# Hominy, anyone?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hominy-anyone/53260>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 5, 2001, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hominy-anyone/53260 "2001-02-05T21:40:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Needs2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5e925/32.png) [@Needs2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Needs2know)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2001, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hominy-anyone/53260/21 "2001-02-08T14:12:05Z")

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I’m from VA and eat grits all the time…I have eaten hominy once right from the can with butter, salt and pepper.

I’ve also seen it occasionally on salad bars cold, but never tried it on my salad.

As a rule though I eat grits and that’s pretty much it.

Shouldn’t have opened this thread, I’m hungry, and some grits a nice little rib-eye and some over easy eggs would be good right now.

Needs2know

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**Author:** ![writefetus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9de053/32.png) [@writefetus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/writefetus)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2001, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hominy-anyone/53260/22 "2001-02-08T16:43:46Z")

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…Georgian checking in here ,through all 12 years of public school we were served hominy in the cafeteria 2-3  
times a week as a vegetable side…I overwhelmingly prefer grits myself…they seem more versatile

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**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2001, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hominy-anyone/53260/23 "2001-02-08T18:53:48Z")

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> \*Originally posted by writefetus \*  
> **…Georgian checking in here ,through all 12 years of public school we were served hominy in the cafeteria 2-3  
> times a week as a vegetable side…**

Thanks, **wf**. I was about to conclude that school-lunch hominy was an Arkansas-only phenomenon. It was far and away the most frequently served menu item in the Clarendon, Arkansas elementary school cafeteria in the early '70s. Hated it then, and just the mention of it or the sight of one of those enormous food-service cans with the white or yellow globules on it still gives me an involuntary shudder. Perhaps, like many other things, it’s much better when it hasn’t been stewing in its own juices for 36 months in a can before being served, but I have trouble believing that fresh, home-cooked hominy is enough better than the canned school-lunch variety that it’s worth the attempt.

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