Originally Posted by Sherri

Well, I didn't grow up with cornbread in Illinois, so I didn't learn how to make it at all. I finally found a Martha White buttermilk cornbread mix that you just add milk to and Eddie likes it better than homemade. The only cornbread I had ever had before we were married was sweet, so the first time I made it for him, I made that sweet Jiffy mix from the box. He was gagging because he said it was like eating dessert with your meal! I learned that night that southern people do not eat sweet cornbread, but they do eat lots of sugar in everything else, including all their veggies and their icea tea.