Which Culture Has The BEST Food In The World? (Voting Poll)

[ShenJingPoQi]

Game Set Match Championship

 

[SirReginald]

Game Set Match Championship

Dope

 

[im_sleep]

I shoulda known this would exist.







Shy Bana

We all know how much east asians love AADOS..........................culture

I guess chicken and waffles gotta be our “tacos” “pizza” “hamburgers” at this point.


I’m not sure if there’s a food more butchered and mischaracterized than Creole food tho. That’s been going on for decades now, I don’t think you can find a major city in the US that don’t have some kind of cac hipster owned NOLA themed restaurant, or some Asian owned seafood spot that’s “Cajun” themed. I’m sure there’s a few overseas as well.

 

[invalid]

A common argument against Soul Food I’ve seen when this topic comes up is that it’s not “international” compared to other cuisines.

a damn lie that I put on blast before.

I think it’s just a product of migration. If you look at the cuisine that is considered “international” it’s because its ethnic groups have mass migrated to different parts of the world and was able to introduce their food into the local communities.

Beside blacks who migrated north, where have southerners migrated to in mass? Southerners are parochial by nature and tend to stay where they are in the south. So it’s understandble that southern cuisine has by and large stayed regional.

facts

southern cuisine on the whole is afram influenced but the labels have people confused

when white people make it = gets called southern cuisine

when aframs make it = gets called soul food

This, exactly. And I HATE that we do this, seeing ourselves as something “separate” when we ARE the fukking culture. A mental shift is needed because it lends into how others view and treat us as well. If we view ourselves always as a separate or an other and not central to Americaness, than other groups, and immigrants, and so on and so forth, are going to fall in line and interact and treat us as an asterisk or a hyphenation. We are the culture, we are american, we’re not this separate culture.

 

[im_sleep]

This, exactly. And I HATE that we do this, seeing ourselves as something “separate” when we ARE the fukking culture. A mental shift is needed because it lends into how others view and treat us as well. If we view ourselves always as a separate or an other and not central to Americaness, than other groups, and immigrants, and so on and so forth, are going to fall in line and interact and treat us as an asterisk or a hyphenation. We are the culture, we are american, we’re not this separate culture.

In a perfect world sure but the issue is when it comes to the many cultural contributions we’ve brought upon this country, non-Black people have and still will often sanitize it of its Blackness to justify their liking of it. And immigrants been treating us like we’re not apart of this country for centuries despite how much blood we shed fighting and building this bytch. Whether we’re waving the flag or not never dictated that.

Back on the topic tho, Black folks still get treated as a mere footnote in the development of BBQ. Up till very recently Creole food was commonly attributed to the French, while the culinary spotlight has been put on the white Cajuns who they taught how to make those foods. Soul Food is commonly characterized as just the “scraps of the pig” and even I’ve seen the so-called Native American contribution be way overblown, the African contribution(which should of been obvious) is just now recently gaining traction.

And that’s just food, not even getting into music, spirituality, etc. When we don’t control the narrative we conveniently get written out all in the name of it being “American” because then only then everyone suddenly becomes colorblind, it never fails.

Recognizing our contribution forces others to actually humanize us, a task to daunting for many non-Black people to take. Until they get their shyt together Ill continue to be possessive of the same culture my ancestors cultivated that one minute they’ll demonize, then the next try to write me and mine out the narrative when they want to deem it trendy. fukk em.

That’s just me though...

 

[BezO]

Various types of African food, then spread out from there; Middle East, Asian/Indian, South American, etc.

 

[75 Others]

I’ll always say bulgogi is the best food outside the US

 

[staticshock]

Jamaican

Chinese

 

[How Sway?]

Carribean

ADOS

West African (should've added that to the poll op )

Mexican

Greek.

 

[The Solid One]

fukk all that..Doordash..I'm not waiting in line for NOTHING UNLESS it led to Christina Milian's panties.

 

[Supper]

AADOS Christian originated dessert.

Sweet potato pie

Sweet potato pie - Wikipedia

AADOS Muslim originated dessert.

Bean pie

Bean pie - Wikipedia

Not a lot of cultures can touch us when it comes to the richness and diversity of the menu.

Shout out all the AA muslims out there. Stop by Sunshines in Third Ward Houston if you want to getcha some good bean pie, btw.

AADOS Tea Cakes

Reviving the Tea Cake of Juneteenth Parties Past

Teacake - Wikipedia