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I'm shook. Truly shook. I just learned that there are
Jan 21, 2021, 10:25 AM
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people who claim to be True Southerners that put sugar in their grits. I had no idea this was a thing. This is coming from someone who grew up watching his grandfather put salt on tomatoes, watermelon, AND cantaloupe straight out of the garden (not bad, not my preference). I saw him, on occasion, put a block of cheese in his coffee.
Sugar in grits seems a little too much though. SUGAR?
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Re: I'm shook. Truly shook. I just learned that there are
Jan 21, 2021, 10:27 AM
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Cane syrup?
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Nope. Salt, maybe some butter, but grits are savory, not
Jan 21, 2021, 10:29 AM
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sweet.
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Re: Nope. Salt, maybe some butter, but grits are savory, not
Jan 21, 2021, 10:43 AM
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JK. I like some good gravy and venison cubed steak with mine. For some reason I don't really digest grits too well anymore so I don't eat large portions. Also like the egg yoke from over easy eggs with a healthy dose of pepper.
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yeah, this...a couple of eggs over easy with runny yolks and
Jan 21, 2021, 11:03 AM
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cut it all up and mix it together with the grits. Salt, pepper... mercy Miss Percy.
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I put
Jan 21, 2021, 10:28 AM
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hotsawce on mine.
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Yes, that is good. Maybe toss in some bacon. Or just mix
Jan 21, 2021, 10:30 AM
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it with bacon, sausage, and scrambled eggs.
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daughter fluff had that for breakfast today, except with ham***
Jan 21, 2021, 11:11 AM
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I put brown sugar in my oatmeal
Jan 21, 2021, 10:30 AM
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Never anything sweet in grits...
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Oatmeal recipe from Greenr ------->>>>>>>
Jan 21, 2021, 10:32 AM
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Old Fashioned Oats Honey Cinnamon scoop of peanut butter small amount of chocolate morsels almond milk
Let it sit in the fridge for an hour or so (overnight is better) then microwave that bad boy until lava and let it sit until it thickens some.
DELICIOUS
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Whoa. BTFU for a sec.
Jan 21, 2021, 10:30 AM
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A block of cheese...in coffee? That's not southern, or northern or any gatdam direction. Explain this.
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Agreee 100%. Saw him do it at Christmas a couple times.
Jan 21, 2021, 10:35 AM
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My dad always bought a big a>ss hoop of cheese in December. He would slice it up and give it to friends with a jar of whatever he was making and some peanut brittle. On Christmas morning, my grandparents would come to our house and eat breakfast. Poppy would drop a hunk of that cheese into his coffee to soften it up some. It was weird AF and I never tried it. We made fun of him for it but he DGAF, he was old and this made sense to him. I didn't ever ask if he made it up or if that was something he had seen elsewhere. Anyways, he would drink the coffee then scoop out the softened cheese and eat that.
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Just googled it. Might be Scandinavian, might be Peruvian,
Jan 21, 2021, 10:38 AM
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which my family is neither. I have now concluded that my grandfather picked it up from a foreign wh>ore during the war (not sure which war, maybe just one at home)
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Was your grandfather in Tommy Boy?
Jan 21, 2021, 11:25 AM
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Frank Rittenhauer : If this factory goes under, the whole town goes under.
Boardroom Woman : That's when the ###### come in.
Paul : Excuse me, what was that?
Boardroom Woman : Men laying their trick-money down. Twenty dollars to pay the rent? Maybe not. Maybe instead I'll spend it on the #####.
Boardroom Woman : ###### running around, doing their little behind-shake for the men folk...
Richard Hayden : I kinda like her idea.
Boardroom Man : For Christ's sake. Once during the war I visited a prostitute, and my life has been a living hell ever since
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I've heard stories of people that did that, but I always
Jan 21, 2021, 10:35 AM
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figured it was a cryptozoological myth. Humans, as a general rule, are pretty stupid.
BUT NOT THAT GOSH DARN STUPID.
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I've heard stories of people that did that, but I always
Jan 21, 2021, 10:47 AM
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mutilated and burned the storyteller's body so that I wouldn't run the risk of hearing that story again. I also hunted down and did the same to the purported subjects in the stories, so that others wouldn't be tempted to witness sugar on grits and regale me with some blasphemy they saw.
That's what I expected when I clicked your post. 2021 is weird, man. People have gone soft.
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Let's go with your version.***
Jan 21, 2021, 10:55 AM
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Those people are called liars.
Jan 21, 2021, 10:41 AM
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They’re not true southerners. Or maybe they are and they were just messin with ya. Nobody with a lick of sense puts sugar in their grits. It ain’t oatmeal or cream of wheat - whatever that hot garbage is.
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I question the Southernness of oatmeal/cream of wheat eaters
Jan 21, 2021, 10:49 AM
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also.
I've never eaten a bowl of oatmeal - or seen it served/eaten by anyone in a breakfast setting. In my life.
I have had oatmeal cookies sho nuff. But a bowl of oatmeal? Nuh-Uh.
