“Well, bust my cornbread!”
James Wade’s signature phrase developed out of a sentence he based on his mother’s cooking.
“[When I was younger] my mom, she had me some cornbread that she forgot was in the oven, and it has the tendency when it’s overcooking to start cracking and stuff, like that, and I said, ‘Mom, the cornbread’s been busted!’ So we couldn’t afford butter, so she took some margarine and put it on there, and that’s how I come up with the line, ‘Well, bust my cornbread.’” ...