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

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

[setter]

“Fried chicken was NEVER a popular slave food”

Yep, chickens were expensive back then. All the old old movies always show blacks stealing chickens is how the conotation was arrived.

[dfwgator]

[Old Yeller]

Forgot strawberry soda.

[dfwgator]

And Purple Drank.

[Kartographer]

Damn Swedes! Don’t the know nothing? Should have offered chitlins and black eye peas!

[pacificus]

Just wait, the liberals will blame the Babylon Bee....

[Old Yeller]

I like fried chicken and watermelon, but I’m Black Irish.

[Old Yeller]

I don’t see fresh caught catfish on the menu.

[Tommy Revolts]

It has to be a joke. I mean, who doesn’t like Fried Chicken for Christ’s sake.

[Tommy Revolts]

I’m part black and I love fried chicken and watermelon?
,br /> Me too and I'm not even part black. I make the best Collard Greens ever. They go great with my Smoked Ribs. My wife and mother-in-law love them too.

[Cecily]

I still don’t get why fried chicken and watermelon are a negative stereotype for the black community. I’m sure there is some reason going back 100 years, but I don’t understand it. I am white and I grew up eating both foods. Chilled watermelon especially is a great food to eat in the summer in the hot and humid South. Very refreshing and cooling.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Would everyone have preferred the horsemeat Swedish meatballs?

https://www.foxnews.com/health/horse-meat-found-in-ikeas-swedish-meatballs

[Roman_War_Criminal]

LOL!

Back in the day when the only thing libs could do was attack grammar because Americans were smarter.

Now we’re insane so we believe it all.

[Cecily]

Go to any ANY gathering in the greater south and yes you will find fried chicken and watermelon.

Fixed it for you.

[Impala64ssa]

We’re putting the band back together 🙂🙂🙂

[mcenedo]

I love fried chicken and watermelon.

Does that make me:

More of a racist?

Less of a racist?

No change - (and its racist to ask the question.)

[drSteve78]

I mean how stupid can you possibly be?

-——Stupid enough not to be able to spell POTATO.

[dfwgator]

And don’t forget the dry, white toast.

[Bonemaker]

“...failed to realize that many of the food items have been derogatorily associated with black Americans for more than a century...”

Okay then, no more fried chicken and watermelons for blacks.

[qaz123]

Yup