Don't know if it's in there, but when it comes to southern baking, the king of the heap that's distinctly southern, but not biscuits or cornbread, is probably pecan pie, with sweet potato pie being an almost tie.

After that, peach cobbler/pie.

Then probably strawberry rhubarb pie/cobbler

Pies are a little more old school southern, since they've been baked in some form or another since europeans came over.

But, if you step out of that, bread pudding is maybe more ubiquitous, depending on where in the south you are.

Now, cake wise, hummingbird cake is likely the one most people think of, and is likely to be in that book.

However, soda cakes are incredibly beloved. Coke and cheerwine in particular have honored places. RC cola, and sun-drop too, though the sun-drop is a bit more regional. But any recipe for any of the sodiepop cakes are interchangeable. They're obviously more recent, but still a staple.

If there's a recipe in there, fresh apple cake is amazing, but it isn't as popular.

Another one that's not purely southern, but has become a deep tradition in some families are "friendship" cakes. They're called that because part of the process involves fermenting fruit, and when you make the cake, you split off part of the resulting starter and give it to others. It's essentially fruitcake, but much better than any of the usual commercial brands. Moist, rich, and full of flavor.

It depends on what's in the book though.

With pound cakes, you can sub in almost any fruit and be fine since it's an addition rather than a core ingredient. The fruit isn't necessary for the cake to bake right. You can even leave it out, and the cake will be fine. Most of the time, it wouldn't even change how moist the final result is.

With pound cakes, you can sub in almost any fruit and be fine since it's an addition rather than a core ingredient. The fruit isn't necessary for the cake to bake right. You can even leave it out, and the cake will be fine. Most of the time, it wouldn't even change how moist the final result is.

Afaik, nowhere has tried to ban that kind of treatment, only the ones for transition.

Well, we don't get a lot of easy to find news on Iraq here in the US. You have to go looking for it.

That being said, with the little that I have gone looking for, it really seems like the people of Iraq are busting their asses to recover, and have shown incredible resilience in the face of so much destruction that hit them in the last fifty years. It's impressive as hell tbh.

It's been a pleasant disagreement :)

That's the kind of disagreement that is best.

Edit: also, my apologies. When I saw this earlier, I was on my phone and fat-fingered the down vote. I corrected that. Not that votes matter, but this far down a thread it can seem like disrespect.

I love the specificity of this

Dude. You know what I'm talking about, don't pretend otherwise

So, all I have to do is pump my semen into enough women, get them knocked up, and have thirty votes? Awesome! I'll be my own bloc!

No, no citizen whatsoever should be able to cast the votes of other citizens, period.

If the kid can't get in the voting booth by themselves, cast their own vote without assistance, then they aren't voting, someone else is.

Eh, when you scroll down to "steering members", it starts to look a lot less attractive.

In that regard, they already have representation by their parents' votes. All it would achieve is giving parents outsized voting power.