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..
Good Hominy Grits. Had you lived in deep country 150 years ago, you might have had, in the yard near your kitchen, both a samp mill and an ash hopper. The samp mill was a giant mortar and pestle made from a tree stump and a block of wood. The block was suspended from a tree branch that acted as a spring.