On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 14:14:40 -0500, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 11/2/2020 12:38 PM, Sheldon Martin wrote:
>
>>
>> Today they call black food soul food. I've tryed what's called
>> soul food, I don't like it, what's sold as soul food is damned
>> nasty... over cooked greens is disgusting.... what the **** is greens
>> anyway? Soul food is really crap, the rotten garbage fed to negro
>> slaves.
>>
>
>Many years ago I was a supervisor and one of the guys in my department
>was an older black guy. Every day his wife would pack his lunch but he
>preferred to go across the street to the bar and drink his lunch. Every
>morning he brought me the brown bag and said "my wife made this for
>you". One day it would be a bone in chicken thigh sandwich, another day
>a bone in pork chop sandwich. It was fantastic food.
>
>Not sure how she cooked stuff but it was never dry, always tasty and
>tender. Never any greens.

No greens was the saving grace. We grow various leafy greens, lots of
swiss chard this year but eat it raw, chopped with salad dressing...
it's like raw spinach.