Why is there no cornbread in supermarkets?

[BvBPL]

Going through my supermarket, there are all kinds of bread for sale. There’s white and whole grain bread, pumpernickel and rye, French, Italian, and even naan. But I can’t buy cornbread in the supermarket. Or any bakeries. I can buy cornbread mixin’s, but, frankly, making cornbread at home is a perilous prospect.

The same is true to a lesser extent of biscuits and mustard greens.

Why are their Indian and Asian and Brazilians and all kinds of other ethnic stores and groceries but no Southern ones?
Any insight would be helpful.

 

[bombshoo]

I see it at Whole Foods sometimes.

 

[Cutlass]

The only good cornbread is fresh. It may not preserve well.

 

[Leonel]

I always see it in Trader Joes

 

[Save_Ferris]

I've tried to grow a cornbeard, but for now I only have a maizstache.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

I've tried to grow a cornbeard, but for now I only have a maizstache.

That's very corny

On topic , I can't find it 'ear either

 

[BvBPL]

Touche.

 

[Whiskey_Lord]

I used to work at a small grocery chain that always sold cornbread.

 

[Save_Ferris]

Glad to see the title is changed.

Cornbread is as easy as hell to make. Besides, it dries up quickly, even in a container. And of course, like banana bread; it is only good fresh.

 

[Maimonides]

Going through my supermarket, there are all kinds of bread for sale. There’s white and whole grain bread, pumpernickel and rye, French, Italian, and even naan. But I can’t buy cornbread in the supermarket. Or any bakeries. I can buy cornbread mixin’s, but, frankly, making cornbread at home is a perilous prospect.

These answers are valid:

The only good cornbread is fresh. It may not preserve well.

Cornbread is as easy as hell to make. Besides, it dries up quickly, even in a container. And of course, like banana bread; it is only good fresh.

I'd also add that cornbread is crumbly. If it was baked, loaded, trucked, delivered to stores & stocked on the shelf, the consumer would find a bag of crumbs instead of a loaf of bread.

If your grocery store has an in-house bakery, only they can tell you why they don't offer cornbread. Ask them.

The same is true to a lesser extent of biscuits and mustard greens.

Biscuits that aren't fresh turn into hockey pucks.

Any store that carries produce in a neighborhood with a significant black population carries mustard greens. I can only guess that your store is in an area with few blacks. Ask the produce manager to get some for you. He can order daily & probably will get it if he thinks he can sell a case before it goes bad. If not, go to another store.

Why are their Indian and Asian and Brazilians and all kinds of other ethnic stores and groceries but no Southern ones?
Any insight would be helpful.

I can't imagine what a "Southern" store would carry that any other would not. Any American grocery store can carry grits, greens, snouts, rice, shrimp, okra, etc. I do & I'm not in a Southern state.

Ethnic food stores exist because they carry things that mainstream stores do not. If mainstream stores carried those things, the ethnic stores would become extinct.

 

[mangxema]

I can in mine.

 

[sophie]

Why would you want buy cold, stale, store-baked corn bread anyway? If getting it in a store means that much to you you can buy mixes for the stuff in the baking isle. They're all over the place.

 

[Core Imposter]

Jiffy corn muffin mix. Grandma died 20 years ago brother. Ain't never no more good cooking.

 

[sophie]

Jiffy corn muffin mix.

Making some right now!

 

[downtown]

Yeah, cornbread would be gross if it isn't fresh. Find a store with a bakery in it, or a store in a neighborhood with more black people. Otherwise, its the mix for you.

My local grocery has a grocery, so I can get cornbread if I want it. Aww yeeaah.

 

[Oerdin]

It's way to easy to make. You can buy corn bread mix for about $1 and make it in about 20 minutes. You might as well ask why there are no pancakes at super markets.

 

[BvBPL]

Why would you want buy cold, stale, store-baked corn bread anyway?

One answer is that cold, stale cornbread that is crumbling apart is great for breading chicken.

But, really, I can't be buggered to make cornbread at home. The other day I made red beans and rice and I would have killed for some cornbread, but cooking the beans and rice, and the cod, and a garlic confit was a lot without worrying about cornbread.

 

[sophie]

You can buy corn bread mix for about $1 and make it in about 20 minutes.

A buck a pop? Sheeee...try 4 for 1!!!

 

[Cutlass]

My local grocery has a grocery,

Well I should hope so....

 

[Luckymoose]

As a southern person I must add that corn bread is only worthy if it is fresh.