A guide to cornmeal, grits and polenta - and how to know when to use them
Aaron Hutcherson, The Washington Post
March 5, 2021
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Four types of ground corn: left to right, polenta, white cornmeal, yellow cornmeal and grits.Photo by Scott Suchman for The Washington Post.
If you ve ever searched for ground corn in the dry goods section of your grocery store, you know: It can be rather confusing. There s cornmeal and grits and polenta, oh my! Cornmeal is available in white or yellow, and sometimes has no indication about the size of the granules on the packaging. Some packages of grits and polenta have instant or quick labels (which you should avoid if at all possible). And labeling like instant polenta cornmeal, enriched white hominy on a canister of old-fashioned grits and corn grits also known as polenta just makes my head spin even more.
Editor:
This happened Sept. 10, 2020. My wife and I took our 2015 GMC Terrain to the Speedway Car Wash at 701 E. Hwy. 260 in Payson. We were inside the car going through the car wash when we heard two loud bangs, so loud it startled us both. Immediately on exiting the car wash, I got out to see what had happened. On the driverâs side immediately in front of the luggage rack was a dent about the size of a silver dollar approximately 3/4 of an inch deep, and a smaller dent just behind it. I drove around to the front and reported what had happened to the people operating the car wash. They called the manager, who arrived in about 15 minutes. She took the information and assured us that Speedway would take care of the damage to our vehicle.