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Hi all,

I hope you don't mind an interloper - I came across this forum while is was googling for a UK forum; looked interesting so I thought I'd crash the party!

I work as an oncology pharmacist in a large UK district general hospital. I'd be very interested to trade ideas and experiences with my US counterparts.

Also, I'm due to visit the US in a few months. Can I ask - what the soddin' hell are grits?! I've been warned off them...

NHS1
 
:hello:

Grits are a kind of cooked breakfast cereal sort of like cream of wheat, though with more texture - I rather like 'em, and bought a bag my last trip south.

When I'm stateside, I avoid the deep-fried macaroni and cheese.

Oh, and if you really want to have fun on this site, go over to the "Topics in Healthcare" area and start a thread in defence of single-payer health care 😀
 
Pharmavixen said:
:hello:

Grits are a kind of cooked breakfast cereal sort of like cream of wheat, though with more texture - I rather like 'em, and bought a bag my last trip south.

When I'm stateside, I avoid the deep-fried macaroni and cheese.

Oh, and if you really want to have fun on this site, go over to the "Topics in Healthcare" area and start a thread in defence of single-payer health care 😀
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I don't like grits, the most tasteless food I've ever tried. No, correction that was " la poutine" ( fries with cheese and gravy on top of it) in Quebec. Although by the time I left, after 6- years, this thing grew on me, I was able to eat one once in a while :laugh:

I live in the south, and I cannot name one food that they don't deep fried, or have not tried to at least... I came accross deep fried okra!!😱, tried one and pucked...😀

I second pharmavixen suggestion, start a thread about a single-payer health care..dat will blow their mind..or you can talk about simvastatin being OTC ( heard it from someone)
 
Whoever told you to avoid grits did you a huge favor. You should take them back a t-shirt or coffee mug or something.

GabonpharmD said:
I live in the south, and I cannot name one food that they don't deep fried, or have not tried to at least...
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Agreed. If it's still long enough in the south it will be fried.
 
GabonpharmD said:
I don't like grits, the most tasteless food I've ever tried. No, correction that was " la poutine" ( fries with cheese and gravy on top of it) in Quebec. Although by the time I left, after 6- years, this thing grew on me, I was able to eat one once in a while :laugh:

I live in the south, and I cannot name one food that they don't deep fried, or have not tried to at least... I came accross deep fried okra!!😱, tried one and pucked...😀

I second pharmavixen suggestion, start a thread about a single-payer health care..dat will blow their mind..or you can talk about simvastatin being OTC ( heard it from someone)
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Poutine is delicious...nothing quite like melted cheese curd and gravy.

to the OP: welcome! It'll be interesting to see the British side of things around here.
 
I couldn't stand deep fried okra. That is some nasty stuff. I grew up in Arkansas, and there's not much they haven't at least tried frying. My brother-in-law loves fried pickles.😱 You might try fried ice cream though. That's pretty good stuff.
 
Hey British Oncology Druggist.. You should try grits, fried okra, and everything you haven't tried in your home country. You can't appreciate grits unless you understand this scene from one of my favorite movies "My Cousin Vinny." The grits scene starts around the minute mark 2:00

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechmycousinvinny3.html


"No self respecting southerner uses instant grits. I take pride in my grits.."

"I'm a fast cook I guess."

Classic! :meanie:
 
StaviZFingerZ said:
You can't appreciate grits unless you understand this scene from one of my favorite movies "My Cousin Vinny." The grits scene starts around the minute mark 2:00

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechmycousinvinny3.html


"No self respecting southerner uses instant grits. I take pride in my grits.."

"I'm a fast cook I guess."

Classic! :meanie:
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Stop stealing my ideas! 🙄 You're almost 2 years too late... for that to be original! :meanie:

PharmDstudent said:
We're considered French down here. I guess enough people like oatmeal here, but they usually eat grits. I've never eaten cream of wheat! Like I said, I'm scared of it.
There are lots of French last names that get screwed up all the time down here. Example: Hebert is said "Aybear". My friend from out of state tried to find this last name in the A's :laugh:. She couldn't find the medicine so she informed the patient. They said, "because it's Hebert". She said, "Right. I already looked in the A's". The customer yells, "HEBERT starts with an H." She tells me later that they're are too many weird last names in Louisiana. They're weird, because they're mostly French or Cajun French names.

My Cousin Vinny (1992)
Vinny Gambini: How could it take you five minutes to cook your grits when it takes the entire grit-eating world 20 minutes?
Mr. Tipton: Um... I'm a fast cook, I guess.
Vinny Gambini: [across beside the jury] What? I'm sorry I was over there. Did you just say you were a fast cook? Are we to believe that boiling water soaks into a grit faster in your kitchen than any place on the face of the earth?
Mr. Tipton: I don't know.
Vinny Gambini: Perhaps the laws of physics cease to exist on your stove. Were these magic grits? Did you buy them from the same guy who sold Jack his beanstalk beans?

