So all the 'are you, do you' questions are nice and cute and such but let's get to the real deal breaker :
Grits.
Yes ? No ? If you can't hang with grits....
We got a problem
I can watch other people eat grits all day. I burnt out on them in my youth, rather have hash browns. Or tater tots.
Paula Deen will probably come wielding sticks of butter and revoke my license to be a southern woman, but I really hate grits. I've tried them a whole bunch of different ways over the course of many years. Just no. There is no way to make them edible.
One of these days I will come visit the USA and will try them. I see the dish in a lot of cooking shows like Diners, Drive Ins and Dives and just want to eat my way from East to West trying everything. I'll probably start off weighing my usual 180pounds and get back on the plane around 300 lol
Try eastern NC bbq, too. You might not want to go further because it’s nirvana?