European Reacts to AMAZING SOUTHERN FOOD
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Getting the chicken from the plate to your mouth is allowed. Any stop along the way except the floor are is allowed.
Read your own comment and tell me if you can make sense of it.
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@@dgpatter i can maybe you should work on reading comprehension
@@dgpatter you don't have to be rude. Even though the grammar is not perfect it's still readable.
However, to be safe I will translate. Here's what they said: in the south, you're expected to get the chicken from the plate to your mouth and any stop along the way, so long as it isn't the floor, is acceptable.
It’s partly a joke.
1) Don’t drop it.
2) as long as you have your own gravy, cheese, sauce, or whatever else you are dipping in (as long as it is yours and not anyone else’s at the table,) it is “allowed.”
3) Eat YOUR food, YOUR way. 🇺🇸
4) We usually don’t share platters like these guy do. Doing so is usually only a thing couples do.
biscuits and gravy is usually white gravy, but sometimes when people make it from scratch and use the sausage grease it takes on a more yellow/brown color.
It is still white when made from scratch. The color probably comes from some cayenne pepper, mustard powder, and/ or some paprika.
Lawry's season salt. 👍
The fact that there was a debate on dipping fried chicken in gravy is insane to me. It is delicious. The people opposed to it are probably the ones dipping theirs in ranch and ketchup. Lol
I agree! Ranch dressing and ketchup are grossly overrated! Give me good old gravy over those any time of the day! And you can dip whatever you want into your gravy!
I love watching your videos everyday. I'm a older lady from Tennessee. If you ever find yourself in Tennessee it would be my honor to cook you a real home cooked southern meal. Keep making your videos they make me smile everyday and I always look forward to them. Hope to see you in Tennessee one day. Bless you and your family. Your baby boy is absolutely beautiful
Any dipping is not just allowed, its encouraged! Some may not like it, thats weird, but okay. However, i feel pretty confident saying most southerners will dip anything in the leftover gravy on the plate. Yummmm
Heck I'll use my finger to get the last bit of gravy off the plate if I have to. Gravy is my favorite food group. 😂
I’ve never met anyone that wouldn’t sop up the gravy at least some.
@@toodlescae I mean, when I was younger I'd just straight up lick the plate. 😂
@@LadyBeyondTheWall same. 🤣
We have gravy in all colors here in the USA brown, yellow, white, yellowish is chicken gravy most of the time because of the frying and herbs. Country gravy or pepper gravy is white. Sausage gravy slightly yellow Everything is allowed, we have a saying "don't knock it tell you try it".
This is not a breakfast. The alcoholic drinks tell you that this is brunch. In New Orleans they'll tell you that brunch without alcohol is just a sad, late breakfast.
They said it was brunch in the video.
In New Orleans alcohol is served 24 seven
Grits are made from hominy. Hominy comes from yellow or white maize, also known as field corn. Dried hominy kernels are soaked in an alkali solution of lye or slaked lime. This process, called nixtamalization, removes the hull and germ, making the corn easier to grind and cook with.
They were having brunch, not breakfast, which is why alcohol was involved. Brunch means late breakfast, early lunch.
They're having brunch, not breakfast, and yes, some people have Bloody Mary's, but no, it's not how most southerners start their day 😅😅😅
But some do
Brunch is a meal you eat with breakfast and lunch together. It is usually held late morning to early afternoon.
The thing about brunch, which is what they’re eating, is it’s supposed to be a combo of breakfast & lunch as well as typically eaten anywhere from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m so a lot of what they’re eating is not something people normally have for breakfas. For instance I’ve had shrimp & grits at various times for lunch & dinner yet would probably never think to have it for breakfast and I definitely wouldn’t want ribs early in the morning.
I will eat ribs anytime, guaranteed!
Grits.... ick! Ribs, num num num. Morning, noon, and night.
Grits are basically like polenta, but made from white corn, instead of yellow. And, they're more finely ground, so they have a creamier texture and take less time to cook.
