In many ways, the daily food of South African families can be traced to the indigenous foods that their ancestors ate. A typical meal in a Bantu-speaking, South African household is a stiff, fluffy porridge of maize meal (called "pap", and very similar to American grits) with a flavorful stewed meat gravy. Traditional rural families (and many urban ones) often ferment their "pap" for a few days—especially if it is sorghum instead of maize—which gives it a tangy flavour. The Sotho-Tswana call this fermented "pap", "ting".