. A buddy said they are
better with jam. All they had was orange marmalade! Choked them down.
Years later the subject came up and I asked my Dad why we never had them growing up, he said the Navy hospital
He was at after WWII was in GA. He said never again!

I never ate a bowl of grits until I went on active duty in 1977. Since then I've eat a few bowls of them.

Bowl full of grits, pour in about a cup of pancake syrup. Then add butter.

Then maybe, just maybe they will taste ok

Don’t like grits or cream of wheat.

Garlic & cheese with Boudin, or with over easy eggs, & when really strutin, both.

We make our own maple syrup.

It don't go in grits any more than ketchup goes on lobster. Dang..............

(Snowed in Nipigon yet this fall ??)

Yes. I like grits. Grew up in North Carolina and was not a fan as a kid. Didn't like tomatoes either. Love 'em both now.
Rex

We mixed them with green chiles out in NM. Boil the grits, add salt and butter, beat an egg and throw it in and then mix with grated cheddar and green chiles. About as a good of a breakfast food as you can get, especially as a side with fried eggs and bacon.

Haven't read through the thread - anyone brave enough to admit that they don't?

The "don't put sugar on grits" thing is an old wives tale that won't die. I notice most guys who claim you're not supposed to do that are yankees, they probably read somewhere that southerners don't do that and took it as gospel. I'm from Mississippi so I certainly don't qualify as a yankee and for breakfast I'll put sugar and butter on my grits, I got that from my mother who was born in Mississippi on a cotton farm in the depression so she certainly wasn't a yankee either. I'll admit I've never put milk on them, but I'm open to try it once. Shrimp and grits is a Carolina thing that you didn't see in MS when I was a kid, it's migrated here now and it's pretty danged good. The coonasses got hold of it and Cajuned it up a bit which made it even better. I can't see putting sugar on that. Every woman in my family put a little sugar in their cornbread also, so that wives tale is BS too.

Sugar, syrup, molasses, honey, etc. Southerners like sweet stuff and our diabetes rates show it. My grandmother's tea was almost like syrup after she finished adding the sugar. Notice I said tea, not sweet tea. There was no such thing as unsweetened tea when I was a kid, nobody would drink it that way. Now of course with all the health concerns every restaurant will have sweet and unsweet tea, but when I was a kid it came sweet and if it wasn't sweet enough you poured even more sugar in it.

Eat your grits how you want to, if that's with sugar then that's OK.

BTW if any of you are ever in the area north of Meridian MS area Sciples Water Mill is where you should stop to get your grits. It's been in operation since 1790, they only grind corn on Saturdays but they have a honor box 24/7 with bags of grits and corn meal where you take what you want and leave the money. They encourage people to self tour the mill and if one of the family members happens to be there he'll likely show you around. Weidmann's restaurant in Meridian is the oldest restaurant in the state and they get their grits from Sciples.

https://sciples-water-mill.business.site/

https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/mississippi/step-back-in-time-with-visit-to-229-year-old-mill-ms/

have some good friends that came from Florida...he is a really good cook always talking about grits...cooked some up... one bite was enough to let me know I will never eat that shhhitt again.

unless I was starving.....bob

If you think Shrimp & Grits is good....try Shrimp and Fried Grits Cake with a spicy cream sauce! Had that at the seafood place "Harry's" in Gainesville with my pal Mannlicher.....good stuff!

Yes as well as grits yellower and hairier cousin from the continent, polenta.

This is a great post. I’ve never understood the mystique of grits and largely think it’s due to people from the north wanting to think they’re cool for eating them and southerners for not calling it what it is. Hot fugking cereal.

What did he complain about?

Gonna make some this morning.

I like them about anyway you fix grits, but on top of my list is shrimp and grits

I grew up in Atlanta, but my mother was a Chicago Yankee. Believe me, mom never cooked grits and she thought they were bizarre.
Of course I often ate grits at school and elsewhere. I like them, especially shrimp grits with salt and lots of butter.

I've had grits for breakfast for many years. Rather than butter, I add coarse ground black pepper, cheese (I prefer jack or extra sharp cheddar but any cheese is fine), Tabasco, and cover with diced green chiles.

Grits should be firm, NOT stiff, lumpy or soupy, AND salted appropriately during cooking....

Plate, add butter, then 3 basted-medium eggs laid on top.......... sided with (four footed) bacon or sausage and toast......... NEVER with anything that started life as Turkey.

Cheese, Shrimp and other such additions are blasphemy....

IMHO

I never thought I liked them until I tried the Shrimp & Grits at Poogan's Porch in Charleston this year. Man, that was good! Finding the ingredients where I live is the problem now.

Ah, but Muff...blasphemy can be delicious!

Just finished mine. Cooked for 30 minutes in salted water, with a pinch of garlic powder and some chives added in. Thinned with a dollop of Half 'n Half when they got too thick. Then mixed with grated cheddar cheese and diced ham. Healthy grind of pepper. Two sunny-up eggs on top and finally a splash of Arizona Gunslinger hot sauce.

Deeeeelicious.

Hint: Add a pat of butter to your boiling salted water before you add the grits. Keeps 'em from sticking in the pot.

That's where I first tried shrimp grits, in Charleston. Delicious.

Actually, that does sound good minus the cheese............. I just never got into that....

We're now at 25 and counting.................

I like grits topped with bacon and shrimp.

I eat the bacon and shrimp and leave the grits.

Grew up on it, all makes and styles. Its great salt and peppered mixed with some real southern sausage and topped with chicken liver gravy.

Phil

I had a grit once. Did not like it.

My Mom used to cook some Garlic cheese grits that were good. I have never cooked grits