It's all allowed. How do you think we come up with all the bizarre combos 😉
étouffée, it is made with a blond or brown roux and sometimes tomatoes are added.A blond roux is one that is cooked, stirring constantly, for approximately 5 minutes to remove the "raw" flavor of the flour and to add a slightly "nutty" flavor, while a brown roux is cooked longer (30 to 35 minutes) in order to deepen the color and flavor.
Biscuits and gravy is very simple. Look up a recipe for southern biscuits and gravy you will EASILY MAKE IT!
I've tried so many recipes and yet I can't master the ones in restaurants :(
@dukey19941 Keep practicing, you'll get it.
Making sausage gravy is super easy you brown off ground sausage then sprinkle in flour and combine that with the sausage fat and slowly add in milk and stir it and it will slowly thicken up then add black pepper to taste. Biscuits if you can find any prepackaged makes it the easiest to bake. If not biscuits aren’t difficult to make
The question will be what type of sausage does he have there? Probably not our typical breakfast sausage which means it won’t taste the same. Who knows it might be better lol
If you are in the South go to a small diner for breakfast. Biscuits and gravy are wonderful. Polenta is close to southern grits. Add cheese and pepper a minute or two before done. Good enough to make your day! And yes we can eat steak and eggs in the morning. Any type of food any time of day. Hope you can come to us and see!!!
When having BRUNCH in the US, it is customary to have a Bloody Mary [tomato juice, a dash of lemon juice, salt, pepper, a dash of Tabasco Sauce and Vodka garnished with a celery stalk] or a Mimosa [Champagne & Orange Juice]. If you're not driving and you're in no hurry, have two or three .. especially if you're at a seaside resort.
Grits are like polenta. Grits use white corn. Polenta uses yellow corn. And like artisan or "authentic" oatmeal, artisan, stone-ground grits are HEAVENLY. RICH, CREAMY and satisfying.
andre, just within the last couple of days, i posted info on how to make my Biscuits and Gravy. please make it!!
Grits are from a large-kerneled corn called hominy. The kernels are ground into a coarse consistency then boiled in water. It is an Indigenous grain used in parts of North America, Central, and parts of South America. Black slaves prepared this food for their white slave owners. in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Many former slaves and their descendents, who will worked as servants, cooks, and maids, prepared meals for their employers well into the 1960's. Grits are a common food item in most Southern households.
4;37...order a Betty Crocker cookbook. It's what i used as a kid to learn how to cook
I may be born in the Midwest, but my taste buds and heart belongs to the southern soul food.😅
André, if the restaurant serves *"Instant Grits"... RUN 🤢!!* Real grits with cheese 🧀, butter 🧈 and salt🧂. If you want to be fancy; make some *scrambled eggs* 🥚 and throw them in the grits as well 🤤😋!!! Great breakfast!!
Same here. ❤
I was in Indiana recently, everything was so bland relative to what I am used to in the south.
@@seanpatton7406 I make my grits 1:1:1 grits, milk, water. They come out super creamy. Then I add butter, crushed bacon, and enough sharp cheddar to make little grit balls on your spoon.
A Bloody Mary is a cocktail containing vodka, tomato juice, and other spices and flavorings including Worcestershire sauce, hot sauces, garlic, herbs, horseradish, celery, olives, pickled vegetables, salt, black pepper, lemon juice, lime juice and celery salt. Some versions of the drink, such as the "surf 'n turf" Bloody Mary, include shrimp and bacon as garnishes. In the United States, it is usually consumed in the morning or early afternoon, and is popular as a hangover cure.
OH YES! Make biscuits and gravy for you and your wife. There are many recipes on UA-cam and they are easy. You will love it. I would love to watch you try it for the first time as a reaction. Even better would be if you also make the chicken and dip it into the gravy. The most difficult part of doing this is preparing enough gravy because most people want more.
