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

[BlackPrint]

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

 

[3rdWorld]

This sissy generation is almost completely disconnected to previous Black generations and culture, not just food wise. They may as well just be honorary cacs.

 

[Luke Cage]

lets keep it real though, barbecue is black food too. And that cuisine is wildly successful. Every city i've lived in has had at least one big black owned rib place that was doing very well.
This in small towns or in major cities. you might not be able to find a place where you can get catfish or friend chicken and waffles, but there is always a rib place.

 

[ba'al]

munching on some soul food now. it's a soul food joint right up the street and that bih stay pack.

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

This is true. The younger gen that I interact with are extremely picky eaters.. very much so. I try to plan a dinner for them, the response is "i dont eat that, or I dont eat chicken like that anymore, or I'm vegetarian, no pork.. " . Now I'm like fuk it.. here's the $$, yall get what you want.

I eat healthier too, I get it, but I'm not fixing 4-5 different meals and trying to figure out, who likes what. My mom/grandma would fix dinner, if you like it, you eat.. if not starve, or fix a pbj sandwich/bowl of cereal.

 

[AB Ziggy]

The young generation like to think of themselves as more "global" and mess with other cultures cuisines rather than their own these days. Soul Food is increasingly associated as "fat", "oil", "too much servings". "pork".

 

[Jemmy]

I'm cool with it.

Soul Food is not traditionally healthy. I don't want to encourage people to eat bad food simply cuz your Grandma did it. Not to mention Soul Food ain't our food, its just nasty shyt they gave nikkas during slavery that we seasoned enough to make it work.

I'm certainly not going to encourage people to eat the fried guts of a pig. And most of the shyt we like from Soul Food either came from Africa or Europe (Fried chicken, mac and cheese)

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.

 

[cjlaw93]

This sissy generation is almost completely disconnected to previous Black generations and culture, not just food wise. They may as well just be honorary cacs.

Connected as much as y’all was wearing African medallions while serving your people crack huh

 

[Doobie Doo]

There are probably more healthy Soul Food options than there are non healthy options. Soul Food is 100 percent our food. Enslaved people barely ate.

Then define what is Soul Food.

 

[Cat piss martini]

black people dont need to be eating
most of that bullshyt..

 

[Henny and_ HotWings]

Because the younger generation of blacks (28 yrs and younger) wanna be black, act black, talk black, have black swag but a lot of them are obsessed with white culture and they don’t even realize it.


They wear clothes that used to be exclusively worn by whites, they wanna be hipsters, they wanna eat at white restaurants In stuck up white neighborhoods because it “looks”swankier and more “high end” when they take their pictures for IG and it will make it look/feel like they have this polished, glitzy luxurious life::..

This new generation secretly wants what white people have and wanna go where white people go, they don’t want to live like their elders because history has taught them to equate living black with (living poor/more modestly) so therefore they don’t want any parts of that living. And sometimes that includes the food we eat....



Not to mention most of this generation can’t cook worth a damn and also a lot of the soul food spots these days ain’t even owned by blacks

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

This sissy generation is almost completely disconnected to previous Black generations and culture, not just food wise. They may as well just be honorary cacs.

Don't put that label on them. If they didn't have the proper guidance and structure in the home, schools or anyone to teach them about their own generation or culture, or let social media or entertainment 'raise' them, it's not all their fault. The key word is "disconnect" - can't feel connected to anything if you lack the resources and tools to do so. This not just a problem in their generation either.. their parents are in their 40s or whatever, they missed the mark somewhere.. and their parents before them. I know my parents didn't teach me about anything culturally relevant, too busy doing whatever they were into. I learned and sought information myself once I gained exposure to different environments.

 

[Luke Cage]

Vegan soul food plate

like i said rib places are in abundance.

 

[Jemmy]

Then define what is Soul Food.

Malcolm X coined the term. The same guy that didn’t eat pork. Soul Food is way more broader and diverse than what y’all are giving it credit for. Most of it is healthy. I think there’s even a thread on here somewhere that @IllmaticDelta did.

 

[1thouwow]

This sissy generation is almost completely disconnected to previous Black generations and culture, not just food wise. They may as well just be honorary cacs.

Even tho I don’t agree with this, whose fault is that?