As hard as describing cornbread...

Have you ever stumbled upon a situation where you were required to explain in simple terms what something was? Now, with you being who you are, you know very well what said thing is and immediately think to yourself "HA! You poor fool, not knowing what that simple thing is! Your ignorance tickles my fancy in the most inappropriate way! Hardy-har-har!"

Just as you open your mouth to begin on your passive aggressive lecture to show this pitiful person just pitifully stupid they are, you pause...and realize you lack the proper vocabulary or thought process to adequately explain the object and instead you end up sounding like a doofus.

Rambling on with half eaten sentences and malformed thoughts peppered with many a  "...um", "...huh", and the occasional "Wait, wait, let me rephrase that..."

Congratulations my young Padawan, you just tried to describe cornbread!

 Mmmm...corny goodness...

While at work the other day, I was approached by a regular customer who hails from that bizarre and fanciful place known as France. Y'know, the place where they eat snails, smoke, drink wine, and are general assholes. Now, it must said in defense of my French Lady, she is quite nice. But she does have a habit of...well...being snarky. But that's not exclusively French so I don't count it.

Anyway, she came across a table with her beloved French bread. After gushing over the still warm loaves, she noticed our small pans of ready to eat cornbread.

Lady: What is this, cake?

Me: It's actually cornbread.

Lady: What is cornbread? It looks like cake.

Me: It's called cornbread, but...

 ...some people make corn muffins which are kind of like muffins, but...

 ...cornbread isn't a cake. Well...it's kind of a cake. There are sometimes called corn cakes, but...

...they're not really... It's not a dessert food....

Lady: It's sweet?

Me: Well, our cornbread is sweet but you can make cornbread that isn't sweet. We make some with jalapenos and cheese too.

Lady: Jalapenos and cheese on a cake?

Me: It's very popular around here.

Lady: It's a lunch or dinner food?

Me: Yeah, mostly a dinner thing though. You serve it with butter like a roll.

Lady: Oh! Like a roll! I understand. Is it good?

Me: I think so. Personally, I like the sweet cornbread.

Lady: But it isn't sweet like cake, right?