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

Before maize was imported to Europe after the discovery of the New World, polenta was Latin for 'pearl barley'. BranShea, I didn't say I had a fear of grits. I love polenta (especially day-old, sliced and reheated, served with sugo or ragł), couscous, tabouli, pozole (< Nahuatl potzolli), jook (aka rice congee < Dravidian kanji) 'rice porridge'. I was just making a wee calembour: hominiphobia 'fear of mankind', hominyphobia 'fear of grits', humminaphobia 'fear of Ralph Kramden'.

Ceci n'est pas un seing.