My local supermarket stocks evil looking "food"

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Originally Posted by IronPlant

Er, I don't know what all this talk is of these foods being "black"? Those are southern foods, plain and simple. Yes, some of them, if not most of them orginated from black peoples in the way they are cooked, BUT white and black people alike have been eating them sense they were thought up. Well, your average white person anway. Very rich aristoecrats may have not ate them back in the day, but now, all southerns eat them (well everything BUT the above said meats, but that has more to do with fast food places making certain types of meat seem correct, than racism. The older members of my family have eaten most of those.)

Fun Fact. With out slavery the U.S. would most likely not have BBQ. The cooking process for BBQ orginated from slave owners, for whatever reason, giving their slaves entire pigs to cook for themselves. Not having the more elaborate cooking devices of the time, the slaves learned to cook said pigs in large pits dug in the grownd, giving birth to the first BBQ. This great taste caught on pretty quickly and was loved by all races in the U.S. from coast to coast. It was so loved that it was a common food to be given out at rallies for potential ellected officals.

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Those foods came from "blacks" because chitlins, tripe etc. were considered throw away meats that people didnt want and therefore cheap...

Collard greens and black eyed peas are mostly eaten by blacks.

These things carry on today, most whites I know dont eat this stuff, perhaps in boon stick west virginia but not around here....

But anywho.. fresh field snaps aka FRESH black eyed peas are the bomb yo...

You're wrong, Blackeyed Peas are a damn common food for alot of people. Cornbread too.

I guess you could consider some of our meals quite Southern. The Crock-Pot is good to just put a few cans of beans in, along with some bacon or ham, onions, hot sauce, etc. This is a meal that any poor college student can afford (after the price of the Crock Pot, but they last forever). Best when eaten with a side of cornbread.

And we eat black-eyed peas all the time. Had them last night, in fact.

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Originally Posted by Tracer

You're wrong, Blackeyed Peas are a damn common food for alot of people. Cornbread too.

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I said mostly, the post was mainly referring to chitlins and the like..

Not to get into a pissy fit but lets read a post, understand it, and stay calm before we reply... ;)

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Originally Posted by JMET

I said mostly, the post was mainly referring to chitlins and the like..

Not to get into a pissy fit but lets read a post, understand it, and stay calm before we reply... ;)

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What he said still stands. I don't know about where you're at, but in Texas and especially Louisiana, it's a very popular custom/superstition to eat blackeye peas at New Year's for good luck, and in Texas most people have a tendency to eat them all the time. In fact next to Pinto beans they're probably the second most popular legume out here...

I don't know about elsewhere in the South, but in West Texas white people eat "soul food" just as much as black people. There aren't too many people out here whose mouths don't water at the thought of fried chicken, BBQ, beans, blackeye peas, mashed potatoes, et al. Collards aren't as common here (do they even grow out here...?) but you can just replace those with spinach or turnip greens, they're about the same thing.

I guess that's just the end result of being an area where the influences of slavery, poor white farmers/sharecroppers, and Mexicans have all been felt. That's the essence of Tex-Mex food; all these heritages coming together.

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Originally Posted by Tones

I guess you could consider some of our meals quite Southern. The Crock-Pot is good to just put a few cans of beans in, along with some bacon or ham, onions, hot sauce, etc. This is a meal that any poor college student can afford (after the price of the Crock Pot, but they last forever). Best when eaten with a side of cornbread.

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Ah, a meal after my own heart, heheh.

Although you could go one better and use dry pinto beans and start cooking the night before. You'd lose some of the seasonings from canned beans but it'd also be cheaper. That's been a staple in my house for years and years...

AND AGAIN, im 99% referring to chitlins, tripe, and other throw away meats...

How many white people you guys know who eat chitlins often?

I can start throwing out names of black people I know who do weekly to monthly...

Nothing against them just something ive noticed..

Then again there are allot of black people who want to vomit at the thought of eating such things...

Talk about a thread going for a loop and spin.. :lol:

Speaking of Southern food, one dish that's always driven me nuts...WHAT the hell is Etoufee?? My friend Jake down Louisiana would just giggle his ass off and not tell me what it is. Me, being a lazy f*cker...never bothered to look it up. Anyone want to enlighten me?

If he giggles, it's probably horse knee or something. I wouldn't eat it.

That said, I've tried gator tail (can you eat anything else on it?) and it's quite good when fried. A little tough, though, like deer.

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Speaking of Southern food, one dish that's always driven me nuts...WHAT the hell is Etoufee?? My friend Jake down Louisiana would just giggle his ass off and not tell me what it is. Me, being a lazy f*cker...never bothered to look it up. Anyone want to enlighten me?

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It's a spicy crawfish and vegetable stew.

No idea what the giggling is about.

Chitlins are awesome. Especially when they're fried. I used to eat them in skewers from street stalls. Their intenstines are surprisingly flavorful.

And tripe is good too. Especially if it's stewed properly.

In fact, I ate all sorts of animal parts growing up (pig trotters, fish guts, ox tongue, pig blood, etc), ... and I'm sure as hell not black.