Re: [CH] Another recipe for grits

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Andrew Healy wrote:
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> This recipe is all well and good but, as an innocent, I must ask as to just
> what ARE grits ?  I assume that they are some form of corn or potato cake
> but would you USers care to enlighten me ?


The Grit is the desiccated kernel of the Maize plant used as
food by Southerners and as boat caulk by Yankees. It's
culinary usage is widely believed to be a practical joke
perpetrated by Native Americans on the invading Europeans. 

JB 
Here we go again. :)
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