hush puppy
Regional
- Meaning
- Carolinas: a deep-fried ball of cornmeal batter.
- Type
- Regionalism
- Used in
- South Carolina, North Carolina, Deep South, Georgia
What does “hush puppy” mean
A small deep-fried ball of cornmeal batter, served alongside fried fish across the Carolinas. The most credible origin traces it to South Carolina's 'red horse bread', popularized in the late 1800s by Romeo Govan, an African American chef on the Edisto River.
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