Tom's Famous Breakfast

That would be my brother Tom, Tom Cairns, who lives in Noaf-ka-lyna and can whip up the best breakfast you ever et this side of the Mason-Dixon Line. If yer settin' down ta Tom's breakfast, yer in high cotton.

What's in Tom's Famous Breakfast?

• Eggs prepared to taste; we usually do scrambled.
• Bacon and/or sausage prepared to taste.
• Quick grits and anything and everything you want to put into it. Tom starts with cheese, that's what adds the orange color. These are called "cheese grits" or "cheesy grits." You can then add sausage, bacon, pork, beef, salt, etc. Grits by itself is fairly tasteless.[1]
• Biscuits (fresh are great, frozen is fine)[2]
• Sausage gravy (quality pouch gravy with loads of you own sausage is fine)
• Variety of toast; up north this usually includes a hearty nutty/multi-grain, pumpernickel, and rye.

Here are some videos and pictures from 2004 and 2011 of Tom preparing his famous breakfast:


2004 in Norlina, NC Unfortunately, I have only pictures.



2011 in Erie, PA


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[1]
A linguistic curiosity regarding "grits" usage: these sentences sound right to me, but I defer to my brother to comment from personal experience:

* I like grits and anything you want to put in it.
* Grits are good for you.

Wikipedia maintains plural agreement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grits ➚), but does say:

The word "grits" is one of the few words that may properly be used as either singular or plural in writing or speech and can be used with a singular or plural verb.

I suspect there are regions in the South that would take sides on this.

[2]
Did you know that down south, a bag of Pillsbury frozen biscuits has 20 biscuits in it? The same size up north has only 12. Lawso'mercy, don't let me commence!