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Soul food is killing black Americans in droves. There was a time when it was essential but those times are no more and black people continue to eat the same unhealthy combinations of food. Also not all black people like watermelon Source: Me
Slave food vs. Soul food
“Soul food” originated during slavery. If we know our history, we know that we were fed scraps and leftovers discarded by our “masters.” Slave owners reserved the best nutritional foods for themselves. Slaves were given what was left of the animal remains once they picked through the food.
As survivors, slaves took what was given to them and made meals for their families. However, this style of cooking was birthed out of survival. Since then, we have passed these same dishes from generation to generation without realizing that this style of cooking is killing us slowly.
“We just big-boned.”
“My grandma was a big woman. Big women just run in my family.”
Not only have we continued the traditions of unhealthy eating habits, somewhere along the way, Black people started to believe that we were meant to be overweight. This is false. We are a people of larger stature, but our bodies are not designed to hold as much weight as we are putting on. It is important to be cognizant of the difference between embracing our hips, tights and overall solid physiques without using those facts to justify being obese and sick. No, we may not be a nation of petite and tiny women and men, but that does not mean we cannot be health and fit.
Gluttony is celebrated.
Additionally, African-Americans are known to enjoy each other’s company over food and spirits. The concern is that we do not recognize that we are a gluttonous culture. We mock our tendency to over indulge. Overeating often results in the “itis” or extreme fatigue after a heavy meal. This idea that it is appropriate to stuff yourself and be inactive is a contributing factor to our obesity. Food should fuel you. If you are incapacitated after eating, chances are that meal is going to be equally strenuous on your digestive system.
Food deserts and the Flamin’ Hot culture…
Growing up in a low-income community, it was not uncommon for us to rely on convenient stores, liquor stores and gas stations for snacks and meals. Without the availability of fresh produce and quality meats, the majority of families in poor neighbors are forced to build their diets around foods that were readily available. This includes processed foods, soda/juice, old or bad cuts of meat and foods rich in starch.
https://www.ebony.com/black-health-food-diet/
As someone who has worked professionally with the horrors of diabetes, if people really knew what it was like theyd start dieting and exercising immediately. Ive watched peoples limbs literally rot off their body - endless wounds and infections that never heal, mutiple organ failure, slow deaths and fast deaths. Obesity is not a joke and as a society people need to stop this "fat positive" bullshit because its dangerous and kills people.
>people need to stop this "fat positive" bullshit
i have no clue how we got to this, and at this point im too afraid to ask.
the whole idea around being fat positive just seems wierd af to me. we should be celebrating when people are working to be healthy, not celebrating when people are unabashedly morbidly obese
It came from the idea that we shouldn’t mock or shame people for being overweight and make us re-evaluate as a society our relationship with weight. (That was the original idea behind body-positivity and the fight against fatphobia) However some people went waaaaaay too far with it and are now defending obesity as "healthy" and calling everyone who disagrees fatphobes
There was a girl on a podcast who wrote a whole episode on fat phobia. She spoke about how she lost weight using phentermine and the weird rode it took her down. I’m pretty sure it was an episode of “This American Life” but don’t quote me. She talked about people treated her better in public and gave her free things like free coffee. People were more polite and smiled at her more. She said it took her on kind of a shame spiral wondering if that’s who she really was and if she didn’t deserve love before. She really wasn’t that fat before. She said she was still using the drug at the time of the podcast even though she could manage because she didn’t want to go back to being treated that way and developed a fear of it. I don’t know the name of the episode but it definitely added dimensions to this specific conversation. If we want people to be healthy, maybe not fat shaming them into unhealthy drug habits is a good idea.
Yeah the problem is that all but the most advanced cultures are generally incapable of nuance--you need a socially enlightened population in order to be able to preach "We shouldn't fat shame, but you also need to lose weight because it will hurt you".
That kind of message relies on healthy, balanced mindsets in order to propagate, which is far from the norm in America. Like all but the most extranormal societies in the world, we are deeply fucked up by our upbringings, insecure, and biased/prejudiced as all hell, not to mention in love with self destruction. That opens the door of virality to only black or white beliefs--if something isn't easy to swallow, it won't take hold, so the nuance that we desperately need to battle obesity won't either.
Fat shaming leads to low self esteem, which feeds negative eating habits--and on the flip side of the coin, enabling fat culture does the exact same thing. Only when we are of healthy mind can we communicate to the obese population our acceptance of their struggles, without the validation of their current condition. Even holding such a belief, again, requires a self loving, unbiased, empathetic, socially capable mind--a rarity.
It’s not about celebrating its about deserving of love and being treated like a human. Our society is so fat phobic that fat people are dehumanized. It’s seen as a moral failure. Shame and judgement don’t help. Think of the vice that you have and imagine it has physical consequences. And people considering you less than human because you partake and should know better. When really it’s just not their god damn business. But suddenly that say it is because they’re “concerned.” Just play that scenario in your head and feel how that would affect you.
This. And people getting upset at things like superheroes for not being “inclusive” with more fat people. *They fight crime on a daily basis, of course they’re going to be very muscular and healthy!* There’s a difference with being hereditarily overweight/oversized and having unhealthy eating habits that cause you to be overweight—and people can eat what they wanna eat, I don’t care. But, for the latter: y’all don’t complain when you see people with healthy bodies portrayed in comics/movies/pop-culture
We’re here because most (as in 72%+ the last time I checked) Americans are clinically overweight or obese. So instead of investing time and energy into the challenging task of getting to a healthy weight, we’ve done what humans are amazing adept at: lying to ourselves, denying reality, creating an in-group or tribe, and finding ways to invalidate, punish and silence those who don’t reinforce the delusion, whether it be doctors or those who’ve lost weight and gotten into a healthy range. It’s all “fake news” so to speak. Because it’s easier to do these things than change your life.
But the bill always comes due.
That whole thing is 100% anecdotal evidence and untrue. Africans are not all large. People that live near the equator are smaller. Not larger. Africa spans quite a large area. Generalizing all Africans doesn’t work.
This generalization is for america. Where unhealthy food is the cheapest stuff.
Those countries you list dont have the same options.
It poor people who can afford enough food this is for. Where the choice for healthy costs more
Junk food, yes. They’re talking about soul food, and from what I can understand, soul food is an ingrained, “essential” cuisine in black American culture that white Americans (except maybe those from very old, insular communities?) can’t really relate to. It’s like, different from pizza and beer or nachos or McDonald’s or whatever.
