Maybe Popeye's founder identifies as "Lucille", but I doubt it.
Posted on 11/07/2019 6:36:38 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The videos of mind-numbing first bites and long lines, the celebratory memes and fawning reviews: The return of the Popeyes chicken sandwich on Sunday has met with the same social-media frenzy that first greeted it last summer.
But embedded in many of the catchy memes and witty messages is not just an affection for spicy seasoning and crisp breading. There’s also a sentiment that Popeyes has struck a special chord for African-Americans and anybody who grew up eating black soul food — specifically, that its celebrated sandwich tastes like something that could have come from a black home kitchen.
One Twitter user, @RocBoy_Mel, wrote Sunday that he did not know whose “grandma” made the sandwiches, “but I finally got my hands on one today and I was very impressed.”
Reactions like that are no accident: Popeyes has aggressively marketed itself to African-Americans, and many of its restaurants are in black communities.
In a Facebook post in August, Nadiyah Ali, a nurse from Katy, Texas, compared the sandwich to a rival’s: Chick-fil-A’s version, she wrote, tasted as if it were made “by a white woman named Sarah who grew up around black people.” The Popeyes sandwich, she added, tasted “like it was cooked by an older black lady named Lucille.”
Black people were saying they liked the chicken not just for its taste, but also for the feelings of home cooking it evoked. It was the type of chicken they could take to a family potluck and not get a side-eye.
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Why does everything have to be about race? I grew up on fried chicken too and I can’t get any whiter (German/Irish heritage = pale skin). My mom and granny made some kick ass fried chicken.
Now, if I were to make a casual observation along the lines of: “Those black folk sure love their fried chicken!” I bet I’d get in a lot of trouble for being a racist.
I’d like to live in a country where everyone (I mean: everyone) can call a spade a spade.
Translation:
Everything black is awesome.
Everything white is awful.
,, Side Eye!
this whole article...something not quite right about it.
Waiting for the blow back to the NYT.
I think the problem is who is in the line, not what’s at the end of it.
Chaos? I find that hard to believe. /s
Reverse that and she'd be called a racist.
Hey, wait. I'm white and I like Popeye's food. Am I culturally appropriating them?
The ‘Air Jordans’ of Sandwiches.
Sorry, but fried chicken is a fave for lots of folks.
We could perhaps call it a “diversity” meal.
As usual, the NYT displays a level of childishness and situational non-awareness of a magnitude that is hard to describe.
Modern journalists. Think of them when you are depressed and want someone to feel superior to.
Kill Whitey.
I'm trying to imagine a line where EVERYONE is cutting in line to the front.
Well Popeye is white, after all.
The only people they see eating fried chicken in upper Manhattan are black, therefore it’s a black food.
John Eligon is a national correspondent covering race, based in Kansas City. His work documents the nuances of America’s struggle with race issues, from the protest movement over police violence to the changing face of the nation’s cities and suburbs.
I was wondering how anyone could write an article like this. I remember a White responsible for serving fried chicken to Blacks. He had his a$$ reamed and of course was fired. A teacher suggested eating watermelon because it is nutritious, etc. She was lambasted for that and called racist.
Then I searched for John Eligon using Google. Sure enough. I found out the reason why John Eligon was able to write such an article. Immunity. Protective pigmentation.
“...tasted as if it were made “by a white woman named Sarah who grew up around black people.”
“...tasted “like it was cooked by an older black lady named Lucille.”
New York Times publishes frivolity.
Some people need to get a hobby. God forbid that my life someday will be within the orbit of a piece of chicken on bread.
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