Grits & eggs...a hunters breakfast?

[Ron LaClair]

I know that grits is standard fare for breakfast in the south. I remember the first time I got them at a restaurant in Alabama. I said, "Whats this?..I didn't order this." I was told that grits comes with your breakfast unless you say you don't want em.

I'm usually a steak, eggs, and taters guy in the morning. The steak of coarse being venison. Cold cereal or oatmeal just doesn't stay with me and I'm hungry again in an hour.  

Lately I've been having grits and eggs for breakfast and I've grown to like em. I'm thinkin that this would be a good stick to your ribs meal to have before hitting the woods in the morning. What say you southern boys? Can a Yankee survive on such a meal for more than an hour in the cold northern woods?

[Mudd]

Ron, I am a southeast Missouri swamp monkey and my mother used to try to feed me that junk. My 10 brothers and sisters would eat it up almost as if they liked it but I had more sophisticated taste buds. Anyone who would eat grits would eat Malto meal.. yuck!!!

I'm super glad you found something you like for breakfast that'll stick to your ribs but for my part.. gimme some good ole oatmeal w/bacon crumbled in it. Shoot! I'd even take a bowl of rice with some sugar and butter over grits.

I know in advance that I'll get blasted for this especially when Butch sees this. He swears by grits and some other nasty foods...lol

Ron please don't take this personally but in the spirit it was written. I'm just hoping to get you back on the right path my friend...lol

God bless,Mudd

[Butch Speer]

I still can't believe that don't like grits! I like oatmeal, rice & even Malto Meal but, grits is man food. Eggs, sunny side up, fried ham, good biscuits & grits with butter & salt. That's a real meal. Anybody that doesn't like grits, probably doesn't like hominy, bread pudding or rice pudding. I consider that as un-American! I bet you don't even like John Wayne. I love ya like a brother but, sometimes I just don't understand you. Lord knows, I've been trying to set you straight.

[buckeye_hunter]

Ron,

I'm not a southern boy, but I have had grits and eggs for breakfast before hunting. I have also had eggs and taters same situation. I would say hunger-wise you won't know the difference and I don't miss many meals!  

[bornagainbowhunter]

Ron, I am a grits and eggs kinda' guy.  Yup straight from Arkansas.  You can't hardly beat that kind of meal.  

Just a warning to you Ron, you might start to notice a draw when you talk or the need to spit just because you can.  If you start using the words "ain't or ya'll" don't worry about it.  You will soon start to notice a desire to live down here if you ain't careful.

         

[rastaman]

Grits and eggs, and you have got to have bacon and toast to go with it.  And i'm not talking about instant grits or grits cooked for just 20 minutes or so.  Proper grits are "cooked" slowly for more than an hour.  Add some bacon grease and a little salt to taste.  Every now and then you can have cheese grits for a change of pace or to add a little more fuel in the morning.    

[Mudd]

I know now that if I hunt with any of you guys I'll need to bring something decent to eat for breakfast and I'm starting to worry about what any of the other meals might be too????  lol

You're right on the money Butch because I ain't eating no bread, rice, banana or villa wafer pudding. I will not!!! eat any of the cream pies either...Yuck, yuck yuck!!!!

I always did say "there's no accounting for some folks tastes... or lack thereof...lol

God bless,Mudd

[madness522]

Grits is good eatin!  Add a couple eggs, bacon or sausage with biscuits and gravy and you have a breakfast that will stick to your ribs for awhile.  I love country ham but it does make you thirsty so I stick with bacon or sausage.

[Ron LaClair]

Just a warning to you Ron, you might start to notice a draw when you talk or the need to spit just because you can. If you start using the words "ain't or ya'll" don't worry about it. You will soon start to notice a desire to live down here if you ain't careful.
 

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[bornagainbowhunter]

Mudd, you startin' to worry me, friend.  I know that you are a Bible beliveing, America lovin', stick bow shootin' Missouri boy, but some of your tastes are just... well.. plain ol' wrong.  

You like fried squash and okra, right??

[Ron LaClair]

I will not!!! eat any of the cream pies either...Yuck, yuck yuck!!!!  

Anybody that would turn up his nose at banana cream or coconut cream pie is one strange dude IMO.    

[DaxE]

I can understand the grit thing, but when you start talking about them cream pies.....I am with Ron, something is just plain wrong.

[jamesh76]

eggs and toast for me.

grits......Some days they are decent, i like to make them thinner when I am in a rush and put them in a mug to drink/eat on my way out.

[Dave Bowers]

If its food I', eatin it especially in hunting camp.

Now I gotta go make  some eggs and grits  

[Joey Ward]

Ron, how do you cook your grits? Do you like them regular, creamy or al dente?

[WindWalker-AK]

Mr. LaClair,
Am heading out to look for Moose and Caribou along the Delta River this morning.  Will give grits a try for breakfast tomorrow.
I like grits but never had them in hunting camp.
Best Wishes

[WildmanSC]

I'll never forget the first time I had grits.  I was in the Navy and we were going to our first duty station in Pensacola, FL.  My wife and I got up early and left my parents house in Galena, KS.  We drove through Southern MO and crossed the border into Northern AR and started looking for someplace to get breakfast.

I spied a small town cafe and talked my wife into trying it for breakfast.  I ordered coffee and ice water, two eggs over easy, bacon and toast.  When the waitress brought our food out my plate had "cream of wheat" in it.  I asked why it wasn't in a bowl.  The waitress looked at me like a was a fool.

I said to her "Where I grew up we eat our cream of wheat in a bowl with milk and sugar."  She said "Honey, that ain't cream of wheat, that's grits!"  She told me to put some salt and pepper on it and eat it with my eggs.  I asked for some Tabasco sauce.  She brought it to the table and I put some on my eggs and on the grits.  I found the grits to be good for breakfast and I've been eating them since that early January morning in 1971.  We've been in SC since March 1976, so there's not a whole lot of options down here other than grits.

Bill

[Ron LaClair]

Ron, how do you cook your grits? Do you like them regular, creamy or al dente?  

Joey, since I'm a fairly new "Grits eater", I've been eating the instant kind (cuz that's what the wife bought)...stir it, cover and cook for 5-7 min...smother in butter, sea salt N pepper... eat with runny eggs.

Since I like the old fashioned kind of rice that you cook for 20 minutes, I'm gonna get some regular grits and cook em longer. Most people are in such a hurry that they go for the instant stuff. When it comes to food, I've got the time to wait for something if waitin is gonna make it better....steak being the exception...black on the outside..body temperature on the inside....  

[Jack Skinner]

Grits, scramble your eggs mix them together with a pat of butter, you can add some bacon too if you want that will stick to your ribs and warm your belly. Want a real mans breakfast fry up some liver pudding and mix that in with your grits and eggs, now were are talking.

[FerretWYO]

Liver Jack really and at breakfast too. I am not sure about that ha ha ha.