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Most Southern Africans eat the equivalent of grits which is the black folks' staple diet of stiff maize meal (mealie meal over there) porridge. You eat it with your hands and slurp it into whatever you're eating with it - usually stew, or fried onions if at a barbecue. In Zimbabwe it's called sadza, in South Africa white folks call it "pap" (Afrikaans for porridge) and I THINK the Zulu word is "putu". Whatever, we migrants still eat it regularly here in Australia and my Aussie children and grandchildren all love it! Luckily some smart people (South African migrants, no doubt) sell coarse maize meal in OZ online, because you can only get polenta in the shops, and that's tasteless and overprocessed. Of course you can always cook the maize meal as actual porridge and eat it with sugar and cream for brekkie. YUM!!!

P.S. In Angola, where I lived for many years, the staple diet for the black Africans is slimy porridge made from manioc(a) flour rather than maize meal - I have to tell you that is the most digusting experience - think swallowing phlegm. Yeah, it is that gross.