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Re: [at-l] RE: grits
I thought John Wayne had "grit"--TRUE GRIT!
Highlander
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> From: Schuyler Stultz <schuyler@access.rrinc.com>
> To: rdudley@po.father.com
> Cc: NybergPK@aetna.com; milt@iqsc.com; at-l@saffron.hack.net
> Subject: Re: [at-l] RE: grits
> Date: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 8:50 AM
>
> > rather eat anything other than hominy. Horrible stuff. If one
> > dries hominy and grind it you get grits. Wonderful stuff. The only
> > way to eat it is with a little salt and butter. I like it a lot
> > better than oatmeal. My wife, who is southern, likes cheese grits.
> > If you let grits cool they will congeal. They then can be cut up
> > into some pieces and fried in bacon grease. Great for the heart.
> >
>
> And to add to the history of the word, there is no such thing as _a_
> grit. The word grits comes from some of us backwards southerners
> pronouncing Grist wrong. Grist as in the stuff you grind in a mill.
>
> So was everyone but me on the trail this Easter? I usually go, but
> realized that since I'll be spending a week hiking into Trail Days in
> May, I need to get other more, domestic things done... Anyone else
> hiking in?
>
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