You may possibly be thinking of Orzo pasta??
Maybe? Hmm.
I first tried grits when on a Florida trip after high school, they were gross at that restaurant, but I came to love them while at LSU (both breakfast type and dinner shrimp-and-grits etc.). I have always HATED oatmeal though--seems weird since theyre both similar textures, but I'm just not a fan of many sweet foods so oatmeal, a hot steaming bowl of sweet mush, always grossed me out. Even the smell of it cooking in a microwave kinda makes me want to gag sometimes. Making grits into a sweet version would be a no-go for me, I had no idea that was a thing.