What exactly is a po' boy and what is the derivation of the word? Oh, and what are grits? I know it's like porridge but is it made of oats or some other cereal?
2006-09-25 00:48:55 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
Hi, a Po'Boy is a sandwich, but made with Louisiana bread which is crispier on the outside and softer inside. The po'boy usually has a meat or seafood filling (Shrimp Po'Boy is a norm) which has been fried.
There is a dispute as to the origin of the name. Either first used in a New Orleans restaurant when in 1929 the sandwich was given free to striking street car workers (or 'them poor boys') or that it comes from the French 'Pour Boire' meaning peace offering.
As for grits: it is a form of porriage and is very common in the Southern United States. Corn is ground with the finer parts passing through and the coarser grains left behind as the grits. They are boiled into a form of porriage, the more liquid is boiled off the thicker they become, and can be flavoured with cheese or perhaps bacon are a side dish to a meal.
2006-09-25 01:04:25 · answer #1 · answered by rickatwork2006 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A po' boy (also po-boy, po boy, or poor boy) is a traditional submarine sandwich from Louisiana. It consists of meat or seafood, usually fried, served on a baguette (in the US usually referred to as French bread).
Grits is a type of maize porridge and a food common in the Southern United States, and southern Manchuria (where it is called gezi in Mandarin) consisting of coarsely ground corn, traditionally by a stone mill. The results are passed through screens, with the finer part being corn meal, and the coarser being grits. Many communities in the Southern U.S. had a gristmill until the mid-20th century, with families bringing their own corn to be ground, and the miller retaining a portion of the corn for his fee. Grits aficionados still prefer stone ground grits, although modern commercial milling companies prefer other methods.
2006-09-25 08:00:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A po'boy is a sandwich. It can have many different fillings. I think it originated in New Orleans. I'm guessing that it's called a po'boy because it used to be inexpensive food for working men. They're not cheap now though! Grits are a hot cereal made of corn. It can be yellow or white corn. Italian polenta is a kind of grits. Grits are yummy (to me anyway) and there are many ways to eat them. I like a casserole of grits and cheese with hot peppers.
2006-09-25 08:09:01 · answer #3 · answered by dark_firmament 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL!!!
A "po' boy" is short for "poor boy" and is a sandwich containing a lot of different ingredients. For a poor boy, everything that was left over in the kitchen--the meat scrapings at the bottom of the pan, a little gravy, etc.--would be thrown onto two pieces of bread and given to him. After it was found to be delicious, it was made and sold commercially.
"Grits" is short for "Hominiy Grits" and is made of ground up hominy, a type of corn.
2006-09-25 07:59:08 · answer #4 · answered by nora22000 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
grits are yucky! theyere like a really sandy mush cream of wheat!
2006-09-25 07:56:35 · answer #5 · answered by anonomys 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
i have no idea but why the hell do u wana no???
2006-09-25 07:56:33 · answer #6 · answered by Bexi 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