In case anyone doesn't get it, if it takes you 5 minutes to cook your grits, then you must have used INSTANT grits, which is a tragedy.
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http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=447208&highlight=grits
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showpost.php?p=5599445&postcount=12
 
Farmercyst said:
My brother-in-law loves fried pickles.😱
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😍

Fried pickles + horseradish sauce = DA BOMB. Also, all y'all hatin' on grits and fried okra haven't had mine, and that's all I have to say about that (by the way, I will only eat grits that I make). :laugh:

To the OP: welcome! I agree with StaviZ...try grits anyway, especially if you don't have them back home. You can't just go by what someone else has told you. 🙂 Where in the US will you be visiting?
 
Glycerin said:
😍

Fried pickles + horseradish sauce = DA BOMB. Also, all y'all hatin' on grits and fried okra haven't had mine, and that's all I have to say about that (by the way, I will only eat grits that I make). :laugh:

To the OP: welcome! I agree with StaviZ...try grits anyway, especially if you don't have them back home. You can't just go by what someone else has told you. 🙂 Where in the US will you be visiting?
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I had fried pickels for the first time in my life 2 weeks ago down in Mississippi.. did I spell that right??
 
Glycerin said:
You spelled Mississippi correctly, but not pickles. :meanie: And, MS is where I first had them, too. Stop copying me!
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I would've preferred crispier pickels... the ones I had were little soft. I really enjoyed MS... it's been a while since I've been to coastal MS..I think I was there last during my HS years.. that's really long time ago.
 
I had batter-fried pickles for the 1st time a couple of wks ago, and that's just wrong - I thought they were chicken fingers.

Do you have poutine in the States? You have to have genuine Quebec poutine, with proper cheese curds and real meat gravy (not that fast food goo). And there's now the variations, like poutine Italien, or poutine with meat sauce, cause there isn't enough cholesterol in just cheese curds and gravy.

I stand by my defence of grits. What do you put on it, butter or milk?
 
Pharmavixen said:
I had batter-fried pickles for the 1st time a couple of wks ago, and that's just wrong - I thought they were chicken fingers.

Do you have poutine in the States? You have to have genuine Quebec poutine, with proper cheese curds and real meat gravy (not that fast food goo). And there's now the variations, like poutine Italien, or poutine with meat sauce, cause there isn't enough cholesterol in just cheese curds and gravy.

I stand by my defence of grits. What do you put on it, butter or milk?
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Some places in the states have poutine, Northern New York being one. I agree though, they're just not the same out of backwoods Quebec.
 
Pharmavixen said:
I had batter-fried pickles for the 1st time a couple of wks ago, and that's just wrong - I thought they were chicken fingers.

Do you have poutine in the States? You have to have genuine Quebec poutine, with proper cheese curds and real meat gravy (not that fast food goo). And there's now the variations, like poutine Italien, or poutine with meat sauce, cause there isn't enough cholesterol in just cheese curds and gravy.

I stand by my defence of grits. What do you put on it, butter or milk?
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I wasn't too far from Quebec this week... what the heck is poutine?
 
Pharmavixen said:
I had batter-fried pickles for the 1st time a couple of wks ago, and that's just wrong - I thought they were chicken fingers.

Do you have poutine in the States? You have to have genuine Quebec poutine, with proper cheese curds and real meat gravy (not that fast food goo). And there's now the variations, like poutine Italien, or poutine with meat sauce, cause there isn't enough cholesterol in just cheese curds and gravy.

I stand by my defence of grits. What do you put on it, butter or milk?
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Makes more sense since the bro-in-law was born in MS.
As for grits I've tried a little of everything. Syrup, Brown sugar, honey, jam, bacon, ketchup. Though I'm pretty sure we only had instant.
 
Farmercyst said:
As for grits I've tried a little of everything. Syrup, Brown sugar, honey, jam, bacon, ketchup. Though I'm pretty sure we only had instant.
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This is the recipe--back when I still ate meat--that proved to me that grits could be good: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/...r-creamy-stone-ground-grits-recipe/index.html. The grits recipe part of it is the bottom part of the directions. Good, good stuff.

Since then, I make my own variation of the grits themselves that is pretty similar to this.
 
Glycerin said:
This is the recipe--back when I still ate meat--that proved to me that grits could be good: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/...r-creamy-stone-ground-grits-recipe/index.html. The grits recipe part of it is the bottom part of the directions. Good, good stuff.

Since then, I make my own variation of the grits themselves that is pretty similar to this.
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Thanks! Just added that to my Recipes bookmarks - I think of grits as breakfast cereal and would have never thought of something so fancy.

Let's see - good American food - one of my favourite food experiences was when I was in Naples, Florida during Superbowl 2005. Hubby and I were driving around, trying to find a bar or restaurant that was open. Finally we found one, and sat at a bar next to the Gulf of Mexico, watching the Superbowl on the telly, drinking beer and eating raw oysters on the half-shell...I almost like football now.
 
There's nothing like a deep dish pizza swimming in grease.
 
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