I've tried them all sorts of ways and just can't get into them. My wife likes them, though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grits
Personally I can't remember eating Grits, but I might have done at breakfast buffets in US hotels.
It sounds pretty bland unless you add some kind of flavouring (sweet or savoury).
Here we have Bubble and Squeak in some breakfasts which is so variable that I can love it one day and hate it the next.
That's mostly because it's a "use up what you would otherwise throw away" type food.
For a real artery clogging breakfast I love a "Full English" Breakfast,... apart from the Black (Blood) Pudding.
Now that's how to start the day!
Mercy sakes! Do you really eat that much for breakfast every day? I thought the pic was a restaurant ad.Good grief no! Maybe once every other month as Brunch and even then not as big as that.
Being a second generation southerner, grits was a staple in our house growing up. Even though my mom was a city girl, Cleveland's east side, she could whip up some good cookin. Proper grits have to be made with water and for me are served on the side of my bacon and eggs, not in a separate bowl. A little salt, pepper and a dab of real butter will find me in grits heaven. Now recently with all the fancy cooking shows and travel shows we hear about this wonderful dish called polenta.......it's grits folks, anyway you try to present it, it's grits, no matter the cultivated palates of those shows can hide that fact. Now, my people did not do shrimp and grits as they weren't close to the shore of an ocean, but it sure sounds good from when I've seen it made. My mom used to fry up day old grits into tasty patties of grit goodness. In years past, I had to travel south of the Mason-Dixon Line to enjoy them at a place that had it regular on the menu, not anymore.