Originally Posted by Rntraveler
"I still can't stand the taste...or non-taste of grits"
Well, all I can say is "more for me"....
I think the best way to eat grits is with an egg.. of course the yolk is not cooked through... you mix it with the egg and dip your toast into it.....thanks for leaving more for me...
My daddy was from Denmark and wouldn't eat grits either.. I grew up in FL and no matter that it is South of the "other" states, I don't consider Fl Southern at all....
It depends on where you are in FL. I grew up in south eastern part of the state and was born in the Keys but many of my friends and neighbors were transplants from New England (mostly Connecticut and Rhode Island) so learned both the middle GA stuff from Mama and the yankee stuff from them. We used to always say that you weren't actually in FL until you got below Orlando...the rest was just south GA ;-). When we moved to middle GA in the '70's all my cousins and friends wanted to know what part of New York I was from...til I told them by birthplace I was more southern than they!
Never got into the undercooked yolk though...we always ate them scrambled with cheese ;-). I had an uncle who would mix all the grits, eggs, and chopped up sausage into a mound in the middle of the plate and then after eating would clean the plate with cane syrup and biscuit.