On Wed, 30 May 2012 12:17:15 -0400, "jmcquown" >
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>"Brooklyn1" <Gravesend1> wrote in message
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>> On Tue, 29 May 2012 11:47:50 -0700, sf > wrote:
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>>>I usually see bags of "grits" or bags of "polenta".
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>> Both are the same thing, corn meal.
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>> Grits and polenta are not ingredients, both are the name of a cooked
>> dish/a recipe made with corn meal. Polenta is just the Italian
>> language word for grits, both dishes are exactly the same, with all
>> their permutations.
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>
>Not really. Permutations, certainly. But corn grits are not the same as
>polenta or even plain ground cornmeal.
>
>Jill

Sorry, I meant to write corn meal mush... grits are hominy.