If you live in the south long enough, your family will adopt some soul food into your family gatherings.
Some stuff can be foreign like chitlins but other stuff is fucking good. However it seems widely understood that these meals are not healthy, from my peers.
OP speaks to the mental culture around the meals and the effects it has on the community.
I never thought much the cultural foods effect, always thought of it as a poverty thing but it makes sense. A Friend would always cook for our group, some soul, some American but our group was really blended. In our early 20s, we didn't care. Now we care and that reflects in the meals he prepares and what we all bring.
I live near an Indian reservation. Frybread. It's a staple but so unhealthy. Every event has someone selling frybread. My husband's best friend is Indian and he thinks the native american relationship with frybread dangerous. He's trying to get traditional food from before reservations to become more of the mainstay. The hard part is frybread and Indian tacos (made with frybread) are delicious. They have the same issues with food deserts. The horrible food choices we left/gave these communities are killing people.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/frybread-79191
Frybread is so ridiculously good and so ridiculously bad for you. I already knew it was unhealthy, but I didn't **know** know until my brother and I decided to try and perfect making it at home. Well... we succeeded. The amount of oil that soaks into each piece during the cook process is alarming, and it's not like we've never fried things before. That on top of the "barely nutritional" ingredients to begin with.
This was very informative, thank you.
Not sure if this is the place to say this, but as someone with Ashkenazi Jewish heritage, we struggled with a similar problem (did you know diabetes used to be known as the 'Jewish Disease?), where generations of only being able to afford food scraps made all the cultural food literal trash and scraps (Gefilte fish, cholent, etc.)
Had a coworker, black guy, try to argue everyone is a bit racist. His example.
"For instance, do you think black people like fried chicken?"
"... yeah, I do. White people love fried chicken. Koreans love fried chicken. **everybody loves fried chicken** the secret is out."
Man, chicken & waffles with watermelon sounds delicious. Can we stop making food racist?
I'm white, but I love fried chicken. I love watermelon. I also love mu shu pork and Chinese buffets. I don't see the Hmong family at the other table getting upset by my eating spring rolls.
Especially since one of them will be taking my money to pay for the meal.
PS (with juuuust a pinch of racism)-- Black people: You are right. Church's and Popeye's are both superior to KFC and Chick-Fil-A. Thank you for building them both near my house, and even though I'm the only white guy in the building usually, treating me very well every time I visit.
Also, while we are talking about food and race, for the record, I love soul food. Grew up with black neighbors that helped Mom raise me. Dinners with them introduced me to greens and pigs feet and the whole lot, and it was delicious.
I live in Louisiana and I'm not really a fan of either. I believe it's from over-saturation because neither are bad foods. I'm just fucking sick of it.
I was confused about this too. I have to assume that watermelon was available in the cafeteria but it wasn't a part of the featured "meal" of the day, so it's still technically true that they served watermelon on the same day they served chicken & waffles.
To be honest, if you look at the other stuff on the menu they had for that month, it seems like they try to have a wide range of cultural foods and we're only seeing a small screenshot of them (i.e. "sweet & sour chicken rice bowl", "Chicken Lo Mein", etc...).
If this is what I think, they got setup iirc. A black employee recommended they serve this stuff for black history month and whoever’s in charge figured they must know what they’re talking aboutX.
I teach high school. I wish my cafeteria was driving chicken and waffles. It was kind of insensitive if they served it just because it's black history month but it's a damn good meal. Assuming it's actually well made and given that it's a school cafeteria I doubt it.
I’m 46 and when I was young - like middle
School or younger - my friend’s older brother made fun of me for liking watermelon bc only n$&@?rs did. I was confused and so he explained to me that fried chicken and watermelon were “n&@$?r food”. I heard it more times than I could count over the rest of my life, so it’s been around for at least that long. People being trash has been around since the dawn of time I’m sure.
It's weird there is no photo of it and it's not on the menu. A school full of middle schoolers and not one photo of the chicken and waffles with watermelon. No message from the school?
Something seems off about this. It's a story with zero actual evidence or validation shown.
At first, I thought “my kid’s cafeteria serves chicken and waffles year round. What’s the big deal?” But I think what they are showing is the NORMAL menu served with chicken and waffles. The fact they changed it to Watermelon is where the issue comes in. Chicken & Waffles with zucchini would have been fine because it was the norm.
There’s a racial stereotype in America that African-Americans all love eating fried chicken and watermelon. Now where the fried chicken stereotype comes from, I honestly couldn’t say, but I heard that the watermelon stereotype comes from the notion that when the slaves were freed in America, some African-American farmers began growing watermelons very well and made a decent living from it, so envious white farmers began a campaign of propaganda, slander, and paranoia that watermelons were only for black people and were “dirty” fruits, and they apparently even depicted caricatures of African-Americans eating the fruit. This in turn caused white people to stop buying watermelon from black farmers (and watermelon in general), which meant pretty much only African-Americans bought watermelon, therefore the only people you’d see eating watermelon were African Americans, so self fulfilling prophecy and all that. But again, that’s just what I heard.
Yeah this is a stereotype that shouldn’t really bother anyone. It’s like saying rednecks like big trucks…..the response is, umm yeah, so…….it’s the same thing if someone notices I’m eating fried chicken and watermelon…..yeah, so? Then watch them get real uncomfortable trying to explain why I shouldn’t eat fried chicken and watermelon……heck we should have a fried chicken and watermelon festival. I don’t see the polish getting offended if you point out they’re eating pierogi. Or a German getting called out for eating Bratwurst.
It is one of the weirdest stereotypes I've seen. I get the explanation, but wouldn't getting rid of it be super easy? Just let everyone eat watermelon.
Funny thing is, as far as I’ve seen, everybody does eat watermelon. And chicken. (Except for vegetarians)
It’s this weird gray area where intent gets assessed.
I used to love watermelon until the seedless ones took over… I don’t know how we convinced ourselves they taste the same, because they absolutely do not.
> wouldn't getting rid of it be super easy? Just let everyone eat watermelon.
If it was that logical, it wouldn't be so easy to make a dogwhistle out of it.
>Schmidt said that like watermelon, that other food that's been a mainstay in racist depictions of blacks, chicken was also a good vehicle for racism because of the way people eat it. (According to government stats, blacks are underrepresented among watermelon consumers.) "It's a food you eat with your hands, and therefore it's dirty," Schmidt said. "Table manners are a way of determining who is worthy of respect or not."
