Grits, Yanks, bats

[Ebony AKA AngieJ]

Ooh, grits!  What a cool topic!

Milz wrote:
> Instant grits is a substitute (though the purists may kill me for 
> that). Basically, you cook grits according to the package 
directions.  You can eat grits such as you would cream of wheat. You 
can it in the place of rice. Mind you, grits is soft and creamy, so 
there isn't much in the way of texture. But you can certainly mix 
cheese into it.

I've had grits of all sorts of textures actually--the soft and creamy 
kind is best, but as a child I preferred them slightly gritty.

A big thing in Florida is fish and grits.  My favorites are grits 
with scrambled eggs and cheese, and grits with butter-sugar-and-milk.

Grits are definitely a Southern food... but growing up, I never 
thought of them that way.  I think that black Americans eat them on a 
frighteningly regular basis all over the country--one of my aunt's 
biggest complaints about her neighborhood in Palo Alto is that there 
were no grits to be found.  The difference between me and my Southern 
friend is that I ate them and never knew what sort of food I was 
eating.  My freshman roommate got the biggest kick out of the fact 
that I actually thought there was a hominy plant.  "City kids.  Grits 
are made from corn."  ;-)

Can't comment on the Yank vs. Yankee debate, and won't comment about 
the Civil War.  Wotan's comment made me grin, though.  Suffice it to 
say that while the world has become a much more dangerous place 
overall, you couldn't pay me to want things to be the way they were 
100 years ago.  The thought of what my life would have most likely 
been like in the year 1901 doesn't make me nostalgic in the 
slightest. 

--Ebony