Most of the corn flavor comes from cornmeal (in place of flower?), but many recipes are made with whole soft kernels baked in.
Cornbread is usually very plain, with more flavor than texture, but often either served with honey or baked with sugar.
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Weird Americanisms (UK vs USA thread)
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Most of the corn flavor comes from cornmeal (in place of flower?), but many recipes are made with whole soft kernels baked in.
Cornbread is usually very plain, with more flavor than texture, but often either served with honey or baked with sugar.
BertramCooper
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That's not a very nice thing to say about Australia.
Born and raised in GA. I love the south too, but I don't get our obsession with grits. I'd never describe them as delicious. They are bland at best. By that, I mean just grits served at breakfast. So bland, so...I dunno. It's just filler. I'd rather have more home fries, or extra anything besides...grits. In SC now, where "Shrimp n Grits" is a staple local food. That I like though, as it's covered in gravy and well...shrimp.
Silas Lang
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Amen! My mom makes some amazing fried okra... God now I'm hungry and homesick.
Hmm, Wikipedia says frozen custard was invented in Coney Island, and that Milwaukee, Wisconsin has the highest concentration of custard shops. But it's eggs, milk, cream, and sugar, it didn't take a rocket scientist to invent.
dreamcastmaster
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ConfusingJazz
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I do believe the correct way to express pity that they don't know the bliss of cornbread is
"Aw, bless ya heart"
Half and half
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We're talking about food now?
Ah yeah, that's where 'merica shines.
Ah yeah, that's where 'merica shines.
Sutton Dagger
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They don't look like much but are really good, especially when made with cheese. Great breakfast food.
This picture reminds me of something that has always bugged me given the subject matter (bacon). The general American style bacon is fuckin terrible. Don't you call the 'real' bacon something other than just bacon?
P.s Okra?
frankie_baby
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Marmite is foul and repels enough people here in the uk, though i do admire they've gt the balls to admit that in their adverts
many places
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Ah Georgia. My dad grew up in Atlanta and loved it over there. I grew up in Louisiana and now live in Texas so grits are everywhere over here as well. Hows the BBQ over there btw?
Lol the first thing people miss from the south is the food. It really is quite good.
Jake Tower
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I'm pretty sure I've had blood/black pudding at a local Irish pub-restaurant. It's not bad.
perfectchaos007
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cornbread also goes good with blackeyed peas. The south + Texas has the best comfort/soul food, which is why we're overweight.
To be honest it must be impossible to advertise it any other way. I love Marmite (or Vegemite) but I honestly couldn't tell you why. It's kind of indescribable.
Half and half
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Soul food is better than crackers and tea, I tell you what.
Silent_Bomber
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When I was a kid an old couple shouted at me for joking with my friends during the adverts before the film (wasn't even film trailers, normal television ads). 
Funny what stuff sticks in your mind when you get older.
Funny what stuff sticks in your mind when you get older.
EleventhDoctor
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Oh come the fuck on.
frankie_baby
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so you eat this cornbread stuff while you listen to crap music? ok
Shee-it, I'd eat it sight unseen, on the names alone.
googles
Spotted dick sounds a bit like Bread Pudding? I love bread pudding, but I might have to heat it in my....microwave. And black pudding is blood sausage? I'd try it, at least. But you're going to have to go into some detail about what Marmite is, haha. Google says it's like Vegimite, which I don't know what that taste like either.
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I honestly can't think of a region of the US where the food sucks. I'd day the weakest would probably be the Midwest but they do have Chicago and Kansas City BBQ so that gives them something. I also do not see Alaska as having good food but I know next to nothing about Alaska lol.
ConfusingJazz
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It's because we know spice exists, something quite foreign to the rest of the southern states outside of Miami.
That's just Fergie, not the shit band she is also part of.
perfectchaos007
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It's Fergalicious!
Jake Tower
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many places
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I've agreed with a lot of what you've said in this thread but I gotta disagree here. Louisiana cooking has a lot of spice. Well made jambalaya, gumbo, and especially boiled crawfish should be spicy.
I do agree though that Texas, Louisiana, and Miami are the kings of spice in the south. The other state's cooking is pretty bland compared to those.
perfectchaos007
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This is very true. I went to a steakhouse in California called Black Angus. When I ordered garlic mashed potatoes, the waiter warned me that they were very overpoweringly garlic-y. I tried one bite, and could hardly taste the garlic. They needed gravy tbh.
BBQ: In South Carolina: Good, but standard. I lived in NC for a while, where they have a vinegar based BBQ sauce, and their own techniques to go with it. Amazing. Sounds odd, but I'm spoiled by it now. In SC, we get some of that stuff from time to time, but's mainly the basic, sweet-BBQ sauce drowning poorly cooked pulled pork. Of course, I haven't gone to all the corners here, and everyone thinks they're a pitmaster, so you never know. Seafood's the name of the game in SC though, you can't go wrong, haha.
Sutton Dagger
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Look at that picture of bacon, you miss out on the lion at the end, which is the best bit.
Here is a video showing the difference between American and Aussie bacon.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWIj703AA_g
YEEEE-HAAAAAAWWWW
(But really, cornbread couldn't be any simpler to grasp. It's just a simple bread made out of cornmeal [flour made from corn] instead of wheat flour. Also goes well with chili.)
