What's a grit?

[Lordbay]

I love to get the cheese and butter ones and mix together. All you need is a cup and hot water. I also put alittle splenda in to made it sweet (need to watch my waist-line).

 

[Primrose]

No sugar on grits. I think there's an old law still on the books in Georgia regarding a minimum fine for putting sugar on grits.

Butter and salt and pepper if you want them plain.

My dd most often wants cheddar cheese mixed in hers.

I also like to mix scrambles eggs grits and cheese.

 

[WalksWithChrist]

My wife killed all the cheddar cheez I bought (I didn't tell her it was for cheez grits, so she get a pass ), so I threw some provolone in there and that was pretty good too. I also put a little garlic powder is as suggested on the box...nice touch.

 

[NorwayUnn]

I have never learned so much about grits ever before.

 

[WalksWithChrist]

I have never learned so much about grits ever before.

Me too! And I've lived in the south most of my life.

 

[Lordbay]

I wish more places would serve grits. I also like to have white rice for breakfast. I eat it the same ways as grits.

 

[WalksWithChrist]

I wish more places would serve grits. I also like to have white rice for breakfast. I eat it the same ways as grits.

Rice for breakfast? Why not!

 

[Lordbay]

That is another deep south thing. In my family, rice is eaten alot with meals.

 

[WalksWithChrist]

That is another deep south thing. In my family, rice is eaten alot with meals.

Mom always made rice for dinner, but I never liked rice til I got much older.

Never liked grits growing up either!

 

[Lordbay]

As a kid, that was on thing my mother could get me to eat. I was a very picky kid. I still love rice, but I have to watch eating it. That is why I eat more grits now.

 

[WalksWithChrist]

As a kid, that was on thing my mother could get me to eat. I was a very picky kid. I still love rice, but I have to watch eating it. That is why I eat more grits now.

All I would eat was freezee pops, kool-aid and cheez.

 

[Lordbay]

All I would eat was freezee pops, kool-aid and cheez.

As a kid I wouldn't have seen a problem with that . If it was not rice I wanted it was grilled chesse and french fries. French fries was the one veggies I ate. If it was green, I did not eat it, my Mom even tried to but things in rice for me to eat, it did not work.

 

[WalksWithChrist]

As a kid I wouldn't have seen a problem with that . If it was not rice I wanted it was grilled chesse and french fries. French fries was the one veggies I ate. If it was green, I did not eat it, my Mom even tried to but things in rice for me to eat, it did not work.

Ahhh....grilled cheez! That was a special favorite of mine.

 

[Lordbay]

Ahhh....grilled cheez! That was a special favorite of mine.

OK... check this out!! I love it when my Mom put grape jelly in the middle or if She did not do that, I wanted mircle whip and pickles on the side . Weird I know, but I was a weird picky kid.

 

[Wadsworth]

mmmmm Grits.
Butter, butter and more butter

 

[WalksWithChrist]

mmmmm Grits.
Butter, butter and more butter

Butter. The Other White Meat.

 

[WalksWithChrist]

I made some actually *cheddar* cheez grits this weekend! Yum.

Next time I'm just gonna make my favorite kind with butter and sugar. And maybe after that...with butter and pepper/salt.

 

[NorwayUnn]

mmmmm Grits.
Butter, butter and more butter

mmm... real butter is sooo good, on grits, on bread, on mash! I cut it with a cheese slicer. Why do people eat light margarine, when life is so short, wondereth I.

 

[MyHeartIsAllForU]

Why has no one answered the poor guy's first question? Oh well, I must be the only grit eating person who actually knows what a "grit" is. OK, it's a little hard to explain, but a grit is the tiny, little, hard, seed looking thing hiding at the base of the kernel on an ear of corn. It's not very big, so you may not even notice it's there unless you are looking for it.
The reason why we have grits is that chicken feed is crushed uncooked kernels of corn, but chickens are incapable of digesting the "seed" or "grit". When you buy corn seeds at the garden supply store they give you a "whole" uncooked kernel as a seed. The "whole kernel has the "grit" inside and that (not the kernel) is what makes the corn plant. So there.

By the way just as a note, the proper Southern style is salt, pepper, and butter (real butter). Also, Southern people NEVER cook instant grits. It's against our religion.

 

[Ms.Garnet]

I am southern through & through - I love instant grits !!!! I like mine with BUTTER , salt & pepper. I don't like "watery" grits. If I eat them with a meal , I eat them w/butter,salt & pepper. If I eat them "as a meal" I add cheddar or hoop cheese. Down here they are served at the catfish house w/cheese --as a side dish. I don't like them w/fish !!!!! Below is another defition of grits.

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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Grits are made from the milling of corn kernels. The first step in the process is to clean the kernels; then, the grains are steamed for a short time to loosen the tough outer hull. The grain kernel is split, which removes the hull and germ, leaving the broken endosperm. Heavy steel rollers break up the endosperm into granules, which are separated by a screening process. The large-size granules are the grits; the smaller ones become cornmeal and corn flour.[/FONT]