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When I was 14, I went below the Mason Dixon line for the first time, and my parents took us to a place called Shoney's for breakfast.

Posted by ty97 Jul 1 '11, 09:54

This place had a big breakfast buffet including french toast sticks and....mashed potatoes? Well that's an odd breakfast food, but I like mashed potatoes so I'll have some, right?

That was my first encounter with the things called 'grits'

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good man! shrimp and grits are a constant meal in the colin household. -- nm - colin Jul 1, 10:31
last year i finally encountered some grits i liked. at a semi-upscale restaurant in atlanta. they were cheesy. they were delicious. - kare Jul 1, 10:21 1
- Cheese makes everything better. -- nm - mara Jul 1, 10:27
I've never had or seen grits. -- nm - Krusty Jul 1, 10:18 4
- Come on down to the Eggs Up Grill (Conway) sometime and I'll buy you a bowl. -- nm - nubby, grit eater Jul 1, 10:18 3
  - Cool. :-) Looks bland but I'd give them try. -- nm - Krusty Jul 1, 10:19
  - (I'll also buy you a bowl of something else, but let's not talk about that here.) -- nm - nubby, grit eater Jul 1, 10:19 1
    - Hahaha. :-) -- nm - Krusty Jul 1, 10:20
Your parents are cool. I don't think mine celebrated the first time I went down on someone and had them spend the night, let alone at 14 -- nm - oblique Jul 1, 10:14 3
- That ain't grits on my chin. -- nm - ty97 Jul 1, 10:24 1
  - Wow...this is a back to back set of posts that make the groin blush. -- nm - Jim Jul 1, 10:30
- *blink* -- nm - nubby, grit eater Jul 1, 10:17
blech. There are far, far better breakfast choices than grits. - Don Homer Jul 1, 10:08 2
- yeah! like poutine! -- nm - Strongbad Jul 1, 10:15 1
  - Hee, that's late night food. Breakfast food is beans and creton. - loosilu Jul 1, 10:21
yeah, I'd heard of grits but never had them till my third year of undergrad, where we took an impromptu trip to north carolina and ate at waffle house -- nm - mafic Jul 1, 09:58
Oatmeal continues to be my white, pasty, mostly flavorless breakfast food of choice. -- nm - TWuG Jul 1, 09:58
the first time I encountered allegedly real grits me and some of my extended family got into a... - Mel Profit Jul 1, 09:57
I've told this story before, but my first encounter with grits was in Denny's - Roger More Jul 1, 09:56
And every day after that was better than every day before it. -- nm - TFox Jul 1, 09:55
I had to explain to someone what grits was made out of once. - nubby, grit eater Jul 1, 09:55 7
- "Grits is just corn!" - Outsourced promo Jul 1, 10:19
- ground corn, basically. -- nm - loosilu Jul 1, 10:12
- I'm still not sure, but I don't bother with them because they're not sweet. -- nm - Max Jul 1, 10:01 2
  - Yankees like to put sugar or syrup in them. -- nm - nubby, grit eater Jul 1, 10:04 1
    - huh, I put salt on them. -- nm - loosilu Jul 1, 10:11
- They never saw My Cousin Vinny? -- nm - TFox Jul 1, 09:55 1
  - are these some kind of magic grits? -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 1, 11:56

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When I was 14, I went below the Mason Dixon line for the first time, and my parents took us to a place called Shoney's for breakfast.

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