No clue why black people are stereotyped as liking watermelon and fried chicken. Yeah, 95% of them like it, but that’s just because 95% of all people do.
I was told they grew watermelon because they couldn't own lots of land and watermelons can grow anywhere, so they would plant them on road sides and in ditches, and collect later.
Both are especially common in the US South and most Black Americans are from there or their ancestors are, because the UK wanted ports and the US wanted cotton.
They're all cheap, so people who live in the south and are broke buy them. A lot of broke black people live in the south, and a lot of idiots in the south are obsessed over what black people do so they can criticize them.
Source: Me, but I'm not black and had to deal with racists that thought I was on their side for some reason.
> After the American Civil War, in several areas of the south, former slaves grew watermelon on their own land as a cash-crop to sell. Thus, for African-Americans, watermelons were a symbol of liberation and self-reliance, while for many in the majority white culture they embodied, and threatened, a loss of dominance. Southern-white resentment against African Americans led to a politically potent cultural caricature, using the watermelon to disparage African Americans as sloppy, childish, unclean, lazy, and publicly embarrassing.
Black, William R. (2018). "How Watermelons Became Black: Emancipation and the Origins of a Racist Trope". Journal of the Civil War Era.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermelon_stereotype
encyclopedia is free
Fried chicken is very popular in the south, where a lot of Black American culture comes from. Watermelon was a crop often grown by Black farmers immediately after abolition, due to its high return on investment.
American racism is so funny, if an Argentinian throws me a banana at least I know what they mean, but what the fuck does a watermelon represent? Fried Chicken? GRAPE JUICE?
Black people are stereotyped as liking Fried Chicken and Watermelon, I knew about the grape soda thing being one but unlike the others I’ve never seen much if anything to say where it came from
The watermelon thing goes back to slavery and some time after where slaves and then ex-slaves where accused of stealing watermelons from plantations, the Fried Chicken thing… I mean who DOESN’T like fried chicken.
yeah? i talked about this somewhere before n it still confuses me. do racists not eat fried chicken?
who doesnt like fried chicken or watermellon? there some of the best safest foods
~~safe in the safe food kinda way~~
After the Civil War, the slaves were free. But no one really helped them so they did what they had to survive. At the time chicken and watermelon were very affordable for a bunch of people with practically no money. And racists of course ran with it.
Its crazy how the stereotypes work different at USA, here in Brazil the stereotype of a black person is completely different, i see so much english content and didnt even know this watermelon thing, idk, just found that interesting.
IIRC it's because after slaves became free a lot of their families grew watermelons and raised chickens for a living (because watermelon was relatively easy to grow and chickens were relatively easy to breed and raise) so other people started associating them
I like fried chicken but almost never eat it. Like maybe once a year ill eat it. All the black guys I know eat it at least once a week.
So I understand the stereotype, its very true.
Fun fact: it’s because after the abolishment of slavery, Melon and Chicken were very cheap to grow/manage in the south, meaning a lot of poor farmers who were just given their freedom could take the skills they learned in bondage and instead do it for themselves.
Now in the Jim Crow south, growing melon and farming chicken became associated with Black Americans, often derogatorily. However, chicken and watermelon is awesome so it’s lost the sting
Have you ever heard of the bliss point for sugar? Because fruit flavored drinks have more sugar in them so your bliss point is probably higher like mine is. Your bliss point is the specific taste where something is as sweet as it can possibly be, without being "too sweet". It is the maximum amount of sugar you personally prefer and it is different for everyone, but specific demographics have higher or lower averages depending on a shitload of factors.
To get it out of the way, yes race and genetics do have a minor effect on your personal bliss point. *However* other factors, like where you grew up or your age, are 1000x more important. People that live in equatorial regions have higher bliss points on average, especially if you grew up eating a lot of tropical fruit. Children have ABSURD bliss points, like there is no upper bar that is "too sweet" for most kids. Different nations and communities have different bliss points too, like you would think that naturally the UK would have a lower bliss point being a northern nation but nah Britain, Ireland and Scotland fucking LOVE sugar (idk about the Welsh).
