Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>
> On Mon 14 Jun 2010 06:36:41p, Pete C. told us...
>
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> And to generalize, most northerners don't know how to make either one
> properly.

Most northerners didn't even know what the heck sweet tea was until ~5
or 6 years ago, and the same applied to southerners not having a clue
what iced coffee was.