Posted on 02/05/2010 5:05:20 AM PST by DogByte6RER
Edited on 02/05/2010 5:20:31 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
A special NBC Black History Month lunch spread -- featuring fried chicken, collard greens and black-eyed peas -- sparked a commissary controversy yesterday, but the African-American chef who planned it doesn't understand the fuss.
"All I wanted to do was make a meal that everyone would enjoy -- and that I eat myself," NBC cook Leslie Calhoun told The Post last night.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
This is not unlike the school that created a lunch in honor of Dr King. They did research to find out his favorite foods. Then they created a menu. it was similar: Good southern style food.
The sign lasted about five minutes.
This is just stupid.
1.2M twitter followers for Jimmy Fallon’s drummer?
But this is at the core of the whole multicultural-sensitivity thing. On the one hand, ‘trainers’ would like to re-educate the population against stereotypes (such as Latinos tending to be late) then on the other hand they want to re-educate the population to cultural differences (such as Latinos having a different sense of time). It really is a double-bind.
Exactly. Racist New Englanders, New Yorkers, Chicagoans, etc. think Southern foods are “black” foods.
Every kid growing up in Georgia lives on homemade fried chicken, corn bread, grits, collard greens, green beans, mac & cheese, watermelon, sweet peas, black eyed peas, kool-aid, iced tea, corn on the cob, pecan pie, and pork chops.
There happen to be a lot of black people in the south, so when I moved out of the south I learned those were “black” foods.
I have loved watermelon my whole life and as a youngster never understood why liking watermelon was disparaged by some people.
My favorite greens in order: Turnip (with turnips), Mustard, Collards, Spinach...............
HOMER: Bart, what are you laughing at? And you better not say ‘Jimmy Fallon’!
......and banana puddin’................
I have loved watermelon my whole life and as a youngster never understood why liking watermelon was disparaged by some people.
I’ll eat them all. I haven’t tried the Clampett’s favorite, dandelion greens yet...but there’s always a chance given Obama’s economic policies, I may have to resort to cooking them instead of spraying them with Roundup.
Collards have a better texture than turnip greens.
No watermelon?
Some people need to get a life.
Leslie Calhoun showed them what real food is. :-)
Black eyd peas, butter beans, ham hocks, chicken and rice, corn bread, homemade biscuits and gravy, fatback, hoecakes(real racist that one), fried cat fish, hushpuppies, calabash ANYTHING...ummm hmmmm.
Praise Lawd, that's some good eatin'.
And throw some spicy chow-chow on top of everything. lol
That sounds to me like regular old-style Southern cooking. Add chittlins and collard greens and I think distinctly ‘Soul Food’. Certainly you’d find that distinction in supposed Southern and Soul-Food restaurants up north.
Outlaw fried chicken, collard greens and black-eyed peas. They're racist. It's the only "progressive" way to handle this. We can't have one group eating anything different than another group, now can we? It disrupts the great collective.
So, quit complaining and eat your gruel.
Oh, and peach cobbler for dessert in both cases. not so much the watermellon for the soul food.
Mrs. jimfree have black-eyed peas and rice (hoppin’ john) each New Year’s Day. I’m not that fond of watermelon but like it as part of a fruit salad.
I have a funny anecdote to that. My aunt married a New Yorker and has lived in Brooklyn most of her adult life. She is one of the best Southern cooks you've ever seen. They have friends from miles around, Haitians, Dominican, Puerto Rican, Indian..that literally beat down her door when she gets to cooking to gobble down that racist fare and then keep begging for seconds! When she throws a block party they have to shut down the street.
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