Kate Connally wrote:
>
> I was watching a recent episode of DDD and one of the featured
> places was The Farmer's Shed Kitchen - a restaurant attached to
> a farm market. All the stuff they make is made from stuff they
> grow.
>
> Anyway, the reason I bring it up is that all my adult life I've
> heard the song and dance about how true southern cornbread (and
> hushpuppies, etc.) does not contain sugar. Southerners don't eat
> it sweet. Well, the Farmer's Shed is in Lexington, SC a little
> west of Columbia and not all too far from Georgia. You can't
> get more Southern!
>
> One of the things they are famous for is their cornbread - which
> contains sugar and even has brown sugar sprinkled on top before it
> is baked. All the locals eating there were raving about how it was
> just like home. So how do you explain that, pray tell.
>
> Sounds really yummy to me!
>
> I like my cornbread sweet, but I always thought it was because
> I was half Northern and raised in the North and didn't know no
> better. ;-)

I think it's all relative - The Southern benchmark for sweet is sweet
tea, so therefore Southern cornbread isn't sweet.