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[at-l] The "Grit" Debate
- Subject: [at-l] The "Grit" Debate
- From: lthompson at hollins.edu (Lilla Thompson)
- Date: Wed Jan 26 13:54:21 2005
Well, anybody whose (family has) been here awhile are mostly mongrels, anyway.
Lilla (English, Scots, Irish (not Scots-Irish) French, Dutch...unh, anybody I left out?)
-----Original Message-----
From: at-l-bounces@backcountry.net
[mailto:at-l-bounces@backcountry.net]On Behalf Of Gary Ticknor
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 1:48 PM
To: David Hicks
Cc: at-l@mailman.backcountry.net
Subject: Re: [at-l] The "Grit" Debate
David Hicks wrote:
> ... I have often wondered if the difference in how folk eat grits originates from
> where the folk who settled the area immigrated -- grits replacing oats. Where
> did the folk in the Mississippi Delta come to the US from?
Acadia? ;)
Many of the folk
> from the mountains of SWVA, TN, NC, etc came from Scotland and northern
> England.
Via Northern Ireland - hence Scots-Irish
Much of their cooking is rather Scottish. OTOH, the tidewater folk
> where more "Cavalier" influenced and their food was more "English."
We still refer to the Hoy Toid (for high tide) and have good English
woods like Mommick and Mobscribble.
- Alglo Greenbriar
>
> Chainsaw
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