OK...I give up, Whats Grits???????????

[jefff]

a northener came in to restrant ordered breakfast and it came with grits he said i didn't order them.the waitress said no one orders them,GRITS JUST COME

[Forty Rod]

The Tobasco Sauce made me smile ...

The few times I have visited my Sis on the right coast, I have to always order salsa to go with my eggs ...

Unvariably, I always get something like, "Why sugar, you aren't from around here are ya?"

The next thing that usually comes out is, "Hon, we got Tobasco, will that do?"

My Sis has taken to keeping a bottle of Pace whever I am coming, and I take it out with me when I go ...

Sorry I forgot salsa, Dud-Dub.  It's so common I tend to overlook it.  Goes with almost everything but ice cream and pancakes...and there are so many varieties to choose from.

[Forty Rod]

Hey Forty Rod What foods do you shoot from your firelocks?
prof (fried mush for brains) marvel

Have you seen a picture of me?  Do I look like I ever let a morsel of food (Unless it's green.  I try not to eat green food.) get past my mouth?

I shoot black powder and lead.  If I'm loading from the front I use beeswax, carnauba, Crisco (NOT a food product in spite of their advertising), and a touch of mink oil when I can get it, over the chamber mouths.  I use the same stuff for patch lube.

Using food in ammunition!  Phfaw!  Ammunition is for getting more food, not wasting on frivolities.

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

When I see what you Pards find delicious I see why there are discussions about stretching gunbelts, falling gunbelts, and a Pard who can't get both ends on the ground when shooting prone!

Salt AND sugar AND honey AND butter AND marmalade.  Heh! You didn't mention bacon grease?

Next thing I hear will be about another Pard down with diabetes!

[WaddWatsonEllis]

Bacon Grease ....

My Mom, a mid-Texas, first-generation-in-from-the-farm woman, used to keep a crock next to her sink.

Any leftover bacon grease went into the pot ... and the next time she has to make eggs, a solidified dollop from the crock started the old cast iton skillet and got it 'slippery' enough to fry eggs ...

And steak was always broiled in the broiler .... and the juices at the bottom of the broiler would be poured over stale bread and the steak would be placed on top of the stale bread and juices (grease actually) ... we used to call the bread and 'juices' soppin's

Can I get an amen from my Texas/Oklahoma brothers?

[WaddWatsonEllis]

And I have been to England and had English food ... and any culture that dreams up bangers and mash, fried kippers on toast and marmalade has it own share of uh, interesting recipes:

steak and kidney pie

treacle

Fried kippered sardines (kippers) on toast for breakfast (not only do you not want to eat this, but you don't want to be downwind of anyone who has ... ).

*LOL*

[Abilene]

... (Unless it's green.  I try not to eat green food.) ...

You'd like a bumper sticker I saw years ago:

Vegetables Aren't Food
Vegetables Are What Food Eats

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

WWE;  here in Canada, we are almost as bad as Y'All to our South.  

My wife is from Cyprus, but moved to St Louis as a child.  I am lucky that I get to cherry pick from several cuisines, prepared by an artist with food.  We have to watch our meals very carefully as my wife is Type2 diabetic.  Our rule is to avoid buying packaged/processed food.  It is not only poor food, it is expensive.

I know what English food used to be like, but it has improved immensely since European Union.  My Son (who also rides with the Picketts Hill Marshalls) & his Ever Lovin' are both 1/2 Cypriot, and their meals are very strongly guided by "The Mediterranean Diet" which is acclaimed as being very healthy.  By the way;  Marmite is also very healthy.

How some ever!  Good food comes from all over the world.  We just have to think and choose what is healthy in each one.

[Shotgun Franklin]

I will not eat skunk, coyote, beets or armadillo. Anything else that I can catch, kill, sieze or cut a piece off of is, at least considered, fair game for the pot.

[WaddWatsonEllis]

Sir Charles,

As usual, too true and sage thoughts.

I am an Air Farce Brat (pun intended), and grew up in France, Japan, Korea and Spain ... as well as Texas Illinois (BTW, I used to live during my high school years in Belleville IL), New Jersey, South Carolina, and Washington State(plus many more).

