A type of cornmeal cake or bread, especially a fried fritter made from cornmeal.
American folk term combining corn with dodger (possibly from dodge, suggesting something hastily made). Emerged in 19th-century American frontier and Southern cuisine as a quick, inexpensive food made from cornmeal.
Corndodgers were survival food on the American frontier—cheap, filling, and made from corn which was plentiful—and the 'dodger' part might come from the idea that you could 'dodge' going hungry with them!
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