Cornbread - Sweet or Salty

[Batt Boy]

The first place I remember having cornbread was at Estes Hills Elementary School in Chapel Hill (my parents didn’t cook many “Southern” foods).

The cafeteria staff all-female; all-black. Definitely all-Southern. The cornbread smelled great and tasted even better. It definitely had sugar in it.

appreciate your experience and I'm sure it was tasty. my experience was that only the wealthiest around even had sugar. to me, cornbread is corn meal, salt and buttermilk only. no place for soda, nor flour.

 

[Carolina Fever]

I like the flat fried kind more than the thick square or muffin like kind.

 

[TarHeeledTexan]

I haven’t read this whole thread yet, but I grew up eating cornbread with whole corn kernels in it. Love it that way, but I’ve never been to any restaurant that makes it that way.

And I love both sweet and savory cornbread, with plenty of butter; with or without honey, depending.

 

[stankeylegjones]

Put me in the "both, please," camp. I freaking love cornbread. Hell, I even enjoy eating the package stuff. Many nights our desert was warmed cornbread in a glass of cold milk.

 

[donbosco]

The Columbian Exchange and 1491 discussions on the #OTD in History thread helped to bring me back here (on the anniversary of its posting -- also a consideration). Corn does have some hemispheric rivals in the potato, tobacco, the tomato, and beans (but which one?) to be fair.

 

[heelinhell]

Love, the sweet jiffy cornbread.

It's Martha White's sweet yellow cornbread for me

 

[Carolina Fever]

I like the fried flat kind better than the baked muffin kind.

 

[Rock]

Totally random but I am not the best cook. Sometimes I just buy a box of stove top and throw some chicken in there to make a complete dinner. The flavor I have always gotten is chicken. One time they were sold out so I went for the cornbread flavoring because cornbread is awesome. It was one of the worst things I’ve ever tasted. If you’re ever buying stove top, do not get the cornbread flavor.

 

[donbosco]

Totally random but I am not the best cook. Sometimes I just buy a box of stove top and throw some chicken in there to make a complete dinner. The flavor I have always gotten is chicken. One time they were sold out so I went for the cornbread flavoring because cornbread is awesome. It was one of the worst things I’ve ever tasted. If you’re ever buying stove top, do not get the cornbread flavor.

What is this dish?

 

[OGtruthhurts]

I love ‘em both. They’re just different things that don’t need to be compared with each other. The world is a better place with both sweet and salty cornbread.

yep. its like the bbq wars. i love all types