To which I’d retort, blasphemer! Those aren’t the same thing at. Pop open a can of Pillsbury and be done with it. You might ask, what’s the big freaking deal? They’re biscuits with cheese in the middle. Those are indeed some great biscuits, but not what I’m talking about here. Not, I repeat, Not mixed in with the batter. These biscuits are huge (bigger than your hand or cat head sized as some call it), have a nice dense crumb with slightly crispy outside from touching the sides of the pan and come with a thick layer of gooey cheddar-like orange melty cheese in the center. These are not Red Lobster-style cheddar biscuits, though (as legend has it) those hail from the Carolinas too. And apparently we aren’t the only ex-East Carolinians who remember them with fondness. It seems no one can agree on a recipe, or even if the hyper-local biscuits even exist. This led the Facebook friend and I on an Internet-wide search for the perfect Eastern North Carolina biscuit, which in turn led to stumbling upon a fight that has been raging for ages on the subject on Chowhound. These biscuits were the bomb-diggety and almost ubiquitous on campus, as well as in little local gas stations and breakfast joints (the top examples for me being the The Wright Place on East Carolina University’s main campus and a little ghetto gas station on the outskirts of known town we used to frequent just for the biscuits and cheap cigarettes). This led to a Facebook conversation with an old friend about the biscuits we loved from my college days in Eastern North Carolina. Biscuitville made the list! I love Biscuitville! I miss biscuits! We don’t really have Southern-style biscuits in Miami. It started with a listing I ran across of Saveur Magazine’s Top 100. AI’ve been a bit nostalgic for one of the places I’ve called home lately.
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