How come Caribbeans don't call their food 'slave food' but Native Black Americans call Soul Food

[invalid]

It was slave food because cacs gave slaves the worst most detestable animals & crustaceans to eat. Those cacs wasnt eating pig feet , pig intestines, crabs… nikkas was eat hog mauls (testicles) and shyt. Now days nobody force us to eat it, it’s like a curse that’s being passed down from generation to generation.

The History of Chitlin’s

Most people of color believe that Chitlin’s were “invented” by slaves who received the last of the unwanted meat from the annual hog killings of their slave masters. We did the best with what we had and Chitlin’s was one of the dishes that we made with the “extras.” And this is partially true. Chitlin’s as well as bacon and other pig meat were given to slaves as the leftovers.

However, it is important to note that eating Chitlin’s and other animals intestines were not invented by slaves or even in America at all. American Black Slaves still held close to their West African heritage and rituals which included using intestines to be sacrificed to the gods, the Hausa actually eat the intestines of chickens. This highlights the fact that eating an animal’s innards is a signature of the West African Diaspora, not just an imposition of white slave owners. Please also note that many slave masters requested Chitlin’s as a dish to be prepared for them because eating an animal’s intestines is quite popular in Britain and France. So conceptually this dish is one that both slave and slave master were enjoying because it was a part of both of their cultures before they were in America.

The notion that chitterlings, hog’s head cheese, pig feet, and ham hocks are not a part of the experience of white people is a strange one, but one can still encounter such views today. A typical example reads as follows:

Soul food is a triumph of the unconquerable spirit of African-Americans, which is celebrated each February during Black History Month.

Slaves were forced to eat the animal parts their masters threw away. They cleaned and cooked pig intestines and called them “chitterlings.” They took the butts of oxen and christened them “ox tails.” Same thing for pigs’ tails, pigs’ feet, chicken necks, smoked neck bones, hog jowls and gizzards.[3]

When the origins of chitterlings and associated foods of the South are examined, however, what emerges is that these are foods that, far from originating in African American culture – or even the wider Southern culture – are derived from the foodways of England.

References to chitterlings, brawn/souse (hog’s head cheese), and pig feet can be found in numerous English sources, as can recipes. Chitterlings appear in the 1761 Royal English Dictionary, for example, where they are referred to as ‘the guts or bowels, generally applied to those of beasts fit for food’.[4] Similarly, ‘chitterlings’ is listed in A General Dictionary of Provincialisms (1838) as a word referring to ‘the small guts of hogs’.[5] The 18th century English cookery book Dictionarium Domesticum, being a new and compleat houshold [sic] dictionary, for the use both of city and country (1736) includes recipes for hog’s chitterlings, hog’s head cheese, and hog’s feet and ears:

Hannah Glasse’s The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy (1747) was influential both in England and in the United States: Martha Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin all owned copies, with Franklin enjoying it so much that he brought it with him when he travelled to France.[9] Glasse grew up on an English country estate and went on to be a cook in an earl’s household. Her childhood foods were luxurious and in her job she was cooking for the upper classes, so the dishes in her book can hardly be seen as poverty foods.

 

[King]

MLK himself was reeled in by the c00ning ass church for doing too much.

And he himself was brought in to stifle the real ones putting in work like the SNCC.

He finally started to change his tone a bit of pandering to white liberals for sympathy once he got his wake up call in Chicago

 

[get these nets]

I’ve had cornbread with corn before as well and liked it. Not sure if that way of preparing is specific to any region in the south.

Thanks

 

[get these nets]

I don’t think it’s regional, probably more of an individual practice, but I could be wrong.

Thanks

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

MLK himself was reeled in by the c00ning ass church for doing too much.

And he himself was brought in to stifle the real ones putting in work like the SNCC.

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[Luke Cage]

MLK himself was reeled in by the c00ning ass church for doing too much.

And he himself was brought in to stifle the real ones putting in work like the SNCC.

