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I like corn, corn bread and corn tortillas. Mush is something I'll pass on. Never eaten chitlins. but I know that I wouldn't eat pig intestines. Some things you know instinctively you won't like, so why torture you taste buds and stomach by trying to eat them? But yes. the taste, the texture are off-putting.
You might try this. Slice the mush into pieces no thicker than 3/8". Put in a coated skillet with about 1T margarine and add more as needed. Try to keep the pieces from touching or they will weld together. Fry on medium high, turn frequently. As they start browning, reduce the heat. Keep cooking until they are crispy on both sides. Blot with paper towels. Whatever you do, don't burn them. I like to top with pure maple syrup AND pickled jalapenos!! Since you like corn bread and tortillas give this a shot. You might change your mind.
 
Margarine, what’s that?
I remember Frank Fusco, Rifleman 1776 telling how he was working at a living history village in Arkansas and a boy watched him making butter
The boy was about ten and didn’t know what butter was.
Frank thought he was just being a ten year old smart alack. But after talking with the boy for a bit he realized the kid had no idea what butter was,
Frank explained it was a spread and cooking fat they used before margarine was invented
 
I had grits for breakfast this morning
My wife got up a little later and asked what I had. She usually chooses something different
But she thought grits sounded real good
So I made hers.
Mine, grits a little butter, some cheese, pepper flakes and ground hot pepper
Her
Grits, butter,sugar and milk
Do you like your grits savory or sweet?

Have never ate grits not sure what they really are. But if I did have them it would be with butter, honey , and milk
 
@Terrier, did you ever get that book and have time to read it? The church of the goetta is always in need of another preacher.
Ha! I did get it. I found it very interesting, but got a little bogged down with the section about where the different varieties originated. Kinda hard to keep that straight.

Been busy with other stuff and haven’t gotten back to it to plow thru the rest.

But, I have talked it up with some friends and I’m going to let them try some at our next camping event.
 
I had grits for breakfast this morning
My wife got up a little later and asked what I had. She usually chooses something different
But she thought grits sounded real good
So I made hers.
Mine, grits a little butter, some cheese, pepper flakes and ground hot pepper
Her
Grits, butter,sugar and milk
Do you like your grits savory or sweet?
I haven’t had grits for 30 years, but I like mine with butter, sugar and a little milk.
 
Never had them until I moved to Texas in the late 70s.. There it was the non-sweet type -- butter, salt, pepper. Then when I moved to coastal South Carolina it took on a whole new approach. Shrimp and grits. Much loved here in the Lowcountry. More of a main dish than an add-on to breakfast.
 
Never had grits until Army basic training. Learned to like them plain or with just a little butter and black pepper.
I had them for breakfast this morning. Butter and pepper is the way I like them as well! If your wife will take the extra grits and flatten them out they will set up and you can fry them. Grids fried are good with butter and maple syrup!Try it ! I am sure you will like then this way?
 
LME, we Hoosiers had something similar, but we called it mush. You could buy it at the grocery. It came as a block or round roll much like slice and bake cookies. You fried slices of it, preferably in bacon grease, and served 'em topped with melted butter. Real health food! Thinking back on it, it was probably just grits in a block form.
 
LME, we Hoosiers had something similar, but we called it mush. You could buy it at the grocery. It came as a block or round roll much like slice and bake cookies. You fried slices of it, preferably in bacon grease, and served 'em topped with melted butter. Real health food! Thinking back on it, it was probably just grits in a block form.
Mush or polenta is boiled corn meal. Grits is ground hominy.
 
A little corn trivia. Corn, or maize, was domesticated by Native Americans from a plant call teosinte about 6000-9000 years ago. In its cultivated, modern form corn is unable to reproduce on its own and must be intentionally planted by man.

Teosinte
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