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Posted by Gregg Harbison (Member # 1226) on :
 
Got the scoop from the Grits Guru!
Original question: The word "grits". Singular or plural?
The Guru's answer: Grits am!

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Gregg Harbison
Signs 'n Stripes
615 West St.
McComb, MS 39648
 

Posted by Dave Grundy (Member # 103) on :
 
Gregg!!!!

When I asked my source (a very cute young waitress with a decidedly southern accent) "What are grits?"
My source said "Grits? Grits is grits!"

So I can only assume that grits is singular!!!! ( "IS" being the singular of "ARE")hahahahaha

By the way..leftover grits...left in the fridge and fried up kinda like hashbrowns IS good too!

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[This message has been edited by Dave Grundy (edited December 06, 2000).]
 

Posted by Gregg Harbison (Member # 1226) on :
 
Dave,
I was in Natchez at the library this past week and ran across an OLD black lady who was reading some last century newspapers. We struck up a conversation and I posed the grits question to her. I told her where I was from and she looked at me and said "Child, you should know...grits am!"
Now I know.

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Gregg Harbison
Signs 'n Stripes
615 West St.
McComb, MS 39648
 

Posted by Larry Elliott (Member # 263) on :
 
If by chance you have only one grain left in the bottom of your bag then you have a 'grit' but since this so rarely happens the vernacular is (or are),(or am) 'grits'. One helping or two, its still grits, the old black lady was right.

Man, why am you so hung-up on grits, is ya eatin' it or educatin' it?

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Larry

Elliott Design
McLemoresville, Tn.

If you can't find the time to do it right,
where gonna find the time to do it over?
 

Posted by Cheryl Lucas (Member # 1656) on :
 
Oh, By the way:

Grits are good for something other than eating! Here in Florida, we have these nasty critters called Fire Ants, they love grits... We hate Fire Ants! Just sprinkle em around the mound, they eat em, and when the grits hydrate.....you know what happens! Lots of BIG A$$ DEAD ANTS...

I grit my teeth at the thought of blowin' up them ants.

Have A Nice Day!
Cher.

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Cheryl Lucas a/k/a "Shag"
Vital Signs & Graphics, Etc.
Cape Coral, Florida
VSignsNgraphics@aol.com



 

Posted by Adrienne Pereira (Member # 1046) on :
 
Waz that Cheryl....you say you got grits stuck in your teeth??
Mm mm......grits rule!
A

GOT GRITS?

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Adrienne Morgan
Splash Signs
www.splashsigns.com
"Rainkatt'

Benicia, CA
707-746-7847 (shop)
707-550-4553 (voicemail)
adrienne@splashsigns.com

[This message has been edited by AdrienneMorgan (edited December 07, 2000).]
 

Posted by Dave Ginley (Member # 1723) on :
 
I like GRITS...Girls Raised In The South..been married to one for twenty years. But you folk are talking about those nasty tastin things she has to stop for everytime we cross the Mason-Dixon. She says ain't no such thing as a grit!

Dave

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Ace of Signs
Selinsgrove, Pa.
www.aceofsigns.com
 



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