Gravy is legal on almost everything!! White milk gravy made with the grease chicken is fried in is sooooo delicious!!! A fried egg on top of the grits is really tasty!
It's super easy to make sausage gravy!!
No, it does not ruin the chicken . Looking at all of the southern food videos , I've not seen smothered chicken or pork chops . That is the meat fried then make the gravy and simmer the meat in it .
If you're active you can eat this way.... I eat all sorts of this stuff, and I love it. I stay trim because I burn it off and sweat it out.
example: working on an oil rig in Texas, you can eat 8,000 calories a day... You have to.
Grits is a Southern breakfast food! It’s made from ground corn. It’s also a dinner food in parts of the South! In Georgia we typically eat grits with scrambled eggs and either sausage or bacon!
Andre, you're never going to get amazing fried chicken using an air fryer.
That second dessert looked just like a slice of layer cake.
Not sure about Europe. Here in the U.S., I can go to the grocery store and get a packet of gravy powder. Premeasured flour and what ever flavor. (White, sausage, brown, chicken, turkey, beef, pork and more flavors). Really easy to cook. Bring 1 cup of water per pack to a broil and whisk in the gravy pack to boiled water, cook to 1 minute and done. Some gravy is little bit more to it. Add gravy powder to cold water then add that to the boil water.
Alabama raised here. One of the great things about southern brunch is the casualness of it. Yes you can dip your biscuit into the gravy and mix and match all you want with no judgement. Also yes, you can order alcohol for brunch (breakfast+lunch) and it is fairly common to order a bloody mary or a mimosa. As a last side note grits are one of those things that you either love it or hate it. Taste by itself is fairly bland so it is often paired with other flavors or ingredients.
Grits are like corn meal that is soaked until it is soft. It is usually eaten with bacon and eggs.
I disagree with the haters, fell in love with grits in Aviation Academy, Huntsville Alabama ❤
'country' gravy is flour and milk based, thus it's white. but here in the South, we add lots of spices and seasonings to it to make it more flavorful... so the spices change the color slightly... the same with our batter for deep frying foods... we season it with spices to add flavor... so it has a slightly darker color when finished frying..
biscuit breakfast sandwiches are in every store and gas station and restaurant in the South... you can get nearly any meat on it and other stuff as well. cheese, fried or scrambled egg, sauces or something else like ketchup, and bacon (as extra OR the main meat) are typical things that can be added.
Allowed? It’s your food, eat any way you want
As long as you get most of it in your mouth, it is considered a success.
Brunch is a meal late in the morning that combines breakfast and lunch together.
Find a video of someone who shows how to make American biscuits and gravy. That will show you how to read the recipe and how to make both. Don't just try making the recipe without watching a video. You can then use the recipe and make the B&G.
As far as the color of the gravy in this video, it mostly depends on the spice mixture the chef uses to make it. I'm sure it tastes very good but you probably won't get recipes on the internet for the combination to get this yellowish gravy. So, anyhoo, try to make B&G after watching a video and you, too, can have true biscuits and gravy American style. It's not that hard because it's pretty basic . . . but sorta kinda delicate. Big bonus if you video yourself while making and post it so we can see how much you like it.
Good luck, you're gonna have fun! Love from Kansas 🌻 🌻 🌻!!!
Grits are the same as polenta, the only difference is polenta is made from yellow corn and grits are made from white corn.
my Creole grandmother taught all the grandkids how to cook really good... so I know how to cook all this and MUCH more great foods....
When you visit USA you will not be disappointed with southern cooking.
basic grits (rough ground dried corn) looks like mashed potato but is closer to oatmeal porridge, but gritty instead of mushy. a couple pinches of salt (NOT sugar, that ruins it. sugar is for oatmeal, not grits) and a couple pats of REAL butter finishes it off. BUT you can add stuff to it. usually a meat of some kind. ham, bacon, or sausage are the most common, but others, like shrimp or crawfish, can also be used. AND you can also put in stuff like cheese (to melt) and even some people like fried or scrambled egg... AND if you decide to throw in some spices, that can add to the normally bland flavor....
