That’s right, GRITS. I just made shrimp and grits for lunch and noticed it’s time to buy more. Few people in the PNW know anything about grits and the only thing available locally is instant which is just wrong. I buy grits about once a year. I’ve bought them from just about every southern state except Georgia and Florida. There seems to a a strong contingent of Southerners here so I’m wondering who has the best grits to buy via mail order? I tend to prefer course, stone ground white grits but fine or yellow grits are good too.
What does PNW mean ?I like grits but I remember seeing worms in then once. I like pork chops but I remember watching worms come out them when they are just raw meat.I guess when you cook the food it kills the worms.
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Google Carolina Gold. These folks are growing the long-forgotten Carolina Gold variety of rice on a rice plantation near Charleston. They also sell a special gourmet bag of grits. Ummmmm-good! Even confirmed Yankees will like them. And the rice is out of this world.
Jeeze, you make grits, you dont buy them.
My girlfriend (who’s a G.R.I.T.S. (Girls Raised In The South)) Says “Grits is Grits”.
You want gourmet, as generalchaos says, you grind yer own.
As for worms, shit, protein is protein.
I don’t require gourmet grits, something grandpa has been eating all his life is fine. When you don’t live in the south (which does not imply yank) you have to buy ’em before you can make ’em.
The only thing I can get is quaker or alba instant and I’d rather go without so mail order is my only option.
I did not know that grits were made of rice. I’ve only heard of and eaten corn grits. I’ll check them out. Thanks.
Indentured don’t know where you are in the great PNW but Bob’s Red Mill based in Milwaukie, OR south of Portland can hook you up. Check the link below to buy online.
http://www.bobsredmill.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=grits
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Being from the deep south and raised on grits, I would have considered myself a datgum expert on the subject, but sadly I do not consume any corn products nowadays. There is but one product made from corn that I will eat due the GMO problem which is Trader Joes (non-gmo) corn chips.
Should you know of a brand of hominy grits that are non-gmo please advise.Something in the neighborhood of 95% of all corn is GMO now. Blue corn is still OK.
I would like to add that Yankees put sugar on grits which is wrong on every level. Instant grits should be against the law…..only the grits you cook from scratch are acceptable (preferred is the kind that take 30 minutes to cook).
Peaceout, the Bob’s Red Mill instructions say to cook for five minutes. I’ve never had real grits that cook in 5 minutes. The Quaker and Alba instant grits cook for five minutes as well.
All of the real grits I’m accustomed to take 20-30 minutes to cook.
Bea, LOL! I agree. Trader Joes used to sell one of the best grits I’ve ever had. I can’t say if they were non-GMO because they don’t sell them anymore. Maybe that’s why.
I wonder if a small affordable mill exists that I could use to grind my own? I could easily grow enough corn to make all the grits I eat each year.
Bea, I was just perusing the Carolina Gold brand (Anson Mills) site and read this regarding their Antebellum Coarse White Grits.
“With particles of corn ranging in size from 1/6 to 1/26 of an inch, Anson Mills coarse grits are produced from field ripened Carolina Gourdseed White or John Haulk Yellow dent mill corns, each prized historically for exceptional flavor and texture—and each, until recently, nearly extinct. Stove time: 50 to 90 minutes depending on method.”
There is certainly nothing in there that screams GMO. I’m going to contact them. Their site says they ship all of their products at -10F and to refrigerated or freeze upon receipt. The want $50 for ten pound of white grits but I goota imagine that shipping will be insane if they are shipping them at -10F. Probably gonna be $75 shipping on a $50 order. I’ll ask about GMO when I contact them.
for this southern boy, gits country ham, homemade biscuits gravy, gone to heaven, and this county just so happens to have a local family spot where heaven., yet is in front of me. a little chicken fried steak is a treat as well. maybe in my head, yet giving the choice i go yellow grits.
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Let me know what you find out. Also, my grandchildren are mighty fond of cheese grits while I like grits with red eye gravy and country ham. Like I said I gave them up a long time ago and it was truly like a devout Catholic giving up the church.
Indentured you are the first grits snob I’ve ever run across. 🙂
Bea, Weisenberger Mills in Kentucky claims to make non-GMO grits as does Palmetto brand. I’ll call Anson Mills on Monday.
LOL Peaceout. Visit the South sometime and have some good grits. It’s like the difference between a good beer and Budweiser or real butter and margarine or microwave pizza and your favorite handmade pie.
