Comments on: Racist Food

By: Tennessee Budd

Tennessee Budd — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:18:46 +0000

Anon 1:50, you win!

By: Tommy the Towelhead

Tommy the Towelhead — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:15:45 +0000

The cafeteria demonstrated their complete cultural insensitivity. They forgot the watermelon and the Colt 45.

By: Anon 1:50

Anon 1:50 — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:42:19 +0000

Well, I was with a friend of the African-American persuasion when he came across this story of the racist cafeteria food.

He was so upset, he snatched up his trumpet, put his watermelon under his arm and tap-danced right the heck out of here.

Left his basketball, though, so I know he’ll be back.

By: Cream O Weet Rastus

Cream O Weet Rastus — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:48:03 +0000

When I was stationed in Kassel Germany I got invited to this little, out of the way gasthaus where the chef was this enormous, six-and-a-half foot tall, three-hundred pound, ex-GSG-9 paratrooper.

He used to prepare the biggest kerfuffels…served in a massive, seven-foot diameter, crockery bowl which would be carried around the Gasthaus on this two-wheeled wooden cart as the crowd chanted “Kerfuffels und Kugels und Kase ganz Gut!”

The mere thought of a portion of Karl-Heinz Krugmann’s Kassel Kerfuffelchens sets my salivary glands into overdrive.

By: Unsupervised

Unsupervised — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:08:21 +0000

At the Army hospital where I work we often have collard greens (the cooks do a GREAT job on them — really, really, good) but not “just” during Black History Month. Also, fried chicken’s on the menu every third Monday. We also get ribs — pork and Cantonese, depending on the day. Bulgogi, Enchiladas, and sweet-and-sour pork also make their way to the lunch menu. Fried catfish, salmon, and breaded white fish of some sort also show up (on Fridays). So, it’s an ethnic-food wonderland.
Or, you can just call it American Food.

By: Burt

Burt — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:37:56 +0000

I can understand why someone would be offended. I will always make a terrible scene if a waitress puts ‘crackers’ on my table.

By: Charlos

Charlos — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:03:21 +0000

I am embarrassed to admit that I bought hot dogs a couple of hundred times from a stand that sold deep fried chitterlings and I never worked up the nerve to order any!

By: Charlos

Charlos — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:57:00 +0000

Soul food is Southern workin’ man’s food, white or black. If I went into that cafeteria with no warning, my worry would be, who here is gonna know how to fry chicken?

By: 4of7

4of7 — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:24:12 +0000

As long as they leave the bratwurst, potato salad and sour kraut alone, what do I care?

By: MarkoMancuso

MarkoMancuso — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:31:12 +0000

Harvey, do you hunt? Lead poisoning, my friends!

By: Terry_Jim

Terry_Jim — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:28:41 +0000

Senator Reid made the Senate cafeteria change the name
from the racist ‘collard’ greens to the more sensitive term,
‘negro’ greens

By: ccoffer

ccoffer — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:01:48 +0000

Collard greens are sorta like turnip greens except that turnip greens don’t taste like cooked crap.

By: Harvey

Harvey — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:04:54 +0000

You know what *I* hate? When people automatically assume that I prefer organic food just because I’m white.

Screw that. I eat food coated with pesticides & insecticides for the same reason the Dread Pirate Roberts eats Iocaine powder.

By: Paul Gross

Paul Gross — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:01:27 +0000

Geez. Fried chicken and collards are not racist. Chittlins and Turnip greens are racisst.

By: Bob C.

Bob C. — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:08:26 +0000

I found myself in the AAFES lunch counter on Ft. Campbell,KY many years ago,eating fried chicken,grape soda, AND, you guessed it,WATERMELON! I just looked at my plate and said, OMG,then I finished eating!

By: Giraffe

Giraffe — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:46:18 +0000

Uh, as a proud daughter of the South (by way of I-75 and Illinois), I must ask, “no cornbread?” I’m also thinking that you need more starch (black eyed peas), a bit of fried (okra) and a fine pecan pie. (Okay, my Texas grandma would have done a peach cobbler, but, I’m a pecan pie kind of girl.)

By: Wacky Hermit

Wacky Hermit — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:13:03 +0000

Collard greens are actually a very tasty vegetable, but they’re often poorly cooked making them nasty. You have to remove the stems. This is very important, since the leaves cook much faster than the stems so you’ll get crunch, moosh, or (worse) both if you don’t cut out the stems. Slice the leaves and chop crosswise, then heat some olive oil over medium heat, saute a bunch of minced garlic in it for a minute to bring out the flavor, then add the leaves and saute them for a few minutes. They’ll change to a beautiful shade of green pretty quickly, and you want to stop the cooking somewhere between that and mushiness.

I don’t know how they cook them in the South, but that’s the Portuguese way. We call them couves.

By: Dohtimes

Dohtimes — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:57:38 +0000

Rich white Repubs always think collard greens are a dress code requirement for the ground near the hole placement. An argument against this is made by the vegetable/human rights group NAACGP.

By: K T Cat

K T Cat — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:44:59 +0000

I like crackers. I serve fried chicken to my family sometimes. We like to eat watermelons.

I figure I’ll be out of prison in 5 years with good behavior so long as I renounce my food preferences.

By: NO_MO_BAMA

NO_MO_BAMA — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:07:38 +0000

It can’t be racist, it’s not even in the top ten
I think fried chicken alone is not a racist offense, once you combine it with a blatantly racist word like collard greens, it becomes a hate crime.
They serve alcohol to the Irish people on St Patricks day as an insult but they’re all too drunk to notice.

By: Reamus

Reamus — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:55:32 +0000

Fried chicken is most definitely racist with the way it gives black folks high cholestorol and makes their pressure bad.

By: Plentyobailouts

Plentyobailouts — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:52:25 +0000

Y’know MarcoMancuso, we tried to feed the irish the fried chicken and gleens, but twernt enough of them sober enough to sit and eat.

By: KnitterChick

KnitterChick — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:27:11 +0000

What other groups get insulted if you talk about what they like to eat? is it rude to talk about Germans and bratwurst in the same sentence? Or Italians and lasagna? Is it even possible to speak in a derogatory way about lasagna?

If someone tried to insult me by snearing about what I like to eat, I don’t think I’d get it. I’d just be all “mmmm…..cooooookies…”

By: IH8Socialist

IH8Socialist — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:20:29 +0000

I love Nacho’s and Taco’s too, and I see nothing racist about that!

By: IH8Socialist

IH8Socialist — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:17:17 +0000

I’m as white as can be and I love fried chicken, I see nothing racist about fried chicken.