# 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:** 7
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### Author:  [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2018, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/61 "2018-06-01T23:38:56Z")
I usually serve it with a spatula or cake knife, but I will use a fork if need be!
(Can’t believe this is day 3 and I didn’t see that joke made yet…)
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2018, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/62 "2018-06-02T01:15:41Z")
Mostly I make it with chili, but I also like it with New England clam chowder.
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2018, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/63 "2018-06-02T01:55:39Z")
> [@DSYoungEsq](#):
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> I usually serve it with a spatula or cake knife, but I will use a fork if need be!
I bake mine in an 8-inch skillet, then flip it over onto an appetizer-size plate to serve. It’s only about 1 1/2 inches thick, so I cut and portion it out with my table knife. No sugar or wheat flour included (recipe available on request).
With New England clam chowder sounds good, but is regionally weird. I like the potato soup idea better, as potato soup isn’t limited to a specific, cornbread-free region.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2018, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/64 "2018-06-02T02:51:33Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#):
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> Mostly I make it with chili, but I also like it with New England clam chowder.
It is good with clam chowder! I’m trying to remember where I first had it served that way. I’m thinking maybe 15 years ago, when I was temping, there was a Quizno’s in the building, and I would get their clam chowder for lunch. I’m pretty sure that came with a cornbread type of thing. Looking online isn’t giving me many hits, but there is a post from 2003 about it being served with what posters are either calling cornbread or polenta. Looking further, I now see that all their soups came with what they called a “polenta roll,” which is basically cornbread.
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### Author:  [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2018, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/65 "2018-06-02T03:34:13Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> I make a fried corn bread called Hot water cornbread.
> Yellow corn meal
> Diced onion
> Boiling water,
> 2 eggs
> Stir it together quickly adding eggs last,
> Into a thicker than pancake batter.
> And fry in a iron skillet with a little oil.
> They will puff up some, turn them and finish cooking. Good stuff.
This sounds wonderful! Thanks for the recipe!
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2018, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/66 "2018-06-03T22:13:06Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> Got me a jug of artisanal local buttermilk from th’ hippies today…
I got this far before total incapacitation by laughter! 😃 What was the question again?
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### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2018, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/67 "2018-06-03T22:28:50Z")
Ham and bean soup, cornbread, butter, and maple syrup = my favorite childhood meal.
Nowadays, I’d skip the syrup, but damn, I want the rest of it.
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