Reply #12: I was a Grits Mule in SF the 70's & 80's.

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Friends and co-workers in SF could never find Grits in local grocery stores. Even some people who lived in Bayview/Hunters point. Fortunately my local Oakland Safeway stocked Grits. So every few months I'd take orders and do my Grits mule thing. Eventually a hand full of soulthern bells in the Mission and Castro got the Church Street Safeway to stock Grits. Soon after the Rainbow grocery opened fully stocked with Grits and Grits became available through out the city shortly after that.

Pre-Grits were bleak timesbut by the late 80's & early 90's the crisis was over.

I never heard of anyone pouring precious grits over any boyfriend, even for fun.