Lewis Grizzard had this as the topic of a humor column in the late '70s/early '80s. WTF?

WOW.

Considering that the majority of divorces are initiated by women, my guess is that it's actually teh menz need to "come to their senses" and start making their wives happy. :)

I really don't want to hear this guy's opinion of Order In-happy New York.

A simpler time, when things were more difficult for women...

Bite my biscuit.

HA! I laughed so hard I choked on my LUNA bar!

"Homemade biscuits for breakfast ladies? At least once? And soon? He'll taste the love. I promise."

weird! for some reason I think my husband would rather stick to our shared morning coffee routine than wake up to a hot kitchen and a pissed off channelzero...

Hah! I was confused for a second, what you call biscuits are closer to scones and bannocks over here - I'm sure you're aware of the British use of the word 'biscuit' for what's called a 'cookie' in America. I was thinking 'Soft biscuits? Gravy digestives for breakfast? BIZARRE.'

Gweem, i'm so glad i'm not lunching for another hour.

anyways, i really appreciate the graphic - who ya gonna call?

Actually. . . my dad makes the biscuits. Every weekend he makes either pancakes or waffles on Saturday, and omelettes with biscuits and homemade gravy on the side. Also, often times when he wakes up earlier than my mom, he makes a pot of coffee, and pours half of it in a thermos which he then leaves by the side of the bed with a clean coffee cup so she can have coffee in bed. They've been married for 40 years. Maybe the man should take the biscuit initiative.

The Pillsbury Doh-Boy is a homewrecker? I'm going to be polite and say that's a stretch.

Then I'm going to go out on a limb and say that there are alot better reasons why couples split than biscuits, and frankly, I've never heard a man say: "Man, this relationship sucks on every level, but her biscuits are so good."

At least, not unless he's talking about euphemistic biscuits.

To jstein: I think I'm going to form a band and call it "Euphemistic Biscuits". That is FABULOUS.

People are actually getting divorced over pre-made biscuits?

I'm going to want to see some stats on that before I even think of buying into his "you do all the cooking(, cleaning, childrearing, washing, ...), and I don't" notion of equality.

This lady would tell a motherfucker to pour himself a bowl of Lucky Charms and be done with it. It must be Christmas morning if you are getting a hot breakfast in the AM, at least made by me. Be for real.

"You make 'em, we'll eat 'em. What could be more fair?"

This guy should listen to more Leonard Cohen. I'm reminded of his lyric about "...the homicidal bitchin'/ That goes down in every kitchen/ To determine who will serve and who will eat".

Clearly the writer is a candyass. My dad's side of the family is from the Deep South and I love the biscuits my grandmother and aunts made by hand. My mom was a terrible cook and only made a few things well (biscuits and gravy weren't among them), so my dad (brace yourself Elroy Riggs) learned how to make them himself.

And so did I.

Elroy Riggs needs to grow up and realize that man's fingers can turn on a stove just as well as a woman's. If he wants biscuits, he can get up and make them himself and quit being such a whiny titty-baby.

Bloody HeLL!

Seriously . . . those ones from the can are way way way better than anything my mom ever made from scratch.

And I don't do scratch.

But I doubt that's why my partner dumped me. I think he might be gay, and that might be the bigger problem.

Of course, he grew up in the south, so he's in the closet, so he would say it was the lack of biscuit making.

Dissing the Doughboy? That's unAmerican! Those flaky dinner rolls are great. And the icing-topped rolls for breakfast are great, but if he wants breakfast bisquits, he should be using Bisquick.

Well, I'm a native of said Central Kentucky, and while I do make one hell of a biscuit I wouldn't exactly blame the divorce rate around here on cooking. More like women getting fed up with stupidity.

Also, I grew up on the canned biscuits - baked my by Dad, who was in charge of breakfast cooking and lunchbox packing. Not everyone in the South lives in the 19th century.

Errr... isn't this piece supposed to be satire?

"You make 'em, we'll eat 'em. What could be more fair?" is awesome.

I'd love to go to my mechanic and say "You fix it, I'll drive it. Sounds like a deal!"

I agree that the excerpt was sexist drivel, but I think canned biscuits are doughy bits of evil. They should not be called "biscuits" at all. The only thing they have in common with a good biscuit is the shape.

I sometimes crave my grandmother's buttermilk biscuits, slathered with homemade preserves .

