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Omaha, NE (N41-15-42 )

Is there any substantive difference between dried grits/polenta and corn meal for using in the patch? It appears to be the same except for maybe how coarsely ground it is.

1/20/2007 4:55:23 PM

West By God Virginia

Polenta is what fancy folks call grits. LOL

1/20/2007 5:00:59 PM

No "grits" or fancy smancy word for "grits" will ever see the patch here !!!

(sorry my southern friends but it's on the yuck list here for breakfast foods)

I do however use cornmeal found and ground at my local feed supply....

1/20/2007 5:15:42 PM

maine USA

Dan what kind of feed do you ask for, I know that some types contain salt. thanks KathyT

1/20/2007 5:25:13 PM

ordinary,VA

OMG
who the heck is throwing grits in there patch!!
thats insane!! just because we the lost the war
you yankees dont have to rub it in.

Dan Grits are not just for breakfast, its a anytime food!
you Northern guys & girls know your pumpkins
but you dont know grits about grits :)

1/20/2007 5:47:42 PM

ha ha Ed,,,,been there (the great southern states) and I have to say it's a "texture" thing with me...I'm not an oatmeal kinda guy either btw and that Yankee food "they" say !! LOL

Kathy, I go to the feed store and order whole corn ground fine, the next week I pick it up when it arrives from the mill. Nothing added...50lbs runs around $4.00 now here in the northwoods.

1/20/2007 6:00:56 PM

Topsfield, Ma.

ROFLMAO @ Ed...!

1/20/2007 6:01:30 PM

Carrollton, Ga.

seems like cornmeal would break down quicker than grits.

doug

jn. 3:16

1/20/2007 6:14:00 PM

Montoursville, PA

Grits 'aint nutten but some funny white stuff found mostly where moonshine has ruined the taste buds.

Grits is corn with the healthy seed coat and germ removed. They leave squirrels chew off the germ and spit the kernel on the ground. Then they rake the degermed corn up and throw it in a barrel with some old battery acid. It gets stirred with a canoe paddle until the seed coat is eaten off by the acid. The rain barrell with the dead bird in it is the rinse step. Finally it is dried on a rusty old screen door.

Then my friends they call the full soft kernels hommeny and the smaller hard cracked pieces grits. My beagle would not eat either. They also tell anyone slightly removed from the South that we donnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn't know how to taste great Southern foods. OK I guess I don't. :))

1/20/2007 6:53:07 PM

Montoursville, PA

Gritts have little or no food value compaired to corn meal.

1/20/2007 7:02:14 PM

Flowery Branch, Georgia

Mr. Ed:

The South did not lose the war, we simply ran out of bullets, men, supplies horses, money and leaders, other than that we did just fine, LOL.

I don't like grits either Y'all!

1/20/2007 7:25:38 PM

ordinary,VA

So Doc, do you like grits or not?
:)
Dan im a closet oatmeal fan (dont tell).

LOL @ Gourdy.

Kathy cornmeal works. throw the grits this way!!

1/20/2007 7:35:43 PM

West By God Virginia

Now Doc you are just barely over the Mason Dixon line and that is some fierce Yankee talk there! LOL Grits are good, but so is whole oat oatmeal. By the way moonshine doesn't ruin taste buds, it opens up the sinuses and improves the ability to taste. LOL

1/20/2007 7:44:03 PM

Cairo, Georgia

Grits? Are we talking about Matt Winey's favorite food? My kids love grits with Cheese! Jeff liked them, mostly with fish though. It's a southen thing. Had to take some to illinois with me, cause granny couldn't find any for the boys...lol. I'm a yankee at heart and always will be. I love my oatmeal but eat grits every now and then. Something you have to either be brought up on or accuire a taste for. If I put grits in my patch,,,the dern chickens we have would think they have died and gone to heaven!

Ally

1/20/2007 11:00:46 PM

maine USA

thanks Dan
My ex used to say grits are great you just need to season them. There is not enough seasoning in the world! KathyT

1/20/2007 11:49:42 PM

Rapid City, SD

grits............i prefer sand with eggs..........hell dogs won't even eat grits........he he

1/21/2007 12:02:13 AM

Cairo, Georgia

no you didn't matt,,,,,my kids eat em!


Ally

lol

1/21/2007 12:03:55 AM

Auburn Maine, USA

Why do southeners have so much pride in such a lame dish. Theres some strange form of pride in their eyes when they talk about it. They don't just say "Grits" like you would say any other word. Same as "Sweet P-tadda Piiie". My father is a die hard southerner (One of those "the south will rise again" types) and I still dont get it. I guess its a "Southern Thang"...............

1/21/2007 1:01:12 AM

Montoursville, PA

I went to school in Virgina for two years. We learned to hold our noses and cholk 'em down with Red Eyed Gravy. Still do just to stay in touch and prove I'm a man. They clean thangs out all the way to tomorrow morning. If the sandy grits don't the residual acid ppms from dehulling do.

1/21/2007 6:20:31 AM

Montoursville, PA

Now if you could locate the dump where the germs and hulls get tossed you might really have a gormet treet for the garden critters. Many a rooster up at sunrise lost his crow eating grits. They ground off the beak seal. After that all they did is hiss and lost their status. Nothing more pittiful than a rooster that cannnnnn't crow. :)

1/21/2007 6:29:18 AM

ordinary,VA

must be a yankee roster doc:)
real roster's eat grits!!

1/21/2007 8:25:35 AM

maine USA

Doc you really crack me up. Best laugh I've had in a long time. KathyT

1/21/2007 9:03:31 AM

Montoursville, PA

Yes they will but like anything beyond mother's milk for us they have to be trained to eat that which we cast or toss upon or to them. :))) There should be a law in California somewhere that makes it illeagle to train birds to eat such unworthy food. Now that's a foul thought.

Ya better call in someone with astute brain power to run rebuttals and post studys to prove me wrong. I'm on an insane roll. Chances are that one in a hundred will pick it up as the gospel. That would be a terrible wrong for mankind to endure.

1/21/2007 10:13:36 AM

Long Island,New York

Doc...We'll wait a day til you get out of rhythm and then bring in the Silver-tongued chemical death salesman....lol

1/21/2007 11:15:48 AM

Ri

never seen a grit is that something that goes with cawfeeeee???

1/21/2007 11:53:14 AM

ordinary,VA

LOL!
cawfeee is what Y'all drink in your "Kars" on the way to work.

1/21/2007 12:31:56 PM

West By God Virginia

No Ed that's "cahs". They pahk them in tha yahd too! LOL

1/21/2007 1:12:19 PM

maine USA

oh oh the grits are hitting the fan!

1/21/2007 1:38:28 PM

ordinary,VA

lol i love this post

1/21/2007 1:49:30 PM

[email protected]

No wonder the record is in New England again LOL...grits in the patch...LOL

1/21/2007 2:07:23 PM

ordinary,VA

hahahahahha

1/21/2007 5:25:55 PM

North Smithfield, RI USA

Cawfeee Milk ! LOL

1/21/2007 5:41:18 PM

Boulder County Colorado USA planet Earth

GRITS

Growers
Raised
In
The
South

1/22/2007 12:26:31 AM

Montoursville, PA

Grits is what I sold to get my first Red Ryder BB Gun. Grit = weekly newspaper.

1/22/2007 9:08:43 PM

Mill Bay, British Columbia

I was just in Nashville for a large company convention and ordered a meal that came with grits. Being a person that will always try something at least "once" I decided to give it a go.....well I am glad I tried it, now I never have to try it again.

1/28/2007 5:56:45 PM