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grits

[grits] / grɪts /




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The restaurants served up moderately priced country ham, pancakes, eggs and grits.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 25, 2025

He loves incorporating greens and, as a Southerner, grits.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2025

During the festival, food available on site includes crawfish bread, pecan catfish meuniere and catfish almondine, cochon de lait and turducken po-boys, boudin, crawfish étouffée, jambalaya, crawfish Monica and shrimp and grits.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 24, 2024

He married those influences with a deep love for South Carolina Lowcountry cuisine like shrimp and grits, fried fish and hoppin’ John.

From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2024

She helped herself to white meat and gravy and grits and a few raisins and mixed them up together on her plate.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers




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