What are Grits?

[RSands]

Some other ways to eat them are: I am serious,


*Fry a big helpin of fat back. Put the grits to boiling, poor some of the fatback grease into the grits to season/flavor them. In the same pan you fried the fatback in poor a big can of whole tomatos. Salt and pepper them. Stew the tomatoes until they fall apart. Put your grits in a bowl and poor the maters in and mix up. Dat der is good now, don't care who you are!

I ain't had grits in a while, but that's gonna change soon! Great thread, and thanks tarheel, sounds awesome!

[curious aardvark]

Grits are kinda like rock soup.

You know rock soup ?
Boil water, add a rock, then add peas, ham and seasonings. Throw the rock away and eat the soup.

Faced with grits most people will be able to miraculously conjour up a meal that does not involve grits.
Ie: grits recipe.
Make grits, fry bacon, fry eggs.
Throw grits away and eat bacon and eggs :-)
And yes I feel exactly the same way about polenta, corn dogs and cornmeal based tortillas :-)

Is it any wonder that mexican and texan cookery has developed with such strong spices and flavours. If you have to eat cornmeal - then dammit, you're going to do your best to disguise the fact :-)

Best use of grits in a film:
My cousin Vinnie ;-)

Question: grit is composed of lots of small bits of rock. So why call something really soft after something hard and crunchy ?
Never understood that one.
So why are grits called grits ?

[smokin_tarheel]

One of my distant relative named it. Back in the old days (some where around the Mayflower time) uncle cletus was watching the Indians smashing up corn with two big rocks. As he watched he noticed them boiling them after smashing. He ended up swapping the Indians some moonshine for the smashed corn. You know how us tar heel folk are with our moonshine. After he got them home he told maw whose name was Eva Mae to boil some. She didn't cook them long enough to get them soft. When uncle cletus tried to eat it he said maw, this taste like "grit", so, maw (Eva Mae) said cletus I will boil them longer and make it softer. thus came the name "GRITS". The Indians drank the moonshine and thus came the name "FIREWATER".

lmao,

[teeotee]

And here was i thinking that grits was what i had the morning after eating too much chili. Coz - i'll grimace when i take a .......

On a serious note, never gotten far enough south to try any worthwhile.

[smokin_tarheel]

The Key to get a good pot of grits is putting a lot of salt in them while they are cookin. If you try to salt them after they are cooked it's had to get enough salt in them. They taste bland/flat.

[douglaslizard]

another good meal includiing grits.
fried catfish,cheese grits,and a buttermilk biscuit dipped in syrup.

[Gunslinger]

Grits are kinda like rock soup.

You know rock soup ?
Boil water, add a rock, then add peas, ham and seasonings. Throw the rock away and eat the soup.

Faced with grits most people will be able to miraculously conjour up a meal that does not involve grits.
Ie: grits recipe.
Make grits, fry bacon, fry eggs.
Throw grits away and eat bacon and eggs :-)
And yes I feel exactly the same way about polenta, corn dogs and cornmeal based tortillas :-)

Is it any wonder that mexican and texan cookery has developed with such strong spices and flavours. If you have to eat cornmeal - then dammit, you're going to do your best to disguise the fact :-)

Best use of grits in a film:
My cousin Vinnie ;-)

Question: grit is composed of lots of small bits of rock. So why call something really soft after something hard and crunchy ?
Never understood that one.
So why are grits called grits ?

points for tellin' the truth.

[jbchoice1]

GRITS Louie said GIRLS Raised In The South!

AMEN... I like to eat grits...