And cream of wheat? Get that on out of here.
https://www.southernliving.com/culture/southerners-try-cream-of-wheat
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Never had bowl of oatmeal? That's a foodcrime. Pretty good,
Jan 21, 2021, 10:59 AM
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pretty versatile, pretty healthy, pretty easy, and real real cheap. It's great on a cold morning.
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Also
Jan 21, 2021, 11:02 AM
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"It tastes like a punishment."***
Jan 21, 2021, 11:02 AM
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Re: You forgot...
Jan 21, 2021, 12:30 PM
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Things that are allowed in Grits:
Jan 21, 2021, 10:45 AM
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1. Butter 2. Cheese 3. Pepper/salt 4. Butter 5. Shrimps
Anything else and it becomes Polenta.
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When we first moved to the south, there was a legitimate
Jan 21, 2021, 10:49 AM
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couple years where 19She liked polenta, but didn't really care for grits. That they are identical was of no import. I still mock her to this day.
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I grew up eating Cream of Wheat and not grits.
Jan 21, 2021, 10:46 AM
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You put sugar in that.
Unless there's shrimp on top, I'm not eating grits. And even then they must have cream cheese in them.
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I thought you were raised in the South. Were your parents
Jan 21, 2021, 10:54 AM
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just that bad at parenting?
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I know tdrake's dad worked at Michigan State for a while
Jan 21, 2021, 11:08 AM
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probably some sort of midwest tradition that makes no sense today, much like Jim Harbaugh
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Nope. Gravy, butter, fine. Sugar, never seen it.
Jan 21, 2021, 10:56 AM
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Although I bet it makes it more crack-like with the added benefit of the simple sugars added to a complex carbohydrate. Just add in some fat (butter) and I bet it's awesome.
But not southern.....
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Are those the same ones who add sugar to cornbread
Jan 21, 2021, 10:58 AM
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and end up with some kind of odd cake?
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Butter and a ton of cheese goes in grits
Jan 21, 2021, 11:01 AM
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then whatever else you are eating can be mixed in.
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Re: I'm shook. Truly shook. I just learned that there are
Jan 21, 2021, 11:10 AM
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Sugar in grits!!!! GET A ROPE...lol
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I've lived in the south my whole life,
Jan 21, 2021, 11:14 AM
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and I don't think I've witnessed anyone under the age of 50 willingly eat grits, ever.
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Re: I've lived in the south my whole life,
Jan 21, 2021, 11:20 AM
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are there any Southerners left in Atlanta?
Jan 21, 2021, 11:24 AM
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I guess there's your proof.
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Ok, i'll fall on my sword here
Jan 21, 2021, 11:28 AM
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Born and raised in Columbia (sorry), and yes, I put a spoonful of sugar in my grits.
Father's family all does it and they're from the mountains of NC. He said that growing up, albeit quite poor, that his mother occasionally cooked grits at dinner, which got a little sugar on it, for dessert.
So yeah, proud Southern grits eater here, and I almost always put either cheese or sugar on it.
Proceed with the hurling of insults and roasting. I know I deserve it.
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while it is weird AF
Jan 21, 2021, 11:32 AM
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I'm glad you admitted it I'm glad you provided the background
and as such, I will not hurl any insults in your general direction
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I would say it must be a po folks thing but
Jan 21, 2021, 11:34 AM
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Greenr's family, both sides, were po AF so it aint that.
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There used to be a restaurant in St Andrews (Columbia) named
Jan 21, 2021, 11:43 AM
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Po Folks. I would say it was similar to Lizard's Thicket, but I think they closed a long time ago, and I only went there occasionally after church as a young child.
That doesn't have anything to do with your Po Folks, but it reminded me of the restaurant.
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ate in the Senecker one a bunch while in school
Jan 21, 2021, 12:10 PM
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my parents liked to go to it when they came up to visit.
Served sweet tea in mason jars, if I recall.
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Mason jars and checker boards while you waited looong
Jan 21, 2021, 12:36 PM
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before Cracker Barrel ever thought of it.
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also, if you ordered the "calabash shrimp" they brought out
Jan 21, 2021, 1:35 PM
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a huge basket slam full. By the time you ate the baked potato, slaw & rolls... the to-go box of leftover shrimp you carried out was another whole meal.
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Wasn't Bill Anderson the main celeb casualty of Po Folks?***
Jan 21, 2021, 12:49 PM
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yeah, that seems to ring a bell... maybe Burt was a minority
Jan 21, 2021, 1:29 PM
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investor, not sure. Burt made a ton of bad investments, Po Folks was just one...
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I add about 1/2 tsp sugar when I make a bigass pot of cheese
Jan 21, 2021, 11:35 AM
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grits, especially if I use sharp cheddar. But only a teeny bit, and never as a topping.
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Having growed up on a farm, I can say that not only is
Jan 21, 2021, 12:26 PM
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sugar in grits an affront to the palate, fresh ground YELLOW grits are better than white grits, any day.
I do admit to putting salt and a big slab of I Can't Believe It Snot butter on my grits, I like that buttery taste.
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My Southern born mama puts salt in oatmeal***
Jan 21, 2021, 12:47 PM
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Even this ex-Yankee knows. Black pepper and a little butter
Jan 21, 2021, 1:12 PM
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And that's it unless you're going full blown shrimp 'n grits.
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