In this video, they added a pan fried soft egg and some cheese and shrimp with a couple slices of radish and parsley for color. and etouffee sauce (I would never put etouffee sauce on grits, but to each their own).
Andre everything is so good in South we mix a lot of things together
Grits with salt and butter and fried eggs. Yum!!!
That cake that they were eating is actually coconut cake one of my favorite cakes
To solve your fried chicken problems: Brine it first, that's what gets that uniform juicy looking interior. If you don't want to look up how to do that, soak it in pickle juice for a few hours (not overnight unless you're making your own brine). Then make sure your oil isn't too hot, you don't want it much above 121c (350f), a thermometer is crucial. How to bread: 2 stations, dry and wet. Wet is beaten egg with a bit of the brine to thin it. Wet is going to be seasoned flour with maybe 1/4 tsp baking powder and make about 1/8th of the flour cornstarch. Don't oversalt the flour, the brine will salt it from the inside, but do use some salt and do season it. Paprika, cayenne, etc. First dredge the chicken in the dry, set on a plate, drizzle a few spoonfuls of the wet mix into the dry, and kind of mix it through so you have some wet chunky bits scattered about. Then dip in the wet and back into the dry. Fry at 121c for about 8 min total, the temp will drop when you add the chicken so keep an eye on it, you will have to mess around with the temp to get it back up and then maintain. Let sit on paper towels when it comes out.
Grits is corn meal cooked to something like porridge.
We have freedom to eat what you want with what you want (if you have it). Your choice.
Grits are made from ground corn, typically from less sweet, starchy varieties often referred to as dent corn. Grits can be made from either yellow or white corn and are often labeled accordingly.
There are no rules to southern cooking. 10 people can make each dish different. All delicious
Hello, I just watched you reaction to the Gettysburg address, if you can find it FDRs speech on flag day is fantastic. The speech begins with “the spirit of man has awakened the soul has gone forth”
Red Skelton's explanation of the Pledge of Allegiance is very moving as well
Grits are corn made into a rough flour (looks like seeded wheat bread). It's a little, um, gritty. But that's the texture, love it or hate it.
You can 100% make biscuits and gravy. You need breakfast sausage, butter, flour, milks and biscuits. It may take a couple tries but you can totally do it.
If you have american breakfast sausage, american biscuits (or recipe to make them) , some flour, cream, salt, pepper..you can make this easily.
I adore when European people come to America and just dip everything in anything. It's so whimsical and funny. My grandpa used to mix everything together on his plate(This is not typical American behavior)and eat it. He would say, "It's all going to the same place." it just reminds me of that. Absolutely make your own biscuits and gravy. Americans make European food at home all the time. Go for it!
Cholesterol: They seldom tell you that your body makes most of the cholesterol, more so than you get from your food. There are vegetarians who have high cholesterol.
And one of my sisters is one of them, a vegetarian marathon runner who looks like her total cholesterol would be 140 but fights to keep her cholesterol in check. I’m the polar opposite, my doctor was upset with me years ago because she said I had the total cholesterol of a five year old, it was 135 and I’m not a vegetarian and don’t exercise as much as she does. Your personal physiology has something to do with it.
Cholesterol is not fake news, the person who said that will be lucky if they don’t have to worry about it, because the consequences of ignoring it can literally cause a heart attack.
Right! It's more to do with the way your body metabolizes it, than the amount you eat.
This is so true. I have had high cholesterol since I was a child due to genetics and I was a bean pole for the first 30 years of my life.
Sausage gravy and biscuit recipes are easy to find with a Google search. My biggest suggestion is to buy plain minced sausage and look up what spices are in American breakfast sausage since that blend doesn't seem to be available in Europe.
I'm certain you could do scratch biscuits and gravy southern style. Just make sure it's a sausage gravy. Their is a million good recipes online.
