What ethnic group's got the best food?

[Snoop_Cat]

A lot of the low country Southern cuisine is of African American origin.

I would like to offer up a wild card: Trinidad has incredible food.

Would that be the stereotypical fried foods, grits, cornbread, etc.
No racial profiling implied.

Signed,
Stereotypical Northern Fancy-Cuisine Elitist

[ivogetghost]

im guessing soul food.
chicken and kool aid. in phx theres a spot called lollos chicken and waffles. OH LAWWWWD. sh!t is ridiculously good (and expensive) but they have real chicken and some bomb waffles and the kool aid is served in glass jars (they containt about a barrel of sugar). you can only eat it about once every 3 months unless you want to die. i've done 3 days straight and i had chest pains for a while.
mexican is ridiculous also. if you live in az, cali or texas you know what i'm talking about. tacos and those mexican hot dog stands are win. enchiladas are also win.

lol we all know you cant eat that type of food everyday dude. I remember i tried eating bacon everyday and it doesnt feel too good.

[boozehound]

im guessing soul food.
chicken and kool aid. in phx theres a spot called lollos chicken and waffles. OH LAWWWWD. sh!t is ridiculously good (and expensive) but they have real chicken and some bomb waffles and the kool aid is served in glass jars (they containt about a barrel of sugar).

oh man. really? no mention of collard greens or creamer/blackeyed peas or cornbread/pone or hamhocks or....?

just fried chicken and koolaid huh? with some grape soda and watermelon for desert?

[ivogetghost]

Would that be the stereotypical fried foods, grits, cornbread, etc.No racial profiling implied.

Signed,
Stereotypical Northern Fancy-Cuisine Elitist

watching too much tv huh?

not like that at all.

[Saintsfan1992]

im guessing soul food.
chicken and kool aid. in phx theres a spot called lollos chicken and waffles. OH LAWWWWD. sh!t is ridiculously good (and expensive) but they have real chicken and some bomb waffles and the kool aid is served in glass jars (they containt about a barrel of sugar). you can only eat it about once every 3 months unless you want to die. i've done 3 days straight and i had chest pains for a while.

mexican is ridiculous also. if you live in az, cali or texas you know what i'm talking about. tacos and those mexican hot dog stands are win. enchiladas are also win.

**** off ****** chicken and Kool aid arent black foods
try corn bread and collard greens
Ignorant *****

[heyhey]

watching too much tv huh?

not like that at all.

Why don't you enlighten us then Prophet Farrakhan?

[ivogetghost]

Why don't you enlighten us then Prophet Farrakhan?

wait, was I talking to you?

[Snoop_Cat]

watching too much tv huh?

not like that at all.

hence the whole purpose of me asking with the disclaimer regarding stereotyping

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

**** off ****** chicken and Kool aid arent black foods
try corn bread and collard greens
Ignorant *****

What kind of oil do you use in your Southern cuisine? Word is palm oil/coconut oil is status quo back in native Africa, but what about down here.

[highwhey]

oh man. really? no mention of collard greens or creamer/blackeyed peas or cornbread/pone or hamhocks or....?

just fried chicken and koolaid huh? with some grape soda and watermelon for desert?

they serve grits and corn bread and all that other stuff YOU PEOPLE like(setting up for a cheesy caption pic of tropic thunder). the fried chicken they serve literally melts in your mouth and the koolaid gives you diabetes but it gives you a high. az cardinals go eat there as well as other famous people.

[boozehound]

wait, was I talking to you?

pretty sure you were talking to all of us, as it is a public forum. try private messaging next time if you dont want to include all of us.


and how are things like fried okra and blackeyed/purplehull/etc peas(domesticated in africa) not black cuisine. Same thing with cornbreads/grits?

They may not be exclusively black (especially today) but the origins of things like watermelon, okra and blackeyed peas is africa.

[New York Knicks]

The term soul food became popular in the 1960s. The origins of soul food, however, are much older and can be traced back to Africa. Foods such as rice, sorghum (known by Europeans as "guinea corn"), and okra — all common elements in West African cuisine — were introduced to the Americas as a result of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and became dietary staples among enslaved Africans. They also comprise an important part of American southern cooking. Many culinary historians believe that in the beginning of the 14th century, around the time of early African exploration, European explorers brought their own food supplies and introduced them into the African diet. Foods such as corn and cassava from the Americas, turnips from Morocco and cabbage from Portugal would play an important part in the history of African American cuisine.[1]

When the European slave trade began in the early 1400s, the diet of newly enslaved Africans changed on the long journeys from their homeland. It was during this time that some of the indigenous crops of Africa began showing up in the Americas.[2]

Enslavers fed their captives as cheaply as possible, often with throwaway foods from the plantation, forcing slaves to make do with the ingredients at hand. In slave households, vegetables were the tops of turnips and beets and dandelions. Soon, slaves were cooking with new types of greens: collards, kale, cress, mustard, and pokeweed. They also developed recipes which used lard; cornmeal; and offal, discarded cuts of meat such as pigs' feet, oxtail, ham hocks, chitterlings (pig small intestines), pig ears, hog jowls, tripe and skin. Cooks added onions, garlic, thyme, and bay leaf to enhance the flavors. Some slaves supplemented their meager diets by maintaining small plots made available to them to grow their own vegetables, and many engaged in subsistence fishing and hunting, which yielded wild game for the table. Foods such as raccoon, squirrel, opossum, turtle, and rabbit were, until the 1950s, very common fare among the still predominantly rural and southern African American population.[3]

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[ivogetghost]

black people food is mostly bbq in reality. Also, throw in some chitterlings, pigsfeet, and some hog head cheese and you are set. also, let me say something about common stereotypes:

1. Black people like orange and red kool-aid>purple(whether you believe or not it's true)
2.they like ribs>fried chicken
3.when we get catfish it is like a holiday
4.alot of black people throw up when they eat watermelon
5. we dont eat fried foods as much as we used to.

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

Why don't you enlighten us then Prophet Farrakhan?

Don't f*cking mock the Nation of Islam you classless piece of sh!t. Hey Hey! What the f*ck kind of uzername is that you uncreative little azzhole bastard. It's only 66% of Fat Albert's intro you cerebrum-lacking mutant. YOu even had the space to add the three extra letters, but u managed to flunk that. Eat woodchips or die trying.

[ivogetghost]

pretty sure you were talking to all of us, as it is a public forum. try private messaging next time if you dont want to include all of us.

and how are things like fried okra and blackeyed/purplehull/etc peas(domesticated in africa) not black cuisine. Same thing with cornbreads/grits?

They may not be exclusively black (especially today) but the origins of things like watermelon, okra and blackeyed peas is africa.

stay in your place white man.