Grits, Yanks, bats and Polenta

[absinthe at mad.scientist.com]

Someone mentioned polenta in an earlier post. LOL, when I as in 
college, my friends and I went to this "cutting edge" Italian 
restaurant. Anyhoo, the menu had polenta and something or other. The 
waiter told us polenta was an Italian staple, blah blah blah. Being 
as terribly sophisticated and worldly as 19 year-olds can be, we 
tried it.

Much to my surprize and to the surprize of my friend from Georgia, 
polenta was simply good old cornmeal mush! The texture was a little 
coarser, but mush it was. 

I guess polenta sounds more exotic and appetising than cornmeal mush.

:-)Milz