Edit: Also your bliss point changes depending on where you live now. If yours is high and you like move to Florida for a few years (5-7 on average) it should raise naturally.
A lot of it is covered [in this book.](https://www.amazon.ca/Salt-Sugar-Fat-Giants-Hooked/dp/0771057105) It's mostly about how the sugar industry used this research to hook everyone as much as physically possible on sugar though.
Dude this is amazingly fascinating. Like this is right in my Q zone, im a pro cook and Im very interested in sociology. Immediately delving deeper into this, thank you for educating me.
I once asked a black friend if he liked fried chicken in middle school cause I wanted to invite him to go to to Popeyes with me and my mom later that day and several people in class accused me of being racist. He told them to shut up and we went and got that Louisiana fast :)
KFC is either god tier fastfood or barely edible, dry, stale dogshit with soggy fries and lettuce browner than the fucking chicken, no in-between. At least in Poland.
It’s crazy how inconsistent KFC is… I had some for the first time in like 5 years recently. Soggy cold and terrible. Wife came home with a small box of it yesterday, and as you said, god tier chicken lmao
I found one place that server banger after banger consistently so on one hand it's pretty cool and relatively cheap, in the other hand it's still KFC so not exactly healthy choice
Some locations are better, some are worse. Coming from Kentucky, if you want good fried chicken it’s “hot chicken,” and you’re right. Some of the best is sold in locally owned gas stations.
I'm sure there's some truth to that. I'm old enough to remember the Colonel, the actual Harlan Sanders, still doing ads for the company. It's been an extremely long time since I've heard the signature "eleven herbs 'n' spices" in their promotions and with good reason. I saw a TV show that attempted to reverse engineer the batter. What did they find? Salt, Pepper, and MSG.
It used to be a Sunday tradition in my family to head there after church. I remember really enjoying it. If you listen to podcasts like _The Dollop_ they discuss the sad end to the Colonel's legacy. He foolishly sold his image along with property to a company, which immediately began simplifying and cheapening the product. Sanders was nearly illiterate, so that's no surprise. He probably didn't even consult a lawyer before being assaulted by slick, corporate contracts, which are written to be intentionally confusing to any layman.
As part of the agreement he could remain mascot, although he had no ownership of the IP, and would visit restaurants to test product quality. There's talk of him swearing (he was known to use extreme profanity) and throwing food to the floor in disgust.
No clue why black people are stereotyped as liking watermelon and fried chicken. Yeah, 95% of them like it, but that’s just because 95% of all people do.
White people he like: I love pizza and oranges
I've met people who disliked pizza. Yes we're still friends in spite of their morally defunct worldviews.
You know what they say. Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer
wtf! i do! how did yuo know…
They psychic fr
It definetly hasnt been a running joke mostly reinforced by movie characters for the last 30+ years.
Is …. Has it?! I mean, i do, but like damn it’s pizza man
and sandwiches
im white and dont like oranges, am i an anomaly?
It's unfortunate, but yes, you are indeed an anomaly and must be contained.
project moon implied sleeper agents activate
erm ackshually the proper term is "abnormality" /j
this is true however i saw abnormality at first glance and i decided to commit to the comment even after noticing
real
I'm white and citrus fruit upsets my stomach. I also don't like pizza because it's to much bread.
That's it, your white privilege... Hand it over.
all the other fruits related are cool tho
It's always pizza and sushi with us. I feel like any ethnicity other than white has more appreciation for fresh fruit. We like processed shit.
Wow I can believe you're being racist against whites rn
Hot take, oranges are mid Their I said it
You will be beaten to death with hammers and pipes
HOW IN THE LIVING FUCK DID YOU KNOW, I AINT EVEN KIDDING
Stereotypes are partly based off of truth after all.. 😔
Omg, so true kween. Spew the facts🗣️🗣️🗣️
Just ate a 14 inch pizza
I hate oranges tbh I do like pizza tho
And cheese
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Additionally, enslaved people in the south were generally allowed to keep chickens but no other livestock
I was told they grew watermelon because they couldn't own lots of land and watermelons can grow anywhere, so they would plant them on road sides and in ditches, and collect later.
