"Kate Connally" > wrote in message
...
(snippage)
> 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!
>
Actually, you can get a lot further south but then you'd be dipping your
toes in the ocean

> 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. ;-)
>
> Kate
> --
I don't try to explain it. I've always added just a *little* sugar to my
cornbread batter. When I post that here I was yelled at because it's not
SOUTHERN. Oh well!

I ate cornbread in Boston and it was not only exceedingly sweet but also
cake-like. Cornbread shouldn't be fluffy. Then (of course) there is the
entire white vs. yellow cornmeal debate. LOL

Jill