Posted on 07/04/2015 12:41:50 PM PDT by rightistight
To celebrate July 4, the Guardian published an article to tell the people of America that one of their favorite ways of cooking, barbecue, was stolen from enslaved Africans and Native Americans.
The article is titled, "Barbecue is an American tradition – of enslaved Africans and Native Americans" and was written by Michael Twitty, who calls himself a culinary historian.
"The traditional holiday cookout has its roots in the cooperation between black and indigenous peoples struggling to get or keep their freedom from colonialists," Twitty's secondary headline reads.
"If America is about people creating new worlds based on rebellion against oppression and slavery," he writes, "then barbecue is the ideal dish: it was made by enslaved Africans with inspiration and contributions from Native Americans struggling to maintain their independence."
However, according to Twitty, Europeans took the credit from Africans: "The common cultural narrative of barbecue, however, exclusively assigns its origins to Native Americans and Europeans... Some American barbecue masters have taken to attributing the innovation of barbecue to their German and Czech ancestors."
The truth is, however, "Enslaved Africans and Native Americans had a lot in common, culinarily-speaking: they had been cooking and eating in similar ways. despite [sic] an ocean between their civilizations. It only makes sense that, when their foodways, crops, cooking methods and systems of preservation, hunting, fishing and food storage collided, that there would be deep similarities and convergences of technique, method and skill."
That led to barbecue. And in the Americans, "enslaved men became barbecue’s master chefs." If indeed whites added anything to barbecue, they just "added to a base created by black hands forged in the crucible of slavery."
Twitty concludes, "Barbecue is laced with the aspiration of freedom, but it was seasoned and flavored by the people who could not enjoy any freedom on Independence Day for almost a century."
Isn’t this sort of racist, too:
Italians discovered pizza
French came up with rolls
British the bangers
Germans get wienerschnitzel, of course
Greeks get gyros
Hungarians own goulasch
Blacks do BBQ
And Native Americans are turkey with maize stuffing.
Mexicans get tacos, of course
Americans are burgers
What udder fresh milk? Do you mean one udder than the type they normally drink? Can you be more specific?? Udder than that I understood your post completely.
The dynasty reached its height under Emperor Hu Flung Dung.
Unlike those first BBQers we don’t cook our neighbors!
I don’t want to milk this for any more laughs. Many people lactose senses of humor that make this funny to people like us. To be udderly honest with you, I think they’re cowed by the media into being gouda boys and girls.
What?! You don’t love an NLT every now and then? (neighbor, lettuce, and tomato...I like mine a little crispy on the edges.)
I am pretty impressed that my ancestors were able to steal everything from everybody else.
I wish people would stop beefing about this topic.
I LOVE that post!
They were just ribbing you.
We’ll be ribbing you about for the next few hours. Some of these white folk are pretty saucy, too. If they bother you just flip them off and table the whole discussion.
I knew it was either Spanish pirates or Indians, and I believe the Arawak were cannibals.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bar1.htm
I’m going to steer away from this topic.
You nailed it.
I cow in fear of this continuing.
If they are Italian can you serve them with a cheap Chianti?
This from the people who invented an Indian curry dish
that is the favorite food of BRITS, TIKKA MASALA.
Can we go one f’ing day without someone pissing on white people?
I am getting real tired of it.
That answer is a bunch of bull.
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