is a thick cornmeal pudding
) usually boiled in water
. It is often then fried
after being cut up into flat squares or rectangles. Usage is especially common in the eastern and southeastern United States
. It is also customary for those in the Midwestern US to eat it with maple syrup.
It has been considered synonymous, perhaps erroneously, with other dishes:
- "Thee the soft nations round the warm Levant
- Palanta call, the French of course Polante;
- E'en in thy native regions how I blush
- To hear the Pennsylvanians call thee Mush!
- On Hudson's banks, while men of Belgic spawn
- Insult and eat thee by the name suppawn.
- All spurious appellations; void of truth:
- I've better known thee from my earliest youth,
- Thy name is Hasty-Pudding!
- (The Hasty-Pudding, Joel Barlow, 1793)