Do You Have Catheads for Breakfast?
By Kareng
@kareng (80243)
United States
July 7, 2025 11:31am CST
What? Now some of you southerner's will know right off what I am talking about, so for the Yankees, I will explain. Catheads are a southern term for a certain recipe of biscuits served up in the South.
Catheads are light, fluffy and tender biscuits that got their name because they are as big as a cat's head. Well that, of course, can be altered and you can make them as big or as small as you want!
My maternal grandmother served Catheads with every single meal that she put on the table. They were a family favorite. I do believe that my grandfather required them at each meal to be honest. I have nice childhood memories of him asking for someone to, "Please pass the Catheads!!"
Thank you to @porwest fro inspiring this discussion!!
Look up the recipe if you are curious and give it a try!
Photo Credit: Pixabay, Public Domain
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@LindaOHio (222280)
• United States
7 Jul
This is the first I've heard of catheads.
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@kareng (80243)
• United States
9 Jul
@LindaOHio I have always enjoyed grits. I used to get up early for school to have breakfast with my dad (he had to leave earlier). We had grits most of the time because that was "his" favorite and breakfast of choice! So always fond memories of eating grits!
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@Ineeddentures (33873)
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7 Jul
Never had them.
We have Rice Krispies
Or Weetabix
And on a Sunday, a fry up
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@kareng (80243)
• United States
9 Jul
@Ineeddentures Trust me, you will love them!
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@porwest (112717)
• United States
9 Jul
@Ineeddentures I am not sure I have ever even had them. When did I say I liked them? lol. In any event, I am sure I HAVE probably eaten them but perhaps they were called something else, and besides, stuff like this is just inherently good, so I am sure I probably WOULD like them. lol
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
8 Jul
I will do just that. I love hot bread of any kind. I did look it up, and I looked at the recipe that Martha Stewert uses, but she gave credit to another cook and her Southern cookbook. The most interesting thing was the emphasis on using Southern all purpose flour, and she gave name brands.
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@FourWalls (86575)
• United States
7 Jul
I haven’t had catheads in a long time. No matter how hot or cold it was, my grandmother (dad’s mom) cooked them when we went there for a meal.
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@RasmaSandra (97912)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
7 Jul
I never heard of catheads. I am curious and will look them up,
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I may try both ways when it cools off!
@BACONSTRIPSXXX (18025)
• Torrington, Connecticut
9 Jul
Guess im a Yankee, I wonder where heck they got the term cat head for a biscuit?
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@BACONSTRIPSXXX (18025)
• Torrington, Connecticut
10 Jul
@kareng Lol most likely, I still enjoy the southern terms especially with the accent
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@JESSY3236 (22199)
• United States
15 Jul
I live in North Carolina and I never heard of them called catheads.
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@Traceyjayne (11252)
• United Kingdom
7 Jul
They look a bit like what we call scones.
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@sw8sincere (6032)
• Philippines
8 Jul
Sounds yummy! Have you ever tried making them yourself,?
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
7 Jul
Dad wanted biscuits and gravy at breakfast every day. I burned out on gravy before I was 13 years old and still won't eat gravy. Mom refused to cook biscuits and gravy after dad passed away. She had burned out on that, too.
Once every couple of years, Pretty will ask me to make biscuits filled with meat for a meal...
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