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

[IllmaticDelta]

For shizzle....i reject this chitlins overabundance talk wholeheartedly....that shyt is made a few times a year TOPS...in most households....in my experience, its only readily available around thanksgiving

My fam only eats/makes chitlins for/around xmas/new years. It's not something that you fix/eat often.

 

[Luke Cage]

That would be fukking disgusting

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[K.O.N.Y]

My fam only eats/makes chitlins for/around xmas/new years. It's not something that you fix/eat often.

for c00ns "chitlins" is code and a trigger for "old negro"
its the perfect gateway food to shyt on afram culture. And use the "slave food" angle as justification

 

[IllmaticDelta]

for c00ns "chitlins" is code and a trigger for "old negro"
its the perfect gateway food to shyt on afram culture. And use the "slave food" angle as justification

yup...Im hip to it....I can see/sense the

 

[im_sleep]

still eating wrong for our bodies...just cuz people stopped consuming soul food as much doesn't mean we as a people have replaced it with healthier alternatives, doesn't mean we're not eating too many calories, too many (simple) carbs and sugar (the number of threads in this forum alone where people can't give up soda while others tell them drink juice instead of soda alone is enough to let you know we haven't educated ourselves about nutrition), fatty foods, not enough veggies and fruit (again, just on this forum you'll see people admit to not eating these food groups).


pair that with food deserts, poor living conditions, high stress lives, poverty, predispositions to certain diseases and less access to (or use of) medical care, those are all reasons health issues persist


furthermore, i don't think this thread was really focusing on millennialized "healthy soul food", it's clear they were talking the shyt our grandparents/parents used to throw down.

In your first two paragraphs we’re essentially saying the same thing. My thing is simply, we have a multitude of culprits that contribute more to our poor health yet somehow Soul Food, our culinary heritage, takes the bulk of the blame. I can’t rock with that. We don’t have to throw the baby out with the bath water. Soul Food doesn’t take a whole lot of modification to eat healthier, nothing’s stopping anyone from doing so, and no one in this thread is judging anyone from doing so, if anything it’s encouraged.

Our issue is that too many young folks, some older too, have a one-track perspective of Soul Food that vilifies it beyond reproach. All logic goes out the window and you get a bunch of mindless self-loathing tropes about “slave food” “that’s whats killing us” “pig scraps” “massa this massa that” and other uppity emotionalisms masked in fake consciousness, yet holding very little substance when challenged.

Most “health” food is a healthier modification of an existing ethnic dish. Why can’t ours get that benefit of the doubt? Why must it be thrown away completely?

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

not for you breh....didn't you JUST get out the hospital cuz of a coma.....you the last one who needs to eat Soul Food and that's just keeping it real and wanting to see a breh live long

stay away

Lmaooooo this nikka put his business out there and somebody mushed him with it

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

We still love soul food but

1. A lot of us can’t cook that anymore
2. I’m not paying soul food restaurant prices. Soul food restaurants in NY are downright predatory at this point with pricing. Even jamaican oxtail countin asses don’t tax like that. Spot in The Stuy charge you 3.75 for a little ass piece of cornbread the size of a ringpop

Very few young Black people are gonna turn down some Hog maw, okra black eye peas or anything we grew up eating in them summer days

Excellent post...depending on the city (NYC especially) Soul Food eating represents disposable income

Can’t say the young nikkax in debt due to loans then wonder why nobodies eating the Mac & cheese

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

In your first two paragraphs we’re essentially saying the same thing. My thing is simply, we have a multitude of culprits that contribute more to our poor health yet somehow Soul Food, our culinary heritage, takes the bulk of the blame. I can’t rock with that. We don’t have to throw the baby out with the bath water. Soul Food doesn’t take a whole lot of modification to eat healthier, nothing’s stopping anyone from doing so, and no one in this thread is judging anyone from doing so, if anything it’s encouraged.

Our issue is that too many young folks, some older too, have a one-track perspective of Soul Food that vilifies it beyond reproach. All logic goes out the window and you get a bunch of mindless self-loathing tropes about “slave food” “that’s whats killing us” “pig scraps” “massa this massa that” and other uppity emotionalisms masked in fake consciousness, yet holding very little substance when challenged.

Most “health” food is a healthier modification of an existing ethnic dish. Why can’t ours get that benefit of the doubt? Why must it be thrown away completely?

when i see this topic, i guess i think of it as people throwing away the idea of it as part of a regular diet, which for many years, families were having it at least weekly.

but keeping the recipes on deck for the occasional use, nah, we int bushing it. i don't know too many people who are willing to pull up at thanksgiving without baked dressing, mac and cheese, greens with the meat all it, gravy, rolls etc and aint nobody making air fried fish and quinoaloaf instead of cornbread.

 

[K.O.N.Y]

Our issue is that too many young folks, some older too, have a one-track perspective of Soul Food that vilifies it beyond reproach. All logic goes out the window and you get a bunch of mindless self-loathing tropes about “slave food” “that’s whats killing us” “pig scraps” “massa this massa that” and other uppity emotionalisms masked in fake consciousness, yet holding very little substance when challenged.

yet they keep going because there is this innate "WANT", to believe in the negative aspect of it

 

[im_sleep]

when i see this topic, i guess i think of it as people throwing away the idea of it as part of a regular diet, which for many years, families were having it at least weekly.

but keeping the recipes on deck for the occasional use, nah, we int bushing it. i don't know too many people who are willing to pull up at thanksgiving without baked dressing, mac and cheese, greens with the meat all it, gravy, rolls etc and aint nobody making air fried fish and quinoaloaf instead of cornbread.

I’m cool with people eating it occasionally, as long as there not dismissing it completely. I do want more people to consider healthier alternatives that they can incorporate more often into their diet.

Like this for example


Really good book that’s based on small modifications(no meat, less salt, alternative spices) that keeps the same traditional dishes and cooking techniques with a minor twist here and there.

 

[im_sleep]

yet they keep going because there is this innate "WANT", to believe in the negative aspect of it

Maybe some of it goes back to what you mentioned earlier.

Maybe some folks who didn’t grow up with it like that for whatever reason feel left out and lash out at everyone else about it out of insecurity. Not saying that’s 100% the case 100% of the time, but I’ve seen people get down right irrational when you challenge them on this topic and hit them with facts, almost fanatical about it...idk man I can’t call it shyt is weird lol.

 

[Makavalli]

Just finished eating some mac and cheese and bbq ribs leftover from fathers day

 

[K.O.N.Y]

Maybe some of it goes back to what you mentioned earlier.

Maybe some folks who didn’t grow up with it like that for whatever reason feel left out and lash out at everyone else about it out of insecurity. Not saying that’s 100% the case 100% of the time, but I’ve seen people get down right irrational when you challenge them on this topic and hit them with facts, almost fanatical about it...idk man I can’t call it shyt is weird lol.

This is 100% the case.

Folks that grew up with good afram/soul cooking understand the nuances

So you wont get the "bu but but unhealthy"

or the "in moderation"

types....
as this is already culturally understood amongst modern aframs who are in good culinary order culturally. Know damn well we aint eating this except on sunday or occasion

theres no room for "hotep" in that space. Whats already understood doesnt need to be said

 

[cjlaw93]

We eatin Soul Food cakes now brehs

 

[Super Ramon Jr]

Soul food clogs arteries. No thanks