[Groop] Groop Grits

[Rick Loomis]

At 05:39 AM 6/18/08, you wrote:


>Message: 1
>Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:03:00 -0400
>From: royalslik at aol.com
>Subject: Re: [Groop] Ants!!!!!
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>  Gary,
>
>Can you share some photos of your ant-killing adventures?? I am 
>following this drama with great interest, and want to see it before my eyes.
>
>-Anil

Anil,
   When you "reply" to a message in the Groop, please do not include 
the entire back list of all previous messages as part of your reply? 
Your post was one sentence long, but the quote was several megabytes 
long. It makes it really difficult for those of us getting the 
"digest" of the groop messages to pick out the new messages from all 
the old ones.

Groop:
   Sorry, I know I'm supposed to make this complaint once a year. I forgot.




>Message: 2
>Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:38:16 -0400
>From: Tone at moon-shine.net
>Subject: Re: [Groop] Ants!!!!!
>To: Groop at groo.com
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>Gary,
>Remember, I might live in PA now, but I was born and raised in New York, so
>are you saying I can not eat grits? Gosh darn it!
>Maybe I can build up a tolerance.
>What are grits anyway? Is it like getting sand in your mouth when
>someone buries you up at the beach to what should have been your neck?
>:)
>_TONE_


Grits is a <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn>corn-based food common 
in the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States>Southern 
United States, consisting of coarsely ground 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maize>corn. This is similar to many 
other thick maize-based porridges from around the world such as 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polenta>polenta. It also has a lesser 
resemblance to 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farina_%28food%29>farina, a thinner porridge.

Hominy grits is another term for grits, but explicitly refers to 
grits made from 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamalization>nixtamalized corn, or 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominy>hominy.

Rick Loomis
(Not a Pirate)