Like I say, after I bought the mill, I then decided to find out how to run it.
This is basically an old, modern way of doing it.
You know, you've got this granite stone, they turn slow, the corn never heats up through
a harsh industrial process, so the germ is not killed and the oil stay in the grain.
That's the reason that I have on my bag refrigerate, you know, because it will go rancid over a
period of time, unlike the grits people used to in the store that have all the oil taken
out and the germ taken out and they'll stay on the shelf forever, you know.
I really believe it's the organic corn we use, it's tastier and we do it fresh, you
know.
Gosh, I don't know exactly how you talk about the flavor, you know, it's hard to talk much
about flavor unless you've had something to compare it to, but I've never hardly eaten
any other grits except these, so, you know, they take on a lot of flavor of whatever else
you put in them.
A lot of people put a lot of butter and cream in there, but, you know, I kind of like keep
it just natural.
So the agriculture is over and I told somebody I had to relearn everything I learned as well
as it over.
Why is that?
Well, the way I'm doing it is that I think they're teaching it now, beginning to start
teaching now.
We learned the industrial agriculture side of it, large industrial side, and so the small
sustainable farm really stressed back then, although they are, they are stressing now.
The land's been in our family since 1816, and, you know, not many people can say that.
White corn makes white corn grits, you got yellow corn makes yellow corn grits, you got
blue corn makes blue corn.
Why is the corn a different color?
Because that's the way God made it.
You bring in the white grits?
No.
Do you want white?
Yeah, we want white.
We want white.
Oh, lord.
I got the grit man.
Grit man coming.
We were at a restaurant one time and on the wall it said we served McEwen and some grits.
And the boys ordered grits there.
And I knew that if they didn't buy the big bags, they might be using some of the small
bags in the grits, and the boys said, you know, daddy, these aren't our grits, I promise.
And so after that, the next time I went over, listen, you don't need to take that off the
sign unless you're going to actually use our grits, she said, that's right.
Now they use the grits.
