Date:  Tue, 19 Mar 1996 04:37:51 -0800

From:  SETH SKLAREY <crissiet[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]IX.NETCOM.COM>

Subject: Red eye gravy



But what is the origin of "red-eye gravy" and what does it consist of?



Seth Sklarey

crissiet[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ix.netcom.com





>I'm just back after a week of Spring Break, and working my way through an

>overdrawn computer account of 141 messages, mostly ADS-L, so pardon if this

>has already been pointed out. Raven McDavid used to speak with relish of

>having grits with red-eye gravy as the only true Southern way of serving it.

>Just by coincidence I was looking the word up today to see if it was by

>chance an Americanism, and found that although it is attested back to OE,

>the specific reference to hominy grits (for which Southern "grits" is a

>shortened form) is certainly a New World innovation.

>

>    --Rudy Troike (rtroike[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ccit.arizona.edu)

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