Comments on: SOOC Smiley Saturday

By: Emily

Emily — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:28:24 +0000

AS everyone has already said…you need some SOUTHERN or TEXAN cornbread! Made in the cast-iron skillet with bacon fat, NO sugar. Good good stuff. NOT cake. Sweet cornbread is awful stuff. Real cornbread is not at all sweet–salty if anything–and has a nice tough “rind” on the outside.

My relatives–all in East and Central Texas–used to put leftover cornbread in buttermilk and eat it with a spoon–that was “dessert.”

By: Angela

Angela — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:23:16 +0000

I do guess you are right
But I do quite enjoy some with a big bowl of chilly

By: Haddayr

Haddayr — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:57:52 +0000

You need cornbread made by an actual Southerner, in a cast iron skillet. This sweet crap is a horrifying Yankee invention.

By: Rhemashope

Rhemashope — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:40:23 +0000

I was so entertained by your cornbread story! I never thought about it being more like cake (and NOT like bread). Too funny. For the record, I like cornbread… and the sweeter the better!

By: Leanne

Leanne — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:04:27 +0000

I have never been able to enjoy the texture of any of the variations of corn bread. I’m feeling a tad outdone since my thanksgiving only consisted of 6 vegetables. *giggle* bullet butt!

By: kristina

kristina — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:37:59 +0000

It does look like cake—Charlie was once coaxed to eat a piece, along with with some raspberry sherbet…….. We had leeks with our Thanksgiving or rather I did (I would have been glad to help you with those 13 vegetables). No cornbread; not liked too much by anyone but oh the potatoes.

By: BipolarLawyerCook

BipolarLawyerCook — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:05:34 +0000

As others have said, northern and southern cornbread vary greatly. Though a bostonian, I much prefer very lightly sweetened, mostly corn (rather than white) flour cornbread. But if you didn’t grow up eating it, yeah, it’s weird.

By: Niksmom

Niksmom — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:55:21 +0000

Yep, cornbread can vary greatly from region to region. I think in the north it tends to be a sweet bread/cake made with corn meal versus a more savory kind of experience elsewhere. In some places, they even add whole corn kernels into the bread. OMG, talk about sensory/cognitive dissonance. The very idea makes me gag.

Oddly enough, I like corn muffins. Go figure.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:07:33 +0000

Yea, in Texas cornbread is not usually sweet – unless you are at a national chain restaurant like Marie Callendar’s.

I once won a blue ribbon at the Benton County Fair for my Mexican Corn bread, in Oregon.

I use whole wheat and salsa is part of the liquid. ‘S good!

Have you tried grits, Maddy? Many of my northern friends find grits unappealing – and black-eyed peas.

I’m thankful for being Texan. I hope you give cornbread another try – ‘s long as it is not associated with ‘bullet butt’. lol.

By: navi

navi — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:51:33 +0000

Odd, most cornbread I’ve had wasn’t particularly sweet. But then I’m originally from TX…