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Old 05-07-2001, 11:08 AM   #17
Donut
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Join Date: March 1, 2001
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Originally posted by Reeka:

Donut: Absolutely can't believe that you have been to Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Birmingham is north of there. Well, about grits. You can't grow wheat very well in the south, but corn grows very well here. I guess you would say that it is the major "grain" produced in the south. So, we make lots of things out of corn. Cornbread is wonderful (bread made out of corn). Grits are a cornmeal mush, I personally love them, but to some people it is an acquired taste. Did you eat them? Did you like them?

We were on our way to New Orleans for Mardi Gras (the following day) by train and we needed a stopover. I seem to remember passing through Birmingham on the way & i've been through Birmingham on a bus on the way to Nashville.

It is unusual for me to find a food that I hate but grits was it! I loved the corn bread and the catfish, and the alligator, and the gumbo and the southern fried chicken and the country ham and eggs and every other type of food.

Only one other problem in the States. We were in Little Rock in Arkansas and we ordered peach cobblers for desert but didn't really like them. When the waitress came to the table she noticed we had left them and asked in a loud southern accent 'What's wrong with your cobblers?' . (In Britain 'cobblers' is a euphemism for 'nuts' if you get my drift) My friend laughed so much he slid off his chair under the table.

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