MrEmjoy

I know, I just dont like the idea of gravy over bread for breakfast, the only time I'll eat bread and gravy is after a Sunday dinner or lunch.

I like grits, with butter and sugar. And oatmeal, its good for you.

Tracym

I'm not that big on any gravy - although I'll eat a bit on occasion.

Biscuits can be nice for breakfast - with butter and jam though.

englishinfl

But with the gravy involved, then they become..... ergch
:shudder:

MrEmjoy

ok, clear this up for me...

What is a biscuit, I get the impression that its an English muffin gone wrong.

englishinfl

ra

Do we take that to mean the oatmeal is good for you, but without all the extra sugar and the fatty high cholesterol of the butter?
Or are you saying that the butter and sugar with a bit of oatmeal mixed in is healthy?

Tracym

No, nothing like and English muffin.

They remind me a little of a scone, but not sweet. They can be more flaky though.

http://www.real-restaurant-recipes.com/Biscuit.html

zargof

FL isn't really Southern though. Geographically yes, but metaphorically no. But as my friend said: grits are a butter delivery mechanism.

MrEmjoy

I have Oatmeal on its own, or with raisins.


I have grits with other stuff because it tastes like shit.

MrEmjoy

Tracy:

They look like scones as well.

cindyabs

Over in the county my mother lives in in the Florida Panhandle, there are plenty of "old time" Floridians and believe me-southern would be the correct description-grits, catfish and banana pudding reign.

englishinfl

?? Err... Try telling that to a true Floridian.
Ok, I'll rephrase it to make it more accurate to those that didn't want to understand what I was saying....
Originally I thought, it was a "southern" or Florida thing, because I hadn't been here for many weeks and I must have mistakenly thought in my ignorance that being here in Tampa, this part of peninsular Florida was geographically pretty well the most southern state of the US, and hence, southern.

Did they mean because of the butter involved in making them, or used on them?
I honestly see more gravy than butter used on them down here.

englishinfl

Thank you for the confirmation. I didn't think I was being wrong in suggesting that FL was southern in it's ways, even if I am an uneducated English immigrant.
Plenty of Catfish, grits, banana pudding, smoked mullet and cajun chicken around on the menu's down here in Tampa too.
Get this, I've even seen soft shelled turtle on a menu, didn't try it, but I know people that have.

englishinfl

LoL. Can't deny that it's apparently not to everyone's taste, mine included.

cindyabs

I did try gator tail once here, not awful not great so wouldn't go out of my way to have it again-boiled peanuts as well.

cindyabs

No grits for me thanks, but then I'm not as a teeshirt exclaims- GRITS-GIRLS RAISED IN THE SOUTH.