True Grits

[Waynem]

LAWD HAVE MERCY : WHAT ARE GRITS?



What Are Grits?

Nobody knows. Some folks believe grits are grown on bushes and are harvested by midgets by shaking the bushes after spreading sheets around them. Many people feel that grits are made from ground up bits of white corn. These are obviously lies spread by Communists and terrorists. Nothing as good as a Grits can be made from corn.

The most recent research suggests that the mysterious Manna that God rained down upon the Israelites during their time in the Sinai Desert was most likely Grits.

Critics disagree, stating that there is no record of biscuits, butter, salt, and red eye gravy raining down from the sky, and that God would not punish his people by forcing them to eat Grits without these key ingredients.

How Grits are Formed.

Grits are formed deep underground under intense heat and pressure. It takes over 1000 years to form a single Grit. Most of the world's grit mines are in South Carolina , and are guarded day and night by armed guards and pit bull dogs. Harvesting the Grit is a dangerous occupation, and many Grit miners lose their lives each year so that Grits can continue to be served morning after morning for breakfast (not that having Grits for lunch and dinner is out of the question).

Yankees have attempted to create a synthetic Grits. They call them Cream of Wheat. As far as we can tell the key ingredients of Cream of Wheat are Elmer's Glue and shredded styrofoam. These synthetic grits have also been shown to cause nausea and may leave you unable to have children.

Historical Grits

As we mentioned earlier, the first known mention of the Grits was by the Ancient Israelites in the Sinai Desert . After that, the Grits was not heard from for another 1000 years. Experts feel that the Grits was used during this time only during secret religious ceremonies and was kept from the public due to it's rarity.

The next mention of the Grits was found amidst the ruins of the ancient city of Pompeii in a woman's personal diary. The woman's name was Herculaneum Jemimaneus (Aunt Jemima to her friends.)

The 10 Commandments of Grits

I. Thou shalt not put syrup on thy Grits
II. Thou shalt not eat thy Grits with a spoon or knife
III. Thou shalt not eat Cream of Wheat and call it Grits, for this is blasphemy
IV. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors Grits
V. Thou shalt use only Salt, Butter, and red eye gravy as toppings for thy Grits
VI Thou shalt not eat Instant Grits
VII. Thou shalt not put ketchup on thy Grits
VIII. Thou shalt not put margarine on thy Grits.
IX. Thou shalt not eat toast with thy Grits, only biscuits made from scratch .
X. Thou shalt eat grits on the Sabbath for this is manna from heaven.

How to Cook Grits

For one serving of Grits:
Boil 1.5 cups of water with salt and a little butter.
Add 5 TBsp of Grits.
Reduce to a simmer and allow the Grits to soak up all the water.
When a pencil stuck into the grits stands alone, it is done. That's all there is to cooking grits.

How to make red eye gravy

Fry salt cured country ham in cast iron pan. Remove the ham when done and add coffee to the gravy and simmer for several minutes. Great on grits and biscuits.

How to Eat Grits

Immediately after removing your grits from the stove top, add a generous portion of butter or red eye gravy. (WARNING: Do NOT use low-fat butter.) The butter should cause the Grits to turn a wondrous shade of yellow. (Hold a banana or a yellow rain slicker next to your Grits; if the colors match, you have the correct amount of butter.)

In lieu of butter, pour a generous helping of red eye gravy on your grits. Be sure to pour enough to have some left for sopping up with your biscuits. Never, ever substitute canned or store bought biscuits for the real thing because they caused cancer, rotten teeth and impotence.

Next, add salt. (NOTICE: The correct ration of Grit to Salt is 10:1 Therefore for every 10 grits, you should have 1 grain of salt.)

Now begin eating your grits.

Always use a fork, never a spoon, to eat Grits. Your grits should be thick enough so they do not run through the tines of the fork.

The correct beverage to serve with Grits is black coffee.
DO NOT use cream or, heaven forbid, Skim Milk.)
Your grits should never be eaten in a bowl because Yankees will think its Cream of Wheat.

Ways to Eat Leftover Grits:
(Leftover grits are ex tremely rare)

Spread them in the bottom of a casserole dish,
Cover and place them in the refrigerator overnight.
The Grits will congeal into a gelatinous mass
Next morning, slice the Grits into squares and fry them in 1/2" of cooking oil and butter until they turn a golden brown.
Many people are tempted to pour syrup onto Grits served this way. This is, of course, unacceptable.

IRISH BLESSING BEFORE EATING GRITS

May the lord bless these grits,
May no Yankee ever get the recipe,
May I eat grits every day while living,
And may I die while eating grits.
AMEN

[Glenn and Lorraine]

Now that's funny and after all that FYI I still don't like grits. Must be the YANKEE in me. Oh and BTW, I don't like Cream of Wheat either

[Rondo]

I'm with you Glenn! Must be the Yankee in me also! I have tried them by putting garlic powder and cheese in them and that is passible but it's still grits! LOL My Mom used to make cornmeal mush for us on the farm on cold days and neither my brother or I could handle that. She would make us sit there until we ate it. It got cold and lumpy and we both still gagged on it. She always had some left over so she would butter up a cassarole dish and put it in there and then slice it and fry it. We didn't like that either but ate it or didn't get anything else! The DW is from Alabama so grits is in her menu but she knows not for me! I'm with you on the Cream of Wheat also-- infact any hot cereal is out! Just call me dumb but can't handle the stuff!!

[Waynem]

Y'all are grit haters, that's all!!!!![]

[richfaa]

I had never heard of grits till I got stationed at Camp(now fort) Gordon, Ga. Hand bkfst with this pile of unidentified stuff piled on the plate that I did not ask for, (everything came with grits.I inquired as to what that might be and the waitress said.."why those are
grr ett zze" Honey.Then went on to instruct me on how to prepare and eat them. Have to admit that This ole Yankee liked them and still do.

[trukdoc]

Down here in the South them's fighten words...lol

[Glenn and Lorraine]

Rich reminded me of my Army introduction to what they called SOS. Not a lot different than biscuits and sausage gravy. Now I'll take all the helpings of SOS I can get over any Grits no matter how you serve them.

YES Wayne, you can truly say I hate grits.

[Mrs. CountryGuy]

Must be it was born in me, born in the South, raised primarily in the North, but, introduced to grits as an adult (don't know why my mom did not serve them, she was from the Shenandoah Valley???? )

anyway, introduced as an adult and I adore grits! butter and a little salt thank you, best served with eggs of choice and salty southern ham, which is sugar cured ham.

No Waffle Houses in Michigan that I am aware of, so, we really watch for the first one on any trip south. Do have a few Cracker Barrels, but, gotta say, that some of them don't know how to cook em, runny, eewwww

some of the bestest grits I have had up this away, in the county court house in Detroit, Wayne County, they had for breakfast and I swear, those cooks really knew how to cook em. OHHH YUM!!

[Waynem]

Okay! We will have to have a grit eatin' contest.
I'll be the judge (Cause I don't have to eat them)

Oops! Confession!

Now SOS! DW makes a mean Jimmy Dean SOS with biscuits (or eggs)

In my younger day, as a young, young Marine still growing, and as Ships Company, I'd walk to the mess hall and the cook would say, "what'll ya' have?" My reply was, "Give me a half dozen over easy with the SOS."

Two is all I can do now-a-days. (Yeah! Right!)

Edited: Oh! And I usually went back for seconds.

I hate grits. Hate liver also!