Why yes I have all the answers

[Desk clerk knows all]

One of the interesting things about being a desk clerk is that people seem to think you know every thing about every thing. This morning a lady went out to smoke and when she came back in she came over and ask me "what are grits?" My favorite one though is one night I had a lady call down from a room and say "we are watching a movie on channel 40 and we can't figure out what it's about". I guess I'm supposed to know the plot line to all the shows on all our channels at all times!

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Howdy and welcome!

You'd be surprised at how many people don't know what grits are. Heck, I didn't know what they were when I was a kid (I was not born here.). I thought it was some sort of rice dish someone screwed up really badly.

[bhskittykatt]

I'll be honest. I've never had grits. I'm not sure what they are, and I don't really care to find out. I wouldn't bug a desk clerk about it. I'd ask my waiter, or Google. In fact, I'll go do that now....Yay! now I'm informed! (still not eating them though.)

[Shalom]

the other day I went to buy my kids some instant oatmeal and found a box of Quaker Instant Grits.

I bought it just for the hell of it. They're not bad.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Grits: A nickname I was called as a kid by certain other kids. I grew up in the deep south of the USA.

[Cookie]

Ok, peeps. Grits aren't gross. It's coarsely ground corn.

Or, an acronym meaning Girls Raised In The South.

I eat the former, I am the latter, which is why I know the former.

[PepperElf]

when i first saw grits i thought it was some kind of cream of wheat and hated it cos it tasted like crap with sugar.

then i saw instant grits and...yes i know it's a sacrilege but the package made me realize it was corn based and worked better with salt, butter, meats etc.

now i eat grits with butter or salty things... had some with cheese and jalepenos this morning

[downforit2008]

Don't worry. I never thought a desk clerk was an "Information About Everything" Host! I always just asked a couple of basic questions about what a hotel has to offer and that's it. Besides going to pay my bill for the On-Demand PAY-PER-VIEW cable movies, I pretty much leave the desk clerk alone! You would LOVE to have customers like me at your workplace!

[Sheldonrs]

You could always mess with them.

"What are grits?"

"That is what happens when you swallow small rocks while simultaneously having bad loose bowel movements."

"What is (random movie) about?"

"It's the heart-warming story about a boy and his pet head lice."

[RecoveringKinkoid]

In my opinion, yellow grits are far superior to the bleached white ones. If you can get stone ground yellow grits, get them.

I like them cooked with smoked pork broth, if you can get it. Smoked neckbones boiled down, to be precise. Make the grits with the broth, cook them so they are very soft, and add lots of salt and butter.

Plain white grits with cheese is awesome, too, if you don't have time to be fancy.

I don't eat them often, as I am a low carber, but if I'm in, say, House of Blues, I always get them for breakfast. They do some awesome grits in House of Blues during Sunday Gospel Brunch.

I'm sorry, but if you're listening to a live gospel band during breakfast on Sunday am, you kinda have to eat you some grits.

[Soulstealer]

I got the same thing when I worked the front desk in a university campus. I was not information but for some reason I was expected to give directions, know about all the events that was happening on campus, know about other departments when it was after hours and there was no one to ask, etc.

[MoonCat]

Weird timing. Just today when I was leaving the supermarket (had to pick up some kitty food!) I noticed they had "Grits $1.99" posted on their lighted sign out in the parking lot.

[AccountingDrone]

For some odd reason I just do not like grits. I love cream of wheat and oatmeal, and polenta which is corn ground up and cooked in a similar manner but no dice. Every few years I give them another try.

[Antisocial_Worker]

There's a restaurant here that serves shrimp and grits so wonderful that I have literally woken up craving them sometimes. Take chipotle yellow grits and add gigantic shrimp, bacon, roasted tomatoes, and a dusting of green stuff that i think might be cilantro.

Nothing better.

[Merriweather]

the other day I went to buy my kids some instant oatmeal and found a box of Quaker Instant Grits.

I bought it just for the hell of it. They're not bad.

Instant ones are nothing like real grits, there's no texture to the instant ones. I love grits (with butter & sugar). Try geting the "Quick Grits" - called that because they take about five minutes to cook, and before the instant ones came out, the others had to be cooked half an hour (I haven't seen that kind in the stores in years, but then, I don't live in the south now either).