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In the movie, My Cousin Vinny, there’s a hilarious spot where Joe Pesci, a Yankee, goes into the small-town, southern diner to order breakfast. The clerk tells him that he’ll get grits with his breakfast. “What’s a grit?” he says. Hilarious!

I am a northerner, yes, a Yankee, as a matter of fact, a damn Yankee ’cause I came and stayed. I wasn’t that aware of grits when I came here, but, of course, it didn’t take long before I was introduced to them, and now, I LOVE ‘EM.

In a recent “round the world” e-mail, I saw that “grits are formed deep underground, under intense heat and pressure and it takes over 1,000 years to form a single grit! Most of the grit mines are in South Carolina and are guarded day and night by armed guards…Harvesting the grit is a dangerous occupation and many miners lose their lives each year so that grits can continue to be served morning after morning for breakfast….Yankees have attempted to create synthetic grits–they call it Cream of Wheat, but as far as we can tell, the key ingredients are Elmer’s Glue and shredded styrofoam. Many people feel that grits are made from Continue Reading »

Change is good! I know that’s true, but there are some things that just SHOULDN’T change like Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, like the barbecue sauce at Johnny Harris, like Frisch’s tartar sauce and LIKE THE GROCERY STORE!

There’s been a run on our favorite stores changing around all of their stuff. Ugh! Kroger, Publix and even dear old WalMart has decided to rearrange all of their shelves, changing the location of our foods and items, rearranging signs and generally wrecking havoc on our sanctuary! Don’t they know that we absolutely hate this–that this is the worst thing Continue Reading »

In summer, you can get fresh produce on Tybee Island. Mama B’s opens in the spring and the hours are 11-7 daily, unless they sell out earlier. They have Vidalia onions, beans, purple carrots, rainbow carrots, potatoes, 5 varieties of squash, and tomatoes, all local and organic. They are located at Hwy 80 and Miller Ave. in the High Tide parking lot. See you there!!!

The Savannah College of Art & Design is a blessing for the city of Savannah and surrounding areas. They take the big “white elephant” buildings that have lived out their lives; refurbish them–using them as working classrooms; studying the architecture, design, layers of paint and wallpaper, and construction to learn while refurbishing, and then turning them into state-of-the-art, usable structures. They also take on other unusual projects such as the Colonial Cemetery which was left a mess after Sherman’s troops came into Savannah, and now they are taking on the project of getting beach showers at Tybee Island.

Tybee Island has a problem Continue Reading »