what are "GRITS"?????

Question

i just put a perfect breakfast question on and was wondering what GRITS were???

Answer 1

it's white corn meal. Black restaurants have it. you should try it it's really good!!

Answer 2

To make grits, the dried hominy is ground — generally to one of three grinds, fine, medium or coarse — and simmered with water or milk until fairly thick. Quick grits (a very fine grind that has been pre-steamed) are available in supermarkets, but any good Southerner will tell you that old-fashioned stone-ground are the only real grits (doesn’t mean they don’t buy and make quick grits, just that they know what tradition is all about).

Grits are ubiquitous at breakfast, and also very popular as a side dish or component of a main course at other meals. Bill Neal and David Perry, authors of the startlingly out-of-print Good Old Grits Cookbook, admit that on their own, grits are a little bland. But, they say, it is rarely served plain. They come with sausage, eggs, biscuits and red-eye gravy for breakfast. They’re mixed with eggs, augmented with grated cheese or garlic, or baked into a casserole. Southern cooks also sauté shrimp and bacon and scallions and serve it on a bed of grits, or serve a spring chicken on grits, or quail on grits, etc.

Turner Catledge wrote in The New York Times, "Not even the most ardent lover of grits would think of eating it alone. The Southerner’s devotion to grits is really meant for grits-and-gravy, grits-and-ham, grits-and-sausage, grits-and-eggs, grits-with-meat-and-cheese, and so on ad infinitum.

To be fair, as a cooking term, grits can refer to any coarsely ground grain, including rice and oats. But we guarantee you’ll never get puddle of oats on your plate in the South if you ask for grits.

Finally, as you may have noticed while reading this, the biggest question about grits is whether you are supposed to say "grits is" or "grits are." And that is a question we all just can’t answer.

Answer 3

Heard about it on Beverly Hillbilies. Went to the store => White corn meal.

Answer 4

white corn meal that you add water to and watch it rise and pop it cream of wheat and grits don taste the same

Answer 5

they're made fom hominy, a cereal grown alot like wheat or barley.... simmer in water, add sale, pepper and lots of butter!! it's a traditional southern breakfast staple.

Answer 6

They are gooooooooood,,,,,,,,,,, made from corn,,,,,,, white or yellow,, buy instant or slow cook ones,,,,,,,,love to use slow cooked ones,, put butter on them,,,, or with eggs, gravy,,, ect. They cook up real smooth and creamy,,,, love the taste,,,,,, you need to try at least one time,,, can get the ones that cook in five to ten minutes,, good also..........

Answer 7

They taste like Cream of Wheat to me.

Answer 8

Fine grain corn.....ground up like cream of wheat..

Answer 9

Pretty much white corn-meal

Answer 10

It's a sort of porridge made of hominy or corn.

(Can also mean "Girls Raised In The South.) ;o)

Answer 11

A typically Southern American dish.

A very close "cousin" to polenta.