I like grits and oatmeal, but had to select one. Not too many of my northern buddies share my taste in grits. To them it is as bad as poi.
this is a tough poll to answer for me - far and away I prefer grits over oatmeal - except when I am backpacking and making quick breakfasts - I can eat oatmeal uncooked with sugar and water but I just can't eat uncooked grits - if I am going to be slow in the morning then boiling water for the grits is no big deal and that is what I would do
Why is it a choice? alternate grits and oatmeal, yummy yummy.
That was my reaction when I tried them but didn't want to cause a riot by saying soOriginally Posted by L. Wolf
Keep the grits, give me livermush biscuits and coffee for breakfast
You know that you're over the hill when your mind makes a promise that your body can't fill.
Oats are for breakfast. The fruit and cream style add flavor to the coffee that cleans the cup.
Grits are for supper - boiling water with a dash of instant milk and a bit of cheese, a foil pack of anything, more cheese, a glug of olive oil, add cheese and crumple some crackers on top. That's good eating. Serve with cheese.
You never turned around to see the frowns
On the jugglers and the clowns
When they all did tricks for you.
Oatmeal ain't too bad, but when I have a choice I'll take grits. Even the instant kind.
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So it is cornmeal eh. Cool. I love cornmeal muffins. I will definitely try grits next time I run into someone I think might know what the heck they are doing.
Both. Oatmeal with dried fruit and walnuts, grits with cheese and extra cheese. Alternate days so I don't get bored.
Homemade granola with dried fruit and powdered milk in the summer.
Grits
Grits-best trail food ever.
It is chock full of carbohydrate for energy for a powerful morning or even lunch or dinner gourmet delight with the right ingredients added to the warming mixture.. They are extremely light, very, very cheap and considerably tastier than any spoonful of mucous-looking (and tasting?) oatmeal.Throw a couple of envelopes of grits into your pot of warming water and it is done as soon as the bubbles begin to reverberate. Then stir to dissolve the lumps and savor. I wouldn't leave home without it
Wow, I guess I'm one of those rare people who can't stand either one, tho being a New Englander, I suffered thru the Maypo years just like Lone Wolf. As I recall, it was served with buttter, milk, and either brown sugar or Vermont Maid syrup.
I also recall it looked a whole lot like something that had just fallen out of a goat.
I'm REALLY not a hot cereal fan.
The other funny thing is that I NEVER eat breakfast on the Trail, having no appetite whatsover in the morning.
My Trail breakfast for years was always a cup of coffee and 3 Camels, and the occasional restorative adult beverage, especially in cold weather. Now I guess it'll just be coffee.
The R.J. Reynolds stock must be tanking!
If you want something really snot-like you gotta try tapioca pudding. Yum.
No.. tapioca is more like eating frog-spawn
Oysters are like snot though
You know that you're over the hill when your mind makes a promise that your body can't fill.
Frog-spawn. Very apt description.
I had this pickled herring in Holland once that was total slime.
Yea.. they're wierd like that on the Continent
On the other hand, no 'proper' breakfast is complete without black pudding
You know that you're over the hill when your mind makes a promise that your body can't fill.
A proper breakfast is country fried steak with sawmill gravy, hash browns with onions and peppers (cheese too sometimes), scrambled eggs covered in salsa, wheat toast with butter, lots of coffee, and a little bit of sourwood honey to spread on the toast.
And a bowl of grits.
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We gotta choose??
Hey, Rock, I can't pick one. I like them all.
If I have to pick one, most of the time I'll go with oatmeal. Thing is, I eat all of them, either alone or with accompaniment.
Oatmeal and eggs is great, as is grits and eggs. Throw in some ham, bacon, or a good sausage, and I'm in heaven. Of course, my doctor tells me that if it tastes good, I should spit it out. It can't be healthy for me. What does he know. They're my tastebuds.
In truth, I tend to eat oatmeal or cream of wheat (made really thick) if I'm having them alone. Grits that are flavored are really good too, but the Scottish heritage tends to make me want oatmeal.
Try steel cut oats, popping boogers!
Actually the only way to go with oats.
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Or tell them they can have potatoes when they get home.How do you get a yankee to eat grits?
Tell em its white polenta and they can't get enuff of the stuff.
Big grocer up your way should have hominy grits near the funky hot cereals. I can only get the quick kind here, it will give you an idea.
Hey Jack! Damn fine work! How's them taste buds workin'?
Almost. If you grind dry corn you get cornmeal, the fine stuff, and corn grits, the coarse stuff. Boil corn grits and you get polenta. If you bake cornmeal you get cornbread.
If you take corn and soak it in water with a strong caustic you get hominy. If you dry the hominy you get, well, dried hominy, I guess. But if you grind the dried hominy you get maseca, the fine stuff, and hominy grits. If you boil hominy grits you're right. But if you bake maseca you are using the wrong recipe book because you should be frying it into tortillas or steaming it into tamales.
So. Grits are to polenta as maseca is to cornmeal.
And if you don't know what maseca is, then I feel very, very sorry for you.
You never turned around to see the frowns
On the jugglers and the clowns
When they all did tricks for you.
Sarge- you got me going there.... steak, gravy, hash browns... with you all the way (no biscuits ?) ... and then I got to the grits
You had to spoil it, huh ?
You know that you're over the hill when your mind makes a promise that your body can't fill.
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