you mean the don't also have grits bushes in humboldt county. i thought everything grew there.
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Sweet cornbread is "northern" but it is spreading.
My country girl wife makes it that way and I like it either way.
The cornbread muffins at the Helena Golden Rule are sweet.
Humboldt county grows about everything else, but no grits bushes there. I'm a little ways north and east.
People here do it and it drives me up a wall. My wife even does it which has led me to telling her to just stop making it all together.
Virginians like to remind everybody that they are part of the South as well but none of them here in the Southeast corner live like it. At least my in-laws live like Yankees. That's all fine and good, I don't hold anything against that, but don't don't tell me y'all are from the South and then put sugar in your cornbread AND in your grits like a bunch of Philistines.
My mom (born and raised in Birmingham) has always put just a pinch of sugar in her cornbread. I use her recipe, too. Not talking about much, either. Just a pinch or two.
I've heard of a pinch being used in order to do something non-taste related to the recipe ( I am NOT a cook, so please forgive how rube-ish that sounded)
I think my Grandmother did the same but it never showed up in the taste. It was always very savory.
Many people here use sugar to the point of it being cakey.
I once had a Virginian girlfriend who took great offense at me suggesting Virginia was anything other than Southern. Being from Alabama, I felt I was on solid ground with my aspersions. They take basketball more seriously than football in that part of the country, for crying out loud.
lol. At least in Charlottesville they do. Tech has been about football since Beamer showed up, but I agree by and large. Richmond is a great Southern City but most of the rest of the state (at least the eastern metropolitan areas) have a different vibe. The Hampton Roads area is dominated by the navy so you get a blend of every American culture and businesses looking to cater to those cultures - thus true Southern culture is wicked out of the area. The closer you get to D.C. it's a similar story but the vibe becomes even more WASPy. That's not to say there aren't pockets of Southern culture to be found in the more rural areas of the state (the Eastern Shore feels like home when it comes to sporting and wildlife) but the cuisine and the customs are just completely different from the South.
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