And every place I have lived, I miss some kind of gastronomical delight ... like the yellow corn fresh from  the field in Illinois, , Japnese anything but blowfish, sea worm and slug (but I have had all three at one time, Spanish Paella and Caricoles (roasted snail ), French just about anything. Even like fried Geoyducs (sp).

I envy you with a in-house person who cooks Mediteranean ... makes my mouth water just to think of it!

[WaddWatsonEllis]

I have had Armadillo cooked in its own shell .... it remains on the list of things I would only eat as as sruvival food ...

Although with a bit of onions, a potatoe or tow and some spices it might have made a nice stew ... so that I could eat the potatoes and onions and ignore the stange meat in the stew ..... LOL

[Forty Rod]

And I have been to England and had English food ... and any culture that dreams up bangers and mash, fried kippers on toast and marmalade has it own share of uh, interesting recipes:

steak and kidney pie

treacle

Fried kippered sardines (kippers) on toast for breakfast (not only do you not want to eat this, but you don't want to be downwind of anyone who has ... ).

*LOL*

The English do some things very well.  Butter and HP brown sauce come to mind, and an Army neighbor's ex-pat Brit wife once did some amazing things with upland game birds.  I've killed and eaten quail, Chukkars and Huns, pheasant etc. all my life but her pheasant and quail were WUUUNDERFUULLL!

[Rebel Dave]

All this talk about grits, made me hungry for some at breakfast,so......... Me and the dog shared a plate of eggs and grits, with rhubarb jam, wheat toast, and Tapati'o salsa picante (hot sauce). My better half declined the grits(she dosn't like farina either, or creame of wheat). Me , I can remember when I was a kid in the 50s that would be all we would get for breakfast. Grits.....ARE groceries, and they are good.
But alas, I use COW as my filler in my Smith, and Maynard Carbines, and none in my revolvers.

Rebel Dave

[Skeeter Lewis]

The word 'grits' is a dialect form of 'groats', which are any hulled and crushed grain. I eat buckwheat, which is described on the packet as 'Buckwheat Groats'.

[WaddWatsonEllis]

Groats to Grists ...

I love the entymology of words; Thanks!

[Paladin UK]

PUK says.....


Phew.... jest see whar this threads led us.. now, we`re inta    `entymology` !!!
Paladin (What lurvs bein edjakated   ) UK

[Delmonico]

PUK says.....


Phew.... jest see whar this threads led us.. now, we`re inta    `entymology` !!!
Paladin (What lurvs bein edjakated   ) UK

PUK, these guys ain't gonn eddey-cate you, I know most of them, they ain't nothin' but heathens.  Did they show you any pictures of real, edible food?  You just stick with me:

Here, some pizza:


Or cheese steak on a biscuit:



Oh and roast beef hash is so much better than grits for breakfast:



Folks ate grits cause that's all they had, even Sherman's men wouldn't steal them. 

Have some bacon and coffee also:



And just because you got in with this bunch, have some pie:

[Shotgun Franklin]

Here's a bit of Southern History.
When Sherman was comitting War Crimes, burning out families, the Yankees saw the Blackeyed Pea Vines and didn't recognize them as anything edible so left'm alone. The Victims were then able to survive by eating the peas. Since that time Blackeyed Peas have been considered lucky thoughout the South.

[Delmonico]

Here's a bit of Southern History.
When Sherman was comitting War Crimes, burning out families, the Yankees saw the Blackeyed Pea Vines and didn't recognize them as anything edible so left'm alone. The Victims were then able to survive by eating the peas. Since that time Blackeyed Peas have been considered lucky thoughout the South.

Old myth is all that is, Black Eyed peas, Purple Pod Peas, Crowder Peas and others of the Cow Pea family are well known in the North, the grits comment was a joke and nothing more since grits were also well know and well used in the North in that time also.
As for war crimes, at least Sherman's men were stealing from what was considered folks helping an enemy, something that often could not be said for Southern forces, you need to study history with out prejudice, you'll find often there ain't no good guys vs bad guys.

[Shotgun Franklin]

you need to study history with out prejudice, you'll find often there ain't no good guys vs bad guys.

Is that what Yankees call 'The pot calling the kettle black'?