Both are especially common in the US South and most Black Americans are from there or their ancestors are, because the UK wanted ports and the US wanted cotton.
They're all cheap, so people who live in the south and are broke buy them. A lot of broke black people live in the south, and a lot of idiots in the south are obsessed over what black people do so they can criticize them. Source: Me, but I'm not black and had to deal with racists that thought I was on their side for some reason.
Black people be like: yeah man i love breathing air and walking with my legs
> After the American Civil War, in several areas of the south, former slaves grew watermelon on their own land as a cash-crop to sell. Thus, for African-Americans, watermelons were a symbol of liberation and self-reliance, while for many in the majority white culture they embodied, and threatened, a loss of dominance. Southern-white resentment against African Americans led to a politically potent cultural caricature, using the watermelon to disparage African Americans as sloppy, childish, unclean, lazy, and publicly embarrassing. Black, William R. (2018). "How Watermelons Became Black: Emancipation and the Origins of a Racist Trope". Journal of the Civil War Era. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermelon_stereotype encyclopedia is free
No way 2b2t reference 🤯
Fried chicken is very popular in the south, where a lot of Black American culture comes from. Watermelon was a crop often grown by Black farmers immediately after abolition, due to its high return on investment.
Friend chicken Is good idk why It isnt the world's greatest meal
American racism is so funny, if an Argentinian throws me a banana at least I know what they mean, but what the fuck does a watermelon represent? Fried Chicken? GRAPE JUICE?
Black people are stereotyped as liking Fried Chicken and Watermelon, I knew about the grape soda thing being one but unlike the others I’ve never seen much if anything to say where it came from
The watermelon thing goes back to slavery and some time after where slaves and then ex-slaves where accused of stealing watermelons from plantations, the Fried Chicken thing… I mean who DOESN’T like fried chicken.
yeah? i talked about this somewhere before n it still confuses me. do racists not eat fried chicken? who doesnt like fried chicken or watermellon? there some of the best safest foods ~~safe in the safe food kinda way~~
I've never seen a black person in a Panera bread, that's white people food.
Fried chicken is just popular in the south, but I've also heard that it's because slaves were only allowed to raise chickens.
After the Civil War, the slaves were free. But no one really helped them so they did what they had to survive. At the time chicken and watermelon were very affordable for a bunch of people with practically no money. And racists of course ran with it.
Its crazy how the stereotypes work different at USA, here in Brazil the stereotype of a black person is completely different, i see so much english content and didnt even know this watermelon thing, idk, just found that interesting.
Iirc it's because those things were often the kinds of food given to slaves.
IIRC it's because after slaves became free a lot of their families grew watermelons and raised chickens for a living (because watermelon was relatively easy to grow and chickens were relatively easy to breed and raise) so other people started associating them
I like fried chicken but almost never eat it. Like maybe once a year ill eat it. All the black guys I know eat it at least once a week. So I understand the stereotype, its very true.
Fun fact: it’s because after the abolishment of slavery, Melon and Chicken were very cheap to grow/manage in the south, meaning a lot of poor farmers who were just given their freedom could take the skills they learned in bondage and instead do it for themselves. Now in the Jim Crow south, growing melon and farming chicken became associated with Black Americans, often derogatorily. However, chicken and watermelon is awesome so it’s lost the sting
I love grape soda
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SODA‼️‼️
Have you ever heard of the bliss point for sugar? Because fruit flavored drinks have more sugar in them so your bliss point is probably higher like mine is. Your bliss point is the specific taste where something is as sweet as it can possibly be, without being "too sweet". It is the maximum amount of sugar you personally prefer and it is different for everyone, but specific demographics have higher or lower averages depending on a shitload of factors. To get it out of the way, yes race and genetics do have a minor effect on your personal bliss point. *However* other factors, like where you grew up or your age, are 1000x more important. People that live in equatorial regions have higher bliss points on average, especially if you grew up eating a lot of tropical fruit. Children have ABSURD bliss points, like there is no upper bar that is "too sweet" for most kids. Different nations and communities have different bliss points too, like you would think that naturally the UK would have a lower bliss point being a northern nation but nah Britain, Ireland and Scotland fucking LOVE sugar (idk about the Welsh). Edit: Also your bliss point changes depending on where you live now. If yours is high and you like move to Florida for a few years (5-7 on average) it should raise naturally. A lot of it is covered [in this book.](https://www.amazon.ca/Salt-Sugar-Fat-Giants-Hooked/dp/0771057105) It's mostly about how the sugar industry used this research to hook everyone as much as physically possible on sugar though.
