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hominy
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synonyms: samp ???
tags: [food] [usa]
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Definition:Defn: Maize hulled and broken, and prepared for food by being boiled in water. [U.S.] [Written also homony.]Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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She fried thick pink slabs of home-cured ham and poured the grease over sliced red tomatoes. Eggs over easy, fried potatoes and onions, yellow hominy and crisp perch fried so hard we would pop them in our mouths and chew bones, fins and all.
Maya Angelou. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
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This here is a party," he said. "Salt, Muley's got, an' water an' rabbits. I wish he got a lot of hominy in his pocket. That's all I wish."John Steinbeck. The Grapes of Wrath, p.53 (1939)
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"Madame, avez-vous du vin—du fromage—pain—pickled pigs' feet—beurre—des oeufs—du boeuf—horseradish, sauerkraut, hog and hominy—anything, anything in the world that can stay a Christian stomach!"
She said:
"Bless you, why didn't you speak English before? I don't know anything about your plagued French!"
Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad
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