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(generalization here)
you guys walk from the house to the car in the garage outside of the house/parking spot outside of your apartment.
we walk from the apartment to the:
a. train station, and we have to walk down/up stairs before we get on the train. b. bus stop, usually to walk even farther to take the train, so go back to A. c. cab to take the bus/train.
then we have to walk up/down the stairs then walk a ton of blocks to get where we have to go, usually.
we are on our feet for a long, long time during the day in comparison to ppl in the south.
we don't eat as many fatty and/or fried foods and we exercise by walking a lot more than you guys do.
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another common myth is that we don't cook, we don't have access to fresh fruit/vegetables, etc. but that stuff isn't necessarily true, either.
People in Miami and Atlanta have to do all that too.
my mom fries plantains, makes tacos, makes crazy italian dishes, we eat beef patties, she LOVES knishes, etc. etc.
my mom makes all types of caribbean food. empanadas? yup.
southerners are not making the type of food we're talking about.
a lot of them haven't even heard of it. i remember the first time my gf (from the south) had a beef pattie. she was scared to eat it.
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and she can cook her butt off. never had a female in my life cooking for me the way she does. she can do the seafood stuff but international stuff like what we're talking about? na.
My mom does the same. And we're Haitian. She can make AWESOME Italian food.
my mom fries plantains, makes tacos, makes crazy italian dishes, we eat beef patties, she LOVES knishes, etc. etc.
my mom makes all types of caribbean food. empanadas? yup.
southerners are not making the type of food we're talking about.
a lot of them haven't even heard of it. i remember the first time my gf (from the south) had a beef pattie. she was scared to eat it.
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and she can cook her butt off. never had a female in my life cooking for me the way she does. she can do the seafood stuff but international stuff like what we're talking about? na.
Yeah, I guess my Mexican/Indian neighbor who is married to a German/Italian isn't going to make all kinds of different dishes. You are just clueless.
i'm not clueless enough to think that what you're saying is the norm for the south.
It is much more normal for families in the south to cook food that have differing cultural origins than to just cook chitlins and collard greens every night as you seem to be implying.
Do you think that because someone was born in the south they can't make lasagna, spaghetti and meatballs, chicken and rice, black beans and rice, curry chicken, etc?
Coming from a black family, my mother didnt just cook soul food. My mother cooked spanish dishes, italian dishes etc.Thats some ny sh>t. Southerners dont do that.
yet another example of a new yorker running their mouth about something they know nothing about.....do you know how many black folks in texas can cook up some mexican, cajun, and seafood dishes? and we have caribbean cooks down here too (puerto rico, panama, trinidad). soul food is what we do best, but that's not all we do. and i know good and well that ALL the women up there can't cook italian, so don't even trip
yet another example of a new yorker running their mouth about something they know nothing about.....do you know how many black folks in texas can cook up some mexican, cajun, and seafood dishes? and we have caribbean cooks down here too (puerto rico, panama, trinidad). soul food is what we do best, but that's not all we do. and i know good and well that ALL the women up there can't cook italian, so don't even trip
Not to mention, Creole, Cajun, TexMex, German, etc. I wonder if they even eat Kolaches up there.
It is much more normal for families in the south to cook food that have differing cultural origins than to just cook chitlins and collard greens every night as you seem to be implying.
Do you think that because someone was born in the south they can't make lasagna, spaghetti and meatballs, chicken and rice, black beans and rice, curry chicken, etc?
i didn't say all that and i wasn't implying anything.
Not to mention, Creole, Cajun, TexMex, German, etc. I wonder if they even eat Kolaches up there.
yeah. for example, my older sister's empanadas are out of this world good, and we don't have a drop of spanish in our blood lol (not that i know of anyway). and a lot of southern blacks have west indian heritage, so finding someone who can make things like ox tails and jerk chicken isn't unusual
as far as italian goes, i don't know anybody personally who can make genuine italian dishes, but i would guess that about 1 out of every 4 or 5 black households has a cook that can make a meeean lasagna lol. or spaghetti (my favorite dish) with the sausages and the sweet ragu. or maybe some angel hair pasta with the butter alfredo sauce....throw some skrimps in there lol. good eatin
....so yeah, southern women are the baddest
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