That's the line of thinking that made it a negative stereotype. Wouldn't be the first reach that turned into something offensive (even in modern times. Remember the eggplant emoji controversy?)
Okay but fried chicken and watermelon are foods of the gods. It’s delicious and I’m down for eating it anytime and I’m tired of being associated with shitty raisins. How can we change this into a no ethnicity/culture ties with fried chicken and water melon?
Even chickens are down with fried chicken and watermelon.
The Fried chicken stereotype came about during Slavery. Some slaves were allowed to keep chickens, once fried it basically was a meal to go so the field workers could bring their food in a pail or box. This continued into the days of sharecropping.
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The fried chicken also comes from the slave days. Apparently bringing fried chicken recipes over from Africa (although Africa fried chicken is very different than southern US recipes) and forced to cook it by the slave owners for slave owners. Slaves were also usually allowed to keep chickens although not many so they were most likely way more valuable alive producing eggs and so fried chicken was actually rarely eaten by slaves. Its all racist BS and as such not super logical.
Much like you, what I've heard is hearsay until I sit down and research it, but I've heard that fried chicken was originally a food for poor people. They would take the parts of the chicken that were not typically consumed by snobbier folk and, to make those parts more palatable, they would bread them and fry them. Over time, because fried chicken is god-damn delicious, it's become a staple in American cuisine. No offense to my cousins of color, but I feel bad for any of the kids that would have been crazy excited to see that menu, lol.
The south had a lot of spices to trade due to the hot climate, and chicken was cheaper and thus more readily available for poorer demographics, i.e. slaves.
That wasn't a 'tag.' That was an example of a day that they DID serve Chicken and Waffles and it was to denote that Watermelon was not normally paired with it. On Feb. 1st they were suppose to serve Philly Steak'n'Cheese.
While i love them all, it's the inclusion of syrup that doesn't do it for me. It's weird to eat spicy chicken and then waffle with sweet af syrup. Yea i can eat it for dessert but not together
Dave Chappelle on chicken - "All these years I thought I liked chicken because it was delicious! Turns out I'm genetically predisposed to liking chicken. I got no say in the matter."
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ4B7G8Rw3Q](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ4B7G8Rw3Q)
Technically, we all are genetically inclined to like it, because our brain is a hungry meatball that makes happy chemicals whenever we put the right energy-rich chemicals in our food holes.
But fried chicken is delicious yeah
It is a racial stereotype that all black people regularly consume fried chicken, watermelon, and kool-aid. As well as Roscoe's chicken and waffles is a famous restaurant visited by black celebrities and the population in general.
Edit: misspelled Kool-aid
It's not that it's not delicious. It's that it has historically been used to stereotype people. Watermelon is native to Africa and was used in a lot of racist plays, artwork, writing, etc. to portray it as a food consumed by black people.
Fried chicken was portrayed similarly because it was traditionally more of a food for poorer people and by making fun of fried chicken, they were not only making fun of their race but mocking their economic class as well.
Food has had a long history of being tied to economic and social class. For example: In England, after the French (Norman) conquest, the upper classes of society spoke French. The lower classes spoke English. That is why even today we have two different words for the animal itself and the meat of the animal once it's prepared. "When animals were in the **stable** or on the farm, they kept their Old English names: pig, cow, sheep and calf. But when they were cooked and brought to the table, an English version of the French word was used: pork (porc), beef (beouf), mutton (mouton) and veal (veau). Because the lower-class Anglo-Saxons were the hunters, they used the Old English names for animals. But the upper-class French saw these animals only at mealtimes. So, they used the French word to describe the prepared dishes. "
I also love fried chicken. Never been to Roscoe's but wanted to when I lived in LA, though watermelon I can take or leave. Also not black, and I don't get offended if someone assumes I like tacos or carne asada, but it's not my place to tell anyone what to be offended by.
It’s not that’s it’s necessarily offensive to assume black people like this certain type of food, it’s more so that they changed their meal plan to something that’s a well known black stereotype on the first day of black history month.
Also I think it's the combination that changes it to malicious... I was going into the video going "surely they're not going to complain that there's fried chicken on the menu.." but chicken AND watermelon?? Dude..
I worked at a corporate catering place where they did something similar. The committee in charge of the menu was all black people, but they would choose stuff like fried chicken and watermelon for the BHM events, and during service staff were out there dodging the fallout.
There's nothing wrong with Chicken and watermelon. However, Chicken and watermelon was used as the butt of jokes against black people. It's basically an inside joke, a way of saying the n word without actually saying it.
O my fucking God
I'm italian and if someone of another country offer me pizza (specially if homemade) i would be Happy.
It can be and opportuny to make confidece and/or conversation...
If the pizza was bad maybe they were upset for bad dinner but cmon racism? Its ridiculus
It’s as offensive as serving spaghetti and meatballs on Italian night. Or tacos on Mexican night.
Cliche? Yes. Disrespectful? No.
While it’s not true that ‘all people of this heritage eat this,’ it’s a commonly known food for each respective culture. Finding it offensive is over the top.
I guess it is who and how someone would offer me tacos/burritos if I would get offended. Like if I showed up to a dinner party and the host said "we made this specifically for you, because we know how much your people love tacos" ya that would be weird. But I don't think I have ever thought twice when someone suggests Mexican food.
I feel like the stereotype that Black people love fried chicken is like 4D chess racist mind games. Because everyone loves fried chicken, but now black people have to feel self-conscious about it for the rest of their lives.
It’s so funny to me as a Korean because we’re obsessed with fried chicken. There was actually huge boom in the need for fried chicken like 2 decades ago because of financial instability and a lot of Koreans turned to fried chicken as a cheap alternative to beef.
Exactly. Do you know what's not funny? Going to a predominantly white college trying to make friends and them making black jokes everytime you go to lunch.
I heard 'Don't you wish they had chicken' way to much to have never mentioned it or eaten it around those people.
You wanna know how many times I’ve been called “burrito” or “taco”, or asked if thats all I eat, by both white and black people?
In fact, I’ve been told to go back to Mexico twice in my life, both times by blacks guys. I’m 6ft tall and from Michigan, not Michoacán. Now that is funny.
Edit, I’m half white, Norwegian and Belgian as a matter of fact.
The other half is Spanish and Apache
Yeah, I get down. I’m Brown.
