Do people eat grits where you live?

Part of the secret to enjoying grits is to mix what you like in with them. For example, I like butter and cheese. Properly made cheese grits are delicious. Some people just put butter, salt and pepper in, while others put butter and sugar or honey. If it's the texture you didn't like, though, there's not much that can change that.

They are similar in consistency to cream of wheat, which I've also had, but a lot of different things can be mixed with them to affect their flavor. I grew up eating them all the time though now I hardly ever eat them due to being high in oxalates and having a history of kidney stones. Good cheese grits are delicious though. Many restaurants around here serve cheese grits and then of course there is shrimp and grits which is another very common dish around here.

I prefer "well seasoned". (Both my grits, and me.)

I know exactly what you're talking about and that phrase has gone through my mind several times this morning since I posted this thread. It should not surprise me that you were the one who brought it up.

I always thought kissing grits was sort of an odd retort though. In my younger, more innocent years, I just pictured someone ending up with a very messy mouth.

Alice

Makes sense. Do you remember what you mixed in with them?

I've never heard of people putting hot sauce on them but that does sound like it could be tasty!



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Interesting! And so far, it sounds like most of us on the board who have eaten them with any regularity are people from the South or who lived in the South at some point. Not hugely surprising.

That's how I ate them growing up. When I realized you could add cheese to them it was a game changer.

Of course, I would add cheese to anything you could put cheese in.

What y'all call porridge we call oatmeal. 😊 I like oatmeal well enough, though I'm rarely in the mood to eat it. If anything is ever added to it it's always something sweet here, too. You can buy little packets of it mixed with things like apples and cinnamon or cinnamon and brown sugar that are just microwaved quickly with water.