Just gotta laugh about this. You wanted Black History Month? You got it! Here’s your fried chicken and waffle lunch (a combo I have never understood) and afterwards we’ll have a minstrel show - tap dance performance!
Feets don’t fail me now!!!
Should have served cordon bleu and bananas Foster for dessert.
In 1976, my battalion mess hall had Black Friday, they called it. When polled what they wanted for the evening meal the vast majority of blacks said fried chicken and watermelon. The preferred side dish was grits. So the mess hall fixed up some real good fried chicken and grits, and served slices of watermelon. We all enjoyed it! This was repeated quite a few times in the time I was there and the results were pretty consistent, although the side dishes changed to french fries a few times. I did hear some conversations about whether the choices were too stereotypical, but they were not from black soldiers.