l not -l wrote:
> On 17-Sep-2016, wrote:
>
>> On Saturday, September 17, 2016 at 10:10:05 AM UTC-5, Gary wrote:
>>>
>>> " wrote:
>>>>
>>>> In many Southern homes cornbread is on the table EVERY
>>>> night at dinnertime.
>>>
>>> And you know that how?
>>>
>>>
>> Ummmmmmm, because *I* live in the South. Does that
>> answer your question?
>>>
>>> Sounds like you are just stereotyping Southern people.
>>>
>> I've lived in the South ALL my life and I have a fair idea
>> of what we eat.
>>>
>>> Do all black people love watermelon and Moon Pies?
>>>
>> How did watermelon, Moon Pies and black people enter into
>> this conversation? I'm not black and I love watermelon
>> but I detest Moon Pies. If I live to be 100 and never see
>> another Moon Pie again it will be too soon.
>
> I lived in the south (Kentucky) from birth until I was 12, and continue to
> have ties (family and property) there still. One of my grandmothers had
> biscuits AND cornbread (or corn muffins, cakes, sticks, etc) on the table
> every meal I ever had there. Those grandparents were share-cropppers and
> had several family members working the fields; dinner (noon meal) always
> included feeding the "hands". My other grandmother, though she had in
> earlier years, did not cook for field hands; she always had biscuits OR
> cornbread on the table. One of my favorite things to eat as a child was
> cornbread with butter and sorghum.
>
> I have noticed that a lot of people don't really understand "southern" food.
> What is often called "soul" food is thought to be for African Americans; the
> reality is, it is what cash-poor people ate. Sometimes when I checkout at
> the supermarket an AA checker will ask me why I have collards, or hocks or
> smoked jowl or whatever. A share-cropper family ate the stuff they couldn't
> sell at a good price and, much of the year, had little cash; therefore
> bought only necessary pantry items. In addition to food from the garden, my
> grandparents would forage; we ate collards and other greens when my
> grandfather found them growing wild in/near his fields. Soul food is what
> people of limited means lived on; and, they learned how to make it taste
> great.
>
> In the western KY of my youth more people (black or white) thought more of
> cantaloupe varieties than watermelon; but, Moon Pies were a big seller at
> our general store. The three biggest selling "treats" at that store were
> Moon Pies, Bluebird brand personal pies (single serve) and Tom's peanuts
> poured into a bottle of RC cola.
>

Kentucky was not a confederate state, but it was close to
the confederate border, like maryland.

A lot of things vary in the south itself. For example,
People have different ideas of barbecue sauce from the
carolinas through to texas, though both were surely members
of the confederacy.

Even the african people that still inhabit the south have
different traditions and tribal allegiances. Good examples
of african food is in the new orleans fusion of negro and
french cuisine, or the old south food available in Atlanta,
and most cities in the south.

Southern food is not just the moldy, stained recipes of old
white women, or old negro women.