Want to start an argument?
Get a group of Southerners together and talk about making cornbread. No problem so far. Most Southerners love their cornbread.
Butter makes biscuits denser, while shortening makes them fluffier.Then say you put sugar in yours.
Boom! Them’s fightin’ words.
Sugar in cornbread – or not – is a serious bone of contention down here, depending on how your mama/grandmama raised you, as well as the part of the South you were raised in. But culinary teacher Marilyn Markel says regional preferences pop up whenever you’re talking about cornbread… or biscuits… or hushpuppies… or Southern food in general.