do you enjoy soul food ?

[youngblackdude]

Anonymous wrote:I like fried chicken, BBQ (chicken now because I no longer eat pork or beef), Mac and cheese (OP, the traditional soul food Mac and cheese isn't creamy right?), potato salad, corn bread, and I like other southern sides like coleslaw and chow chow and fried okra, but I'm not sure if they're "soul food." I don't love collards and yams.

For the health conscious: has anyone tried Everlasting Life, the new vegan soup food restaurant in Takoma? Or Woodlands?

To answer your question you asked me..no baked macaroni & cheese is dry & cheesy..the macaroni & cheese in the box you make on top of the stove (like Velveeta & Kraft's) that's all soupy don't count

[Anonymous]

White, Jewish, female, NYer here...yum!! I'm a vegetarian now, but have been and still go to soul food restaurants and eat what I can.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:White, Jewish, female, NYer here...yum!! I'm a vegetarian now, but have been and still go to soul food restaurants and eat what I can.

Also have a few black friends who are spectacular cooks, and I always look forward to the dishes they bring to parties!

[Anonymous]

Yes. White. Southern. And cook the best shrimp and grits you've ever had.

[youngblackdude]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:White, Jewish, female, NYer here...yum!! I'm a vegetarian now, but have been and still go to soul food restaurants and eat what I can.

Also have a few black friends who are spectacular cooks, and I always look forward to the dishes they bring to parties!

Sounds lovely

[youngblackdude]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. White. Southern. And cook the best shrimp and grits you've ever had.

Yum yum

[Anonymous]

I like a lot of it (white, grew up in NC fwiw), but will not go anywhere near chitlins. My father made them one time and the smell was horrifying- like a sewage spill.

[youngblackdude]

Anonymous wrote:I like a lot of it (white, grew up in NC fwiw), but will not go anywhere near chitlins. My father made them one time and the smell was horrifying- like a sewage spill.

I agree with you big time....had fried chitlins when I was younger.tasted like I was chewing on rubber lol I'll pass from now on

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:White southerner here. I love it; it's just traditional home cooking to me.

This is me too!

[Anonymous]

No. I find most of these foods to be too fatty and/or greasy.

[Anonymous]

Yes I like it and have incorporated some into our regular diet. We're having fried cabbage and baked macaroni with our Easter dinner tomorrow. (We're a white American and blatino mixed family.

[Anonymous]

I'm a white Southerner and I don't particularly like these foods. I agree that they're too heavy and greasy. If I'm going to eat something heavy, there are many foods I'd rather have than soul food/Southern food, which are the same thing.

[Anonymous]

youngblackdude wrote:To the non African americans on this board which I'm sure is the majority (no disrepect I like people from all backgrounds)..do you enjoy soul food meals ?( fried chicken,baked macaroni & cheese..collard greens..cornbread..candy yams..potatoes salad..etc etc)

This food reminds me of the South period.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:yes, the unhealthier, the better.

+1

[Anonymous]

Not all of it. For some reason, I've always been skeeved out by fried chicken. Even as a little kid. I just can't stomach the idea of eating it. I do like collard greens though, but I think of those (as well as shrimp/grits) as Southern food.