IKEA in Atlanta is slammed for offering 'racially insensitive' Juneteenth menu featuring fried chicken and watermelon

UK Daily Mail ^ | 06/22/2021 | Andrew Court

[Mr. Mojo]

They left out hominy grits, shortening bread, alligator ribs, pig tails, black eyed peas, and chitlins.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=udL0BuZZeog

[blueplum]

fried chicken and watermelon were common foods fed to slaves in the South

Wow - talk about a northern racist stereotype, and lack of general history knowledge. Actually sweet potatoes, rice and corn were the staple food, those from one region of AFrica preferring yams and rice, and from another, corn. Watermelon was cultivated in Africa, and, like peanuts, was a familiar crop to them.

According to Better Homes and Gardens Heritage Cook Book [Meredith Corporation:New York] 1975 (p. 145) “Workers who finished early might have the rest of the day to fish or hunt, to work in their own vegetable gardens, or to tend their own livestock, varying, when possibly, the monotonous rations.”
https://www.foodtimeline.org/foodpioneer.html#slavefood

The two most common cooking methods for most colonists, north and south, was not frying, but broiling and boiling of local game and produce. Chores that children and the elderly could tend while the adults worked.

The fried chicken of colonial America required time and effort and adult attention to heated oil. Tallow and lard were valuable all around the homestead from lighting to wheel axles so using a quantity just for cooking was a luxury.

Colonial Fried Chicken:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsyjNef2ydQ

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HISTORY: Not all slaves were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, nor via Juneteenth. Only the slaves of the REBEL states were freed then. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was a wartime effort to split and weaken the South; he did NOT free any slaves in the Northern states. Slaves in the non-rebelling border states had to wait for the 13th Amendment, effective December 18, 1865.