So if a woman feels her relationship is on the brink of disaster, instead of taking time to, say, work on the relationship, she should put that time towards making biscuits and find solace in her kitchen?

Yup, seems logical to me! (groan)

This cracks me up--because I actually made biscuits for my boyfriend for breakfast Sunday morning, as a treat because he was heading out of town for a week and was sad about it. Biscuits are just about the only food I know how to make better than he does--he's a much better cook than I am and does most of the cooking.

I do love biscuits, but, feminism aside, no woman who loved her husband would ever consider making homemade biscuits for him every morning--dude would be dead of heart disease within a decade.

Feminism: The radical notion that men are capable of making their own damn breakfast.

I can't help thinking how most men in L.A. would be like, "Biscuits! Are you trying to kill me!" And then would run screaming from the carby horror.

I believe the washing machine thing was already done by The Onion in its "Our Dumb Century" book. (Which is one of the most brilliant pieces of historical satire ever created and should be on everyone's bookshelf. Just sayin'.)

LOL@ Kristi

Can this really be a real article written by a real person? For REAL?

Although, it puts me at ease to know why my parents' marriage really broke up: lack of biscuits. I thought it was a combination of infidelity and abuse. But I guess I was wrong...What do I know, anyways? (Certainly, it is not how to make biscuits)

Now, people are going to have to slow down for me to keep up. I thought teh gayz were ruining marriage...now it's biscuits? I am going to need a flow chart.

The women that asked me to marry her could not cook anything but pasta. I still married her. When she asked me for a divorce, she still could not cook anything but pasta. I did not agree to her requests for marriage or dissolution because of her lack of culinary abilities.

This guy is a pure southern momma's boy. B&G with a side of grits for breakfast is the reason the south east leads the nation in obesity. Their momma's just can't let them be hungry despite the food they serve their Boys leads them to be hungry faster than protein based foods.

Biscuits can be mixed up with bisquik and water. No love in that and I doubt if any southern man would notice under the gravy

A "Real Man" can serve you hot pop-overs with home made raspberry jam from his garden for sunday breakfast in bed. Pop-overs don't come in tubes or cans either, but they blow biscuits out of the water.

Bisquick is at the same level of evil as canned biscuits. Someone who says the can't tell the difference is likely being polite.

Can we watch the regional bashing, please? Or are southern men and their mothers fair game?

Wow.

What really troubles me about this is that his criticism of industrial, pre-packaged food could have been, you know, some valid and profound environmental statement, like the Slow Food movement and Barbara Kingsolver. But no, it just turns into a anti-feminist rant from the 1890s...

Way to make Kentuckians look like a bunch of backwoods sexists, Mr. Riggs.

Come on...isn't anyone going to say it?

They served biscuits because they couldn't get a divorce. Why do you think life expectancy was so low?

Biscuits and gravy every morning = death by 45-50.

So women, if you want your husbands to just go away and die...serve them fresh biscuits and gravy every morning. ;)

@Kristi

"Feminism: The radical notion that men are capable of making their own damn breakfast."

Bwahahahahahaha!!!! LMAO. That was awesome. Thank you.

What about women who make biscuits from scratch for themselves for breakfast, and consider it a happy side effect that their husbands enjoy it too? 'Cause I make delicious biscuits from scratch and wouldn't let my husband touch them if there were only enough for one person.

I wonder what he'd say about my family. :)

My husband gets up early in the morning and bakes biscuits. No word of a lie. At least once a week I wake up to fresh baked biscuits or crumpets.

heh.

A few quick notes.

1. I bake
2. I'm a feminist
3. If I ever use boxed biscuits I find that placing one on my head whilst blowing my husband makes him not notice.

*removing tongue from cheek*

A few quick notes.

1. I bake
2. I'm a feminist
3. If I ever use boxed biscuits I find that placing one on my head whilst blowing my husband makes him not notice.

*removing tongue from cheek*

I'm having a hard time believing that Riggs' article is not satire...

Maybe the point here is that women should take some pride in the kitchen. Nothing wrong with that.
And pride in the kitchen seems to be in low supply when it comes to young women, at least as far as I can see.

This guy is not satire he writes in often to the local newspaper. Everytime he yearns for the days of old. I lived in that town for 18 years and now I live in Louisville and my parents wonder why I won't go back. Between the religious zealots and it being a dry county, people like him are among the many problems.

