what the hell are grits anyway?

from on the telly it looks like mashed potato

 

I thought the Secret US chemical  weapon  ...was  macdonalds ??  I  read  somewhere that no country  with  a macdonalds  have  ever attacked the USA ....

"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grits"

Grits is a type of maize... porridge... and a food... common in the Southern United States... and southern Manchuria... (where it is called gezi in Mandarin) consisting of coarsely ground corn..., traditionally by a stone mill.... The results are passed through screens, with the finer part being corn meal..., and the coarser being grits. Many communities in the Southern U.S. had a gristmill... until the mid-20th century..., with families bringing their own corn to be ground, and the miller... retaining a portion of the corn for his fee. Grits aficionados still prefer stone ground grits, although modern commercial milling companies prefer other methods. In South Carolina, state law requires grits and corn meal to be enriched, similar to the requirements for flour, unless the grits are ground from corn where the miller keeps part of the product for his fee.

Until very recently, "grits" was invariably singular, not plural, and is still so in correct usage