On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Dave Smith wrote:

> Jake wrote:
>
> > Hominy and Crisco!
> >
> > I bought the hominy (which I had never seen before anywhere in the
> > world)
>
> It's not easy to find in this part of Canada. I have to cross the border to
> try to find it.
>
> The first time I had grits was in a restaurant in Virginia. I asked was it
> was and was told "Grits is grits"..... but what is it.... so she asked
> another waitress who conformed that grits is grits. When questioned further
> she said it was hominy. So what is hominy? Neither one new, but having
> determined that I had never tried grits she gave me some. I liked it.
>

Grits are made from dried hominy. Hominy is made from corn. Hominy and
grits are not the same consumer item. Un-dried hominy comes in a can.
Dried hominy is ground into grits, which reconstituted, makes a cereal
like cream of wheat.

Elaine, too