Charles Barkey- "Plantains are nasty"

[Higher Tech]

I’ve had em a few times. They’re ok, but I never seek em out.

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

Maybe us AA's generally don't fukk w/ those foods because we weren't brought up on that

Ofc we're more American than African, we built this motherfukker and been here for centuries.

Lastly, "Negro" has been historically used to describe AA, and Soul Food staples are negro foods not jollof or fufu.

Jollof = jambalaya with different meats

Gumbo = we ate it there AND here but probably changed up the spices to adapt to whatever was available here

We used sweet potatoes because there were no yams in the Americas.

Okra...we mostly ate that on both sides of the Atlantic.

Plantains, I'll give you that. Really depends on where in the U.S., you're from and the kinds of foods you like to eat. Most brehs will like either the fried/chip variety or the more sweet variety if done right (IMO)

Cooking with heavy spices translates on both sides. We HAD to use spice in the Americas simply because we received the worst cuts of meat. In Africa we did it because that was how we liked our food.

BBQ is really the most American form of cooking and we basically started that shyt along with the Native Americans. And the only reason we did it was to make virtually inedible cuts of meat taste good. Everything else we do is some derivative of shyt we did in Africa but adjusted to the crops available to us here.

 

[Eternally Jaded]

I'm west Indian on both sides and I don't like plantains either. Only way I'll eat them is dried like chips, but I rather just eat chips tbh.

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

I hate bananas and not a fan of sweet potatoes (I’ll have one every few years). Just not my thing.

 

[NZA]

i just got done eating some thin fried ones from a salvadoran restaurant. they are good. they dont have a ton of flavor on their own. to me, it's like eating grits or potatoes. they are as good as the stuff you put on them

calling him a c00n over this is ridiculous, though.

 

[Rekkapryde]

definitely an ADOS vs non ADOS thing

alotta ADOS dont' fukk wit plantains cause it wasn't part of our diet/culture. that simple.

 

[mag357]

Man fukk that....fried muthafukin plantains with everything...

But I do know a few people who just don't fukk with bananas at all..
So I get it

 

[Rekkapryde]

Jollof = jambalaya with different meats

Gumbo = we ate it there AND here but probably changed up the spices to adapt to whatever was available here

We used sweet potatoes because there were no yams in the Americas.

Okra...we mostly ate that on both sides of the Atlantic.

Plantains, I'll give you that. Really depends on where in the U.S., you're from and the kinds of foods you like to eat. Most brehs will like either the fried/chip variety or the more sweet variety if done right (IMO)

Cooking with heavy spices translates on both sides. We HAD to use spice in the Americas simply because we received the worst cuts of meat. In Africa we did it because that was how we liked our food.

BBQ is really the most American form of cooking and we basically started that shyt along with the Native Americans. And the only reason we did it was to make virtually inedible cuts of meat taste good. Everything else we do is some derivative of shyt we did in Africa but adjusted to the crops available to us here.

didn't know BBQ was invented by the Natives either.

But hey every other thing belonging to them in North America has been jacked, so why not.

 

[mag357]

definitely an ADOS vs non ADOS thing

alotta ADOS dont' fukk wit plantains cause it wasn't part of our diet/culture. that simple.

It's gonna depend on where you're at...
If you grew up in a city where there's alot of different kind of ethnicities....you probly fukk with some dishes that aren't traditionally African American

 

[Jekyll]

Saying they are disgusting seems childish but to each their own. Personally they ok but I would rather have yams almost all the times I've had them.

 

[Asicz]

Anybody gonna call Fried Plaintains "Slave Food" like y'all do Soul food from the American South?

 

[im_sleep]

Different strokes, who gives a fukk.


Some real clown shyt to call someone a c00n about. Especially someone who didn’t grow up on them.

 

[Asicz]

Alabama produces alot of strong and ignorant c00ns.

...and that has nothing to do with the plantain comment. Just some real carry overs from slavery stuck on them.

Crazy how mods let a statement like this fly on this site


Let me say "Jamaica and Nigeria produce a lot of c00ns and Jaimacans got that Jamaican slavery and colonization on them.

Those Nigerians got that African slave trader in them and that African colonized mentality on them.

over a food a statement they made about their food preference...


lol smh

 

[EndGame]

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Jollof = jambalaya with different meats

Gumbo = we ate it there AND here but probably changed up the spices to adapt to whatever was available here

We used sweet potatoes because there were no yams in the Americas.

Okra...we mostly ate that on both sides of the Atlantic.

Plantains, I'll give you that. Really depends on where in the U.S., you're from and the kinds of foods you like to eat. Most brehs will like either the fried/chip variety or the more sweet variety if done right (IMO)

Cooking with heavy spices translates on both sides. We HAD to use spice in the Americas simply because we received the worst cuts of meat. In Africa we did it because that was how we liked our food.

BBQ is really the most American form of cooking and we basically started that shyt along with the Native Americans. And the only reason we did it was to make virtually inedible cuts of meat taste good. Everything else we do is some derivative of shyt we did in Africa but adjusted to the crops available to us here.

You got any receipts?

 

[TEKBEATZ]

Plantains are the goat.