Gawd, I Love Those GRITS!

“Girls Raised In The South”

“Cool! Another acronym thread. From November's "Sky & Telescope" magazine...

WHIM.....Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium

(that 'missing mass' may be no longer missing)”

“no longer missing, huh? are you wiping the sweat from your brow, Tilt? hehe!”

“Yep! And if you're REALLY looking for some Missing Mass, check out Match.com, LOL”

“I tried to get Newergirl to try grits the other morning. She wasn't into them.”

“Ya gotta put cheese in 'em to make them palatable.”

“I like my grits with butter on them.....Ohhhhhhhhhhh.

Nevermind”

“Well, she pretty much will only eat apple oatmeal or bacon for breakfast.”

“Put bacon in the grits. If you wanna reallyyy be Southern, put bacon grease in the grits.”

“The secret to grits is a Ton of Cheddar Cheese (then lotsa salt, butter, cayenne, sausage, pepperoni, etc (and maybeee just a dab of sour cream)). Think of Fettucine Alfredo... that 'heart attack on a plate' thing.

The grits themselves are incidental. They're just there to hold the other stuff together.

The 'quick' grits are passable, but NOT instant!

BLECH!!”

“Oatmeal makes so much sense for backpacking I have tried to gag it down on a couple of trips.
No go, I always return to instant grits with precooked bacon strips for breakfast, yum.
Yep, I'm a southern guy.”

“Uuummmm, no. I'm glad we aren't twisted in the north (west). LOL!”

“Which brings us back to the Missing Mass...”

“My mom always tried to get us to eat Cream of Wheat. Foul stuff, that. Now, Cream of Rice. That's yummy...a little butter, a little sugar...mmmmmm.”

“Yep, I've been choking down that oatmeal, too. I can almost stand the Peach favor. Maybe it's the Georgia connection? LOL”

“Stove, I also hated oatmeal for bping. I'd like to have pork chops and eggs for bping breakfast. Yes, yes, I realize that's unreasonable. But a girl gets hungry.”

“Newgirl... I know people that do that.
Not me, I'm an ultralighter for most trips.”

“Grits suck. I'll take Apple-bacon oatmeal any day.”

“Try the creamy instant oatmeal, it's a lot better than the standard kind.”

“Grits is the way to go with any of these extras thrown in: bacon, cheddar chesse, ham, sausage or butter flavoring. You can have the oatmeal, cream of wheat or rice.
BTW please don't add sugar to grits...yuck”

“Next time I go I'll have to bring a pack mule for my food. LOL!”

“Rice for breakfast... hmmm.

Snap? Crackle? Pop?”

“YOu'd love my backcountry breakfasts, NG. Omelets, hash browns, hash, etc.

I'll not be modest.

I make the best breakfast.”

“Rosey, I like how you casually add the fact that you are the best. Don't be shy now.”

“I flipped eggs (among other things)in a restaurant for 10 years.

I got skillz.”

“The skill I need to get is carrying all the extra food I want to have. I need to be able to handle, like a 50 lb. pack for 2 nights. LOL!”

“Nah, you just need to find some sucka to carry 25 pounds of your stuff :)”

“That is an important point Rosey. LOL!”

“I like them Yankee Ho's”

“Grits with bacon, cheese, and hard boiled egg mashed into them. Butter, salt, pepper, and garlic powder to taste.

And when you get on the trail you will have rocket assist to get up the hills.”

“We moved to northern Florida when my sister was a preschooler. When she was in first or second grade there, here class was studying the south. My Dad was helping her study for a quiz and asked her
"What is a bale?".

Her answer "It's a thang that goes dang, dong."

Never did get the south out of her, and she ended up back there.”

“LOL!”

“Grits R great! Savory or sweet!

Oh yeah, rosey, you're hired as cabana boy for my next trip:o)”

“THANKS! Now I'm having a bad Nipsey Russell "PASSWORD" Flashback.

The word was DESERT.
Contestant: "GOBI"
Nipsey: "DILLIS"

The word was: DEER.
Contestant: "DOE"
Nipsey: "KNOB"


That guy was a laugh riot.”

“I don't like regular oatmeal. I get the peaches & cream, bananas & cream, and blueberry & cream. Add dehydrated fruits (blueberries, raspberries, etc). I also like grits with raw sugar and powdered butter. Always with precooked strips of bacon!”

“Another BP breakfast I would like to have: Blueberry pancakes and Mimosas. Think I'll be able to find a sucka' to carry a bottle of champagne Rosey? LOL!”

“Blueberry pancakes, ... I whipped those up on the last car camping trip to the Sods. Mmmmmmmm, and real WV maple syrup too.”

“They do make small bottles of champagne, newgie. You might be able to find some sucker to carry one of those.



Especially if you sneak it into their backpack while they're not looking....”

“I would think a whole gaggle of young studs would fall all over themselves for that honor.”

“Grits are right up there with Cream of Wheat and bulgar (see bitpusher's post). The texture is is like visiting breakfast a second time! YUCK!”

“Grits are the reason we have cockroaches. It is a very long and complicated story, but if we survive the upcoming alien invasion, I'll tell you sometime as we huddle around our warming fire in the wilderness.

Fate have mercy on our species.”

“You're cracking me up today Little Bird.

Bit, I've seen those little bottles of champagne before. I forgot about them. I could prolly even handle carrying my OWN bottle, there so little.”

“This past weekend I tried something a little different for my grits.

I have several little MRE packages of cheese spread and I thought one in my grits might be a nice change.

I got the package out and the dang thing was stiff as a board due to the temp. I was about to put it back into my food bag when DDX suggested putting it in my pot of boiling water to heat it up a bit.
Worked like a charm. I fished the package out with my spoon and poured the melted cheese over my dry Instant Grits and then added the boiling water.
The extra melted cheese made the grits kinda soupy so next time I will use a little less water.
Tasted very good, a nice change!”

“never had grits. I'm thinkin I aint missin much. ;)”

“Dang silly yankees! ;-)”

“http://www.quakergrits.com/QG_Products/butter.htm

This is my fav.
A couple of packs and a cup of boiling water = hot breakfast”

“I like hush puppies and oatmeal. Flavored oatmeal.”

“I really don't understand why y'all keep insisting that grits are a southern dish.

Grits were first discovered growing wild in Pennsylvania. Selective breeding was done at Cornell University and by the early 19th century, grits orchards were a common sight from Connecticut to Illinois.

Southerners only got their first taste of grits at Rock Island and Fort Delaware.”

“I think it's a War thang. Brits drink tea cause we don't. Sutherners "like" grits because we don't.


:)”

“They weren't growing wild.

That was a failed pre-emptive biological attack by pro-secessionists.”