On 7/31/08 7:59 AM, Sue Duckles wrote:
On films you see people eating grits for breakfast.
what on earth are they? It took me long enough to figure
out what hershey bars were!!
Corn middlings. (Cream of Wheat is wheat middlings, as is
semolina.) (Well, semolina is closer to meal than
Maize meal ( what Americans would call corn) is the staple diet in most of
Africa. Some is finely ground and some coarser, some white, some yellow and
mostly eaten just plain. It is very popular with a barbecue just cooked in
water and salt to what we call a very stiff porridge, and then
