From a verbatim account in the Wilmington Journal of an altercation at a local restaurant:

JERMISHA THOMAS ALLEGES THAT HOT GRITS WAS THROWN ON HER BY A WAITRESS AT WHITE FRONT BREAKFAST HOUSE LAST THURSDAY. HE COUSIN, YOLANDA FEGGINS ALLEGES THAT SHE WAS ALSO ASSAULTED. THEY, ALONG WITH WITNESSES, CONTEND THAT POTS AND PANS WERE ALSO BEING THROWN BY THE WAITRESSES. ACCORDING TO ONE OF THE WITNESSES, WHEN HE WENT BACK THE NEXT DAY, BOTH WAITRESSES WERE BACK ON THE JOB.