With his cracked voice, skinny frame, and unkempt hair, Hall went on to play nerds and dweebs in such films as Sixteen Candles (1984) and The Breakfast Club (1985), working so well under the direction of John Hughes that there were those who assumed that Hughes was treating the young actor as an alter ego, reliving his own misfit high school years.
Grits are made from hominy - but with more processing. After the whole kernels have been soaked in an alkaline (not acid) lye or lime solution and cooked until soft and the hulls and germ removed with copious rinsing, the resultant hominy is dried and then coarsely ground to make grits..
Corn Often made with coarsely ground hominy (corn that has the hull/bran removed), polenta is virtually the same but is ground finer. Edit. Share to: 1  Calories in Grits: How This Low Fat Food can aid in Weight Loss Grits are a corn product originating from Native American cooking.NSWER: Grits comes from the hominy corn and not the yellow corn we normally eat. It is allowed to dry and run through a grits mill that chips it into the small flakes we call grits. Before corn can be called hominy, the husk and germ are removed from the dry corn. This leaves you white corn.