Posted on 02/21/2018 4:48:38 PM PST by sparklite2
New York University served up a “Black History Month” meal at one of its dining halls — complete with watermelon-flavored water and collard greens — and had to apologize when students called the school out for playing into racist stereotypes.
“We were shocked to learn of the drink and food choices that our food service provider — Aramark — offered at the Weinstein dining hall,” the statement read. “We are grateful to the students who brought this to the attention of the University.”
Aramark suspended the director of the dining hall, said it was investigating how the incident happened and will be putting sensitivity training in place for its staff.
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Of course.
Crecy salad.
We got it from the low ground and cooked up big messes of it.
Mighty tasty.
There’s an African peanut stew with chicken in it that I’ve heard people rave about - originally made with a native groundnut; may be like this, and may have been a precursor of Virginia Peanut Soup:
https://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Classic-West-African-Peanut-Stew
The Sisterhood of the Perpetually Offended whines again.
Ditto - especially if you just picked them from your garden!
If the perpetually aggrieved actually were aggrieved by this, the time-tested approach is to embrace the stereotype and own it. I like collards, fried chicken, watermelon and all that. Southern, soul food, whatever you want to call it, it’s good food. Why continue to allow this to be upsetting? So what? We like it, so do you. Own it.
Maybe, but I draw the line at chicken with waffles, and chitterlings.
Creasies are awesome wild greens, actually cress which is where the name comes from. Very strong pungent greens, excellent with some pepper vinegar for a nice hot and tangy counterpoint to the earthy pungency. Perfect with crispy cornbread from a cast iron skillet, slathered in salted butter, preferably homemade. Really hard to come by homemade butter anymore though.
Chicken and waffles is a modern urban silliness, it’s too much fried and too much sweet. Chitlins are poverty food, it was one poor hungry SOB who first decided to eat that stinking mess. You’d have to grow up eating them to like them. I didn’t and don’t. They smell exactly like what they are no matter how many times they’re rinsed.
it was one poor hungry SOB who first decided to eat that stinking mess.
Raw oysters are visually unappealing but basically swallowed whole with the entire slimy thing sliding down your throat, no real odor to speak of if they’re fresh. A smelly oyster shouldn’t be eaten raw or cooked, imho.
I’ve always been interested in Ethiopian food. There are some restaurants in Manhattan although I don’t think Marcus Samuelsson cooks it, does he?
Meat breakfasts have always been eaten so chicken and waffles is nothing “new”. It just has gotten increasingly popular with various twists on it.
You can’t reason with idiot social justice warriors. Since watermelon flavors are in everything these days, it probably wasn’t even really on the menu.
I’m in culinary school. A student had a fit because she had to use what is called a “Chinois” or China cap - a cone-shaped shifter that sort of looks like a coolie hat. She wasn’t even Chinese but she was damned angry!
Yes it is “new,” within the past decade or so, it’s fried chicken served with waffles, often one on top of the other, both sprinkled with powdered sugar and syrup poured on them both. It’s served for lunch and dinner as well as being late night diner fare. It has nothing to do with breakfast, not originally. There are even chicken and waffle flavored potato chips now.
Your original comment makes no reference to chicken & waffles for breakfast - just that chicken & waffles is a new thing, which it is not. I just found a recipe for it in The Gone with The Wind Cookbook, a little promotional book that was published in 1940. Apparently, it was also served in Harlem in the 1920s. The Pennsylvania Dutch also serve it but I can’t find that cookbook. Yet.
Keep scrambling, you’ll find it eventually.
I’m sure you could find a recipe for just about anything anybody would find remotely edible too, but that doesn’t somehow magically make it appear on menus for lunch and dinner starting about a decade or so ago.
It was a “new” thing as I said.
The fact of the matter is that it is not new. That it has grown popular and spread doesn’t make it “new”. It makes it popular and wide spread.
Such a pedant, bless your heart. It’s new on restaurant menus.
Keep movin’ those goalposts, RC! That way you’re never wrong.
For those who are interested, there are many old-fashioned recipes for Pennsylvania-Dutch chicken and waffles on the internet. I may break out my waffle iron tonight.
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