Ron,
Born and raised my whole life here in TN. No grits for me, thank you ! They are really good if you simply have butter and sugar with a tad of grits mixed in for roughage.
When the wifey makes cornbread for supper, ( that is dinner for you Yanks !), and I walk thru the kitchen I has to turn up the buttermilk jug and get me a swaller or two. That is what goes in the biscuits in the mornins too. No toast for us if it can be helped.
Right now our summertime breakfast consists of the following....
3 backyard chicken eggs over easy with the yellers good and runny
6 pieces of crisp turkey bacon or the breast strips of the above backyard chickens boyfriends. A.K.A. fryers.
3 "cathead" buttermilk biscuits.... 1 for soppin yer yellers and 2 for dessert. Dessert is aforementioned biscuits slathered in, " cow salve" A.K.A. butter and homemade blackberry jam or local raw honey.
2 thick slices of homegrown, walk out the back door, just picked, "maters" A.K.A. tomatoes covered in fresh ground sea salt
3 slices of fresh in season canteloupe are optional if the biscuit cook overslept and you are forced to eat toast.
Gravy is reserved for lazy weekend breakfasts and consists of turkey bacon, biscuits and gravy only. In the summertime you gots to eat canteloupe with gravy over it. I was always told as a young man that it would, " Put lead in yer pencil " JMHO