What's fer breakfast?

[Longhunter]

I believe a man (or woman) needs a stick to yer ribs breakfast to start the day. None of that sissy cereal stuff fer me.  :rt th      A cup of strong coffee in a TMA mug to top it off. When ya put away a meal like this in the mornin yer good ta go just about all day.

[Bison Horn]

I'd eat that three times a day.    Where's the Lousiana hot sauce

[pathfinder]

I'd be on the couch the rest of the day!,waitin' fer dinner!

[Longhunter]

Lousiana hot sauce?

ON WHAT?

[PJC]

That looks mighty fine. BUT
I just had lunch.
A little sandwich.

Toasted rye bread
BBQ Venison steak sliced about 3/8 thick,
Was about an inch thick but sliced for sandwich.
A slice of onion, about 1/4 inch thick.
A slice of Tomato
Salt and Pepper.

Ice cold drink. Won't mention what brand.
Like you longhunter.
A man has to eat man food.

PJC

[Loyalist Dave]

If ya wanna sweetin it up a bit I sometimes put some of Rileys Minnesota maple syrup on the grits..

<heavy sigh>

Yankees.  Oh well I guess y'all should be complimented on actually having grits, and not doin' Cream of Wheat or Farina....

Take a ham steak, and fry it up.  Remove it from the pan, and to the grease left in the pan add some flour to make a roux.  Thin out the roux with about a half-cup to full cup of coffee, to make it into a gravy, and be sure to get up all of the ham leavings off the bottom of the pan into the gravy.  This is Red Eye gravy, and THIS is what you should be adding to grits ifin you don't want just butter and salt.    

LD

[Uncle Russ]

I grew up in Texas, but never learned to like grits until well after my time on active duty.  
I'm not even sure I had ever tried 'em before then, but Uncle Sam was powerfully proud of his grits, gave 'em to you every morning for breakfast back in the 1950's. and I'm here to tell ya that Army grits ain't like no other kind of grits, trust me on this one.

Anyway, years later, was when I finally actually "learned" grits. I was visiting a friend in Jackson Mississippi for a Turkey hunt when we went out for breakfast the last day I was there.
I ordered bacon, eggs, and toast, or whatever,  but when the waitress brought the food over it had a bowl of grits on the plate.
I told the waitress that I hadn't ordered Cream of Wheat and was politely informed that's how they served their grits and to just set it on the side if I didn't want it.
Apparently, in Mississippi, you get grits for breakfast, whether you order it or not, it's included in the meal!

My hunting buddy encouraged me to try it, and I learned right then and there that grits is really an okay food....supposedly, they take on the flavor of whatever you have on your plate, and just act as more of the same whether it be eggs, bacon, ham, or whatever else you may have on the plate....a "filler", I'm told.

Good looking plate of vittles you got there, Ron

Now about the syrup thingy on yer grits.......not real sure about that one.
 
Uncle Russ...

[greyhunter]

I'm with ya Ron, I use maple syrup on my grits too. Never had Redeye gravy, but I guess it might be ok. Bout the only way I like coffee, is hot,black, and inamug.

[Longhunter]

One more thing, A REAL grits lover gets the "Old Fashioned" grits that you cook for 20 minutes...not that instant stuff.    I like to cook up plenty so's there's left overs. Put it in the frig and sometime later make grit patties an fry em up crispy brown..

[Riley/MN]

Real maple syrup goes great on anything!

[pathfinder]

Griy's can even be used as a defense in a murder trial; "My Cousin Vinney"! Not to offend any one, but I haven't really found a good use fer 'em. Call me a norther wussie,but "gravel"( ) fer breakfast never really appealed to me. Although a bit of Northern Maple syrup would make it easier to digest!

[rickevans]

Never, never, never sweeten grits. Never. It is wrong and will not be forgiven. Now slather on the butter, cheese, bacon, bits of ham....Uhm Uhm Good!

[Loyalist Dave]

Call me a norther wussie,but "gravy"fer breakfast never really appealed to me.

Have you had creamed chipped beef on toast, aka $hit-on-a-shingle?
How about eggs benedict?
A white sauce is "gravy" and so is Hollandaise, using butter as the fat.  Red Eye "gravy" simply uses the fat from the pork instead of butter, to make the sauce.  Some folks omit the coffee and just use water..., you end up with ham falvored (or bacon flavor if you use bacon; sausage if you use sausage)  sauce..., and you Northern types should like that..., you like maple glazed ham, maple sausages, and maple cured bacon, so pork flavoring the grits shouldn't be that bad, eh?

LD

[pathfinder]

It's GRAVEL,not GRAVEY!!!!! :rotf   . I understand the loyalty of true grits fans(food,not the movie!), I really hope ya'll know I'm just kiddin',although I promise I'll give them another try. When I see folks fry their Peirogi's or use ketchup on 'em(UGHHHH),It makes me nut's. Only beet horseradish and sour cream please! So I know were your comming from!

I'll make peirogi's at the TRR if you do proper grit's!

[Voyageur]

Now I learned to like SOS in my first tour of duty. Being born raised in New Yawk City suburbs and of middle european ancestry, I would have known about egg cream, Black & White Soda, 2 cent plain, BLT, Bagels & Lox (Salmon), pizza, manicotti, pasta fazool (fagiole ( beans))---but grits.....Nah!!! One morning sitting in Officer's Mess, the orderly brought me the eggs, ham and a bowl of "Cream of Wheat" (my favorite)....so I thought----as I started to grab for the milk and almost poured---the orderly---let out a gasp and said but Sir---them's grits---yah put butter and pepper on them not milk! Well I was saved from an unpardonable, courts martial offense and endless hazing from my "fellow officers"---dam alll southerners too. But, I learned to love grits and aigs---and grits with everything---but when the same orderly brought my first bowl of SOS, and when he came back I asked for a second bowl---he looked at me and said----you really like that stuff, Sir. He had a look on his face that I can never forget, specially when he saw I had mopped the plate clean. Ah such memories...."Doc"