Did you save any of those skins for Cracklin' Cornbread? If so, did you let them try it? Did you take the opportunity to share the recipe with them? Good food is sometimes wasted on Yankees.
Yes, I did treat them to the flavor. They did not at the time, eat any kind of cornbread and the meal I bought up there was like face powder (made the texture more like a cake than cornbread like we knew it.. I from then on started taking cornmeal home when I was in Alabama. At that time I used Jim Dandy.