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it sounds like some awful Southern food torture inflicted on Yankee tourists in roadside cafes!

Hum... Grits is respectable food if well prepared. We northern unspoiled youths were raised with reasonably good results on wheat and buckwheat grits. Italians have their corn grits- polenta, also good to very good. The Arab world has its grits in the form of coescoes or tabulei. (very good!)

What zmjezhd with means with 'fear of grits' I would like to know too.