I find it interesting that many posters (US)mention "Southern" and "Yankee" cornbread. I always felt that the only possible reason that things might have turned out better had the South won "The War" would be that cornbread dressing, made with unsweetened cornbread would likely have been the accepted stuffing for Thanksgiving turkeys. In a PM Linn mentioned another excellent use for cornbread ...crumbled in sweet milk. The fact that she does not eat black-eyed peas (and I assume cabbage) on New Year's Eve probably accounts for the fact that she does not appear to be a millionaire (otherwise she would probably be doing something other than replying to a dumb post on cornbread).

Russ: I doubt the use of a cast iron skillet is absolutely essential to producing a good batch of cornbread. My mother use to use a regular small round baking pan to cook hers and we never complained.

Open Mike: that's a strange (to me)recipe to use to make stuffing but I'll file it away in the event that cornmeal at some point becomes unavailable.

Joy: No tinned pumpkin in Australia? Whatever would US cooks use to make pumpkin pies if no canned pumpkin pie mixes weren't available on grocery shelves?

E. Barnacle: I like your sentiments but can't possible conceive of using oatmeal as stuffing for a turkey! To each his own I guess.

Thanks everybody for contributing to this thread!

DougR