The Grit-ty Truth
As promised, some thoughts on grits:
While I was in San Francisco, I kept an eye out at the restaurants I visited to make sure that none of them served grits, which could have been an interesting experience. As I suspected, none of them did.
Upon returning home, however, one of my co-workers who has family that lives in California said that while grits are not sold in restaurants there, it is possible to buy them in stores.
However, they are sold there primarily not as a foodstuff, but as an antkiller. It turns out that if you put grits out for ants, they will start eating them and not stop until they explode and die. I empathize completely.
That may explain why people in other parts of the nation don't eat grits. It's not because they don't know about them or don't like them, but rather because they fear this tasty, tasty breakfast treat, that once you start eating you lose all self-control under the power of its deliciousness.
My presence there probably did little to disabuse them of that notion.

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