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Rant: I saw a 'family recipe' for sale in a Nashville gift shop and it made me mad
I was in Nashville last month and went into one of those cute little shops on Broadway. They had a whole section of 'Southern Family Recipes' printed on fancy cards for $5 each. I picked one up for 'Grandma's Cornbread' and it was literally just a box of Jiffy mix instructions with 'add a pinch of sugar' written at the bottom. That is NOT a family recipe. A real family recipe has a story, like my great-grandma's cornbread that she baked in a cast iron skillet she brought from Kentucky in 1923. It uses buttermilk from a local farm and you have to get the skillet screaming hot first. Selling a box mix as a heritage dish feels like a lie. It makes the whole idea of passing food down feel cheap. Has anyone else seen something like this where a 'tradition' was just a repackaged store-bought thing?
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the_joseph2mo ago
That "cast iron skillet she brought from Kentucky in 1923" is the real stuff. Seeing a box mix sold like that would piss me off too. It's just disrespectful.
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joel_hall172mo ago
Oh man, that's so lazy. I saw something like that with a "secret BBQ sauce" that was just store brand ketchup and brown sugar. I just walked out, like @the_joseph said, it feels disrespectful. Some things shouldn't be faked.
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