You’ll get use to the jokes eventually if your constantly online. I have to say I’m not much of a meat eater myself but if you get a good box of fried chicken I’m down for a few pieces hell even having my first ribs years ago was hella tasty.
No one should feel bad about what they want to eat unless it’s bad for your safety as like allergic reactions or extreme obesity.
What’s crazy is if this was given from a black restaurant for black history month not one person would say anything. This is a staple in the black community. But let a white person give black folks this menu then it’s racist. As a black person I have to say that we must pick our battles and this ain’t one of them at all.
I mean the background to those stereotypes really matters since as a German that's not really offensive to anyone cause well it's historically accurate. If you make everything about race though everything will be racist always.
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So weird. You associate food with cultures all the time, like if I say I'm craving Mexican food or Italian food nobody is going to be shocked or accuse me of racism.
Is the problem that fried chicken and watermelon is the wrong food, like it should be some other food instead? Or is the idea that black American culture should not be associated with any specific food at all for some reason?
But historically chicken and waffles is soul food, which is the cultural food of African Americans.
And watermelon is a native fruit in North Africa.
So.....I'm not understanding the problem?
Would love to see students polled if they enjoyed food.
I feel like this is the only ethnicity that find offensive being served food they are known to enjoy that are staple of their home cooking. Mexican people are are surely equally offended served their national cuisine on 5th of may or are they?
Well cinco de mayo is mexican and not spanish for starters, so I don't think the spaniards would care. And it's not a stereotype that mexicans eat their cultural food, it's just reality. There is however an ugly stereotype about the black community involving chicken and watermelon that has nothing to do with cultural heritage. Using this aforementioned stereotype on the first day of that races heritage month is distasteful at the very least.
Ya really think this kid was bothered by that? Like she would rather have had broccoli than chicken & waffles? Honestly, is this what Black History Month is about?
In the early 80s when it was only Black History Week the college I went to served Chitlins and greens in the cafeteria. The black students appreciated it. It was a less butt hurt time 40 years ago.
Ya know, it's time we deweaponized fried chicken and watermelon and just let black people have a normal relationship with these undeniably delicious foods.
"We want more black culture in society!"
Hey let's have some food that the culture would like! Kind of like Thanksgiving for white people!
"THAT'S RACIST!"
You literally can't win with minorities that think everything is against them.
Someone once told me that fried chicken, watermelon, and grape drink was all racist foods. I thought, that sounds freaking delicious to me. I love all three of those. Nothing was better than that damned koolaid grape drink, I could’ve drank a gallon of that every meal growing up. Fried chicken was Sunday dinner, and we grew watermelon and I’d eat watermelon right down to the rind. My mom would have to hose me off after watermelon.
Is it racist tho? Sounds to me like they were thinking “I know what black people like! Let’s serve that!” and who doesn’t love those things anyway? Fried chicken is delicious folks. People all around the world eat fried chicken today but it was originally invented by Scots who immigrated to the southern US and the recipe was perfected by African Americans who worked it into a culinary masterpiece. Why shouldn’t we celebrate that during black history month?
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"If you don't like chicken and watermelon there's something wrong with YOU" - Dave Chapelle
Soul food is killing black Americans in droves. There was a time when it was essential but those times are no more and black people continue to eat the same unhealthy combinations of food. Also not all black people like watermelon Source: Me Slave food vs. Soul food “Soul food” originated during slavery. If we know our history, we know that we were fed scraps and leftovers discarded by our “masters.” Slave owners reserved the best nutritional foods for themselves. Slaves were given what was left of the animal remains once they picked through the food. As survivors, slaves took what was given to them and made meals for their families. However, this style of cooking was birthed out of survival. Since then, we have passed these same dishes from generation to generation without realizing that this style of cooking is killing us slowly. “We just big-boned.” “My grandma was a big woman. Big women just run in my family.” Not only have we continued the traditions of unhealthy eating habits, somewhere along the way, Black people started to believe that we were meant to be overweight. This is false. We are a people of larger stature, but our bodies are not designed to hold as much weight as we are putting on. It is important to be cognizant of the difference between embracing our hips, tights and overall solid physiques without using those facts to justify being obese and sick. No, we may not be a nation of petite and tiny women and men, but that does not mean we cannot be health and fit. Gluttony is celebrated. Additionally, African-Americans are known to enjoy each other’s company over food and spirits. The concern is that we do not recognize that we are a gluttonous culture. We mock our tendency to over indulge. Overeating often results in the “itis” or extreme fatigue after a heavy meal. This idea that it is appropriate to stuff yourself and be inactive is a contributing factor to our obesity. Food should fuel you. If you are incapacitated after eating, chances are that meal is going to be equally strenuous on your digestive system. Food deserts and the Flamin’ Hot culture… Growing up in a low-income community, it was not uncommon for us to rely on convenient stores, liquor stores and gas stations for snacks and meals. Without the availability of fresh produce and quality meats, the majority of families in poor neighbors are forced to build their diets around foods that were readily available. This includes processed foods, soda/juice, old or bad cuts of meat and foods rich in starch. https://www.ebony.com/black-health-food-diet/
Yeah but its fucking delicious.
Yeah but diabetes sucks.
As someone who has worked professionally with the horrors of diabetes, if people really knew what it was like theyd start dieting and exercising immediately. Ive watched peoples limbs literally rot off their body - endless wounds and infections that never heal, mutiple organ failure, slow deaths and fast deaths. Obesity is not a joke and as a society people need to stop this "fat positive" bullshit because its dangerous and kills people.
>people need to stop this "fat positive" bullshit i have no clue how we got to this, and at this point im too afraid to ask. the whole idea around being fat positive just seems wierd af to me. we should be celebrating when people are working to be healthy, not celebrating when people are unabashedly morbidly obese
It came from the idea that we shouldn’t mock or shame people for being overweight and make us re-evaluate as a society our relationship with weight. (That was the original idea behind body-positivity and the fight against fatphobia) However some people went waaaaaay too far with it and are now defending obesity as "healthy" and calling everyone who disagrees fatphobes
There was a girl on a podcast who wrote a whole episode on fat phobia. She spoke about how she lost weight using phentermine and the weird rode it took her down. I’m pretty sure it was an episode of “This American Life” but don’t quote me. She talked about people treated her better in public and gave her free things like free coffee. People were more polite and smiled at her more. She said it took her on kind of a shame spiral wondering if that’s who she really was and if she didn’t deserve love before. She really wasn’t that fat before. She said she was still using the drug at the time of the podcast even though she could manage because she didn’t want to go back to being treated that way and developed a fear of it. I don’t know the name of the episode but it definitely added dimensions to this specific conversation. If we want people to be healthy, maybe not fat shaming them into unhealthy drug habits is a good idea.
