NYU Fires Cooks for Serving Watermelon Water and Ribs at Black History Month Event
22nd February 2018
Blue states — where even the food is racist.
Speaking as a white guy who grew up in Indiana eating watermelon and ribs, I’ll be happy to claim them for white people.
I don’t know of any non-black people who actually eat chitlins and collard greens, so I don’t see what the problem is there.
February 22nd, 2018 at 15:52
There’s a predominantly black church across town from where I work that serves lunch. (I think they are subsidized to do it as rehab.) Mostly it’s what might be referred to as “soul food” – catfish, ribs, smothered pork chops, fried chicken, greens, etc. Very popular with work crews and old people. Maybe because it’s Texas, maybe because it’s in the South, but everyone in the place – white, brown, or black – seems to enjoy the food just fine. The blacks seem to be proud of it, much like Italians might brag about the food in an Italian restaurant.
So one wonders if Italians would object if the cafeteria served spaghetti.
I worked at a place years ago that had a subsidized food court for employees. One of the sections was a “Special of the Day”, and for St. Patty’s Day they had corned beef and cabbage with soda bread. I was in the hamburger line and the lady who ran the food court (and a fried of mine) came up to me and asked why I wasn’t in the corned beef line, as she knew I was Irish. I pointed out that nobody ate that stuff because it was good – they ate it because it was all they had. “My family moved here so we didn’t have to eat soda bread – we could get a hamburger or a pizza.”
February 22nd, 2018 at 16:39
True dat. Most ‘ethnic’ food is poverty food — food that is eaten when people can’t afford anything better.