Delpit "Average as Grits"

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No self respecting southerner uses instant grits. I take pride in my grits.
I would be willing to bet grits of all varieties were sold out the week that they started shutting down stuff in the south. FYI... we just looked up stone ground grits (the best kind) on amazon and they were selling for $30! More outraged about that than I was about toilet paper!
 

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Poor folks ate fish and grits forever. Feed a large family with fish they caught and a tub of grits for virtually nothing.
Fried mullet, grits (cheese or with butter or both), fried eggs and toast/biscuits could be breakfast, lunch or dinner. Just another observation. In our house dinner was also supper; dinner being the third meal of the day and supper being the most substantial. Most farms folks are supper at lunch.
 

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Fried mullet, grits (cheese or with butter or both), fried eggs and toast/biscuits could be breakfast, lunch or dinner. Just another observation. In our house dinner was also supper; dinner being the third meal of the day and supper being the most substantial. Most farms folks are supper at lunch.
At our house growing up we had breakfast, dinner and supper.

Now I may call the midday meal lunch, but the evening meal is still supper.
 

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First time I have heard that term used in such a manner. :p

'Average as Grits:' SEC Coaches Say Grant Delpit Was Most Overhyped Player

Once projected as a potential top-five pick, most pundits are predicting a late-Day-1, Day-2 or Day-3 selection for the former four-star recruit. And when AL.com's Matt Zenitz asked four coaches for the "most overhyped" SEC prospects from last season, all four said Delpit.

“I thought he was as average as grits,” a personnel official said. “I thought he was average at best. Week in and week out, you play so many good players. I couldn’t have told you who he was (in 2018). I really didn’t notice him. I couldn’t have told you who he was until all the preseason hype and all that stuff going into this year. And then when we played them and I just thought he was average at best.”

How good would someone have to be to be compared to shrimp & grits? :grin:
Only makes sense if the grits are cooked by Yankees.
 

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Real southerners know that real grits are average fare and suck but we eat them anyway and acquire a taste for them. Real grits are tasteless and are not embellished in anyway except with butter, maybe a little salt or a little pepper.You eat them with eggs and toast and they make your eggs and toast taste better. Plain grits are what inland poor southerners and crackers eat. Now low country southerners near the ocean in South Carolina might eat shrimp and grits. Yankees don't like grits because they don't know what they are and are expecting something flavorful. People at the Villages can spice them up, and add whatever the hell they want to them and think they are eating real southern food but they suck too.
 

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Honesty, most southern food DOES need some bacon grease or salt or hot sauce to be perfect. Butter/salt/cheese makes grits pretty gdmmm good.
 

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Growing up on the chain of lakes in Florida meant Sat. morning pulling plastic worms behind a canoe until we had a half stringer of Bass which in turn were cleaned then soaked in buttermilk, mustard and seasonings then rolled in cornmeal before being fried in cast iron skillet until gloriously golden, then placed over some collard greens and cheese n bacon bit grits....
 

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Real grits are tasteless and are not embellished in anyway except with butter, maybe a little salt or a little pepper.
You left out cheese, Joe. Cheese grits are phenomenal when cooked correctly, and are even better after Tabasco is added, preferably with a heavy hand. Chop a couple of fried eggs (over medium) into the cheese grits, and you're living well.
 

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You non-grit eating fuggers need to move up to NYC.

Whoa. I lived in NY. Grits are still fantastic.

But ftr, while I’m sure shrimp and grits have specific roots, which I’m not knocking, today they are associated with every faux southerner that has to wear bedazzled jeans, an untucked dress shirt and drive a Platinum F250, while finishing off his latest Truly, and offering them on his latest “southern” menu.

Give me an admitted NE’er who at least knows his food, over that guy.
 

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But ftr, while I’m sure shrimp and grits have specific roots, which I’m not knocking, today they are associated with every faux southerner that has to wear bedazzled jeans, an untucked dress shirt and drive a Platinum F250, while finishing off his latest Truly, and offering them on his latest “southern” menu.
ive never seen a dude wearing bedazzles ordering shrimp and grits while drinking trulys. There is probably a good joke somewhere, but I think you missed it.
 

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ive never seen a dude wearing bedazzles ordering shrimp and grits while drinking trulys. There is probably a good joke somewhere, but I think you missed it.

I probably used the wrong wording. I’m talking about this guy. Any time I’ve seen shrimp and grits on a menu, it’s at a place where you see this. Like a crossover between southern and pretentious. To be clear, the dish itself isn’t what I’m knocking.

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I probably used the wrong wording. I’m talking about this guy. Any time I’ve seen shrimp and grits on a menu, it’s at a place where you see this. Like a crossover between southern and pretentious. To be clear, the dish itself isn’t what I’m knocking.

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I’ve eaten shrimp and grits many places and can’t remember ever seeing jeans like that. What kind of places do you hang out at? :lol:
 

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