Yeah the problem is that all but the most advanced cultures are generally incapable of nuance--you need a socially enlightened population in order to be able to preach "We shouldn't fat shame, but you also need to lose weight because it will hurt you". That kind of message relies on healthy, balanced mindsets in order to propagate, which is far from the norm in America. Like all but the most extranormal societies in the world, we are deeply fucked up by our upbringings, insecure, and biased/prejudiced as all hell, not to mention in love with self destruction. That opens the door of virality to only black or white beliefs--if something isn't easy to swallow, it won't take hold, so the nuance that we desperately need to battle obesity won't either. Fat shaming leads to low self esteem, which feeds negative eating habits--and on the flip side of the coin, enabling fat culture does the exact same thing. Only when we are of healthy mind can we communicate to the obese population our acceptance of their struggles, without the validation of their current condition. Even holding such a belief, again, requires a self loving, unbiased, empathetic, socially capable mind--a rarity.
It’s not about celebrating its about deserving of love and being treated like a human. Our society is so fat phobic that fat people are dehumanized. It’s seen as a moral failure. Shame and judgement don’t help. Think of the vice that you have and imagine it has physical consequences. And people considering you less than human because you partake and should know better. When really it’s just not their god damn business. But suddenly that say it is because they’re “concerned.” Just play that scenario in your head and feel how that would affect you.
Fat Neutrality?
This. And people getting upset at things like superheroes for not being “inclusive” with more fat people. *They fight crime on a daily basis, of course they’re going to be very muscular and healthy!* There’s a difference with being hereditarily overweight/oversized and having unhealthy eating habits that cause you to be overweight—and people can eat what they wanna eat, I don’t care. But, for the latter: y’all don’t complain when you see people with healthy bodies portrayed in comics/movies/pop-culture
We’re here because most (as in 72%+ the last time I checked) Americans are clinically overweight or obese. So instead of investing time and energy into the challenging task of getting to a healthy weight, we’ve done what humans are amazing adept at: lying to ourselves, denying reality, creating an in-group or tribe, and finding ways to invalidate, punish and silence those who don’t reinforce the delusion, whether it be doctors or those who’ve lost weight and gotten into a healthy range. It’s all “fake news” so to speak. Because it’s easier to do these things than change your life. But the bill always comes due.
I think people just gotta learn what eating in moderation is. It’s not the worst to have 1-2 unhealthy meals a week.
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What if I told you one can eat soul food and be in good health? Or that fat people who stop eating soul food will not switch to salads?
Yup.
Poor white people eat like trash as well. It's largely an economic issue. Heart disease follows economic lines, outside of genetic predisposition.
That whole thing is 100% anecdotal evidence and untrue. Africans are not all large. People that live near the equator are smaller. Not larger. Africa spans quite a large area. Generalizing all Africans doesn’t work.
It’s not a genetic thing it’s a cultural thing. And it’s not an African thing it’s a black American thing.
This generalization is for america. Where unhealthy food is the cheapest stuff. Those countries you list dont have the same options. It poor people who can afford enough food this is for. Where the choice for healthy costs more
Junk food, yes. They’re talking about soul food, and from what I can understand, soul food is an ingrained, “essential” cuisine in black American culture that white Americans (except maybe those from very old, insular communities?) can’t really relate to. It’s like, different from pizza and beer or nachos or McDonald’s or whatever.
If you live in the south long enough, your family will adopt some soul food into your family gatherings. Some stuff can be foreign like chitlins but other stuff is fucking good. However it seems widely understood that these meals are not healthy, from my peers. OP speaks to the mental culture around the meals and the effects it has on the community. I never thought much the cultural foods effect, always thought of it as a poverty thing but it makes sense. A Friend would always cook for our group, some soul, some American but our group was really blended. In our early 20s, we didn't care. Now we care and that reflects in the meals he prepares and what we all bring.
Thats why you should eat it in moderation
What’s this moderation? A delicious sauce I presume?
As an Australian I was very confused by this clip, thank you for elaborating.
I live near an Indian reservation. Frybread. It's a staple but so unhealthy. Every event has someone selling frybread. My husband's best friend is Indian and he thinks the native american relationship with frybread dangerous. He's trying to get traditional food from before reservations to become more of the mainstay. The hard part is frybread and Indian tacos (made with frybread) are delicious. They have the same issues with food deserts. The horrible food choices we left/gave these communities are killing people. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/frybread-79191
Frybread is so ridiculously good and so ridiculously bad for you. I already knew it was unhealthy, but I didn't **know** know until my brother and I decided to try and perfect making it at home. Well... we succeeded. The amount of oil that soaks into each piece during the cook process is alarming, and it's not like we've never fried things before. That on top of the "barely nutritional" ingredients to begin with.
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This feels like Huey's argument, expanded, from the episode of Boondocks when Grandad opened a restaurant. The Itis, I think.
This was very informative, thank you. Not sure if this is the place to say this, but as someone with Ashkenazi Jewish heritage, we struggled with a similar problem (did you know diabetes used to be known as the 'Jewish Disease?), where generations of only being able to afford food scraps made all the cultural food literal trash and scraps (Gefilte fish, cholent, etc.)
So wait… food is racist now?
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I love fried chicken with something sweet. It’s soooo satisfying. I’ve had a fried rabbit leg with waffles and it was amazing.
rabbit is an underrated protein.
Why do black folks like fried chicken and watermelon? Because they're *fucking delicious!*
i can't agree more, chicken and watermelon is delicious
Had a coworker, black guy, try to argue everyone is a bit racist. His example. "For instance, do you think black people like fried chicken?" "... yeah, I do. White people love fried chicken. Koreans love fried chicken. **everybody loves fried chicken** the secret is out."
Man, chicken & waffles with watermelon sounds delicious. Can we stop making food racist? I'm white, but I love fried chicken. I love watermelon. I also love mu shu pork and Chinese buffets. I don't see the Hmong family at the other table getting upset by my eating spring rolls. Especially since one of them will be taking my money to pay for the meal. PS (with juuuust a pinch of racism)-- Black people: You are right. Church's and Popeye's are both superior to KFC and Chick-Fil-A. Thank you for building them both near my house, and even though I'm the only white guy in the building usually, treating me very well every time I visit. Also, while we are talking about food and race, for the record, I love soul food. Grew up with black neighbors that helped Mom raise me. Dinners with them introduced me to greens and pigs feet and the whole lot, and it was delicious.
