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If the plate of food doesn’t raise my blood pressure I don’t want it 🤷♂️
The veggies aren’t the problem. The problem is the deep fried pig fat.
Edit: I didn’t say lard, I said deep fried pig fat. Not fried IN pig fat. I mean the pig fat itself is deep fried. Google “cracklin”
It’s not the veggies.
It’s the fact that the veggies are deepfried in pig fat with bacon bits and axle grease on top, and served with a stick of butter.
Like seriously, saying you’re eating healthy ingredients might be true but deepfrying the whole damn thing in lard negates any benefit you have from it.
Like claiming that your triple animal style fries are a vegetable so it’s healthy. Or that Karen can’t understand why she can’t lose weight because she just has salad but neglects to mention it’s the salad bar where she uses a soup tureen and puts three pieces of Lettuce at the bottom of a pile of cheese, eggs, bacon, and everything else that isn’t a veggie.
Nope, sorry.
There are TONS of soul food recipes that are vegan/vegetarian that hit all the notes without using half a Costco container of pork lard to make it.
Edit: this ain’t about veganism or vegetarianism. Just that you can pare down the amount of bad shit in a recipe and increase the flavor with alternative ingredients. You do not have to deep fry everything for it to taste good.
Unless it’s kale. Seriously, kale is the exception to everything. The only thing you can do with kale is to coat it in literally everything unhealthy and eat it that way. Otherwise, I hope you enjoy the taste of wet cardboard.
The arm sac will tell
I’ve said this before in other posts in this sub, but while I like soul food every once in a while, there’s a reason why black folks in the U.S. have the highest rates of heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, etc. A lot of y’all here act like other cuisine is bland just because it doesn’t have your body weight worth of butter and salt with dumping the whole can of Zatterain’s seasoning on it. Y’all manage to turn vegetables and mac and cheese and the like into 4000 calorie meals and wonder why we’re so unhealthy.
I know it’s easier said than done, but portion sizes portion sizes portion sizes
Soul Food isn’t historically what it is today, same with Italian food.
When the Great Migration happened, many members of the black community were exhausted and homesick. They had fled the South hoping to escape the cruel Jim Crow South only to find the same race riots, lynchings, and bigotry of the South.
So the black community started preparing dishes that were once rare luxury dishes reserved for parties and big events. Slow cooked ribs, cornbread made with sugar and white flour, greens with chunks of meat in them, Mac and Cheese, and Chicken (yes chicken used to be a rare food). Black owned food carts produced similar food items sometimes called them letters from home.
The modern Soul Food movement is built off these dishes.
It’s disingenuous to claim Soul Food was just BBQ ribs, because they weren’t.
Italian food isn’t just Lasagna and Pizza, and Soul Food isn’t just Ribs and Mac&Cheese.
There are many classic Soul Food dishes, from African inspired versions of Gumbo in New Orleans to the homestyle cooking of Lima Beans, Fish, and Cornbread of the Mississippi river delta. There is even an entire history of African dishes made by slaves and share croppers using available American ingredients that have almost been lost to history and are being recovered by black culinary historians.
Puerto Rican here (more of a gringorican) I love Puerto Rican food so much. It’s genuinely so good, and I value it as ties to my family. But let’s be real that Shit blocks your arteries so bad
Someone bring up that Boondocks clip of Huey ranting about Soul Food plz cause apparently folks still don’t know that while it taste good ofc, it ain’t good for you 🤷♂️
Not everything has to be a racist conspiracy, guys. Plenty of real ones to deal with without adding made up ones.
Wtf was shorty tryna say ?
in 2023 soul food can be so many things, tho — every family has their own recipes & styles — it’s not even exclusively a southern tradition anymore.
meaning yes, soul food can be unhealthy if it’s cooked like that, but everyone doesn’t just pump their meals full of fat, cheese, sugars, & seasoning — even if it tastes better that way.
The Mac and cheese might be a little unhealthy but how often are you eating soul food that it impacts your health that much?
Being delulu is not the solulu (as the kids would say).
White people bad because deep frying veggies is unhealthy 😡😡😡
I mean… ugh highkey I hate these type of arguments. Combatting racism is good, understanding why things rhetorically are the way they are is great and we SHOULD be doing that.
However coming to the defense of things needs to be done correctly too. Soul food is usually unhealthy in the way it’s prepared, the default for it is to be unhealthy and the portion sizes are typically absurd.
The reason why it’s the face of unhealthy eating isn’t because there’s some lie about it, it’s a two-fold problem. It’s our astronomical obesity rates, combined with how anything black people do that’s negative is magnified in terms of public perception. We aren’t the only ones making unhealthy food (hell every white person I know loves greasy ass taco’s) but because it’s a black thing that’s bad suddenly it’s the “face” of said negative thing.
Soul food isn’t even meant to be eaten everyday it’s for holidays and family events. I agree with the caption
Let me have something. And by something i mean fry it, season it, and let me fill my plate.
My dad always used to make his healthy side dish of peas or stringbeans with like a stick of butter. Best veggies you’ll eat
There was a whole boondocks episode about this
I beg too differ. I cook healthy soul food.
I mean, did we learn nothing from Soul Food the Movie?!?!
It isn’t healthy. There are vegetables, but they all have heaps of meat, fat, and sugar in them. There’s lots of carbs and bread too. If someone gives me greens without meat in them or sweet potatoes that don’t have butter and brown sugar in them, I don’t want it.
The history of soul food is making the food white people didn’t want to eat good and using good food as one of the few luxuries we could afford. It isn’t going to be healthy.
Adding to that, most people don’t have physical jobs anymore. If you’re sharecropping or working a difficult, manual labor job you can burn a lot of calories and keep your cardio fitness high. Not so much when you sit at a desk. Or when you get older and you naturally start slowing down.
I thought the face of unhealthy eating was always fast food.
i’m thinking of terry crews talking about the gout. “pass me the big piece of chicken”
Beans, greens, potatoes, tomatoes…
See: The Boondocks, episode: The Itis
There’s a reason black people are 10x more likely to have diabetes and heart disease
Ain’t a damn thing healthy about soul food but that’s not why we eat it. It’s FOR MY SOUL.. right there in the name. And since we on the topic, Thanksgiving is right around the corner and I’m HYPE. Showing up with my own Tupperware this year. 🤙🏾
While it may not be healthy its always a good time. Especially with the fam around.
It’s called “soul food” for a reason.
It puts my soul closer to leaving my body after my heart gives out from eating that incredible deliciousness.
Anyone who watches my grandma cook would be struck by lightning if they asked this question. What you mean why it ain’t healthy? There is a big hunk of lard in it!