I know it's been while... Missed you.
The food we chose to eat as African American is slave food if you think about it. When I think about the collard greens w/ pork and the cornbread with eggs,milk, and lard all mixed inside I yell inside. I don't understand why we continue to Enslave ourselves voluntary when we could get the fruits and vegetables so we don't have obesity and high blood pressure killing our people. I feel that black people and other people of color should be fighting and protesting the lack of healthy foods in local grocery stores in "ghetto" neighborhoods. We should not continue to accept liquor stores on ever corner and continue to have Popeye's,Chinese restaurants, and other fast food places continue to poison our bodies. I want all people to wake up and understand that we can no longer sit around and act like we are doing our bodies any good with animal flesh and by products. You do not need these Chickens,Cows,Horse( yes people eat horse) to survive in the world. We are not natural born carnivores we are herbivores check it out.
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I totally see what you mean about "soul food" coming from slave food. Actually, most American food is poor people food. Many foods Americans love, like spaghetti, are very low-class poor foods in Italy. America is made up of poor immigrants and we like the foods that they brought over -- cheap, filling, and unhealthy.
Similarly, I had a friend from East Germany want to make me a German specialty which ended up being spaghetti with ketchup. Needless to say, this was poor people food and she just didn't realize it.
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