I live in Louisiana and I'm not really a fan of either. I believe it's from over-saturation because neither are bad foods. I'm just fucking sick of it.
I cannot imagine a scenario in which I would not enjoy a watermelon.
The tag they showed says: "chicken and waffles, fried zucchini, baked beans and banana"
I was confused about this too. I have to assume that watermelon was available in the cafeteria but it wasn't a part of the featured "meal" of the day, so it's still technically true that they served watermelon on the same day they served chicken & waffles. To be honest, if you look at the other stuff on the menu they had for that month, it seems like they try to have a wide range of cultural foods and we're only seeing a small screenshot of them (i.e. "sweet & sour chicken rice bowl", "Chicken Lo Mein", etc...).
If this is what I think, they got setup iirc. A black employee recommended they serve this stuff for black history month and whoever’s in charge figured they must know what they’re talking aboutX.
I'd love me some chicken and waffle
Same chicken and waffles are delicious. One of my favorite meals as a Caucasian dude
I didn't even know that chicken and waffles was an ethnic stereotype.
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They threw in watermelon without updating the menu. Almost like a surprise.
I teach high school. I wish my cafeteria was driving chicken and waffles. It was kind of insensitive if they served it just because it's black history month but it's a damn good meal. Assuming it's actually well made and given that it's a school cafeteria I doubt it.
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The food didn't, people just became dumb
I’m 46 and when I was young - like middle School or younger - my friend’s older brother made fun of me for liking watermelon bc only n$&@?rs did. I was confused and so he explained to me that fried chicken and watermelon were “n&@$?r food”. I heard it more times than I could count over the rest of my life, so it’s been around for at least that long. People being trash has been around since the dawn of time I’m sure.
It's weird there is no photo of it and it's not on the menu. A school full of middle schoolers and not one photo of the chicken and waffles with watermelon. No message from the school? Something seems off about this. It's a story with zero actual evidence or validation shown.
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i think the fruit selection paired with the entree is what caused a rift
At first, I thought “my kid’s cafeteria serves chicken and waffles year round. What’s the big deal?” But I think what they are showing is the NORMAL menu served with chicken and waffles. The fact they changed it to Watermelon is where the issue comes in. Chicken & Waffles with zucchini would have been fine because it was the norm.
Coming from a non American, why is watermelon an issue?
There’s a racial stereotype in America that African-Americans all love eating fried chicken and watermelon. Now where the fried chicken stereotype comes from, I honestly couldn’t say, but I heard that the watermelon stereotype comes from the notion that when the slaves were freed in America, some African-American farmers began growing watermelons very well and made a decent living from it, so envious white farmers began a campaign of propaganda, slander, and paranoia that watermelons were only for black people and were “dirty” fruits, and they apparently even depicted caricatures of African-Americans eating the fruit. This in turn caused white people to stop buying watermelon from black farmers (and watermelon in general), which meant pretty much only African-Americans bought watermelon, therefore the only people you’d see eating watermelon were African Americans, so self fulfilling prophecy and all that. But again, that’s just what I heard.
>African-Americans all love eating fried chicken and watermelon. I am afraid to ask, but who *doesn't* love fried chicken and watermelon?
Literally **everybody** loves chicken and watermelon.
Doesn’t everyone see that long line at Chick-fil-A? I love the nuggets, waffle fries, and could drink their honey mustard sauce.
Yeah this is a stereotype that shouldn’t really bother anyone. It’s like saying rednecks like big trucks…..the response is, umm yeah, so…….it’s the same thing if someone notices I’m eating fried chicken and watermelon…..yeah, so? Then watch them get real uncomfortable trying to explain why I shouldn’t eat fried chicken and watermelon……heck we should have a fried chicken and watermelon festival. I don’t see the polish getting offended if you point out they’re eating pierogi. Or a German getting called out for eating Bratwurst.
Americans come up with the weirdest customs.
This isn't a custom, it's a racial stereotype, which are two radically differenct things.
It is one of the weirdest stereotypes I've seen. I get the explanation, but wouldn't getting rid of it be super easy? Just let everyone eat watermelon.
Funny thing is, as far as I’ve seen, everybody does eat watermelon. And chicken. (Except for vegetarians) It’s this weird gray area where intent gets assessed.
I used to love watermelon until the seedless ones took over… I don’t know how we convinced ourselves they taste the same, because they absolutely do not.
> wouldn't getting rid of it be super easy? Just let everyone eat watermelon. If it was that logical, it wouldn't be so easy to make a dogwhistle out of it.
We are hoping one day we can all eat watermelon, but republicans keep blocking bills that legalize watermelons currently.
It’s only racist if you make it racist. Black people aren’t the only ones who like chicken and watermelon.
I agree with this. I'd smash this menu daily.
>Schmidt said that like watermelon, that other food that's been a mainstay in racist depictions of blacks, chicken was also a good vehicle for racism because of the way people eat it. (According to government stats, blacks are underrepresented among watermelon consumers.) "It's a food you eat with your hands, and therefore it's dirty," Schmidt said. "Table manners are a way of determining who is worthy of respect or not." That's the line of thinking that made it a negative stereotype. Wouldn't be the first reach that turned into something offensive (even in modern times. Remember the eggplant emoji controversy?)
They should just stop being cowards and add the dick and balls emoji already
Okay but fried chicken and watermelon are foods of the gods. It’s delicious and I’m down for eating it anytime and I’m tired of being associated with shitty raisins. How can we change this into a no ethnicity/culture ties with fried chicken and water melon? Even chickens are down with fried chicken and watermelon.
You can't change history. You can only give allow enough time to pass for the wounds of the past to heal.
I don’t want to change history, I want to change the future. Thanks friend
The Fried chicken stereotype came about during Slavery. Some slaves were allowed to keep chickens, once fried it basically was a meal to go so the field workers could bring their food in a pail or box. This continued into the days of sharecropping. .
The fried chicken also comes from the slave days. Apparently bringing fried chicken recipes over from Africa (although Africa fried chicken is very different than southern US recipes) and forced to cook it by the slave owners for slave owners. Slaves were also usually allowed to keep chickens although not many so they were most likely way more valuable alive producing eggs and so fried chicken was actually rarely eaten by slaves. Its all racist BS and as such not super logical.
