Tuesday, January 15

 
Georgia Pols Want to Make Grits the State Processed Food

Now there's a legislative initiative you can sink your teeth into. Or not, since coagulated grits is (are?) one of nature's more unappetizing foods. Two Georgia politicians want to make grits the state's official processed food. "It's the most Southern of foods and deserves an honor. There ought to be a law that you have to serve cheese grits with fried fish," says one of the Georgia solons. Why grits and not barbecue? If you don't know what grits is, you either aren't from the South or haven't ever eaten at a Shoney's. This story from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution calls it a white-corn porridge eaten at breakfast, which is probably as good a description as you'll get, except it doesn't mention the old trick of drowning grits in butter to give it flavor. However, the story's headline writer obviously has eaten his/her share of grits over the years; here's what he/she wrote: "What? No Red-Eye Gravy?" (red-eye gravy is made from meat drippings, usually ham, and coffee)
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