Hi, I'm Josh.
I'm Ollie.
And today we're trying Southern Shrimp and Grits.
Shrimp and Grits? Sounds like something you clear off the road.
This place has come highly recommended. Apparently it's a specialty Southern brunch spot.
The main thing I know about brunch in the US is that they just drink.
They drink alcohol.
They drink a lot of alcohol.
It's crazy. People in England who drink at breakfast have a problem.
If you can't tell, there is a little bit of a southern hangover this morning.
Alright.
We ate a lot of crawfish.
We had our own body weight of crawfish yesterday.
Couple beers.
I had to crawfish out of bed this morning.
It turns out, like sucking that amount of cayenne pepper out of a crawfish head,
You feel it as it goes down all the way.
But honestly, the longest tail, literally and metaphorically, was sucking on the head of that lobster.
Wow.
Oh, wow.
Look at this.
Oh my gosh.
Grandma's sausage gravy.
This looks very different than what we had the first time.
It's Grandma's, not Grandma's sausage.
It's not sausage made out of Grandma's.
Sausage in the gravy.
Tell you what.
I am so up for this.
We literally haven't had this since we were last time in the south.
All right, let's do it.
Cheers, mate.
Wow.
Take us to the South, suddenly we're Owen Wilson.
Wow.
Last time we came we said biscuits and gravy in the South.
It's literally like an edible warm hug.
And that's exactly what this is.
Yeah.
Wow.
This is like a hug after six months apart.
Yeah.
It's the fluffiest biscuit.
It's got a crispy exterior.
The gravy is sausage-y,
But it's got a bit of heat at the back of the throat.
Oh man.
Yeah.
Wow! He said we have to say more than wow, says Luke. First reaction.
Could you imagine? I think it's maybe my favourite thing we've eaten since we got to New England.
Which is insane. We just had some of the best food.
I feel like I've done badly in this deal. That is the really intense looking cocktail.
For brunch.
For some reason I didn't expect it to taste of alcohol
Because it's breakfast, but no it does, it does.
I've never had a bloody mary.
Spicy, sour, very intense.
Whoa, I can see why you drink in the morning,
that'll wake you up.
Oh that's disgusting.
How do we eat this?
Are you supposed to eat it like a sandwich?
It's so fluffy.
Look at this guy.
Oh and the chicken looks juicy.
Fried chicken down in the south, man.
It's just different.
I know what they're doing.
Look at that.
Okay, so spicy honey fried chicken.
Let's do it.
It's fluffy biscuit.
Oh, you're going into the gravy with the fried chicken.
That looks incredibly good.
That's the one.
Okay, okay, that's what he's missing.
I'm actually, I'm really ready for that.
Oh my gosh.
I think I actually forgot how good this gravy was in between bites.
Everything's better with that sausage gravy.
American biscuits are just perfectly designed to soak up as much gravy as possible,
And just become this beautifully warm, hearty, mushy mess.
Unbelievable.
Biscuits and gravy, down south.
If you haven't had it yet, you are missing out.
Shrimp and grits.
Wow.
Just gonna say it, this looks nothing like the grits
we had at Waffle House.
It also looks nothing like grit that you would scrape off a road.
Yeah, no, I'm glad, I'm glad about both of those things.
It's time, some cheesy grits.
Some egg yolk.
Whoa!
Okay.
Number one.
That's really different.
It's better than Waffle House.
Okay, incomparable.
It's like a completely different food.
The texture's really unique.
It's like eggy porridge.
I guess.
It's quite bitty though.
Porridge becomes mushy.
Yeah, if you cook it well.
It's undercooked eggy porridge.
Okay.
I mean, you're not really selling it well.
I really like that.
Okay, I'm gonna try it with the shrimp.
Cheers, mate.
Okay.
Wow.
You know, it does kinda make sense as a breakfast dish.
Very little chewing required.
Why is that necessary?
The jaw's not fully awake.
Sort of very reminiscent of a lot of the food we've had here.
Kind of got some of the similar spices to gumbo or something like that.
It's very, very close to soup.
Like a thick soup.
The cheesy grits are really nice.
And with the shrimp, it goes really well as well.
The ettouffée sauce, I think it's just a little bit
too intense for the morning for me.
Yeah, yeah.
That's why you've got a Bloody Mary.
A little bit too spicy.
Exactly like a Bloody Mary.
I'm going to try some of these grits on their own.
Grits just by themselves like that,
Without the ettouffée sauce.
That is good.
That's more cheesy.
That feels very easy to eat at breakfast.
It's like a heated blanket for your gullet.
Exactly.
We've got some slow braised short rib in here because why the heck not?
America!
Yeah.
Oh wow.
Hangover bowl.
You go for a few beers the night before, this in the morning, oh my gosh, massively hits the spot.
I'm fully on board with Southern brunch.
100%
Absolutely stunning.
That said, when we came here for the shrimp and grits.
Biscuits and gravy.
Biscuits and bloody gravy stole the show.
We should have seen it coming.
Grandma, she always knows best.
Grandma's gravy.
Is grandma going to be cooking you a hangover bowl?
No, she's going to be furious.
That you drank too much the night before.
But you know what? You get bread and milk.
And a stern talking too.
But jokes on her, we're actually having cocktails with this.
Honestly, the biscuits and gravy though, I don't know whether it's just because we're English.
Totally stole the show.
And biscuits are basically like scones but better.
And the gravy, we've got gravy but it's better.
So I don't know whether it's like playing to something that we're familiar to,
But just elevating it.
I think for me, I can see that it's really good.
Yeah.
I can taste that it's good.
But it's like the first time you listen to jazz.
Okay.
You know it's good.
But it's also just a bit much.
A bit much.
Yeah.
You just want to crack Ed Sheeran on.
And forget your troubles.
Grits are growing on me though.
Grits are growing on me.
I'll scratch them off.
That is one of the worst things I've ever heard.
Oh wow!
Wow!
Milk and cookies.
I thought it was going to be like a little bit of milk.
What is that?
Is that just cookie dough?
They gave us the mixer.
Oh!
It's hot!
This cookie is warm, the chocolate is melted.
Heck yes, wow.
I mean, there's nothing to say about that.
You know exactly what that is and what that tastes like.
That is glorious.
Also, another genius concept, cookie dough on the mixer.
Like this just is immediately so nostalgic.
Takes you straight back to your childhood.
Oh wow you're just biting straight off the mixer.
Your really going for it.. Yeah that's the taste of childhood.
There's some things that kids have that we just don't have enough of and cookies and milk is one of them.
100%.
Being carried out of the car after a long drive is another one.
Really?
If there was a service where if you get to the end of a really long drive.
And you're a bit sleepy.
You can just order a massive man to come.
And just pick you up out of your seat.
And carry you and tuck you into bed.
And kiss you on the nape of the neck.
It's getting weirder.
I would do that.
Every step is getting slightly weirder.
And you pretend to be asleep on the way up.
I don't know what to say.
I'm ready to go back to bed.
Yeah, the perfect brunch.