Funniest Post of the Year !!!! I saw Bonkie's post and immediately starting laughing my ass off. Very funny Git. The "End of Life Options" shtick is a stand up comic's dream. "Cash for Codgers" ---wow--- I am gonna be stuck on that all weekend. Hey, you might see some foreclosure weenie roasts. P.S. It is legal to burn in PTC if the fuel is used for cooking. 5,000 square foot house to cook 2 dogs?

Yep, I understand--I was trying to get the fact that WE ALL ATE THE SAME FOOD across to dm but failled. She has always got her sensitivity antenna raised to the max. BTW "Soul Food" term wasn't widely used til the 60's so her assertion that it had something to do with plantation food from the owner's table isn't likely. I didn't like brains & eggs either, but we also had fish roe & eggs. And I probably ate more cream of wheat than grits. but we too had hot biscuits every morning as long as my Father was living. And my wife (my own personal "David's Mother") learned how to make them at my Mother's elbow. For a former Brit, she makes pretty good biscuits and cornbread (the fried kind, not baked).

Sorry I missed your point.

Couldn't find the other discussion regarding 'Soul Food' - but in the current Atlanta magazine (September) -there is an excellent article on 'Southern Cooking'. The outstanding chefs came in all colors! After some research - the term Soul Food became known to 'others' in the '60s - but those blacks who left the south for California and other locations outside of the south brought with them 'the desire for comfort food - that was affordable. Hence, Soul Food. Eating at Paula Dean's in Savannah brought back memories of Sunday dinner at home. To argue or debate this is clouding the issue that blacks and whites throughout history have enjoyed the same food in the south. Those blacks who left the south called it 'Soul Food'.

On P. 113 in the magazine there is a recipe for Southern Biscuits. Ummmm - good!

This argument about black and white southern food is silly.

If you think that the blacks at TARA with Scarlett O'Hara ate as well as Scarlet did, then you are dreaming.

The prime ham and beef were fairly scarce in the shacks.
Fine French cooking wasn't about to happen there either.

Since they were Irish, they probably ate quite a bit of their own soul food when they desired it: Cabbage, corned beef and potatoes boiled.

I expect the wine in the shacks was inferior. Maybe they got some of the non-bug infested flour and maybe they didn't!

If you are talking about now and not then, then I can vouch that in towns of a majority of blacks, the chain grocery stores even carry food that one won't find any, or very much of, in PTC.
I'm not going to get into just what here but you can go look for yourself!
Why Rich's in W. Atlanta even had special clothes and plenty of them.

I don't think it matters much now. I eat what I was raised upon and they can do the same..."they" being either one.

Lordy, miss Sca'lett, I dont knows nuthin 'bout makin' no biscuits!

I agree, arguing over food is rather silly considering the other problems and divisions that separate us.

I've changed my diet a lot since my last horrible lipid test. But I still, on occasion, enjoy putting together an ole fashioned meal: bacon fat in the home made cream corn, bacon fat & onion in the fresh green beans, a big glob of bacon fat in the iron skillet for the corn bread, and a glazed ham that would make you slap yourself! Thank god for pigs! I just can't make biscuits worth a damn.