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The population of those areas are extremely tiny compared to Florida's overall population. They don't have anything to compare to a Houston or Dallas. Where do you think the stereotype of the southern "cowboy" with big belt buckles and boots came from? Florida is widely known as an outlier in the south for the exact reason of not having southern culture even though it's in the south. Do you think those stereotypes for Texas and Florida just appeared out of thin air?
Two things:
1.) The concept of the "cowboy" isn't even associated with the Southern stereotype, but, rather, the "Southwest."
2.) Florida actually has a longer "cowboy" history than Texas does. You'll see it when you read up about the "Florida Crackers."
1.) The concept of the "cowboy" isn't even associated with the Southern stereotype, but, rather, the "Southwest."
2.) Florida actually has a longer "cowboy" history than Texas does. You'll see it when you read up about the "Florida Crackers."
^Yep! Most people have no clue where the term 'cracker' really originated.
Interior Florida has a long tradition of cowboys. Kissimmee (St. Cloud, really) is home to the huge Silver Spurs Rodeo every year. This tradition doesn't seem to have been diluted by the 'transplant culture' at all...
I have never eaten that in my life! Tomorrow I'm going to an oscars party and I'm going to ask people if they have ever eaten such a thing. I've never even seen fish on the same menu where grits are also served.
You don't know what you're missing. It is big throughout Florida. In fact, at my grandma's house, this was the preferred breakfast meal over pancakes.
You don't know what you're missing. It is big throughout Florida. In fact, at my grandma's house, this was the preferred breakfast meal over pancakes.
It sounds disgusting. And it is definitely not served throughout Florida because I have lived all over Florida and eaten at thousands of houses and restaurants and have never ever seen that as a menu option. Don't speak nonsense.
It sounds disgusting. And it is definitely not served throughout Florida because I have lived all over Florida and eaten at thousands of houses and restaurants and have never ever seen that as a menu option. Don't speak nonsense.
1. But it isn't disgusting.
2. I've ordered it at restaurants in Miami, Ft Lauderdale, Orlando, Tallahassee, and Clewiston. Sorry if that angers you.
1. But it isn't disgusting.
2. I've ordered it at restaurants in Miami, Ft Lauderdale, Orlando, Tallahassee, and Clewiston. Sorry if that angers you.
Sure you have. Not saying such a bizarre food doesn't exist. But you can find any food imaginable throughout Florida from cuisines all over the world. Don't be acting like "fish and grits" is some staple here. It's not. I have never seen it served in any house or restaurant (I don't think I have ever even had homemade regular grits.) but I'm sure if you went on a hunt for it you could find it. Just google and you can find several fish and grits in Chicago for Christs sake. Does that mean Chicago is Southern?
And through all this I am sure your Texas born and raised self thinks he knows more of Florida than I do.
Florida, once you get out of south Florida and the Orlando area Florida is very country and very.RED.(republican)
...... ALL of vast swath of Texas is country and almost all of it is Republican. And the really religious kind too.
Florida has more libertarian leanings. My home county in southwest Florida is very Republican for instance but it is also among the least religious in the country. I doubt there is anywhere in Texas that is like that.
When I lived in St Petersburg and Clearwater, several natives of those cities I got to know in the area served us fish and grits in their homes, typically on Fridays. So did my relatives in West Palm Beach. As usual, that particular poster who's trying so hard to prove that Florida isn't a southern state doesn't know what in hell he's talking about. Just because that hasn't been his personal experience doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
When I lived in St Petersburg and Clearwater, several natives of those cities I got to know in the area served us fish and grits in their homes, typically on Fridays. So did my relatives in West Palm Beach. As usual, that particular poster who's trying so hard to prove that Florida isn't a southern state doesn't know what in hell he's talking about. Just because that hasn't been his personal experience doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Never said it doesn't exist, but don't be acting like that is some staple in our Florida homes. That is nonsense. My white family commonly cooks Indian curry, something we learned from family friends decades ago. And our recipe has really taken off with other family friends from a diverse array of backgrounds. Doesn't mean a thing about what culture we subscribe to.
How old are you to have experienced this? I'm a Florida native (and lived in the Tampa Bay area for more than 7 years. And considering moving back) in my 20s and have never, ever seen this dish in my life. Never, ever, ever.
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Not saying such a bizarre food doesn't exist. But you can find any food imaginable throughout Florida from cuisines all over the world. Don't be acting like "fish and grits" 
is some staple here. It's not. I have never seen it served in any house or restaurant (I don't think I have ever even had homemade regular grits.) but I'm sure if you went on a hunt for it you could find it. Just google and you can find several fish and grits in Chicago for Christs sake. Does that mean Chicago is Southern?