4/24/2003: Grits rolling contest
 

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Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the World Grits Festival in St. George, S.C. and the "Rolling in the Grits" contest. The official caption sez the festival also includes "the grits eating contest, grits grinding, grits quilt drawing and the gala Grits Parade. Plus hours of religious music."

How would starving African children react to this? "In America, we play with our food.* We have so much of it we just roll around in it for fun."

Note that this is a subtle trend in IotD: the contest of regional interest. Previously we've seen Delaware's "punkin chunkin", a mud race in Britain, and there have been a few others as well if I recall. This is the first one that makes me want to actively avoid the region of the contest.

Coincidentally, we celebrate the creation of the Cellar Food and Drink section, huzzah!

*I think this line comes from a distant memory of a pre-Tonight Show Leno routine where he wonders what African children would think of Mr. Potato Head.

That's what happens when tell the waitress at a Waffle House that you're starving.

So in addition to smothered and covered Waffle house grits, you now have smothering.

If the Slashdot crowd got ahold of this...

So, that woman is Natalie Portman?

Probably more like "Mary-Sue Portman", but...

In re: Grits
 

first thought ... "Better to roll in them than to have to eat them."


First memory ...

"What are grits, anyways?"
"Grits 'r fifty."
"But what are they?"
"They're extra."

(of course the memory isn't good enough right now to recall WHICH Laurie Anderson piece this is from, but I'm pretty sure it's on United States Live.)

Hooboy... Welcome to the South.
 

Everyone has their own kink, I guess...

Why do I have this sudden urge for a big bowl of tapioca pudding topped with Cool Whip?

Grits ain't food!

What are grits? Porridge(oatmeal)?

What are grits? Porridge(oatmeal)?

Grits are boiled, coarsly ground, corn. The kernels are first stripped of their skins with lye.

See, novice day off, you should have stuck with "grits 'r fifty."

     Grits are only good with a proper amount of butter. You can tell by the color these don't have it. Some people add sugar too, but that's just sick.
     For the record, grits are one of those things that shouldn't be good but are. It can't be explained.