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."
Oh for goodness sake! Guardian writer & editors are racists. Note to self, don’t read the Brit G rag anymore.
Anyone else tired of this racial nonsense, yet? Like who cares who created the BBQ?
I’ll give back my bbq if people with more melanin than me give back their toilets and internets. Yeah that does mean yer phone.
Indians “stole” it from the Tribe of Aaron during the Old Testament era. The smell of barbeque permeated the Tabernacle and Temple from it’s founding!
People are becoming so ridiculous that it’s bound to lead to more violence by the low-intelligence class.
So did blacks, indians, and asians steal these from whites:
Electricity
Automobiles
Airplanes
Telephone
Cell Phone
Computers
Refrigeration
Air Conditioning
Modern Heating
Modern Plumbing
Modern Sewer Systems
Sports (All of them)
Radio
Video
And just about everything else “modern”....
“Africans and Native Americans had a lot in common, culinarily-speaking: they had been cooking and eating in similar ways.”
Yeah. They ate each other!
Grippos has America’s ONLY real BBQ potato chip.
This much I know.
I think they’re Italian.
“Edison invented the light bulb. He bought the patent from a German physicist. He then “perfected” the filament, although the filaments we use today were not invented by Edison. Oh, and he was a jerk! Tesla was THE man of the time!
If you go to the comments on the original article...well...it appears everyone reading it has the same feelings about it as the FR thread...even the self described liberals. It’s a funny fourth.
DK
Chinese have been doing BBQ since before the American Indians set foot on the North American continent. They were even doing various types of smoked BBQ.
When it’s raining outside, George Foreman does a pretty good job of cooking my barbeque indoors. And he is making millions. :D
And the Chinese invented toilet paper. Everyone walked around smelly until the Dang It Dynasty.
Remember the Tarzan movies with Tarzan saving stupid white adventurers?
Probably don't see a lot of those re-runs anymore. Way too much white privilege going on with Tarzan.
No way. There were Anglos, Saxons and Vikings cooking hogs over open flames eons ago. Hebrews were roasting lamb and cattle before that. NO ONE “invented” bar-b-q. Only thing the Natives may have invented was the name.
Oh geez, the comments on Michael’s site are something.
Somebody over there just wanted to stir the pot about a beloved and uniquely American food. How do you “steal” a food or a style of preparation? Every group of people here has made contributions to bring barbecue to the state of culinary perfection it now enjoys. There are numerous regional iterations and the variety continues to expand and build upon the classics.
Emulate success.
“Stole” implies that copying successful technology or techniques deprives the originator from using the tech.
The author is a dumbass.
Because they like being enslaved, even though they will never admit it.
So two cultures that were advanced to about the stone ages both cooked food the same way? Who could have imagined that? I wonder if stone age europeans cooked the same way? I know most of the settlers to America brought electric ranges with them.
Cave man Grog gives finger.
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