Have y’all noticed younger Blacks don’t really fw Soul Food

[Tenchi Ryu]

Threads like these remind me why I don't wanna go to most of you nikkas house for the holidays.

Saying no to neck bones and shyt, fukk wrong with yall

:brehcorrectyourself:


Afraid to see some of y'all mac and cheese, prolly individual ass noodles with watery ass sauce around it

:brehcorrectyourself:

 

[Contrefaire]

I don't know anybody around my age (20s) that doesn't fukk with soul food. I've never heard of this before.

 

[DaPresident]

Damn the women in your family are fast whores

 

[EndDomination]

The young generation like to think of themselves as more "global" and mess with other cultures cuisines rather than their own these days. Soul Food is increasingly associated as "fat", "oil", "too much servings". "pork".

Its all of these things. Add sodium to that list.
I like my greens with ham hock or salt pork.
But I also sauté my kale.

Because the younger generation of blacks (28 yrs and younger) wanna be black, act black, talk black, have black swag but a lot of them are obsessed with white culture and they don’t even realize it.


They wear clothes that used to be exclusively worn by whites, they wanna be hipsters, they wanna eat at white restaurants In stuck up white neighborhoods because it “looks”swankier and more “high end” when they take their pictures for IG and it will make it look/feel like they have this polished, glitzy luxurious life::..

This new generation secretly wants what white people have and wanna go where white people go, they don’t want to live like their elders because history has taught them to equate living black with (living poor/more modestly) so therefore they don’t want any parts of that living. And sometimes that includes the food we eat....



Not to mention most of this generation can’t cook worth a damn and also a lot of the soul food spots these days ain’t even owned by blacks

There are no clothes that "used to be exclusievly worn by Whites," Black Americans literally invented hipsters, they were copy-cats from the beatniks trying to be as cool as the urban Black people of the 40s, and there's nothing wrong with eating high-end food.

What does it mean to live like my Elders, anyway? My paternal elders grew up sharecropping in Alabama I'm good on that lifestyle.
My paternal grandparents were college educated Black middle-class/upper-middle class, that's the life I'm going for

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Personally I just try to eat a healthier version of soul food. 80 percent of it is vegan anyway (collard greens, black eye peas, cabbage, Stuffing)

nikka where? my fam is rooted in Louisiana, Miss and Texas, and when the OG's was cooking that shyt - greens and black eye peas had meat, cabbage fried in bacon fat or had bacon pieces in it, corn fried/sauteed in bacon fat or lard, gizzards and run off from the baked chicken/turkey is always in the dressing, yams full of sugar and butter, the stewed meats were still high cholesterol, fatty pieces on top of that it was either floured and smothered or had gravy on it...

now it could just be my experience (tho this extends to places i've eaten out and dinners done by friends' families as well as church members), but the soul food i was exposed to growing up aint never been healthy or close to vegan. you can definitely lighten up all these dishes, but if you had people born prior to 1960 heading up the cooking, that shyt was not healthy, vegan, etc.

Shout out to Brown Sugar Cafe in Oakland for restoring the feeling. Black people making black food in a black city. God bless that chef.

Brown Sugar Kitchen overrated den a MF, definitely not worth the wait

Someone needs to hipsterize Soul Food. Pack the food in a small cardboard box and sell it from a food truck.

this has already happened, had soul food burritos, also seen people using big whole leaf collard as the wrapper for bbq & mac and cheese wraps

 

[Whogivesafuck]

He is a Jamaican

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Threads like these remind me why I don't wanna go to most of you nikkas house for the holidays.

Saying no to neck bones and shyt, fukk wrong with yall

:brehcorrectyourself:


Afraid to see some of y'all mac and cheese, prolly individual ass noodles with watery ass sauce around it

:brehcorrectyourself:

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

the "grits with sugar" divide is almost as big as the "well done/medium well" vs "medium/medium rare" debate, let's not go there

 

[cjlaw93]

He is a Jamaican

A Jamaicac

 

[Canon]

i have noticed this, it mostly because millennials are on that health food wave and nobody has tried to put a healthy alternative twist to soul food yet. at not in mainstream way. Millennial's are waiting for that gluten free organic vegan friendly naturally sweetened peach cobbler.

 

[IrateMastermind]

People be messing up the food, I caught my roommate in college putting sugar in his grits. I've never been so offended in my life

Let somebody put something other than sugar in my grits if there's no meat in it

Grits with sugar is

Salt, butter and a little creole seasoning for that extra kick is

Dont forget Tabasco or Louisiana hot sauce for the brehs that like to venture onto the wild side

I'd rather go hungry

 

[R=G]

Every time I’m in a Soul Food spot it’s nothing but Oldheads/ Middle Aged in there.
Do youngins just not fw Soul Food or you think it’s because they didn’t grow up on it like that?
I guess youngins fw the Wing Spots more (Asian/ Middle Eastern owned )
Y’all think this is because of recent culture ?
No more Candy Ladys..just Arab stores

In case you ain't noticed...younger blacks act white. Clothing..ways...the way they bytch up in several confrontational situations when whites get out of pocket...its a disgrace really.

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

i have noticed this, it mostly because millennials are on that health food wave and nobody has tried to put a healthy alternative twist to soul food yet. at not in mainstream way. Millennial's are waiting for that gluten free organic vegan friendly naturally sweetened peach cobbler.

This is dumb and not true. I say this as a millennial who talks other black millennial about the best soul food spots in the area. This generalization bullshyt is so dumb

 

[R=G]

Even tho I don’t agree with this, whose fault is that?

Their for being phony and wanting to LIVE white. When they get those Black problems..who are they go run to?

Britney Renner is kind of wild and mixed but she damn sure is Black and not on that other shyt. Ayisha Diaz is a ultra pretty Instagram Black but hangs around Blacks and other Dominicans...only dates Blacks too. They didnt lose their selves..they wanted the easy but still kept their personality and arent walking sell outs.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

What's wrong with neckbones?

I’m dead!

I didn’t know people were still fukkin with neckbones like that lol. I was off that when I moved out my mama house. You do you though