August 1, 2006
The Six Major Food Groups of the Southern Diet
Ah, Southern Cuisine, there’s just nothing like it. If it does not clog our arteries, rot our teeth, or increase our waistline, then it’s just not worth eating. Where else would someone take a nice green vegetable like okra and decide it is best served breaded and deep fried. When we sit down to eat, we expecting our food to contain the six major food groups of the Southern diet - you know, sugar, salt, butter, eggs, cream and bacon grease.
Just look at cornbread; it is perfect Southern food. Not only does it contain the six major food groups, but we are just likely to slather it with even more butter before we eat it.
NellieBelle said,
August 2, 2006 @ 9:04 am
I remember when, back in the J&T days, a certain real estate broker took his secretary out for lunch. To Ukrops. I noticed him putting honey on his fried chicken and commented “I’ve never seen that before.” “Don’t you put honey on your chicken in Alabama?” he asked. This man had never failed to comment on 1) the fact that he caught me going to my mailbox in my bare feet one day and 2) “what we do” in Alabama. So I looked him straight in the eye, drew myself up to my total 5′2″ and replied with all the good breeding instilled in my, “No, in Alabama we just bite the heads off and eat ‘em live!”
Cornbread, Mr. Smith, does not contain all six food groups, as it is a certain travesty to pollute it with sugar.
brick said,
August 2, 2006 @ 9:33 am
I know that the standard recipe for cornbread does not include sugar, but the best cornbread I have ever eaten is served at MCV’s cafeteria. It is so sweet and it must come from adding sugar.
And for clarification the certain real estate broker referred to above is not, moi, because I would have at least sprung for Po’ Folks.
Old Bear said,
August 2, 2006 @ 11:51 am
Sugar in cornbread? Perish the thought!
The pleasantries of MCV cuisine aside, cornbread + sugar = “cake” (YUK), and is yet another Yankee perversion of a divine thing…