Path: ...!news-out.netnews.com!postmaster.netnews.com!us1.netnews.com!not-for-mail X-Trace: DXC=^X]mLXSiOF;T[HoeIC=dQ?HWonT5<]0T=djI?Uho:Xe;=aHS]UU?AT?E:267^ZD>F9JejlL]HZei6_;Z9WBNf0S8lS759ULDoC:foBn[f\]>L8KB>1hg@Ed:< X-Complaints-To: support@blocknews.net Subject: Re: SOS (WAS: Re: Product Recall: for any of you in the US who eat canned tuna) Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking References: <9e7sP.120943$0Zfc.10349@fx14.iad> From: Hank Rogers Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 19:12:58 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.20 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 39 Message-ID: <67b68100$1$2757$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 X-Trace: 1740013825 reader.netnews.com 2757 127.0.0.1:41447 Bytes: 3188 Jill McQuown wrote: > On 2/19/2025 5:39 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote: >> On 2025-02-19, Carol wrote: >>> Dave Smith wrote: >>> >>>> On 2025-02-15 3:50 p.m., Jill McQuown wrote: >>>>> On 2/15/2025 11:03 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote: >>>> >>>>>> I live in a landlocked area and I haven't had canned shrimp in >>>>>> 50 years.  Frozen shrimp are readily available. >>>>>> >>>>> You don't know what Leo *grew up* having available; he lives in >>>>> Nevada.  Perhaps canned shrimp was all his mother could find. >>>> >>>> I grew up in a small town near Toronto in the 50s. The only shrimp we >>>> ever knew back then were those tiny things that came in cans.  Into >>>> the 60s we could get frozen battered shrimp. In the 70s we could get >>>> frozen shrimp in bags but they were ungodly expensive. >>> >>> Grin, the classic shrimp-n-grits wasn't on the menu then I take it. >> >> Shrimp and grits is not a classic in the north.  Until recently, >> the only place I ever saw grits (besides the Quaker instant grits >> on the grocery store shelf) was a hillbilly diner. >> > I've never been impressed by shrimp and grits.  I've tried it at more > than one restaurant since I've lived in SC and it's just not that great. > > Jill I can sure believe that, your Majesty. Perhaps you should start out by first eating ONE grit and not attempt a whole bowl of grits. Or maybe you can find a place that uses Gullah seasonings. If all else fails, you could just have a bowl of chitlins. You might like it better than your usual menudo.