• Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    As a white man, I love collard greens and corn bread. I can understand how it became associated with (poor) black communities, but damn is it good. It shouldn’t be an insult like some people make it.

    • RestrictedAccount@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      I live in the South. Nobody here ever heard of “Soul Food”.

      Everybody eats that because it’s awesome.

      Go to a meat and three after Church on Sunday. You will see it full of happy old White People eating exactly what you described.

      • Charapaso@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Exactly: my first time outside the South eating at a Soul Food place was funny, because to me it was just Food.

    • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      I’ve got a whole song arranged for Appalachian/mountain dulcimer about how great collard greens are. Iirc it’s by the prolific author “traditional”.

      Edit: oops, it’s about turnip greens. Totally different.