l, not -l wrote:
> On 24-Nov-2009, "piedmont" > wrote:
>
>> Humm, forget about White Lily, traditionally most folks in the south have
>> a
>> preference for cornbread made with white cornmeal, exception, yourself,
>> why
>> the distress and bitterness? It's OK to be different, be free!
>> piedmont
>
> In the part of the south where I grew up in the 50s (western Kentucky), the
> cornmeal, grits, and chicken-feed we used was yellow. The only white corn
> product I recall was canned hominy. I have verified this with my 88 y/o
> mother, whose recollection is the same a mine; neither we nor our
> acquaintances used white cornmeal.
>
> The trouble with making broad statements about the south is, the south is a
> relatively large area and everyone doesn't do the same thing. There may
> well be large sections of the south that have and use white cornmeal; but,
> others don't. Then again, none of this really seems like somethin' to get
> all "het up" about.

I have to agree, I was raised in Texas, lived all over the south,
currently in Louisiana. Never ate anything made with white cornmeal to
my knowledge and have eaten both white and yellow hominy. Grits is white
to me.