Saturday, November 23, 2019

“White People” Food?

 

A July 2017 article from Buzzfeed.com, the hallmark of all popular wisdom of our time, was entitled, “15 Things You’ll Understand If You’ve Ever Eaten At A White Friend’s House.”[i] In the article, a series of snarky memes and illustrative pictures were meant to communicate the idea that “white people” don’t know anything about “spicing up” their food. In other words, food made in the houses of Caucasians is bland. This is an extremely common stereotype, probably best exemplified in recent memory by the “thanksgivingwithwhitefamilies” hashtag that was trending all throughout last year’s Thanksgiving season. There’s no doubt that the 2017 Thanksgiving season will see similar viral phenomena castigating perceived Caucasian culinary fare.

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  1. There has to be a reason for the rampant obesity in "african-american" women.

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    1. Many Southern whites also. They sell lard by the gallon here and it sure makes the food good, but is a heart killer.

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    2. Maurice's bbq sauce is primarily in Columbia Sc and east and this is their sauce ordered by the Africans there. Not my sauce.

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    3. Brock, Actually most stuff these days is fried in vegetable oil which is a poly unsaturated fat that breaks down into more harmful substances than more-stable- in-heat animal fat like lard. Over the last few decades, I research into nutritional health and it appears that cooking in lard (pork fat) is more healthful and less conducive to weight gain than vegetable oils. Otherwise, it's the carbohydrates (sugar, high fructose carbs) that the body stores as fat which is a greater cause of weight gain. --Ron W

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    4. Maurice's bbq sauce is primarily in Columbia Sc and east and this is their sauce ordered by the Africans there. Not my sauce.

      Eastern North Carolina here and we use vinegar based sauce. We did stop in SC at one of Maurice's restaurants after a Sam Davis Youth Camp and got a bottle that I haven't opened.

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    5. cooking in lard (pork fat) is more healthful and less conducive to weight gain than vegetable oils.

      Fascinating and would like to post something on this. I can search unless you have a link already. Thanks.

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    6. Yes, re: weight gain, if you look at weight loss diets like the Atkins, it emphasizes protein and fats with low glycemic vegetables. As far as health, cooking in saturated fats like pork lard or beef fat is better because those fats don't break down in the heat. The best fats are mono-saturated like extra virgin olive oil, avocado (guacamole), some nuts like Brazil of Macadamia, and then fish oils. Also grass-fed beef is a good fat. You mentioned "vinegar based sauce". Vinegar, especially the non-filtered organic apple cider vinegar (ACV) is very healthy and reportedly AIDS in weight loss.

      I don't have a link, but just from my extensive research over the last several decades. People scoff and laugh, yet go to doctors and take their drugs. I take no drugs. I'd rather be healthy because it's fun and being sick and weak ain't no fun!! But hey, that's just me. :-)

      "He truly lives dangerously who trusts his health to a doctor, his rights to a lawyer, his money to a banker or his soul to a preacher"-- Anonymous


      --Ron W

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    7. "He truly lives dangerously who trusts his health to a doctor, his rights to a lawyer, his money to a banker or his soul to a preacher"-- Anonymous

      Thanks and really!

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  2. Bland? Send them over here for a sample of my home brewed, pineapple based Habanero sauce or my famous Taminator Red Peter hot sauce made with rare, heirloom Peter Peppers......

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_pepper

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    1. Bland?
      They are way off base as usual with anything to do with the South. :)
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      From my garden this year.
      Ghost Peppers. Super HOT CAROLINA REAPER WORLD'S #1 Hottest Pepper.
      https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5iYuGEnkGV4/XajZ8bRm5SI/AAAAAAAAS-0/QO0s6FCqViscL_roU_SzlWraPSpNH131gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/P1050273.JPGFrom the garden

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    2. The climate change extremists want to control or even eliminate a lot of what we eat and the growing medical fascists want mandatory vaccines forcing us to have Big Phrma's products on us and control food supplements. If as they say, "healthcare is a right" then we decide for ourselves and they have no power over us! --Ron W


      “If the people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.” —Thomas Jefferson

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    3. If as they say, "healthcare is a right" then we decide for ourselves and they have no power over us! --Ron W

      Yup.
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      “If the people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.” —Thomas Jefferson

      Another goodie.

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  3. Maurice's BBQ sauce, a must stop by Piggie Park when going through Columbia. That is my gold standard of Carolina mustard BBQ sauces.

    Southern cooking is high in carbs and fat. We use a lot of spices and go heavy on salt and sugar.

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    1. Most of Southern cuisine fits perfectly into my food pyramid. Meat, potatoes, salt, grease, alcohol and tobacco..........

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