School Serves Chicken and Watermelon
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True story, I had no idea chicken and waffles was a black thing. When I was in Roanoke I took a girl to the chicken and waffles spot downtown. Place was packed and I was the only white guy there. Good food though.
That's a southern thing. Plenty of crackers eat it that too.
Bertha’s in Charleston, SC. Best fried chicken I’ve ever had. Looked like a Dr Dre video but I didn’t care. On my next visit to Charleston, it was the first place we went.
Chicken nuggets and a fruit cup was as close as my school ever got.
I consider myself a chicken and waffles connoisseur
Yeah same here. I like chicken and I like waffles. I also like watermelon. Not sure how those stereo typed started
Not southern. The Chicken and Waffles dish we think of today started in Harlem almost a hundred years ago. The really top authentic version and side dishes are served at Dames in downtown Durham. Beyond fantastic.
I'm making homemade fried chicken today because of this thread.
I was rather surprised as an adult to learn greens and mac and cheese are soul food. I have also read that fried fish is a soul food. Fried chicken or fish, greens, and mac and cheese was a fairly regular meal for me growing up.
Like me, you probably grew up poor, white trash in Appalachia. Literally no difference between us and the blacks besides melanin and small cocks.
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Greens have always been one of the ones I really consider to be soul food. Never heard fried fish called soul food though.
Most of the “black food” stereotypes are just “poor southern people” stereotypes.
Yeah, I eat greens almost every day. I prefer turnip greens, but will eat them all.
Cracker Barrel's are nasty.
When I lived in Pittsburgh I'd go to the Giant Eagle in the black part of town to get my good food. I was buying pigs feet one time and the older lady cashier looked at me and said, "Son, I can tell you ain't from around here. White folks here ain't got no idea how to cook good food."
Cracker Barrel's are nasty.
When I lived in Pittsburgh I'd go to the Giant Eagle in the black part of town to get my good food. I was buying pigs feet one time and the older lady cashier looked at me and said, "Son, I can tell you ain't from around here. White folks here ain't got no idea how to cook good food."
Haha I ate the onion on this one. I only watched the first half of the clip at first and though that was really the superintendent
Or as Russel Peters (Indian) says, it is not that it is small, it is not as large as it could be.
When I lived in South Cackalacky, one of my best friends was a Johnson & Wales instructor. She was adamant a food truck that sold nothing but fried chicken, collard greens, & slice of watermelon would print money. The only option you would give customers would be Sprite or grape drink. When I would point out the obvious - that it plays on stereotypes, she always had the same response: "Would you stand in a line with folks from every other race to get it?"
Dave Chappelle is 100% right. "If you don't like chicken & watermelon, something is wrong you with you, motherf***er. There is something wrong, with you."
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