[Revolting cat!]

You can’t say “fried chicken” any more? Noted. What about “watermelon”?

[EEGator]

Not if a negro is in the story also.

[Verginius Rufus]

I don't understand the fried chicken bit--was Col. Sanders a black man?

"Watermelon" is code for being a Republican--it means you admire the Secretary of the Treasury for Republican Presidents Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover, Andrew Water Mellon.

[a fool in paradise]

All this time I never realized that my parents were raising a black child. I grew up eating fried chicken, watermelon, and macaroni and cheese (I hear that this last item is now known as another stereotypical food).

I need to investigate my roots a bit more (and make some up as Alex Haley did if I want to win some awards and television contracts).

Were they secretly tried to make me EYEtalian by serving me pasta, pizza, and soup???