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

[Doobie Doo]

that's exactly why it's our food, it developed based on what we had access to, there's a lot behind it. and all of it aint nasty scraps - pork chops, chicken - not feet, cuts of beef etc. there are some things people cook i never fukked with, pig feet, hoghead cheese, chitterlings

and please point me to where fried chicken and mac and cheese came from Europe? i wont say we developed it, but that shyt seems like an american thing. i never came across mac and cheese in all the euro countries i been to.

in fact:



so yea, definitely wouldn't say it was some euro stuff...is born of the AfAm experience (our exposure to both cultures)

Breh there is a quote in your response that said Fried Chicken originated in Scotland and West Africa, the two CONTINENTS I named in my original response. I said Europe and Africa, SCOTLAND is a part of Europe. Mac and Cheese is French, You answered you're own question.

 

[Th3G3ntleman]

Grandma is 42 and only know how to cook hotdogs and hotpockets. Maybe can get real fancy and whip up some mac and cheese for special occasions

but mama 27 and has never really cooked a day in her life beyond Pizza Rolls and frozen dinners.


They never had any experience with Soul Food (maybe grandma had a mother or aunt who knew how to throw down in the kitchen ) so why would these new kids have any idea what is unless great grandma is in the picture. Then they prob complain that there's no brown rice or that the juice from the collard greens got on their bbq rib

Damn the women in your family are fast whores

 

[Easy-E]

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.

i asked my Mom to make jambalya with Turkey

I think Gen Z'r just can't cook

 

[Luke Cage]

i asked my Mom to make jambalya with Turkey

I think Gen Z'r just can't cook

actually people don't have a problem with cajun food, or carribean, or BBQ. It's just the southern style soul food that seems to be falling off the radar.

 

[cjlaw93]

Vegan soul food plate

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[BelowTheMasonDixon]

I have a friend like this and it’s annoying!

This is me. I never really fukked with soul food, but I'm a picky ass eater.

Oh I know, you think after coming home from work, smoking a blunt or getting drunk a 25yr old breh gonna get in the kitchen? You think momma making baked fish, spinach and brown rice? Lol fukk nah. Most young cats be eating fast food like 4 or 5 days out the week and every hood got that chicken spot u can get like 6 wings and a shyt load of fries for like 5.99. shyt half the time that be a day worth of food.

 

[J-Fire]

Fried Chicken and Fried Fish spots do fine and that's half the equation, lol.

 

[FlimFlam]

I never personally got into buying soul food (bbq fried fish etc...i do the wangs though lol) ...i think i have ONCE in my life and im not kidding...my mother of that old school ilk where she was proud to cook and feed the whole damn block! And would get offended if you even suggested that someone had a comparable or better plate! Thats jus her....then my aunties, some uncles neighbors friends parents n shyt...i never felt motivated to go out n buy it...at least in its traditionally interpreted form

Now all soul food aint unhealthy...a pot of greens can be the healthiest shyt you can eat and you dont have to sacrifice flavor jus cause you didnt use ham hocks fat back etc.....

And lets stop referring to it as "slave food"...we brought alot if culinary traditions , and food, with us from africa....as well as developed new ones due to new crops environments food etc ...its alot more nuanced than being a RESULT of slavery, vs an observable component of our lives during it....we dont call blues n jazz "slave music"....drums n strings "slave instruments "....stop that...its a display of black resilience and ingenuity..and, yes, it as a whole can be updated and improved ....of course...jus saying

And as far as the pig feet, ears, chitlins, chicken feet etc...i dont know if yall caught this but people of humble positions around the world(rather they have a legacy of slavery or not) typically dont waste animal parts routinely...would you rather hear us driving buffalo to extinction by skinning them and leaving the carcass to fester n rot? Then in the next thread well shyt on each other for supposedly being wasteful wit money! C'mon now...conservatism (not in the political sense) is a problem now!?

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Breh there is a quote in your response that said Fried Chicken originated in Scotland and West Africa, the two CONTINENTS I named in my original response. I said Europe and Africa, SCOTLAND is a part of Europe. Mac and Cheese is French, You answered you're own question.

fried chicken is universal from euorpe, africa and asia but southern fried chicken is afram

The first dish known to have been deep fried was fritters, which were popular in the Middle Ages. However, it was the Scottish who were the first Europeans to deep fry their chicken in fat (though without seasoning). Meanwhile, a number of West African peoples had traditions of seasoned fried chicken (though battering and cooking the chicken in palm oil). Scottish frying techniques and West African seasoning techniques were combined by enslaved Africans and African-Americans in the American South. Prior to the Second World War, fried chicken was often very expensive and was only enjoyed on special occasions. In the late 1900s and early 2000s, however, fried chicken has been mass-produced and the price of the dish has gone down significantly.

When being cooked, fried chicken is often divided into smaller pieces. The chicken is then generally covered in a batter, often consisting of ingredients such as eggs or milk, and a thickener such as flour. This is used to create a crust on the exterior of the meat. In addition, seasoning is often added at this stage. Once the chicken is ready to be cooked, it is placed in a deep fryer, frying pan or pressure cooker (depending on the method used) and fried in lard or a type of oil.

The dish has created a large number of spin-off recipes which are commonly used around the world. For example, Korean fried chicken, a dish which is commonly served as fast food in Korea and is known for being crispier than normal fried chicken. There is also a racial stereotype surrounding fried chicken and African-American people, mostly because it was popular among slaves in the American Civil War.

 

[J-Fire]

Oh I know, you think after coming home from work, smoking a blunt or getting drunk a 25yr old breh gonna get in the kitchen? You think momma making baked fish, spinach and brown rice? Lol fukk nah. Most young cats be eating fast food like 4 or 5 days out the week and every hood got that chicken spot u can get like 6 wings and a shyt load of fries for like 5.99. shyt half the time that be a day worth of food.

Old glory collard greens are the starter kit y'all old family members used with the fresh greens, lol.

You can pick up a can of greens, lol.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Breh there is a quote in your response that said Fried Chicken originated in Scotland and West Africa, the two CONTINENTS I named in my original response. I said Europe and Africa, SCOTLAND is a part of Europe. Mac and Cheese is French, You answered you're own question.

unless i missed something, you said it was european. i said it's american - well the style we rock with - as it clearly was created by black americans combining african and european customs. it's OUR food

 

[IllmaticDelta]

actually people don't have a problem with cajun food, or carribean, or BBQ. It's just the southern style soul food that seems to be falling off the radar.

those are southern

Cuisine of the Southern United States - Wikipedia

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

There are more healthy Soul Food options than there are non healthy options. Soul Food is 100 percent our food. What food they gave Enslaved people when they barely ate in the first place. They wasn’t even gettin pig scraps.

This. A thread put me up on game on how they were starved. Cruel AF! Also, no energy to revolt and fight back. They were too hungry to even fathom that.

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

Old glory collard greens are the starter kit y'all old family members used with the fresh greens, lol.

You can pick up a can of greens, lol.

nikkas really out here eating greens out of a can? Ain't gonna have my ancestors looking down on me like

 

[ELESDEE616]

Good. It kills you. Almost killed my dad. Probably makes you dumb too.


I'll eat it once a year or at special occasions. Other than that, leave it alone.