I live in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
When Katrina hit New Orleans, many refugees there were moved to our town.
2 brothers were moved here, and several years later, they started a cajun restaurant and named it Lenny Breaux's. The small restaurant was super popular because it was so unique and authentic Cajun food. Word got out all over the region, and people come from all over to eat at their little restaurant.
They rescently bought out another large local restaurant that the owners retired. They will be opening at their newly renovated restaurant this weekend!!!
Every Wednesday, they make Shrimp and Grits. It's heavenly. Grilled shrimp, course ground grits, cheese, onions, and some kind of cajun voodoo!!! 😆 🤣 😂
Buiscuts and gravy is so easy once you understand what's happening. Just find a recipe online from southern living or something.
Biscuits and gravy is easy. Sausage, flour, milk and salt/pepper. I cookaybe 2 times per year. If I can make it, you can make it my friend.
Think of grits like porridge/oatmeal. Instead of oats which makes porridge, grits are made out of ground corn.
True southern biscuits n gravy has them southern mom's top secret biscuit making skills that were passed down for generations. LOL. Good luck trying to get them to come out right without knowing the secret technique. And it's a compliment if ya' "sop up" the leftover gravy on the plate with a extra biscuit or some fried chicken.
André, we have different types of gravy: brown (traditional gravy), white (that is *sausage gravy*) and yellow (which is like a cheese based gravy). And grits are cooked cornmeal-a bit similar to Porridge if you will. You can get savory grits, salty grits, sweet grits, and even cheesy grits. They’re good.
the rule of thumb in the South when it comes to food is simple: whatever tastes good is allowed...
Sausage gravy is super simple to make. The biscuits can be challenging if you've never made them.
But for the gravy: brown a pound of breakfast sausage. Add 4 tablespoons of butter and let it melt. Sprinkle 1/4 cup of AP flour over the top of everything. Stir well and cook for a minute or two. Add 2 1/2 cups of milk and a good amount of cracked black pepper. Simmer stirring constantly until thickened. Remove from heat and pour over biscuits.
I don't know if anyone else has said, but shrimp and grits with red eye gravy is a classic, and one I absolutely love, with the red eye gravy being made with country ham and coffee. It's heaven on a plate.
They mean Gramma's recipe &/or she is the cook.😄 I agree 'yellow gravy'? I bet the gravy is Etouffee sauce. I New Orleans, Yep! Chicken & biscuit is pretty common. You sure can. I wouldn't, but, I'd ask for another biscuit. Ribs in the morning is weird to me too. Same with Shrimp in grits. Some places have cookie dough Ice Cream. But cookie dough on a beater is a novelty. Unless, you're cooking cookies.
In American cuisine, I feel like everything is allowed except eating off the floor. My guess is that that is a white gravy base that may have had some spice added to it since they mentioned it having a kick. Adding chili pepper derivatives will turn a pale sauce orange or pink. Also, as others have said, grits are ground corn. This is particularly interesting, because you use the corn culinarily the way you would use rice, but corn is sweeter and more tender than rice as the kernels have high sugar content and low fiber content.
13:03 that “pie” is a four layer cake, most likely white cake with white icing and shredded coconut topping.
Grits are made from "dent corn," which is just a softer variety of corn. The corn is dried and ground into bits. Add water and boil until soft for basic grits. Add butter or salt or bacon or eggs or cheese or shrimp... Basically, whatever you want & eat lol
Yep chicken sandwich. We also make sausage sandwiches for breakfast in a biscuit.
They are eating brunch. Which is a very late breakfast/early lunch. We have either a Bloody Mary or a mimosa (champagne and orange juice). The alcohol helps with a hangover. They are in New Orleans where the bars are open 24 hours. New Orleans food tends to have a reddish tint because of our seasoning. We also put sauce/gravy/étouffée on anything and everything.
I love the sausage gravy on fried chicken :) It is delicious!
