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Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't grits made from hominy? "Hominy grits" being their full name?

You guys down south have a famous breakfast diner, along the lines of a Denny's or a Carrows. I can't remember the name of the place but they're all over the south. I can picture the sign in my mind's eye but I just can't quite pull the name outta my ass.

Big red sign. The place is well known and it's not very well regarded.

Shoney's!! That's it! (Dunno why the name just suddenly popped back in..)

Anyway, everywhere we went people were eating grits. So, I finally had to ask Flo, the waitress with the big beehive hairdo, "Wtf are grits, anyway?"

"Sugar, grits ain't nuthin' but mushed up hominy."

"Okay, I'll bite. What's hominy?"

"It's what you make grits out of!"

Susan warned me not to try 'em. She hates 'em, having had 'em during her years living in the South. She warned me to at least make sure to load 'em up with some other goo, to mask the taste. Honey, syrup, a buttload of raisins or fruit...something.

I ask Flo, "What's the usual way to eat grits, especially if you're trying 'em for the first time and you really wanna see what they taste like?"

"Plain, with some butter."

A fat guy (natch) who overheard the conversation leaned over and burped out, "Son, you ain't had no good eatin' 'till you've had yerself some real southern grits..."

So, that's what I did. I had some plain grits, with butter. They weren't bad. They were kind of nutty tasting, kind of toothsome. They weren't horrible.

They were like Cream Of Wheat, sorta, but I like Cream Of Wheat better.

As southern food specialties go though they sure weren't anything to write home about. They could easily be replaced by oatmeal, for the home sick southern traveler.

They sure as hell can't touch beignets or King Cake, or any of a multitude of good cajun food items.

Fuck grits. That is some nasty, slimy shit right there.

If you have to "mask" the taste of something with butter, salt, sauce, etc., then it has no business being on your plate.

The perfect breakfast consists of eggs, bacon, toast, sausage, and fried potatoes. No, not hash browns, but fried sliced potatoes.

Game over.

Grits are ok. Nothing to hate. Nothing to love. And I agree with MGO, you could bread and deep-fry a turd and dip it in chile con queso and it may taste good but it's still a turd.

My breakfast every morning is a breakfast bowl. I make a big batch each weekend and have all bowls filled and eat at the office. Spicy pork sausage heavily peppered, mushrooms and green peppers sauteed in, Old English cheese melted in, and then I cook in my eggs with heavy cream, S&P, cumin and salsa all mixed together. (awaiting a HOLY FUCKING CHOLESTEROL, BATMAN! from Dins in 3...2...1..)

All sticks together for a nice consistency. Sometimes I wrap all that in a tortilla, but I usually just eat it with a spoon with a cup of coffee.

Grits are for Sand Paper and you fucks eat that shit? No wonder the South leads the nation in poor Dental health.

http://www.statemaster.com/graph/hea_or ... ural-teeth

again, youre wrong, think you should change your name to "cant get right"

Georgia has a much higher Aids Rate than California, so does Louisiana, Florida....
Californians voted to ban gay Marriage, Massachusetts leads in gay rights

Everytime you are faced with accurate hard statistics showing how fucked your part of the country is, you make up some bullshit about gays, its your obsession, some day you will tell all of your friends about the deep secret you have been hiding, your cravings for man butt and jiz all over your face and then you will exit that dark deep closet you have dwelled in your whole life. Youll just do it 200 lbs over weight, poorly educated, re-enacting a civil war and with half your natural teeth missing.

'Spray, "total number" isn't the same as "rate." Of course California, New York, Texas and Florida have the highest total number of same sex marriages. They also have the highest number of traditional marriages, bowling leagues, UFO sightings, Mercury outboard owners and Abba fans.

one trick pony.


doesnt matter what you run your nonsense about, you could say California had the most televangelists in the nation, if it was untrue Im going to say that its untrue and provide the truth of that just to prove that youre wrong again.

dont have them here, this town is so conservative it would make Falwellville blush

Sudden Sam wrote: Haven't even been to Archibald's myself. Tuscaloosans tell me it's THE place for ribs. Can't possibly beat the ambiance of Dreamland, though.

I know Dreamland started chaining out. Huntsville has had a Dreamland for a couple of years now. I still havent hit it up.

Van wrote:Sacramento never has any damn Civil War re-enactments.

I call bullshit.

Sin,
Battle of Sacramento December 28, 1861

Van wrote:As southern food specialties go though they sure weren't anything to write home about. They could easily be replaced by oatmeal, for the home sick southern traveler.

Basing your view on a food because of how you had it in a chain restaurant while it sat underneath heat lamps for 6 hours is always good

Well, no, they did actually make it up for us while we waited. I also had 'em at one other place, which was more of a small mom & pop place. Then I had a third bowl, home made, at my friend's house. His mom made 'em.

Tasted about the same, each time. They were okay. No complaints. Not thrilled, but no complaints either. I'm just saying I'd certainly take just about every other new thing I tried in Louisiana before I'd take grits.

Been to the dreamland in Tuscaloosa when I was working with the Mercedes folks out in Alabama. Took a while to find it as once we drove past the hotel and in to the neighborhood, we thought we had driven past it, eventually got there though. Little shack on top of the hill. Pretty good BBQ, the first time we went there, the ribs were drowning in sauce, the second time I ordered the sauce on the side, seemed to be the way to go. either way the BBQ Ribs there were better than any BBQ ribs Ive had here, go back to Mercedes for a week in April, may have to make the drive to Tuscaloosa again

Believe the Heupel wrote:

Mr T wrote:

Sudden Sam wrote: Haven't even been to Archibald's myself. Tuscaloosans tell me it's THE place for ribs. Can't possibly beat the ambiance of Dreamland, though.

I know Dreamland started chaining out. Huntsville has had a Dreamland for a couple of years now. I still havent hit it up.

What the locals told me is that the chain locations are bullshit. The original location is much better.

Thats what I have heard, which is a big reason why i still havent hit up the one in Huntsville.

I am telling you Archibalds is where it is at