24th Annual World Grits Festival
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Each Spring, St. George hosts the one and only World Grits Festival. Visitors can enjoy a parade, live music, cloggers, good grits meals and more!
Americans eat about 100 million pounds of grits each year. And that' s not all consumed south of the Mason-Dixon line. In fact, grits are eaten in every state of the Union, usually by Southerners who have been transplanted there.
Anything as popular as grits deserves its own annual festival. So each April the good folks of St. George, S.C., stage their annual World Grits Festival which draws tens of thousands of grits lovers, and some of the curious, to their town about an hour west of Charleston.
The highlight of the festival has to the Rolling in the Grits competition. A kiddie pool is filled with cooked grits and contestants dive in and coat themselves with as much grits as possible in 10 seconds. Contestants wear big hats and loose pants with lots of pockets because the person with the most pounds of grits on his or her body wins the $75 first prize.
* April 16, 2010, 10:00 AM - 10:00 PM
* April 17, 2010, 9:00 AM - 10:00 PM
* April 18, 2010, 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The easiest way to get to St. George is to get off of I-95 at St. George/Highway 78 exit 77. Turn left from southbound or northbound exits. Drive down Highway 78 until you meet Highway 15 (Second Traffic Light about 2 miles) and turn right. The Grits Festival begins about half a mile ahead just after the railroad tracks. For a map of the general area, go to maps.yahoo.com and type in the ZIP code 29477.
Americans eat about 100 million pounds of grits each year. And that' s not all consumed south of the Mason-Dixon line. In fact, grits are eaten in every state of the Union, usually by Southerners who have been transplanted there.
Anything as popular as grits deserves its own annual festival. So each April the good folks of St. George, S.C., stage their annual World Grits Festival which draws tens of thousands of grits lovers, and some of the curious, to their town about an hour west of Charleston.
The highlight of the festival has to the Rolling in the Grits competition. A kiddie pool is filled with cooked grits and contestants dive in and coat themselves with as much grits as possible in 10 seconds. Contestants wear big hats and loose pants with lots of pockets because the person with the most pounds of grits on his or her body wins the $75 first prize.
* April 16, 2010, 10:00 AM - 10:00 PM
* April 17, 2010, 9:00 AM - 10:00 PM
* April 18, 2010, 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The easiest way to get to St. George is to get off of I-95 at St. George/Highway 78 exit 77. Turn left from southbound or northbound exits. Drive down Highway 78 until you meet Highway 15 (Second Traffic Light about 2 miles) and turn right. The Grits Festival begins about half a mile ahead just after the railroad tracks. For a map of the general area, go to maps.yahoo.com and type in the ZIP code 29477.
