A long time ago I spent some time working for a prominent touring gospel group. The first night of rehearsal, I was the first one down to the catering room for dinner. I was really hungry, but trying to eat light and healthy.

I lifted the lid of the first chafing dish -- fried chicken. OK, a little stereotypical, but let's move on and see ...
Second dish -- mashed potatoes swimming in butter. Gravy on the side.
Third dish -- string beans, flavored with a bunch of big chunks of ham. More like ham and string beans.
So, I'm thinking, one more dish to go -- must be "meat and three" here. Hoping the third vegetable isn't swimming in meat or fat.
I lifted the lid, and -- pork chops.

We ate very well that tour, but nobody lost any weight.

If anybody on here is willing to go to a soul food spot in a black neighborhood(or if anybody on here already has)..some of the things you'll catch on the menus are..

Chicken & waffle breakfast
Fish & hot grits

Pork chops(smothered in gravy or fried)
Fried chicken
Fish (fried whitings/salmon /catfish/porgies/flounder )
Shrimp
Bbq ribs
Ox- tails(which is also used amongst Caribbeans..mainly Jamaicans)
Chicken gizards


Collard greens...baked macaroni & cheese...black eyed peas..string beans..potato salad..Lima beans..candy yams...cabbage...rice & gravy...coleslaw....cornbread...sweet potato pie..banana pudding


I mean I can't be any more specific then I just was.if you still don't understand what soul food is.then I can't help you

To go another notch..creole food from Louisiana (gumbo & all of that extra spicy stuff) could also go under southern soul food

Lol,I repeat for the 3rd time....soul food is home cooked food that our black ancestors cooked in the south..there is no difference between southern foods as you people continue to call it & soul food

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)

These are really Southern foods. Soul food is more accurately chitlins, hog maws, pig feet, etc.

Yes although I would also characterize it as "Southern food." There was a place where I grew up in California that had the Reggie Jackson breakfast special, eggs with 2 fried pork chops, grits and red eye gravy...so good.
I do not like "fried everything," NC BBQ or mayo-everything salads though. Prefer potato salad German style with vinegar and herbs, okra is very good pan sauteed dry with just a little olive oil and onions. A friend taught me how to make greens with smoked turkey neck meat that has a lot less fat in it.

I'm very hungry now.

I'm telling you.I'm new here & can already feel the ignorance from a lot of these "non African american" posters( it might just be the same 1 or 2 lames making these type of comments)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there a reason you are asking? Is this market research? Just curious?

I live food from all different cultures.

I love fried chicken and BBQ. I can't eat fried chicken often because it is bad for you. I love collards but I make them myself. I like to go out to eat for food I can't make at home... Fried chicken... But I normally take it to go.

I consider them southern food. African Americans from NY or Chicago would not consider most food you mentioned aa food.

That's probably why the OP asked "do you like soul food", and not "do you like African American food?" I think most AA's in NY or Chicago who went to a "Soul Food" restaurant would expect to see these items or similar items on the menu. It doesn't mean that it's what they serve every day in their homes.

Why would you assume that?
STEREOTYPE
STEREOTYPE
STEREOTYPE
OMG WHAT IS GOING ON THIS SITE LATELY?

OMG not all black folk like soul food..
you are a troll...

Yes! Especially love greens and fried okra. Ate myself silly when I spent a week in Charleston and Savannah.
(from a white woman who grew up in So. Calif and didn't try most of these foods until I was well into my 20's)