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

[cjlaw93]

Wait...yall really frequent soul food restaurants like that?

Is this what the thread is actually referring to?


If yall don't get in that damn kitchen

I support my people if I’m gonna spend money out

 

[JBoy]

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.

I legit had no idea Malcolm X popularized the term, learn something new everyday

 

[feelosofer]

2 reasons.

These younger kids are definitely becoming more health consious.

Also people are busy. Good Soul food takes some time to make and as a result can't compete with burger joints that can churn out food faster.

 

[Armchair Militant]

It doesn't taste that great. If I'm gonna eat unhealthy stuff, I'd rather have fast food.

 

[Ake1725]

i have noticed this, it mostly because millennials are on that health food wave and nobody has tried to put a healthy alternative twist to soul food yet. at not in mainstream way. Millennial's are waiting for that gluten free organic vegan friendly naturally sweetened peach cobbler.

People have actually, there are recipes and restaurants for vegan or healthy soul food

 

[Pit Bull]

Y'all do realize that soul food is mostly vegetables and you don't have to fry the meats right?

 

[Luke Cage]

People have actually, there are recipes and restaurants for vegan or healthy soul food

i know, i posted pics

 

[K.O.N.Y]

just had oxtails and collard greens cooked with hamhocks and turkey butts last night


And im from the Bronx

theres no excuse. Aframs that hate on soul food are c00ning, straight up

 

[laughslikebig]

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.

BINGO

soul food is part of our heritage, and this younger generation is disavowing anything that is emphatically black. they dress like white kids, do stupid fukking drugs and die their hair blonde and red and grow dreads to headbang like cacs.

we r in a strange time.

Are there c00ns in this topic advocating that we need to keep eating food that's destroying our bodies

Call people "c00ns" for eating a food based in their own struggle.
If soul food is "unhealthy" you advance it, you dont leave it behind. but you dumb ass will eat fukking Chipotle and whatever processed poison the white man puts in front of you.

 

[IrateMastermind]

Soul food to me is a treat. It's no longer sustinance. I usually have it a few Sundays a month.

If I could quit it completely I would but it's so damn good

 

[cjlaw93]

i asked my Mom to make jambalya with Turkey

 

[IllmaticDelta]

"Traditional" maybe in a simplified comidified marketable type of sense to...although it has continuity , black food varies from texas, Louisiana, Mississippi delta, south Florida, etc...we have more variance throughout these parts than just accents.

Lets not let these advertising terms and market magnets minimize our culinary history

This is what many don't understand/are aware of. They don't nothing about the afram seafood cuisine/history in various parts of the south (upper down to deep)

By 1835, Virginia native Thomas Downing had the most popular oyster house in New York City.

The African American restaurateur was known for his oyster pie, and fried and raw oysters; he shipped them to England, where Queen Victoria was so impressed that she complimented him with a gold watch. Downing’s establishment hosted the ball when New York welcomed the great English novelist Charles dikkens to the city.

His love of oysters came from growing up in Chincoteague, in an African American family that farmed and harvested oysters. Many African Americans, men and women, free and enslaved, have worked the waterways of the Chesapeake since the days of slavery, and that heritage will be honored at “Stirring the Pot: A Watermen and Whiskey Dinner,” on Feb. 25.

The event, at Sweetwater Cuisine in Virginia Beach, will feature four dishes created by local chefs using the seafood of the region’s waters. The liquor will also be familiar, provided by Copper and Oak Craft Spirits of Portsmouth, which uses locally sourced ingredients for its bourbon, gin and white whiskey.

Southern Grit Magazine is sponsoring the dinner, the second of its “Stirring the Pot” events to celebrate African American culinary histories that are often forgotten.

Last October, its evening honoring James Hemings, Thomas Jefferson’s and America’s first French-trained chef, sold out.

Southern Grit managing editor Debra Freeman said that as her group thought about other themes, they realized they had to do something related to the water. Africans and their descendants not only worked the waterways, including digging canals, harvesting seafood, working in shucking houses and piloting boats, but also innovated new recipes with the fare.

“But no one was really telling these stories,” Freeman said.

Freeman will discuss the Hobson area of Suffolk, which became a bustling oyster village of African American families after the Civil War. With the widespread damage caused by the war, oystering and fishing were among the few industries that thrived during the Reconstruction period.


Wisteria Perry, manager of student programs at The Mariners’ Museum and Park in Newport News, will talk during the dinner about the work African Americans performed along the coast and their foodways (the eating habits and culinary practices of a people, region or historical period).

She said free and enslaved African Americans would have grilled, baked and boiled foods on an open hearth, and slave families supplemented the basic rations from their owners with fresh catch. During the slave trade, Africans brought foods with them – including rice, black-eyed peas, okra and yams – that are now considered Southern staples.

“One of the big things about this area is that the water connects us; it can be through cultural or political aspects, and it can also connect us through our food,” Perry said. “This is not just African American foodways, but this is American foodways.”

https://pilotonline.com/life/flavor/article_f41a315b-c8d9-54a7-b80e-a501a3b943f5.html

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The Fish That Built Beaufort

Remembering the Menhaden Fishermen of Beaufort – Our State Magazine

Leading up to the Civil War, about 3,000 African-Americans were employed on whaling ships in various roles. One of them, John Thompson, born into slavery in 1812 in Maryland, escaped and made his way north but feared recapture, writing, "I finally concluded best for me to go to sea." He spent several years on the whaler Milford, writing on the taking of whales and the exotic lands they visited. He ends his memoirs likening his strong Christian faith to a voyage on perilous seas.

Like shipbuilding, sailing, and whaling, taking oysters and crabs from the Bay—the mainstay of Chesapeake watermen—offered a relatively good living for African-Americans, albeit it one fraught with prejudice and legal barriers. Early 19th century laws designed to limit the ability of free African-Americans to participate and succeed in many maritime trades (such as not being able to serve as captain on a boat of any significant size) gave way to equally repellent Jim Crow laws in the mid-20th century. Despite such impediments, African-Americans continued to practice their traditional craft with an abiding love into the modern age. In a 1998 interview with Maryland Sea Grant, one veteran waterman said, "Nothing like working on the water for me. You can get up in the morning and see the sun when it's coming up."

African-American men and women fished the Potomac River, Chesapeake Bay and other inland waters in the mid-Atlantic region. Here, netted shad are being beached for collection. Photo: Bain News Service, 1915, courtesy of the Library of Congress

For I Knew a Ship from Stem to Stern[/quote]

 

[cjlaw93]

Chicken liver
Gizzards

 

[Gold]

Their parents don't cook

 

[cjlaw93]

Y'all do realize that soul food is mostly vegetables and you don't have to fry the meats right?

Don’t tell these c00ns nothing