1. That Chicken Biscuit was meant to be picked up and eaten by hand, not cut up with a fork and knife.
2. Fried Chicken turns out so well in the south because we deep-fry it not air-fry.
3. Grits are very similar to polenta, but with the consistency of a gravy instead of being solidified.
4. The alcoholic beverages isn't a breakfast thing in most of the south, but brunch is different, brunch is late morning, approximately 10:30/11:00 AM. Also, based on the crawfish boil in the video, and the shrimp and grits, they may be in New Orleans, which is an exception to the general southern tradition of no alcohol for breakfast.
As someone who grew up living in the South, I hope this clears things up some. Also, southern food is indeed bad for high cholesterol.
I bet that if you want to make biscuits and gravy on your own, tons of people would probably be happy to send you recipes! I'm not a southerner so I don't personally have any spectacularly good ones but if you ever need a good Bloody Mary recipe, just let me know! (and yes, alcohol with weekend brunch is pretty common, especially mimosas and Bloody Marys)
Whoever said you shouldn't dip food in something else is not from south sounds like a yankee to me lol
Even northerners know better - good gravy is a sad thing to waste! 😄
I ate at a little restaurant where the tomato on a BLT was a fried green tomato and the bread was Texas Toast. So yummy.
It's easy to find Southern biscuit recipes online, and you need to add "hints" that you find (super cold butter, don't twist the biscuit cutter, etc., but it's all doable) and white or pepper gravy, which is super easy. I don't eat sausage, so just have pepper gravy, but its the base for sausage gravy.
No, gravy and fried chicken are made for each other
Fried chicken
Mashed potatoes and gravy
Corn
Put them all togther in one bite... its heaven
Hi. Here is my two cents worth. I have lived in Louisiana for 22 years now. This white gravy is a product of sausage or bacon drippings and flour heated stirredinto what is called a 'roux' (roo). Then the other ingredients, including sausage bits finish out the gravy. It is supposed to be thick, and cracked black pepper is also added.
Grits are made from grinding hominy, a halfway similar to corn. It is the same texture as 'cream of wheat', with a different taste. It is a base, that you can add bacon, a type of coffee gravy, shredded cheese, melted butter, anything to make it tasty.
Now, I will suggest a dish that you can find the recipe for, "chipped beef on toast", or as I, a GI remember it "s*it on a shingle".
Grits can be pretty nice when made properly. I used to eat mine with brown sugar for breakfast. Grits is a type of grainy porridge made from corn derivative.
Brunch is usually had around 10-11 am. At my summer job, we have brunch on Sundays before work.
Grits are basically like a porridge but made from corn
AND SHRIMP AND GRITS IS LUNCH!! I disagree with haters. Yes.. breakfast grits are a lovely sweet dessert with maple syrup or cane syrup buy savory with hot sauce, peppers and shrimp is awesome.. polenta can be eaten with shrimp. Fried polenta with shrimp and sauce. So shrimp and grits are also Devine. 😅
@@amyfox9659 Polenta = grits
To help lower your cholesterol, make eating oatmeal a regular habit. I like to dress mine up with cinnamon and raisins.
Andre, you can totally make it!! Very easy, please give it a try, even if it fails you’ll give some good laughs I’m sure!!
As a USMC combat veteran born and raised in Alabama , the deep south, I can tell you with enthusiasm that fried Chicken 'n biscuits and gravy ALWAYS go together no matter what time of the day they are served!
If I have fried Chicken on my plate I will dab it in the gravy the most! Less with the majority of the sides that come along...
But definitely biscuits chicken and gravy till I die! ☠️🇺🇲🍗
but definitely fried Chicken served in any biscuit should definitely be dipped in the southern sausage gravy! It's immaculate!
