cornpone
Fried meal cake
Cornpone is cornbread made without milk or eggs, baked or fried in simple cakes—traditional fare in the rural American South.
As an adjective, cornpone describes something unsophisticated, folksy, or stereotypically Southern: cornpone humor, a cornpone accent.
The term can be affectionate or dismissive depending on context.
Griddle-cooked cornmeal flatbread
- hoecakeFried cornmeal flatbread
- skilletShallow pan for frying
- griddleFlat metal cooking surface
- hushpuppiesFried cornmeal dough balls
crackling · buttermilk · cast-iron · batter · golden · crispy · crumbly · dense
Lacking refinement or complexity
- cornyTiresomely sentimental or trite
- hokeyCheaply sentimental or contrived
- hickRural naif, derogatory
- yokelNaïve rural person
bumpkin · rube · hillbilly · backward · provincial · parochial · simplistic · naive
johnnycake
Griddle-cooked cornmeal flatbread
hushpuppies · crackling · buttermilk · cast-iron · batter · golden · crispy · crumbly · dense · coarse
unsophisticated
Lacking refinement or complexity
yokel · bumpkin · rube · hillbilly · backward · provincial · parochial · simplistic · naive · pandering
Appalachia
Eastern U.S. mountain region
sorghum · biscuits · molasses · fatback · collards · okra · catfish · crawfish · bluegrass · Delta
country
Sovereign state or territory
- homespunPlain and unpretentious
- folksyInformally friendly and simple
- old-fashionedBelonging to earlier times
simple · plain · unpretentious · humble · farmhouse · homestead · hearth · woodstove · handmade · wholesome
- Southern dialecty'all, fixin to, bless your heart, reckon, howdy
- Victorian foodsplum pudding, treacle, mock turtle soup, turtle soup, gruel
cornponesophisticated
Worldly and cultured
cosmopolitan · urbane · worldly · refined · cultured
cornponeNew York
Northeastern metropolis and state
Manhattan · Hollywood · Ivy League · Beltway · coastal elite