I asked a question about southern food, was it RACIST...?!
I asked a question about southern food, was it RACIST...?
Please see my previous question and read ROBERTO'S response. I was simply asking about making the way of preparing this food healthier. I wasn't trying to make a black or white issue out of it.
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Mr. Meat, I wasn't prepared for that one...you almost made me shoot water from my nose...you crack me up...LOL!!!!
Answers: 2 days ago
Mr. Meat, I wasn't prepared for that one...you almost made me shoot water from my nose...you crack me up...LOL!!!! I saw nothing racist in your question. Roberto, however, seems a tad sensitive. (And, has too much timeon his hands).
I hope you got the suggestions that you were looking for... Wow. I would say that Roberto forgot to take his medication today. Don't worry, the question didn't appear to be racist or mean-spirited at all. Whazzzzzzzzzzup, cracker? So mama, you me us folks don't make healthy food? Man, that's racist!!! No, it wasn't racist. Down here we all call it that. Roberto just felt like showing off his knowledge of food history. He is fairly knowledgeable, but he could be a little nicer :) No, it wasn't racist at all. He needs to take a damn chill pill! I swear, people like that who have to bring race into almost anything...how do they even live their lives day to day in a happy manner? Don't worry about that jerk. He's probably just trying to get attention...what a weirdo... Don't worry about it, hun. Your question was not racist AT ALL! You were asking about food, not race relations.
Some people just take any chance they can get to get up on a soap box. Please don't let these kinds of people bother you. Roberto was WAY out of line - and wrong!
I'm white but have eaten soul food - and YES, there IS a cuisine called "soul food". In Chicago, I went with black friends to a soul food restaurant deep in the South Side... like nothing else I'd had before, that's for certain. Delicious! And across the country, some of the chic-est restaurants are soul food restaurants - marketed as such by their black, rural-southern-raised chef-proprietors.
AND, it's true too that soul food as traditionally prepared is NOT healthy - quite salty, quite fatty - so your question was entirely realistic and reasonable.
Roberto is on a real high horse. I call people out for racism too, but yours was not a racist question in the slightest. No. There was no call for that; you were just asking how to make a style of food and cooking less health threatening, no matter who makes it or how good it is!
I guess baking instead of frying, and using less butter and such would qualify. But it would not, of course, taste quite as good! Absolutely NOT racist. Consider the source and let it go. no, you weren't being racist or mean. if anyone was being those things it was roberto. soul food to me means food that comforts you and is made with love. obvisously he needs some of both. also mr.meats answer i gave a thumbs up. made me smile I read your question and I didn't see any racism from you, but from Roberto. It was very clear that he was trying to take an innocent question and get on the attack. It's as though he was blaming you because some Southern food is labeled as "Soul Food". Every nationality has a culinary culture..so what's his problem. The man needs intensive therapy.
And Southern food does taste distinct and different. I noticed the chicken tastes different at KFC in the South from the chicken at KFC in Northern states. No one outdoes Southern chicken, and that's a fact. All of my family from the South are great cooks as well. I can also thrown down. Bertie is a jacka**. Someone should smack him with a hog mawl... ;)
That person obviously has issues. Not to mention an uncanny ability to contort history... Who cares where all these foods ORIGINALLY come from? Noodles came to Italy from China, so does that mean that Italian food is REALLY Chinese?
If you study food history, you see that almost every edible ingredient has moved to and from continents, so that means that EVERY culture has ripped off another to create its food. In my opinion, that's the beauty of it all - to see how every country prepares the same ingredients differently.
Forget that guy, he's a moron because he focuses on the little things, not the big picture. robertos question and answer history seems to be that of a lonely guy in moms basement that uses a soapbox to spew whatever he believes to be true. poor guy. get some help. Ignore him...He's probably been eating cloned food....LOL