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Location: Sydney, Australia | In Australia, grits is what happens when you drop your food in the sand. |
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Location: GA USA | You've got to find your right mix. Try them with shrimp, or cheese, butter, bacon (and the proper amount of bacon grease mixed in), sausage, eggs... Grits are made to be eaten with other stuff thrown in, though I'd still eat 'em nekkid. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | ...Must....pour.....acid....in....eyes....
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"yeaaah!" |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Richard. If you produce a 'grits' pizza at the jam, I'm going straight home. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | BTW-- Grits is good with Jelly in 'em.
Thousands of truckers can't be wrong.
I like 'em mixed with over-easy eggs, myself. :D |
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Location: GA USA | Originally posted by fillhixx:
...Must....pour.....acid....in....eyes....
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"yeaaah!" No, no, no... I eat the grits nekkid (without extra stuff, though butter is pretty much a necessity), I'm not nekkid eating the grits, most of the time. |
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Location: Round Rock, TX | Full of butter, salt and pepper, with a dash of hot sauce covered in white gravy. 'Course that's all better if you're nekkid, but most of the restaurants around here insist that I leave. |
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Location: Round Rock, TX | I just read the opening posts of this thread, and now to get back on topic...
+1 on Apple Mac
My blend of pipe tobacco and Ser Jacopo pipes.
Bose PAS
any of my guitars
Etymotic ER4 and AKG K701 headphones
The Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian ("Master and Commander" is the 1st one)
and most of all...
100 acres of Central Texas with a pond, some river frontage and a shack with a big deck, far enough from civilization that I don't hear anything but the wind and the critters. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I forgot to chime in on the Dunkin Donut's coffee. It's not just a luxury, it's a necessity.
The talk about grits makes me think of sausage gravy. Jimmy Dean is the ONLY brand of sausage I will ever use.
And I believe in Alka Seltzer. There were times I thought I was going to die, or wished I would, but Alka Seltzer made me happy to be alive again. |
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Location: big island | alka seltzer and jimmy dean sausage were made for each other. ;) |
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| You think eatin-em nekked is tough on the senses you should see what Cliff does to an order of Grits. |
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Location: Warren,Pa. | - Ovations
- My Mac
- Starbucks beans in our Cobalt Blue KitchenAid grinder (we're famous for our coffee in these parts)
- My '04 Honda SilverWing; the Harley gorillas laugh at it because it doesn't have a lot of chrome and it's not obnoxiously loud, but it'll do 110 and I enjoy biking w/o looking like I'm in a mid-life crisis.
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | I forgot to chime in on the Dunkin Donut's coffee. It's not just a luxury, it's a necessity.
DD's used to use Costa Rican beans for the coffee in the resturants...the kind you buy in the markets today is a blend...not nearly as good...
Starbucks used to carry Coata Rican Tarrazu: the best...but they stopped about a year ago (you can find it ground sometimes in larger markets)..
I buy mine direct from Costa Rica...excellent quality and if you stock up, the shipping is fair...
The best brands from Costa Rica are: Tarrazu Montecielo Cafe Grano Entero,(my personal favorite...it's fabulous!) and also Cerro del Fuego Organic Shade Grown Coffee: Tarrazu...
Stay away from Rex...it's not nearly as good.
If you love coffee, it's worth the extra effort and expense... |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I don't think the type of beans are as important as the way they are roasted. The Flatiron roasts their own and (I hate to say this) but they are ALL lousey. They are a COFFEE SHOP, and they have the worst coffee in town! They just don't seem to know what they are doing. The first time I ordered a French press coffee, the girl put EIGHT scoops in a two cup press, poured in the boiling water and pushed the plunger immediately. I couldn't even drink it. Now I ask if I can make it myself, but it's still lousey. I mean French press coffee is so GOOD, but they can't roast the beans the right way so theirs is terrible. I finally gave up and just drink smoothies there now. It's still a great place for live music. |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | I wouldn't say that grits are something I'd go out of my way to eat up here in the North, but they were very enjoyable and lent just the right touch to breakfast down South.
As for coffee, well, I don't know how to break the news to all y'all, but, I'd much prefer a good strong cup of Red Rose tea any day--one sugar, lots of milk.
...and add to the list "Thomas' English Muffins," with butter and raspberry jam (to accompany said cup of tea.)
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Location: Yucaipa, California | I'm really pleased that I bought this:
Orange X Juicer
...it even juices our pomegranates! :D |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Karen, if you ever see Bays english muffins, give them a try. They are always in the refrigerated section. I like Thomases too, but these are even better. They taste like the ones we used to get when I was a little kid and have a different texture too. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I was reading Mike's post and remembered that there was a pot of Costa Rican Terrazu coffee in the kitchen for us to try out. It was all gone by the time I got there. |
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Location: Poplar Bluff Mo | 1. My Mac(s)
2. My O's
3. Iphone
4. Corvette C5
5. Honda Harmony lawnmower
6. Slingerland Buddy Rich Drum set |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Interesting to note the number of members that include Macintosh 'pootas in their list.
Even more interesting when you note that NO-ONE put a Windoze PC in their list.
Maybe they ARE worth the extra $$$? |
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Location: Jet City | I think Vic mentioned something about his old IBM PC, but he's European, they're a bit backwards over there. ;) |
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Location: Round Rock, TX | Muzza, I guarantee once you've had a Mac for a month - heck a week, you'll count it money well spent and you'll never go back. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Old Man Arthur:
I like 'em mixed with over-easy eggs, myself. That's the only way for me! Love 'em... Oh yeah, no instant grits either. |
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Location: Toronto | well, im taking graphic design program, and im an amateur photographer as well, been using mac for 2,5 years, and i am happy with it. super fast, powerful yet simple OS, and hey you can install windows as well on mac, haha.
back to topic :
1. my new ovation elite t. maybe its not top of the line. but hell, its my first US ovation, and its wayy better than my old ovation (korean made).
2. my macs obviously
3. my canon D-SLR |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by wilblee:
Muzza, I guarantee once you've had a Mac for a month - heck a week, you'll count it money well spent and you'll never go back. Wilblee, check out the 3rd post in this thread. I already walk erect. (great line from Jeff W.)
Originally posted by ebonhawk:
3. my canon D-SLR Aha! I knew I'd left something out! Which one ya got, Ebonhawk? I've got the 40D. |
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