notbob wrote:
>
> You have to realize that chitlins are one thing. Slave food.

Yep. That, and anything else they could find, many times.

> They
> are what the slave owners did not want to eat and what was left of the
> hog for slaves to use, much like ears, feet, etc. Slaves didn't want
> to eat shit. They just wanted to eat. They learned that if prepared
> properly, chitlins were not only eatible, but good eats. There's an
> old saying about best friends. Something about a best friend is
> someone who's chitlins you'd be willing to eat.

I was unaware, until recently, the extent to which some slave owners
starved their slaves. I am reading "Incidents in the Life of a Slave
Girl" by Harriet Jacobs - a real eye opener. I will bet those
chitlins were looking pretty good.

-L.