Thread: what did your kids eat for breakfast today..

OK, I thought maybe you had thought I was referring to grits. As far as livermush I will take your word on it you can get it other places. I have never seen or heard of it until it was posted on here today. I was saying it was a NC thing because when I searched for it everything refers to it being found mostly in NC. But that's not to say you can't find it in other places.

Originally Posted by Eyore

Wow, I thought every southerner ate grits. I put butter, salt and pepper on them. It is funny people from the north will go south and end up with grits on there plates when they get breakfast and they all say they are nasty. I tell them you have to put butter, salt and pepper on them or they aren't good.
You have got to try them one day. Where in the south are you? I was born in GA and lived in AL. I was close to the GA/AL state line.

A sprinkle of sharp cheddar cheese doesn't hurt them any either ;D

Originally Posted by fatesfaery

I've lived all over the south, and I've seen it in grocery stores in states other than NC..........I'm almost 43 and I've never tasted it....won't ever taste it....but I'm weird about what I eat. I love grits like any good southerner, so does DD, but DH was also born and raised in the south and he hates them.

eeyore329, I think souse is the same thing I remember my grandparents calling head cheese......I'm not eating that either!

I'm a picky eater and I love grits. Maybe it's a guy thing to not like grits. Cause Josh didn't like 'em when I made him try them either. Or maybe Josh and Daddy are just weird ;D

As far as anything that is called head cheese, I refuse to get close enough to so much as catch a whiff of it.

I grew up in GA, and I LOVE grits!! Thank goodness they carry them here(NY) in the grocery stores.

Originally Posted by eeyore329

ok.......you really n eed to try livermush/puddin.........it has a different taste. its not like sausage or bacon........its just different. fry it crisp.....

how about fat back?????????? have you ever heard/tasted of it???

Yep, have heard of fat back. I have never bought it or used it myself. I don't even know if you can get it around here. I know growing up it was thrown in greens or beans as flavoring. If I want flavoring I usually use ham or buy ham hocks for flavoring.

I don't think I will try the livermush/puddin. Doesn't sound good to me at all. Here in PA scrapple is what alot of people eat. I don't know if it is sold in other states or not. I have heard the homemade is better than the stuff you buy in the stores it doesn't have all the yucky stuff in it like the store bought stuff. It is sliced and fried. I won't try it either.

I had to search to give a explanation. I just knew it had parts of meat in it I didn't care to eat and it doesn't look good to me.

http://www.chuggnutt.com/2005/04/13/scrapple.html

Scrapple
What's scrapple? According to Wikipedia, it's

a cornmeal pudding in which the cornmeal, perhaps with the addition of buckwheat, is simmered with pork scraps and trimmings, then cooled and hardened into a loaf.

Scrapple is one of those farm foods invented to use those parts of slaughtered food animals which were not suitable to be served on their own, in the same manner as sausages, or Jewish kishkes. Scrapple typically contains the meaty parts of hog heads, hearts, some liver, and other scraps. The proportion and spicing is very much a matter of the region, family, and the cook's taste.

Commercial scrapple will often contain these traditional ingredients, with a distinctive flavor to each brand, though homemade recipes often specify more genteel ingredients, and consequently a blander taste.

Scrapple is typically cut into thin slices, fried until the outsides form a crust, and eaten at breakfast in a similar manner to bacon or sausage. It may be eaten as is, or served with maple syrup, apple butter, ketchup, mustard, and/or butter.