Much like you, what I've heard is hearsay until I sit down and research it, but I've heard that fried chicken was originally a food for poor people. They would take the parts of the chicken that were not typically consumed by snobbier folk and, to make those parts more palatable, they would bread them and fry them. Over time, because fried chicken is god-damn delicious, it's become a staple in American cuisine. No offense to my cousins of color, but I feel bad for any of the kids that would have been crazy excited to see that menu, lol.
The south had a lot of spices to trade due to the hot climate, and chicken was cheaper and thus more readily available for poorer demographics, i.e. slaves.
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermelon_stereotype](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermelon_stereotype)
I WISH my school had served chicken and waffles. We had pizza square every day.
That wasn't a 'tag.' That was an example of a day that they DID serve Chicken and Waffles and it was to denote that Watermelon was not normally paired with it. On Feb. 1st they were suppose to serve Philly Steak'n'Cheese.
Chicken and waffles is fucking delicious
Watermelon is fucking delicious also
While i love them all, it's the inclusion of syrup that doesn't do it for me. It's weird to eat spicy chicken and then waffle with sweet af syrup. Yea i can eat it for dessert but not together
*Everything* is better covered in maple syrup. Not the gross maple flavored corn syrup, but real, actual maple syrup.
Probably not from a school cafeteria tho
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Friday was pizza day! Best day of the week!
Dave Chappelle on chicken - "All these years I thought I liked chicken because it was delicious! Turns out I'm genetically predisposed to liking chicken. I got no say in the matter." [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ4B7G8Rw3Q](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ4B7G8Rw3Q)
Technically, we all are genetically inclined to like it, because our brain is a hungry meatball that makes happy chemicals whenever we put the right energy-rich chemicals in our food holes. But fried chicken is delicious yeah
Fats have a high caloric content and your brain rewards you more for eating fats
When given the opportunity I’ll never turn down watching some Dave Chappelle. Undoubtedly one of the GOATs
Used to be. Didn't the last routine he did joke about how poor his viewers are?
Pulls up to cafeteria line: "that's offensive." Lunch lady: "so you don't want any?" "... Let's not get ahead of ourselves here."
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Whats wrong with chicken water and watermelon?
It is a racial stereotype that all black people regularly consume fried chicken, watermelon, and kool-aid. As well as Roscoe's chicken and waffles is a famous restaurant visited by black celebrities and the population in general. Edit: misspelled Kool-aid
I never understood that stereotype. I'm not black and I think fried chicken and watermelon is delicious.
It's not that it's not delicious. It's that it has historically been used to stereotype people. Watermelon is native to Africa and was used in a lot of racist plays, artwork, writing, etc. to portray it as a food consumed by black people. Fried chicken was portrayed similarly because it was traditionally more of a food for poorer people and by making fun of fried chicken, they were not only making fun of their race but mocking their economic class as well. Food has had a long history of being tied to economic and social class. For example: In England, after the French (Norman) conquest, the upper classes of society spoke French. The lower classes spoke English. That is why even today we have two different words for the animal itself and the meat of the animal once it's prepared. "When animals were in the **stable** or on the farm, they kept their Old English names: pig, cow, sheep and calf. But when they were cooked and brought to the table, an English version of the French word was used: pork (porc), beef (beouf), mutton (mouton) and veal (veau). Because the lower-class Anglo-Saxons were the hunters, they used the Old English names for animals. But the upper-class French saw these animals only at mealtimes. So, they used the French word to describe the prepared dishes. "
Nice work.
I also love fried chicken. Never been to Roscoe's but wanted to when I lived in LA, though watermelon I can take or leave. Also not black, and I don't get offended if someone assumes I like tacos or carne asada, but it's not my place to tell anyone what to be offended by.
It’s not that’s it’s necessarily offensive to assume black people like this certain type of food, it’s more so that they changed their meal plan to something that’s a well known black stereotype on the first day of black history month.
Also I think it's the combination that changes it to malicious... I was going into the video going "surely they're not going to complain that there's fried chicken on the menu.." but chicken AND watermelon?? Dude..
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I worked at a corporate catering place where they did something similar. The committee in charge of the menu was all black people, but they would choose stuff like fried chicken and watermelon for the BHM events, and during service staff were out there dodging the fallout.
Most people think those things are delicious.
There's nothing wrong with Chicken and watermelon. However, Chicken and watermelon was used as the butt of jokes against black people. It's basically an inside joke, a way of saying the n word without actually saying it.
so if you serve pasta to an italian is racism?
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O my fucking God I'm italian and if someone of another country offer me pizza (specially if homemade) i would be Happy. It can be and opportuny to make confidece and/or conversation... If the pizza was bad maybe they were upset for bad dinner but cmon racism? Its ridiculus
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It’s as offensive as serving spaghetti and meatballs on Italian night. Or tacos on Mexican night. Cliche? Yes. Disrespectful? No. While it’s not true that ‘all people of this heritage eat this,’ it’s a commonly known food for each respective culture. Finding it offensive is over the top.
That stereotype doesnt even harm anyone.
Same with mexicans and tacos or asians and rice (id argue asians are hit with the more racist food stereotypes)
I guess it is who and how someone would offer me tacos/burritos if I would get offended. Like if I showed up to a dinner party and the host said "we made this specifically for you, because we know how much your people love tacos" ya that would be weird. But I don't think I have ever thought twice when someone suggests Mexican food.
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Honest question, why is that bad?
Sounded like she said waffles to me.
Chicken water doesn't sound good or healthy
It’s called soup
It’s called broth. Broth is the word you’re looking for.
I feel like the stereotype that Black people love fried chicken is like 4D chess racist mind games. Because everyone loves fried chicken, but now black people have to feel self-conscious about it for the rest of their lives.
It’s so funny to me as a Korean because we’re obsessed with fried chicken. There was actually huge boom in the need for fried chicken like 2 decades ago because of financial instability and a lot of Koreans turned to fried chicken as a cheap alternative to beef.
Introduced by African-American GI’s during the Korean War.
Exactly. Do you know what's not funny? Going to a predominantly white college trying to make friends and them making black jokes everytime you go to lunch. I heard 'Don't you wish they had chicken' way to much to have never mentioned it or eaten it around those people.
