Mush (maize) - Citizendia

Mush is a thick cornmeal pudding (or porridge) usually boiled in water or milk. Cornmeal is Flour ground from dried corn, and is a common Staple food. Pudding most often refers to a Dessert, but can also be a savory dish Porridge, or porage, is a simple dish made by boiling Oats (normally crushed oats occasionally Oatmeal) or another cereal in Water Water is a common Chemical substance that is essential for the survival of all known forms of Life. Milk is an opaque white liquid produced by the Mammary glands of female Mammals (including Monotremes. It is often then fried after being cut up into flat squares or rectangles. Usage is especially common in the eastern and southeastern United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the However, a lot of people consume it near the western coastal areas.

It has been considered synonymous, perhaps erroneously, with other dishes:

"Thee the soft nations round the warm Levant

Palanta call, the French of course Polante;

E'en in thy native regions how I blush

To hear the Pennsylvanians call thee Mush!

On Hudson's banks, while men of Belgic spawn

Insult and eat thee by the name suppawn. Polenta is a dish made from boiled Cornmeal. Although the word is borrowed into English from Italian, the dish (under various names is popular in

All spurious appellations; void of truth:

I've better known thee from my earliest youth,

Thy name is Hasty-Pudding!

(The Hasty-Pudding, Joel Barlow, 1793)

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