If you were born anytime before 1975, chances are good you remember Flo's catchphrase "Kiss my Grits" from the sitcom Alice (1976-85). How was the line originally written?

If you look up "truck stop waitress" in the dictionary, you'll see a photo of Flo in all her gum-snapping, sass-talking, beehived glory. "Honeydew" may have sunk like a lead balloon — but "grits" absolutely killed. Actress Polly Holliday stole the show. . . every show. Apparently, lead actress Linda Lavin got so fed up with being upstaged (and out-awarded) that Holliday was eventually written off the show and into her own sitcom. Decades later, Holliday admitted that she hadn't uttered her trademark line since the day she left the series. "People ask me to say it, but the way I get out of it is by suggesting that they should say it too. They can probably say it pretty well themselves."

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