This is just another one of those backlash misogynistic era pieces that blames 'problems' in society on the fact that women went a' workin in the 70s. They like to believe it was something new and not something initiated only in the 50s. What an idiot!

So it's only women who should take pride in their kitchen skills, ZacRfron? Men needn't learn cooking skills that they can be proud of?

Also: I'm proud of my muffin-baking skills. But that doesn't mean I'm going to haul my butt out of bed extra-early on a working day to bake breakfast. I'll save that for my days off... if the kitchen has been cleaned up for me. And seeing as I'm the breadwinner, I'm sure as hell not going to quit working so that I can do it every day.

I used to cook my bf breakfast all the time. And that didn't make him stay. Being a person is what does it...

I'm confused... So many of the articles you have featured recently about "experts" offering advice on how to keep your man, (all placing the emphasis for relationship success on the woman mind you), have claimed that it is the woman's lack of inventiveness in the bedroom which is the cause of her man looking elsewhere. So if I'm to get up early and make biscuits, how am I going to be a diva in the bedroom as well and send him off to work with a smile on his face?

We women are faced with one hell of a dilemma. Do we go with the biscuits or sex? I'd personally prefer sex to making biscuits, but as the old saying goes, the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Decisions, decisions...

Re ZacRfron

"Maybe the point here is that women should take some pride in the kitchen. Nothing wrong with that.
And pride in the kitchen seems to be in low supply when it comes to young women, at least as far as I can see."

Just caught your post and couldn't resist. I take great pride in my kitchen. I've renovated it, decorated it, keep it spotless. It's an absolute showpiece. The problem is, it still hasn't engendered in me a love of cooking. In fact, I detest cooking. But I do a whole lot of other things really well outside of the kitchen that I can take pride in. It must be wonderful for men to keep the myth going that a woman's culinary skills are one of her most prized assets, as it enables them to get out of the onerous tasks of grocery shopping, cooking endless meals and cleaning up the mess afterwards. My hubbie and I take turns cooking, and whoever doesn't cook, cleans up. It works for us as we both have demanding jobs outside the home as well as kids, and sharing the cooking load seems the logical thing to do. Those nights when I come home and have a meal cooked for me are just wonderful and I am fully appreciative of it. No wonder men don't want to give it up too easily!!!!!!!! As for young women not seeing pride in the kitchen as something to aim for, maybe they're spending their time aiming for other things to do with themselves, rather than man-pleasing... And as ShifterCat has said, there's always the opportunity for young men (and older ones) to develop pride in the kitchen too. I wonder why not many men seem to be in a rush to do so?

Ugh, this article is written with many degrees of entitlement and privilege. I can't believe that people still think "most women" did not work in the "good old days." A hundred years ago my people were farmers. Fifty years ago my grandmother worked in a factor. I come from a long line of working class whites and the women have ALWAYS worked.

Now let's talk about the reality of working for women of color. How many of those Southern households of the "good old days" had black women serving them their food every day? This dude has his head up his ass.

I'd like to note that I am absolutely not apathetic when it comes to homemade biscuits -- I am just much more happy (and useful) on the "eating" end ;)

Good heavens this lady is actally serious. How about demonstarting your mutual love and respect for preventing divorce. Biscuits for breakfast are a very southern thing, so if a lack of them is why people get divorced shouldn't the divorce rate be higher up north?

I'm going to go make biscuits and not share them with anyone!

This article is laughably bad. Firstly, I can think of many more reasons of why I would divorce my wife other than her inability to make a flaky biscuit. As well, if he wants biscuits so badly, he should make them himself. It doesn't take that long. You can have them mixed in the time it takes to preheat an oven. I know; I've made them because, and I'm ashamed to say this because it means that agree with him in some way, Pillsbury can biscuits do suck. They're rubbery and gross.

wow...so fat shaming flies here?

nice.

'Maybe the point here is that women should take some pride in the kitchen. Nothing wrong with that.
And pride in the kitchen seems to be in low supply when it comes to young women, at least as far as I can see.'

If you seriously believe that is what the article is saying maybe you need to read it again. And by the way I take great pride in my cooking skills as do many of my friends (men and women). But that does not mean that is all I look forward to or is everything that defines me. just because someone doesn't cook or doesn't like doesn't mean they are less then anyone else. I also cook for my partner because I like too not because he demands it otherwise he's outer here.