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[at-l] The "Grit" Debate



This is my make up also!

Lilla Thompson wrote:

>Well, anybody whose (family has) been here awhile are mostly mongrels, anyway. 
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>Lilla (English, Scots, Irish (not Scots-Irish) French, Dutch...unh, anybody I left out?) 
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>-----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
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>David Hicks wrote:
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>>... 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?  
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>Acadia? ;)
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>Many of the folk
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>>from the mountains of  SWVA, TN, NC, etc came from Scotland and northern 
>>England.  
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>Via Northern Ireland - hence Scots-Irish
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>Much of their cooking is rather Scottish.  OTOH, the tidewater folk
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>>where more "Cavalier" influenced and their food was more "English."
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>We still refer to the Hoy Toid (for high tide) and have good English 
>woods like Mommick and Mobscribble.
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>- Alglo Greenbriar
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>>Chainsaw
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