Actress Polly Holliday, who played the wisecracking waitress Flo of “ Kiss my grits ” fame in the 1970s-80s sitcom “Alice,” has died.

She was 88.

Holliday died at home in Manhattan on Tuesday , her longtime friend and manager Dennis Aspland told The New York Times, without divulging a cause.

“Alice” centered around a widowed waitress (Linda Lavin) trying to make it as a singer. Together with the sharp-tongued Flo and ditzy Vera (Beth Howland), the three characters served a host of regular customers who brought eccentricities of their own. The show was loosely based on Martin Scorsese’s 1974 movie “ Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore .”

A native of Jasper, Alabama , Holliday built her singular character around a compilation of all the “Flos” she had encountered at truck stops durin

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