Is it me or do black people make the best spaghetti?

[hatealot]

I googled "salmon cakes with spaghetti" and that was the only pic where the spaghetti had tomato sauce It was the closest example to when I eat fish cakes & spaghetti IRL. My portions are much bigger and its not chef Boyardee spaghetti either

We take our food serious breh. I felt really hurt you posted that struggle plate. Like the white folks say, I'm so mad I'm shaking. I was really mad lol.

I grew up on fish cakes and crab cakes, so it's real over here

 

[Absolut]

Looking like a 14 year old made a plate

 

[invalid]

Why have the ground beef spaghetti with the additional fish? Was it to make it stretch.

Not being a dikk just curious.

It’s a black American tradition.

1) Black Americans rarely eat spaghetti without any meat.

2) It was a tradition for black churches to have fish frys. The side that would accompany the fish for whatever reason was spaghetti.

So fried fish and spaghetti became a ‘thing’.

African foodways has a thing with pairing fish with tomato sauce or something with a tomato base. This black American tradition seems to be in the same vein as that.

 

[Nymbus]

lil bbq sauce mixed in

 

[keond]

I dont like "authentic" Italian spaghetti at all. But let me or wifey or any other blk folks make it and its fire.

 

[Henri Christophe]

I never got offered spaghetti with my Haitian ex or family. This shyt is mind blowing. I'm feeling some type of way

Its not a native food.... its a remix of a foreign food so maybe they wanted to offer you something more close to the culture.

We dont view Spaghetti as an elite meal.... its just something quick and easy to make.

 

[Caca-faat]

I was just curious about why go through the trouble of making a spaghetti bolognese with ground beef only to add an extra protein to the side. When you could just add extra ground beef and spaghetti to increase the amount. Plus garlic bread on the side would be extra filling.

 

[The Half-Blood FKA Prince]

Spaghetti on the side. It’s fire.

I like lo mein with tilapia, shyt slaps.

 

[Joe Budden]

I was just curious about why go through the trouble of making a spaghetti bolognese with ground beef only to add an extra protein to the side. When you could just add extra ground beef and spaghetti to increase the amount. Plus garlic bread on the side would be extra filling.

You in here asking a lot of questions

 

[BlackJesus]

It’s definitely not just you. It’s a fact

 

[GoAggieGo.]

Takes me back to being a youngin at church events at the park, or someone having a fish fry.

Spaghetti and catfish

 

[hatealot]

Its not a native food.... its a remix of a foreign food so maybe they wanted to offer you something more close to the culture.

We dont view Spaghetti as an elite meal.... its just something quick and easy to make.

It's interesting you said as an elite meal. Why did you use that specific term? Just curious , people commonly use food to determine class. BTW spaghetti I ate alot because it's the easiest meal to cook in a bind, my moms made it 2 times a week. It's a long pot for us.

BTW, my father dominican and I grew up under similar food from the island , I used to reject most of my American mother food, she couldn't cook for shyt. So it was always Jamaican and dominican food.

She just worked too much to actually up her skills. She never was home so it make sense

 

[TAYLONDO SAMSWORTHY]

Always keep the noodles and sauce separate and when time to eat u put how much sauce u want on the noodles.


Anyone who mixes the sauce with the noodles and serves it that way should be charged with a felony

 

[Caca-faat]

You in here asking a lot of questions

it's not a combination I've had before. Just seeking clarity.

 

[Dad]

and that texas toast garlic bread