"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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>I promise you they haven't had them all year at the regular grocery store.
>And they aren't in a box like I'm used to at home. But today I found Jim
>Dandy grits, the ones that cook in about 5 minutes. Not instant grits.
>
> Thing is, I don't cook a ton of grits at once the way you seem to. I
> rarely eat grits and I haven't made cheese grits casserole (although it's
> very tasty) in at least 15 years. I pretty much only cook a bowl for my
> mother maybe once a week. And she likes her grits very wet (with lots of
> milk, I misspoke and said water). But the quick cook ones are definitely
> better than instant. But that's what she's been used to forever.
>
> Anyway, I'm sorry about getting snappish about this last night. But
> honestly, I never saw anything other than instant grits until the trip to
> the grocery store today. Grits apparently aren't a big thing for the
> transplanted northern & midwestern people who live down here in the
> winter. They're just here for the golf. And the shrimp
>

I think Quaker Oats puts out an instant grits and a regular grits. One is a
red round package and the other is a blue package.