ConfusingJazz
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I meant in traditional southern cooking. Cajun and creole are a bit different, and delicious.
You know how I know you're doing it wrong? You're talking about the sauce instead of the meat.
These are uncooked black eyed peas:
Commonly served:
For some reason it's a big tradition to eat them on New Years' Day.
many places
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The seafood part sounds like Louisiana, at least the southern part where I'm from. Seafood is king over there as well.
Soodanim
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This boldness makes me ashamed to have never tried black pudding. Or white pudding.
Marmite indescribable. I really don't know what to say about it. Let curiosity get the better of you if you ever come across an import website. I like it, but I can't have too much of it. I also don't know what people do with it except spread it on bread/toast.
I have always been curious about bacon cooked the way it is in the picture posted above. What cut is it, and how is it cooked to be like that?
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Ah, I see. Cajun food really is delicious. Not much of it up here in Dallas though lol. Gotta go to atleast Houston for decent poboys and whatnot.
Sutton Dagger
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I envy both where you're from and where you currently are, for food. Now let's get serious. How you make your collards?
This makes it sound even better to me.
They're different brands of the same thing, Vegemite's might be a little milder IMO. They're made from yeast... somehow. I don't know how to describe the taste. They're strongly savoury. The closest thing I can think of is a stock cube, which was kind of their intended original usage. Or like super-concentrated Worcestershire sauce or something. I honestly don't think it's an acquirable taste.
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To be honest, I never grew up eating collards. I don't think my parents ever ate them that much so I never did either and haven't in forever. My family ate a lot of traditional southern food, cajun food, and my mom's side of the family is of Czech descent so we ate Czech food a lot as well.
I live in America about 15 minutes from this store called Jungle Jim's that imports a ton of items from around the world including UK. Sadly, majority of British items tend to be candy.
From an American perspective on what I have tried:
- Smarties are odd and I feel like all the different colors taste differently despite some of them being exactly the same (to my fellow Americans: Smarties is kind of like M&Ms, not the chalky sugar candy)
- UK chocolate by itself is rich as a mofo to the point where some of that stuff I just can't finish. And I'm the kind of American who has accidentally ate a medium bag of M&Ms in one sitting- yet can't finish a small candy bar from the UK.
- I wish more American candies used honeycomb. Because I can't think of one that does.
- Your versions of our candy taste better. UK Kit Kat beats American Kit Kat.
- Vimto is the worst tasting drink ever. I've tried another one of your drinks but can't remember the name, but it was also pretty awful. So I'm pretty sure I don't like any of them.
- Your chips (or crisps, or w/e the hell) are decent. About the same as the ones here though in all honesty. I really like the Hoops snack though.
- All Americans here need to try a candy called "Fudge" from the UK...it's delicious.
I can't say I've tried spotted dick or any other of the other things (they carry spotted dick in a can)...after years of making fun of it in high school, the amount of jokes that would come at anyone's expense for eating spotted dick (yep) would of been to no end. And it really never sounded appealing to me.
From an American perspective on what I have tried:
- Smarties are odd and I feel like all the different colors taste differently despite some of them being exactly the same (to my fellow Americans: Smarties is kind of like M&Ms, not the chalky sugar candy)
- UK chocolate by itself is rich as a mofo to the point where some of that stuff I just can't finish. And I'm the kind of American who has accidentally ate a medium bag of M&Ms in one sitting- yet can't finish a small candy bar from the UK.
- I wish more American candies used honeycomb. Because I can't think of one that does.
- Your versions of our candy taste better. UK Kit Kat beats American Kit Kat.
- Vimto is the worst tasting drink ever. I've tried another one of your drinks but can't remember the name, but it was also pretty awful. So I'm pretty sure I don't like any of them.
- Your chips (or crisps, or w/e the hell) are decent. About the same as the ones here though in all honesty. I really like the Hoops snack though.
- All Americans here need to try a candy called "Fudge" from the UK...it's delicious.
I can't say I've tried spotted dick or any other of the other things (they carry spotted dick in a can)...after years of making fun of it in high school, the amount of jokes that would come at anyone's expense for eating spotted dick (yep) would of been to no end. And it really never sounded appealing to me.
Aeriscloud
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What about...
These
and these?
These
and these?
Why do we not have this! I can imagine it being a little too powerful, but it sounds amazing, as a spread for bread or a sandwich.
That just sounds like an amazingly good diet to grow up on.
shadyspace
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yeah as a guy who really digs savory food vegemite sound amazing
edit: wait vegemite's Australian right? Shouldn't you Brits be talking up marmite?
edit: wait vegemite's Australian right? Shouldn't you Brits be talking up marmite?
Sounds fair. The American pronunciation really is odd, however. Where'd the the u go? Where is the w sound coming from? Weird.
ElectricBlue187
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South Carolina is the only state where you can get every kind of BBQ
mustard based is my personal favorite
Particularly if that sweet iced tea was sun brewed.
damn, ya'll are going to make me make some brewed iced tea and fry some okra and porkchops.
South Carolina is the only state where you can get every kind of BBQ
mustard based is my personal favorite
And I'm in the "mustard" section. Recommendations are welcome!
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