Grit can be defined as abrasive particles or granules, as of sand or other small, coarse impurities found in the air, food, water, etc. Grit is also a magazine. At its peak in 1969, Grit had a total circulation of 1.5 million copies every week. It is still published but I think circulation is down somewhat. True Grit is a John Wayne movie, but that is a whole different travel blog. Grits, also called hominy grits, is coarsely ground hominy, boiled and sometimes then fried, eaten as a breakfast dish. Hominy is whole or ground hulled corn from which the bran and germ have been removed by bleaching the whole kernels in a lye bath. The process of turning corn into hominy is called nixtamalization. I didn’t really understand until I examined the flowchart very carefully.
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