Southern born. Southern approved. Southern honest.
grits is dried grounded up maize or hominy (corn) that you turn into porridge....its not difficult to make from scratch....bloody mary & mimosa with breakfast or brunch....chicken in a honey biscuit is delicious....KFC even used to have chicken in little biscuit sliders that were next level when I was a kid....yes you dip everything into the gravy....we have a common breakfast dish called 'steak & eggs'....actually there's two different kinds of cholesterol: LDL (bad) & HDL (good) so your doctor shouldn't just say you have cholesterol lol....no thats a cake....cookie dough desserts is amazing....we even have cookie dough ice cream
Grits are a type of cornmeal porridge. They can be served either savory or sweet, but savory is by far the most common way to eat grits.
Chicken is ALWAYS better brined, especially white meat (breasts). It's 5 grams of salt for every 100ml of water. One morning, completely cover the chicken in the brine, in the refrigerator, then remove when it's time to cook. Works with frying, roasting, grilling. When you get that simple salt & water brine mastered, you might toss in a few peppercorns, maybe a bay leaf. Whatever floats your boat!
I make shrimp and grits as part of our routine weekly dinners. Marinate shrimp in as spicy a marinade as you dare. Some people say instant grits aren't as good as "real" grits, but I find the instant works fine in this recipe. They take 5 minutes, just pour the recommended amount of grits to chicken stock and whisk it in. Then add about a cup of cheddar cheese and mix until combined. Use some of the marinade in a pan when cooking the shrimp. They cook in 2-3 minutes. Then add thickener (flour, usually) to the spicy sauce until it becomes a gravy. Plate the grits, the shrimp, then pour over the whole thing. Seriously, it takes a moment to put the shrimp in marinade, but all the parts are ready in 5-6 minutes. Super quick dinner!
Grits are like...a "carrier" food. They're made of corn hominy and are like a porridge. Many people will prefer them either sweet or savory but they're eaten both ways. You could add cheese and meats or something like maple syrup or brown sugar
Grits are ground up corn some are white some is yellow, i like yellow beat its creamier and taste more like corn
Southerner reporting in. Biscuits aren't like Euro biscuits, they're the dryest thing you've ever put in your mouth, this is why the gravy is necessary. The gravy is darker in color because it's rendered in fat.
Grits are sorta like porridge, but made from corn. The chicken looks/tastes so amazing because it's often "double baptized," which means an already breaded/fried piece of chicken goes into the breading and back into the oil for a second time.
Ribs in the morning are semi-normal in a land where you're going to work 12-18 hour days, hard physical labor because it's a lot of protein/calories. with the rest of this hearty breakfast. Also Americans drink a lot of liquor and greasy food stops hangovers.
Cholesterol isn't good or bad, it's a balancing act. Too much leads to heart problems, too little and you get depression, anxiety, cancer, and other things.
Brunch breakfast and lunch together 11am mid day
And as Alcohol as Alan Jackson says, it's 5 o'clock somewhere
You could TOTALLY make biscuits and gravy!
Fried chicken with gravy? Yes, please! 👍🏻
My mother made the best fried chicken. She had a huge iron frying pan with a lid. She put it in there on a low fry, and the chicken would cook all the way through, and the breading was crispy.
Cholesterol is real. Some people are more prone to having a higher cholesterol than others. The "good" cholesterol (HDL) is the number to increase. The "bad" cholesterol (LDL) is the one to lower. Diet changes, along with exercise is where to start.
I would recommend watching YT vids and research books to learn more about lifestyle changes.
Prescription medication can be effective but they do have side-effects.
I worked as a cook, and our home made Country Gravy had some chicken base in it. We made it from bacon, and the chicken base added a nice flavor and yellowish color.
Edit: We also put in a quart of Whipping Cream (not whipped cream). it was 30years ago, and as a side note the owner always told us to stir in one direction only, we don't want to unwind the gravy.
you could order the dry gravy mix packets to make white gravy at home - just mix in some sauteed sausage drippings
Not only is dipping the chicken in the gravy allowed, I would encourage it. Get that gravy all over everything Cher!