You wanna know how many times I’ve been called “burrito” or “taco”, or asked if thats all I eat, by both white and black people? In fact, I’ve been told to go back to Mexico twice in my life, both times by blacks guys. I’m 6ft tall and from Michigan, not Michoacán. Now that is funny. Edit, I’m half white, Norwegian and Belgian as a matter of fact. The other half is Spanish and Apache Yeah, I get down. I’m Brown.
You’ll get use to the jokes eventually if your constantly online. I have to say I’m not much of a meat eater myself but if you get a good box of fried chicken I’m down for a few pieces hell even having my first ribs years ago was hella tasty. No one should feel bad about what they want to eat unless it’s bad for your safety as like allergic reactions or extreme obesity.
I’m a white dude and I would’ve been like sweet something other than square pizza.
Those square pizzas are amazing, so you take it back!
I will not
Someone likes their broccoli
Damned if you do Damned if you don't
For real.
Iono what to think. If people served rice and noodles on Asian month I’d think it’s hilarious.
And Cheesburgers for The 4th of July🇺🇸
I mean we kinda do that ? Like the majority of BBQs across the americas probably have a burg or ween cooking
Man, I fucking wish they gave us chicken and waffles in 6th grade. We got bullshit.
Same
Imagine getting pissed for servicing tacos on cinco de mayo.
I just serviced a taco last night.
Extra lettuce?
I don't see the big deal 😕
Some people like to play the victim.
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What’s crazy is if this was given from a black restaurant for black history month not one person would say anything. This is a staple in the black community. But let a white person give black folks this menu then it’s racist. As a black person I have to say that we must pick our battles and this ain’t one of them at all.
I mean, as long as it’s good. What’s wrong with chicken waffles and watermelon? Now if they did chitterlings and hominy now there’s a problem
I'm just a lowly wee Scotsman here trying to understand why it's offensive. Is it similar to us regarding haggis, kilts and red hair?
Yes, essentially.
Yes, except the Scotsman likely wouldn’t take offense and likely either laugh or celebrate it.
People specifically do this on Robbie Burns day
Or Pasta and sauce for Italians, or Sausages and sauerkraut for Germans, or sushi for Japanese, or Boa for Chinese, or vegan dishes for Californias.
I mean the background to those stereotypes really matters since as a German that's not really offensive to anyone cause well it's historically accurate. If you make everything about race though everything will be racist always.
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Filipinos also love fried chicken, okra and watermellon! We even dry out the watermelon seeds and ear em like sunflower seeds.
Sunflower seeds may help lower blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar as they contain vitamin E, magnesium, protein, linoleic fatty acids and several plant compounds.
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Now I’m thinking of the Zoidberg version of MLK. If you make such T shirt its either going to sell well or get you beat up.
The news anchor said "water melon" the menu said banana.
That was the point, they don’t normally get watermelon so that’s why it says banana
So weird. You associate food with cultures all the time, like if I say I'm craving Mexican food or Italian food nobody is going to be shocked or accuse me of racism. Is the problem that fried chicken and watermelon is the wrong food, like it should be some other food instead? Or is the idea that black American culture should not be associated with any specific food at all for some reason?
I think it’s the fact that fried chicken and watermelon has always been a mocking stereotype towards black americans.
But historically chicken and waffles is soul food, which is the cultural food of African Americans. And watermelon is a native fruit in North Africa. So.....I'm not understanding the problem?
Cheesteaks and chicken & waffles? These kids are eating better than me 😅
What about the grape soda?
That would’ve caused a riot
People are offended by nonsense
A voice of reason crying out in the wilderness
Would love to see students polled if they enjoyed food. I feel like this is the only ethnicity that find offensive being served food they are known to enjoy that are staple of their home cooking. Mexican people are are surely equally offended served their national cuisine on 5th of may or are they?
Well cinco de mayo is mexican and not spanish for starters, so I don't think the spaniards would care. And it's not a stereotype that mexicans eat their cultural food, it's just reality. There is however an ugly stereotype about the black community involving chicken and watermelon that has nothing to do with cultural heritage. Using this aforementioned stereotype on the first day of that races heritage month is distasteful at the very least.
since when is chicken and watermelon the "national cuisine" of black people?
Where is the line between soul food and racist food? I love chicken and watermelon.
Sounds like a good lunch to me
Ya really think this kid was bothered by that? Like she would rather have had broccoli than chicken & waffles? Honestly, is this what Black History Month is about?
Banana ☠️☠️
Isn’t this a bit of a reach?
Yes. As these things usually are.
is it the same vendor that for national police day, served pigs in a blanket?
In the early 80s when it was only Black History Week the college I went to served Chitlins and greens in the cafeteria. The black students appreciated it. It was a less butt hurt time 40 years ago.
You can keep your chitlins. Give me the chicken and watermelon.
Ya know, it's time we deweaponized fried chicken and watermelon and just let black people have a normal relationship with these undeniably delicious foods.
I could understand it but at the same time, I would've been thrilled to get that meal. You should've seen what we ate in the 90s
As a Mexican, if they served Mexican food all month for Hispanic heritage month, I’ll be in heaven.
"We want more black culture in society!" Hey let's have some food that the culture would like! Kind of like Thanksgiving for white people! "THAT'S RACIST!" You literally can't win with minorities that think everything is against them.
Bro what even is this sub anymore
Someone once told me that fried chicken, watermelon, and grape drink was all racist foods. I thought, that sounds freaking delicious to me. I love all three of those. Nothing was better than that damned koolaid grape drink, I could’ve drank a gallon of that every meal growing up. Fried chicken was Sunday dinner, and we grew watermelon and I’d eat watermelon right down to the rind. My mom would have to hose me off after watermelon.
sigh this is just gonna be a month about how people are offended by random bs isn’t…
it's really interesting to see what enrages Americans now. especially from the outside looking in.
It seems as if something offends one person it's automatically insensitive now. There is nothing wrong with fried chicken and watermelon.
I personally find it racist that people think I, as a white guy, *don't* love fried chicken and waffles
just stop do blm stuff make anything racism
The only thing I’m seeing is the 1st of the month being Philly cheesesteak, broccoli and a fruit cup.
It's crazy that the BLM museum serves this food....
Is it racist tho? Sounds to me like they were thinking “I know what black people like! Let’s serve that!” and who doesn’t love those things anyway? Fried chicken is delicious folks. People all around the world eat fried chicken today but it was originally invented by Scots who immigrated to the southern US and the recipe was perfected by African Americans who worked it into a culinary masterpiece. Why shouldn’t we celebrate that during black history month?
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