Grits, Yanks, bats

[Amy Z]

Okay, my Southern compatriots:  never let it be said that a Yankee 
refuses to learn.  Tell me how to eat grits!  That thing with the 
fried eggs--can you do it with instant grits?  I am clueless!

(BTW, the eggs in Green Eggs and Ham are fried, not scrambled.  That 
must be a challenge to food-colorers.)

And BTW to non-USans:  to you, "Yankee" means American.  To us, 
"Yankee" means Northerner and/or Union side of the Civil War.  (And to 
Boston Red Sox fans [that's baseball], "Yankee" means anathema.)

Red Sox forever,
Amy

P.S.  If I may venture back onto HP, though not enough to be on HPfGU: 
 Simon described a beater's bat as a "rounder's bat."  Is that a 
cricket thing?  Are there more than one kind of bat in cricket?  SS 
translates it as "a kind of short baseball bat" (that's a paraphrase), 
which I took to mean round (not flat on one side the way I picture a 
cricket bat) and about 2 feet long.