Grits
Grits noun - Coarsely ground hulled corn boiled as a breakfast dish in the southern United States.
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Polenta
Polenta noun - A thick mush made of cornmeal boiled in stock or water.
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Grits and polenta are semantically related in warm cereal topic. You can use "Grits" instead a noun "Polenta".
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Window Pain: In the episode about cornmeal, Alton mentions that grits and polenta are essentially the same thing.
Source: Series / Good Eats -
One appears on Good Eats, and shares her (breakfast) grits with an Italian man who is enjoying some polenta (which she calls "dinner grits.")
Source: Southern Belle - As ground corn: In grits and its friends (polenta, pap, nshima, congee...), in cornbread, in fritters, in awful junk foods, as tortillas, as tortilla chips, in your breakfast cereal (cornflakes!), in the delicious batter on your awful corndog...
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Polenta and Grits. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 28, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/grits/polenta
Grits & Polenta. N.p., 2016. Web. 28 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/grits/polenta>.
Polenta or Grits. 2016. Accessed July 28, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/grits/polenta.
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