[AT] OT Grits explanation for Mattias

[Spencer Yost]

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On 4/24/2005 at 11:33 AM DAVIESW739 at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 4/24/2005 5:01:57 A.M.  Pacific Daylight Time, 
>Mattias.kessen at telia.com writes:
>Can someone please  explain what grits and poi are? I 've tried to not
>bother 
>but since this thread  seems to last forever so... please.
>

I originally sent this to George and Charlie off list, but since Mattias
asked, I'll post it on the list:

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Hey George and Charlie - you are both right about grits and the lye thing.

When folks refer to grits, they are almost always referring to hominy
ground up real fine. Hominy is made by soaking de-germed, hulled corn
kernels in a very weak lye bath, though it can be just water.   The ladies
at the Forest Service camp I worked at would make it from scratch.  Samps
are coarsely ground hominy, grits are finely ground hominy.   With just an
exception or two, I NEVER hear the word samps except from the old timers in
those mountains.  Fresh hominy is GREAT though I can't ever find it
anymore, other than the breakfast fund raisers at the AME Zion (primarily
African American membership)church and the expensive southwest/Mexican
restaurants.  Hominy tastes like and looks like what the cross pollination
between a chick pea and corn would yield.

However, as Charlie mentioned, you can have grits that are not made from
hominy, but is just dried corn ground up.  These are know as "pearl grits"
and are common too.  I hate them though as they are too "sandy" textured
for me.

As an aside, the word grits is not plural and we should be using the
singular 'is' , as in "A bowl of Grits is delicious".  But I don't think it
sounds right and I refuse.   BTW, all this info is anecdotal and acquired
over time.   Confirm with independent sources before using your newly found
grits knowledge too wildly and loosely (-;

Spencer Yost
Owner, ATIS
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http://www.atis.net




>/Mattias
>
>In one word Mattias  YUK!!!!!!
>
>Walt Davies
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