On 6/14/2010 3:22 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Mon 14 Jun 2010 11:53:18a, Kate Connally told us...
>
>> 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!
>
> Actually you can get more Southern. The lower portion of MS, AL, GA,
> most of LA, etc., are all farther south than SC.

Well, I didn't mean it in the strictly latitudinal way.
I meant it metaphorically.

> You should make and eat what you like. Nothing wrong in that.
> Calling it southern cornbread is what seems wrong.

Well, it sure ain't Northern cornbread. Or do y'all consider anything
further north than the Gulf coast to be northern. ;-)

Kate

--
Kate Connally
“If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.”
Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.”
What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about?