# What do YOU serve cornbread with?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 31, 2018, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165 "2018-05-31T01:21:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/41 "2018-05-31T05:44:58Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> Oh, I just know what it’s supposed to look like from watching Granny and the aunts.
THIS! What it’s supposed to look like is the key to cooking.
Thing 1, showing a spoon covered with stuff: Is this right?
Me, knowing what to expect and how she cooks: Needs salt.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/42 "2018-05-31T06:26:50Z")
You’re funny.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/43 "2018-05-31T11:38:43Z")
Other than chili, I also strongly associate cornbread as a side for collard (or other) greens, to help with mopping up some of that pot liquor. But that’s not so much a main dish (as you’re looking for) in my book.
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/44 "2018-05-31T14:49:10Z")
the classic depression era meal.
Buttermilk & cornbread.
It was sometimes all my dad had to eat for supper.
Our family occasionally had it when I was growing up. Dad liked to eat it once in awhile. I prefer sweet milk and cornbread. It’s a quick meal when there’s leftover cornbread on the countertop.
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### Author:  [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/45 "2018-05-31T14:56:12Z")
Chili, of course.
Also, jambalaya.
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### Author:  [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/46 "2018-05-31T15:21:47Z")
Pulled pork sandwiches
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/47 "2018-05-31T19:00:33Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> Potato soup is good with corn bread.
That…sounds fantastic.
I wouldn’t have thought of that in a million years (cornbread and soup? Vegetable soup, right? What else?), but I am totally trying that.
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/48 "2018-05-31T19:02:35Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> My favorite way to have cornbread is warm with butter and maple syrup.
Trying that, too. Not all THAT far from my favorite leftover: warmed-up cornbread with butter and blackberry preserves. Fat and sweet is a GOOD thing.
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/49 "2018-05-31T19:04:29Z")
> [@SacFly](#):
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> If I wanted to put extra effort into it, I’d make gumbo.
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> For a more everyday cornbread topping it would probably be Cuban black beans.
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> Black eyed peas and collard greens with lots of porky goodness also wouldn’t suck.
To accompany gumbo, I usually buy a baguette. More often not; the rice under the gumbo is enough starch for me at one meal.
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/50 "2018-05-31T19:13:46Z")
**dropzone @38:** Yeah, lived in Cleveland ages 0-17. I could have kielbasa for dinner three times a week. Or Italian sausages…we had nearly as many dagos as polacks where I grew up. (Mods: is it okay to use those terms in an affectionate sense?). Even so, greasy spare ribs and buttered cornbread at the same meal seems excessive.
Saltines with chili is definitely a Great Lakes thing. I also make my favorite chili (after years of experimentation with styles from Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Pacific Northwest, New England, Deep South, etc) Great Lakes style: with tomato, onion, ground beef, and RED KIDNEY BEANS. I make no apologies.
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/51 "2018-05-31T19:28:19Z")
One time I had some leftover cornbread and some leftover strawberries. I cut up the strawberries and added a little sugar, and poured them over the cornbread.
I might be totally over pound cake at this point! 🙂
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### Author:  [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/52 "2018-05-31T19:29:45Z")
At home, beef stew.
Out, ribs or any old barbecue.
We don’t make chili (not sure why) but cornbread is good with that too.
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### Author:  [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/53 "2018-05-31T20:03:32Z")
Ham & Bean Soup, but that is more of a Winter comfort food, IMO
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### Author:  [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/54 "2018-05-31T20:41:38Z")
So many things: chili, beef stew, Brunswick stew, turnip greens and black eyed peas, pinto beans, pulled pork, fried chicken, etc., etc.
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### Author:  [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/55 "2018-05-31T21:03:10Z")
Cornbread is served with goulash, with butter and maple syrup for adding.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/56 "2018-05-31T21:12:23Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> Saltines with chili is definitely a Great Lakes thing.
Oyster crackers, too. I’m not sure either are specifically a Great Lakes thing, but either of those are definitely the usual starch to accompany chili around here. Cornbread is something I learned later in life. I don’t usually make cornbread for my chili (I’m too lazy and don’t need to pig out on that much starch), but I do really prefer it. A close Chicago substitute is what we call a “tamale boat” or a “chili tamale” or sometimes a “mother-in-law” (although that is usually a sandwich version of what I’m about to describe.) You take a Chicago-style corn-roll tamale (made with cornmeal, not masa, and filled with a ground beef mixture) and float it in the chili. As a kid, that was my favorite accompaniment to the chili (soupy kind, often with beans, but not always.) The cornmeal + chili are just such perfect accompaniments to each other.
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### Author:  [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2018, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/57 "2018-06-01T00:20:19Z")
Cornbread is just about lovely with everything. I wouldn’t mind it being served with some fried chicken and Cole slaw, yum!
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2018, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/58 "2018-06-01T17:49:04Z")
**pulykamell @56:**. My personal food writer god, John Thorne, also promotes oyster crackers as a chili accompaniment. But he’s a Maine boy, and is used to having them with his chowdah.
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### Author:  [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2018, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/59 "2018-06-01T18:50:52Z")
Turnip or collard greens and pepper sauce.
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### Author:  [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2018, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/60 "2018-06-01T18:51:31Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> **dropzone @38:**
> Saltines with chili is definitely a Great Lakes thing.
So does Wendy’s restaurants serving saltines with their chili only happen in certain regions of the country?
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