jmcquown wrote:

> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>> Kswck wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> I promise you they haven't had them all year at the regular grocery
>>>> store. And they aren't in a box like I'm used to at home. But
>>>> today I found Jim Dandy grits, the ones that cook in about 5
>>>> minutes. Not instant grits.
>>>>
>>>> Thing is, I don't cook a ton of grits at once the way you seem to.
>>>> I rarely eat grits and I haven't made cheese grits casserole
>>>> (although it's very tasty) in at least 15 years. I pretty much
>>>> only cook a bowl for my mother maybe once a week. And she likes
>>>> her grits very wet (with lots of milk, I misspoke and said water).
>>>> But the quick cook ones are definitely better than instant. But
>>>> that's what she's been used to forever.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, I'm sorry about getting snappish about this last night. But
>>>> honestly, I never saw anything other than instant grits until the
>>>> trip to the grocery store today. Grits apparently aren't a big
>>>> thing for the transplanted northern & midwestern people who live
>>>> down here in the winter. They're just here for the golf. And the
>>>> shrimp
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think Quaker Oats puts out an instant grits and a regular grits.
>>> One is a red round package and the other is a blue package.
>>
>> I get Albers Quick Grits from my run-of-the-mill (heh) chain
>> supermarket. I would think "quick" falls between "instant" and
>> "regular".
>
>
> Quick means about 5 minutes, not "just add hot water" Real grits take a

I know.

> looong time to cook. My mother isn't that patient. And while I'd love

I know. I mean cooking time, not about your mother.

> to order Falls Mills stone ground grits I don't need 10 lbs of them.

That's what's kept me from ordering them from such a source, too. I've
checked them out and held up.


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