Grind up dried maize or hominy and make a porridge out of it and what do you’ve got? The most recent entry in Minor League Baseball’s decades-long meals frenzy, the Carolina Grits. The Columbia Fireflies are celebrating the Southern culinary staple with a brand new alternate identification simply unveiled this week.
“Dating back nearly 200 years to its Native American roots, grits … are embedded in the history of our region, our state, and our city,” the group mentioned in a press release. “So it was only fitting for us to make the Carolina Grits our first food identity.”
The emblem options an anthropomorphic baseball cap crammed with grits and wielding a spoon like a baseball bat. This 12 months on the Fireflies’ dwelling of Segra Park, a specialty concession known as “Grits, Y’all!” will serve native grits—primarily based on the emblem one can solely hope they’ll be served in a miniature plastic helmet.
Grits are synonymous with the South, a lot in order that they’re the state meals of Georgia, the place the Fireflies’ lived a earlier lifetime because the Savannah Sand Gnats. In 1976, a invoice was launched to make grits the state meals of the Fireflies’ present dwelling state of South Carolina, although it didn’t advance.
The Fireflies will play because the Grits for eight video games this season, starting April 26–28 for 3 video games in opposition to the Augusta GreenJackets, then once more Could 16, June 18, July 1, August 8, and September 4.
