Baked Ham Fried
Chicken Chicken and Dumplings
Southern Fried Catfish
Smothered Pork Chops
Pigs Feet
Ham Hocks
Black eyed peas and rice
Fried Rice
Cabbage Collard Greens
Season Corn
Some kind of salad, I can't see what it says
Cole Slaw
Peach Cobbler
Banana Pudding
Pecan Pie
Sugar Cookies
"short order" and much more
They read racism into everything. It's their aces in the hole for everything. I want them to stop associating SOUTHERN food with blacks. These things are not only their food. This is typical Southern food. Fried chicken and many of the other things on the menu are also very common in many parts of the country. I don't see grits on that menu and you just cannot eat fried catfish without grits so I guess those would fall under the short order part of the menu.
There isn't a thing on that menu that I haven't had since the day I was born except for pigs feet but I know people who do eat them. I tasted them one time and they're disgusting. I prefer turnip greens to collard and we eat black eyed peas and turnip greens on New Years day every year.
Where's the watermelon? There is no single food pictured more in old negro ads, figurines, etc. than the watermelon. I'm not black but when watermelons are in season, there isn't a day for the entire summer when I don't have watermelon in my house. The nutjob PC police probably think I buy watermelon and eat it on a daily basis just to make fun of blacks.
This "politically correct" bs is out of control. It's their way of controlling people, making them afraid to open their mouths, fearing they will say the wrong thing. I refuse to play into it. I say what I want, when I want and if people don't like it, tough. I'm not going to walk on egg shells for fear I say the wrong thing. If someone says black like fried chicken and watermelon, so what? They do. So do I am so do all of my Southern friends and family and so do many other people in many other parts of the country.
PS Fried rice is not a Southern food. I've never had fried rice except at a Chinese restaurant.
went to the Oulestee battle re-enactment yesterday and after the battle went to see a pal of mine in the confederate cavalry.
He was cooking a lot of what you said along with his troops and the weird thing was that they were white, mmmmm .
Black history month, my daughter has to write about a black guy from history in school.
She is now doing a paper about Anthony Johnson, a black slave owner in VA.
The new teacher wanted a paper so she will get a paper and the term African American will not be mentioned either as she knows whites come from Africa and she is pointing that out in her paper to her class.
Come on now Joe you know its racist to even think about Southern food....You have committed yet another thought crime.....
It’s potato salad (enlarged the screen for verification). That said - and after reading your post, now I’m hungry ... yumm!!!
Fried Chicken was ALWAYS served for Sunday Lunch after Mass in my household. The only exception was the year that St. Patrick’s Day fell on a Sunday, and my Mom made Corned Beef and Cabbage that week. We NEVER complained, and it’s something I miss having as I have to stay away from it being a “regular” part of my diet (cholesterol, and “healthier options”-type weight loss is my lot in life now, LOL).
Oh, and I was raised in the suburbs of Chicago - my Mom grew up on a farm in Central Illinois. I will admit that in my neck of the woods the foods mentioned WERE associated with “Black Culture”, but only because those foods were brought by and found in the city of Chicago within the black communities (those blacks who fled/moved from the South in decades prior).
However, it’s only the collard greens and black-eyed-peas that “stuck out” as “different” in my geographic region - we ALL ate everything else regularly depending upon our ethnic backgrounds (my Mom never served Ham Hocks/Pigs Feet, but my husband’s Dad LOVES them made all kinds of ways! LOL).
What this author is calling “stereotypical” is an actual Food “Genre” - it’s called “Soul Food” because it DID honor the black ancestors and their trials and tribulations by those living and raised in the “North”.
Like I said in my previous post on this thread - sometimes people are their own worst enemies. I’m so sick of the topic of “racism” being brought up constantly - people need to stop trying to be mind readers.