To keep with TBP theme, it’s like the difference between the blue pill and the red pilll.
Holy shitballs Indented spincter. I had uh absolutely terrible case of inflamed warts due to uncontrollable diarrea, which kept me away from mah beloved site, and now here I am tryin ter git some hard hittin analysis from jimmy q and I got ter read yer fuckin asinine retardation about grits. On a Saturday nite.
Good gawd haven’t you learned how ter entertain yerself with them Labrador yet?
And yes, the thumb down was all me
Might want to try http://oldmillofguilford.com/
Vinny is priceless, as much the same reaction I had. I was traveling through deeeep Georgia in the navy, as a Califorian I had never heard of grits. I asked the waitress for eggs, ham, and fried potatoes. She looked at me like I was nuts, and said we do not serve potaoes for breakfast. She ask how i would like my grits. What are girts I asked, she said “grits are grits”, LOL, thinking me as the dumbest shit ever.
Once at Mayport, FL on my aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La, a southern guy filled me in about grits in the south. So one Sunday at brunch we are eating together and he brings four or five squares of corn bread and a half pint of buttermilk to the table. The southern boy crumbles the corn bread into a large glass and pours the buttermilk over the top, and says, “this is heaven”. I took a spoonful and haven’t made if for myself since that time.
You just have to get to Springhouse for real southern cuisine. Grits are a staple of the southern breakfast but my yankee wife luvs them more than I do. The 5 minute variety you get at giant work fine as they will never be done in five minutes and 15-20 minutes is the norm. “Low and slow” is the key to getting then ready and topping them with “Kellers”(Local creamery off 113) or any of the European(high butterfat) butters. What you wont find around here is “country ham” to make red eye gravy. If the Admin is local(sure he is) I can hook him up with piece of the MANY hams, shoulders and ‘Middlin meat” hanging in my basement. After preparing the Ham(yes its covered in many molds), you slice it down real thin and pan fry. Then add a cup of water and 2 Tbs of made coffe(adjust to taste with more or less) and let simmer for a bit. Put the ham and grits on a plate and the “Jus” that is left in the pan is the gravy which has a red tint…hence red eye gravy. I prefer red eye gravy on biscuits and butter on grits. Damn….Im heading to the kitchen!!!!
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I will try to hunt down the Weisenberger Mills grits this week…..damnnnn I love me some grits. Their fish batter and hushpuppy mix is all over the stores but I have not seen the grits. Thanks for the info.
The best grits I’ve had you can order from Blizzard Branch Mill & Syrup Co., in Middendorf, South Carolina.
The real deal. http://www.blizzardbranch.com/page5.html
I appreciate all the responses. I’ll keep a list of bookmarks and try a different one each year or so. Shipping costs add so much to mail order prices that it can amount to 4 or 5 times the product price if you make a small order.
I’ll definitely be giving Anson Mills (Carolina Gold) a call. The heirloom corn they use and 60-90 minute cooking times intrigues me not to mention their rice grits. Hopefully shipping will be reasonable because they want $5/lb not including shipping!
If anyone knows who the supplier was for Trader Joe’s White Stone Ground Grits was I’d appreciate knowing that. Here is a pic of their package in case it resembles another brand.
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Good gawd Indented sphincter. How bout you solicit opinions about toothpaste next. ‘Hey ever body, I’m from the not south and so I want to trot out a very tired trope, ummmmmm, how bout grits. I want to try some different kinds of grits. Kin anybody goggle search me some grits?’ Good gawd, I’ve had better conversations with Billah Jr, and talking ter him is basically the same as gittin slobbered on by a baboon with class 5 halitosis and uh penchant fer, you guessed it, smearing doody all over their own damn head. CUT THIS SHIT OUT IS, I’M GONNA STOP COMING HERE IF YEW KEEP DUMBING DOWN this place.
BW, I’m almost tempted to like you for the above, if only you hadn’t said all that shit about beaners..
Indented Sphincter wants ter know about grits. Anybody got access to uh search engine? Cuz Mr Brainiac mechanic wants ter buy 1lb of ground corn per year, and culturally speaking this is unfamiliar ground fer his idiotic loneliness.
Lookie here Mr Cornhole, yer totally messin up this site, and I don’t appreciate it. If you post anything else about grains, er even legumes, though El brown skin raves on and on about legumes, I swear on Billah Jr’s hairlipped anus I will eat 5 lbs uh grits and then drop a big ol grainy deuce right on yer laptop.
Hey where’s billah?