He finally started to change his tone a bit of pandering to white liberals for sympathy once he got his wake up call in Chicago

Nobody who was willing to be out in the streets getting locked up, beat up, bloodied and ultimately killed for his cause can ever be accused of c00ning. How many of these so called “militants” had shed as much blood as mlk?
Judging by his ACTIONS (not speeches) dude was low key the most militant black person of the 20th century.

(side note: my grandpa dated coretta before they met.)

 

[Sindicated]

Been African American my whole life and predominantly lived around African Americans for 20+ years never heard anyone refer to it as slave food, who tf yall be around?

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Dudes trying to throw subtle little jabs and end up exposing themselves…

 

[Asicz]

yea pig is trash

"New York is trash" is a statement based opinion and preference

You saying "pig is trash" is suppose to be enlightening?

Your presence in this thread is not needed

Leave!

 

[get these nets]

Nobody who was willing to be out in the streets getting locked up, beat up, bloodied and ultimately killed for his cause can ever be accused of c00ning. How many of these so called “militants” had shed as much blood as mlk?

Glad I have whoever said that on ignore. From the comfort of the 21st century and gains fought for by generations of AAs, clowns fix their faces to label the ones who spurred those gains/change names and slurs. Complete clowns with no self respect.

 

[invalid]

Here yall go with this internet ass shyt.

Show me proof of “West Coast Blacks” as a collective lacking knowledge of Black history, traditions, etc.

Show me proof of a collective of “West Coast Blacks” who don’t know the Black churches place in the culture?

Where do yall come up with this? Lol. That’s HIS goofy c00n ass with that bullshyt.

Outside of certain parts of LA and Oakland there is a genuine lack of black culture on the west coast. The only folks I know who’ve retained a sense of black culture on the west coast outside of those areas are those that chose to go back south to attend HBCUs.

This has been a common complaint for YEARS among black folks who relocated to the west coast from other regions. The resounding theme has been lack of black identity, lack of cohesiveness, lack of community.

 

[Asicz]

Been African American my whole life and predominantly lived around African Americans for 20+ years never heard anyone refer to it as slave food, who tf yall be around?

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Dudes trying to throw subtle little jabs and end up exposing themselves…

If you want to continue to play naive put the "Slave food" in the search box on Twitter and it HUNDREDS of post from Black people calling it that African American and other Black enthicities especially when a chitlin video and image was posted.

Who's exactly being exposed?
And what subtle jabs were thrown? Don't be afraid to say exactly what you are referring to instead

 

[Hater Eraser]

He’s from the west coast and it’s a reason why black people who move to the west coast say they feel disconnected from other blacks or don’t feel any sort of community there.

A lot of west coast blacks lack the connectedness to black history, place, and tradition.

Like him, they will act like the black church wasn’t the first black institution to gain full independence from white oversight.

Didn’t provide leadership to black people who were denied ambition.

Didn’t provide education to blacks who were denied learning.

Didn’t provide upward mobility to blacks who were constrained by caste.

Didn’t provide spiritual nourishment while our bodies were being broken down.

Zimbabwe posits himself as pro-black but will spit in the face of black history and culture to perform wokeness. Breh is lost in the sauce.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Well, we've had posters on these boards use Hitler as an authority regarding "race", a thread about 'purging' Jews, now, yet ANOTHER poster trying to 'shyt' on Martin Luther King, Jr.

What was that about "shame"???

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[Hater Eraser]

Here yall go with this internet ass shyt.

Show me proof of “West Coast Blacks” as a collective lacking knowledge of Black history, traditions, etc.

Show me proof of a collective of “West Coast Blacks” who don’t know the Black churches place in the culture?

Where do yall come up with this? Lol. That’s HIS goofy c00n ass with that bullshyt.

Lol I almost negged this nikka ..

 

[ElMorenoFeo809]

Any brehs nyc been to Jacob's in Harlem before? That was my 1st time eating soul food. My cuz introduced me to that spot years back. Ended up eating their a couple of time.