School Celebrates Black History Month with Fried Chicken, Watermelon, Corn Bread

General Discussion
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The stereotype is an issue, but the reason that some people find the story offensive has to do with the responses made by some people calling it whining or comparing it to Greek festivals or any other standard ethnic cultural event. Black American culture is rich and creative but also painful and bittersweet. Black history month is not meant to be like most cultural festivals or celebrations because black Americans (whose ancestors were captives) did not immigrate here. Their original customs and traditions were beat the fuck out of them, and killed and raped out of them. Yes, that was centuries ago, but 50 years ago people were still being murdered and terrorized when my parents were alive…

Black history month is American history, and it’s supposed to be used to celebrate the postive contributions of black Americans. Do some black Americans eat the food that was on the menu for the dinner? Yes. But, there is negative history surrounding that food and black Americans because it’s a cultural heritage that they didn’t really choose, and it was even used against them to make fun of them even though it is a common, traditional food combination enjoyed by many Americans. Many Americans enjoy it, but blacks become the negative stereotype surrounding it…same old story. Black bogey man, black coon who sits around smacking his lips on fried chicken and STEALING watermelons are seen as jokes to some people, and when black stereotypes surface it brings all this shit up again. Nigga stole my bike is no different than Niggers are always stealing mah watermelons, you know, cuz they steal stuff. Just be boring and serve mashed potatoes, sliced turkey, and whatever. Neutral meal.

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well mabe shrimp creole is a bit much. my mind was wondering, but what planet do you live on? you can make and outlandish amount of creole style gumbo for like ten dollars. 15 dollars if you want a few packs of sausage. gallons on gallons on gallons of that shit. ive actually made cajun style gumbo before, i know how cheap and easy it is. collard greens are cheap, spices for them are cheap. what do you think a decent collard green recipe will cost the school 500 dollars? lol. there are tons of recipes that can be made for fairly cheap for school kids who are only going to be getting like one piece of chicken and one scoop of whatever anyways.

i could go to the grocery store tomorrow and literally only spend 25 dollars (11 of that would be on chicken), and i could make enough food to feed (in relation to their theme for black history month) at least 30 kids, with everyone at least having a wing or leg, and 2 scoops of side items plus corn bread. im sure if that private christian school wanted to, they could easily make some decent ethnic dishes of african and or modern black american heritage descent without spending anywhere close to a maximum of 500 dollars. these are kids, not professional football players. they are only going to eat but so much. if they want more, then they can chow down on the garbage they usually feed them.

you clearly do not cook for yourself often at all, and probably are just shoveling fastfood into your mouth on a daily basis, because you can cook a whole lot of food on a small ass budget. good tasting food at that.

im sure that private christian school would not have a hard time coughing up 2-3 hundred bucks max for some good food to be made outside of watermelon, chicken, and cornbread. hell, im sure if they put it out months beforehand, parents would have gladly rose more then enough money for that lunch celebration. school wouldnt even need to depend on its own budget for that. i dont know if this watermelon, chicken, and cornbread is actually from their budget, or from donations. it doesnt say

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Chitterlings arent a black thing, they are a low income minority AND/OR tradition thing. I had a lot of Chinese friends that ate chitterlings growing up.

Anything would be good if you dumped hot sauce on it to cover up the natural flavor.

Let just take a step back and remember that youre eating the shit filled intestines of a nasty ass pig. You have to clean the shit out the intestines before you eat them. Cooking them makes your entire house smell like shit. It smells like shit even after its cooked. And theres no way you can convince me that there still isnt some residue of shit in the food after you cook it, after all it does smell like shit after its cooked.

I find those things to be vile. Unsanitary, and very unnecessary for human consumption.

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I wish we would celebrate white history with fried chicken, watermelon, cornbread.

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And you know, black America isn’t just one uniform culture. Some black families ate Latin, Cajun, Caribbean, Indian, or African-type meals in their household, instead of food usually associated with the American South.

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On a related note

Shrimp is cheaper than chicken around some parts of the year. Crab is probably the most expensive readily accessible food.

The government took a good look at the meals the american school system was providing the children and a lot of work was done to improve it.

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i didnt grow up having watermelon at every turn at all. i ate watermelon no more then my white friends next door who had a british father. chitlins is a staple, but cooked once a year or so really. it stinks, so just for special shit like a holiday. black people eat a ton of bbq everything. chicken, ribs, hot dogs, steak, hamburgers, but you cannot give us that stereotype because too many white people bbq themselves. cornbread, well thats just silly. who doesnt have cornbread, but also, yeah, i didnt see cornbread much outside of holiday dinners.

holiday dinners were turkey, baked ham, mac and cheese, yams and mashmallows, sourkraut, collard greens, green beens, baked bbq chicken, etc… i dont recall seeing fried chicken that often at holiday dinners, but fried chicken is a staple. my grandmother actually baked her chicken 9 times out of 10. my aunts would fry more. we went up to baltimore almost every weekend and we would get subs a lot, usually cheese steak, pizza, etc. we did get fried seafood a lot also. almost every weekend, fried scallops from lexington or patapsco fleamarket.

growing up in maryland which is da crab spot. i grew up eating a shit ton of crabs. i think i saw crabs more then i saw chicken to be honest. we gobbled up crabs so fucking much growing up, and with crabs we would usually have potato salad or macaroni salad.

so with that said, yeah, that chicken, watermelon, and cornbread shit is pretty far left field from how i grew up. i was eating bbq, fried scallops, crabs, various salads, and what not more then i was sitting down eating fried chicken, and that was the same across the border at my brothers house, when i would visit my grandparents, etc… no one was having some big nutty professor super fried chicken and collard greens with gravy, cornbread, and chitlins meals every night, or even once a week. we ate like normal people. well actually abnormal to white people. i was kinda shocked what they ate. tasteless and boring usually. amazing how they eat some of the shit they do. lol. i guess that was just a suburban thing to though also, mixed with a lack of passed down recipes and food culture in general. im sure white folk in the south ate just fine. lil different up north.

super sugary koolaid is definitely the real deal though. lol. should have put that on the schools menu. i mean yeah, ive had my fair share of chicken boxes, more so then i bet most white people in america. yes i enjoy chitlins and hot sauce, and have no problem eating it. yes my aunt would fry up chicken for like 2 hours straight some times, just cooking a ton of it, but honestly porkchops were her thing, not fried chicken.

plus the usual, catfish, shrimp, yada yada. steak wasnt really the norm for me growing up though. i didnt get into steak until an adult in my 20s. didnt really get into buffalo wings until later too. i might have it going out, but it really became my thing later on in my mid 20s. we didnt make buffalo wings growing up.

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See, fried chicken, watermelon, kool-aid…all delicious foods but the etymology behind them is what paints a negative picture.

Kool-Aid is what…10 cents a pack? What more do you need? Water is practically free and a 50 pound bag of sugar is 15 bucks?

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I consider you guys perfecting Fried Chicken to have been a wonderful service to America. That shit is gooooood.

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if they were serving you hard shell tacos, it would be a bit offensive to mexicans, but not racist. implying black people sit around eating chicken, watermelon, and cornbread every week, or that it was some staple of food we consumed so much of, that it is deserving of being worthy to be on a school lunch menu in celebration of black history month. lol. fried chicken is fine imo. i could see how someone may be offended, but it has its origins in african descent, and something we took to the next level. watermelon and cornbread, uhhhhh.

back to the troll closet with you

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As long as those kiddies kept their afternoon activities of breakdancing, rap battles, gang wars and cotton picking, then they’ll be fine.

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My uncle has a watermelon plantation in our province. A few months more till harvest and it will be watermelon everyday! Seriously we have them here almost everywhere.

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Students at Carondelet High School for Girls

the Christian school announced a lunch of fried chicken, cornbread and watermelon,

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it ain’t complete unless you add this.

-Starhammer-

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You saying that girls can’t breakdance, rap battle, have gang wars and pick cotton? Let’s consult an expert to test your hypothesis.

@Neesa

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Nah, just saying who will play the single white Female lead of

Mean Girls 3: Step Up to the Streetz?

Of course it would probably be the #1 point man of the SRK Mafia game series, but you tell me and then we can combine ideas and fill out the rest of the casting.

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What’s the problem here folks?
What’s everyone’s big complaint about again?

So what?
I like fried chicken.
I also like watermelons.
Guess what.
I like corn bread too.
not just in Febuary though, its year round for me

Not black though.
But I constantly get mistaken for being such.
But I suppose that is only due to me being so very cool.
& stylish.
That never hurts.

Understandable.

Now where da white women at?
now this I only like in Febuary

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yo what about watermelon and cornbread battered fried chicken?

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DP…so let me get your thoughts on this

http://thegrio.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/anniethechickenqueen1.jpg%3Fw%3D560

Annie The Fried Chicken Queen from popeyes… the only legit chicken commercials are the old lady from that Church’s one because those had the piano assist in the background