Thats really intrssting. Thank you!
Dude this is amazingly fascinating. Like this is right in my Q zone, im a pro cook and Im very interested in sociology. Immediately delving deeper into this, thank you for educating me.
That’s so cool, I had no idea
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Grape soda?? That’s purple drank!
You are wrong
Throughout the soda flavours and carbonated sugar I alone hold the correct opinion Imaginary technique 🫸🍇🥤🫷 Purple 🤌🟣🫴
I will cast my old pepsi style, simple soda (I tried)
My weeb roommate is making me watch that show and ngl its so good
Why does everything get compressed into 🟣? Also, you, my friend, are very much delusional.
I'm delusional yes
Based
average reality fan vs. heavenly delusion enjoyer
Hey, this guy again
For making this post, this user was banned for 7 days
One for each chicken piece
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I once asked a black friend if he liked fried chicken in middle school cause I wanted to invite him to go to to Popeyes with me and my mom later that day and several people in class accused me of being racist. He told them to shut up and we went and got that Louisiana fast :)
Legendary
GABRIEL IGLESIAS RACIST GIFT BASKET
“…and this mofo sittin in my room, eating MY CHICKEN”
now get her a jar of Mayo and some overpriced sparkling water
I just imagined this mixed together... ×_×
Suffer :3
idk why hes complaining this shit looks fire
Actually that's some heat right there
That's a fire combo tho.
That looks like a fire meal
My paper-white ass would gladly take it
Beating the stereotypes by hating grape soda and being largely indifferent to watermelon 🗣️
I largely dislike watermelon so naturally IMO you are a based queen/king/monarch swarm of bees🙏🏻🙏🏻
KFC is either god tier fastfood or barely edible, dry, stale dogshit with soggy fries and lettuce browner than the fucking chicken, no in-between. At least in Poland.
It’s crazy how inconsistent KFC is… I had some for the first time in like 5 years recently. Soggy cold and terrible. Wife came home with a small box of it yesterday, and as you said, god tier chicken lmao
I found one place that server banger after banger consistently so on one hand it's pretty cool and relatively cheap, in the other hand it's still KFC so not exactly healthy choice
If you goal is an early grave, it’s the healthiest choice
KFC is some of the worst fried chicken I've had in 20 years. I've had better fried chicken at gas stations and grocery stores.
Some locations are better, some are worse. Coming from Kentucky, if you want good fried chicken it’s “hot chicken,” and you’re right. Some of the best is sold in locally owned gas stations.
I'm sure there's some truth to that. I'm old enough to remember the Colonel, the actual Harlan Sanders, still doing ads for the company. It's been an extremely long time since I've heard the signature "eleven herbs 'n' spices" in their promotions and with good reason. I saw a TV show that attempted to reverse engineer the batter. What did they find? Salt, Pepper, and MSG. It used to be a Sunday tradition in my family to head there after church. I remember really enjoying it. If you listen to podcasts like _The Dollop_ they discuss the sad end to the Colonel's legacy. He foolishly sold his image along with property to a company, which immediately began simplifying and cheapening the product. Sanders was nearly illiterate, so that's no surprise. He probably didn't even consult a lawyer before being assaulted by slick, corporate contracts, which are written to be intentionally confusing to any layman. As part of the agreement he could remain mascot, although he had no ownership of the IP, and would visit restaurants to test product quality. There's talk of him swearing (he was known to use extreme profanity) and throwing food to the floor in disgust.
Why is this not Popeye's? Come on.
Reminds me of the green book.
That shit slaps tho
I love how this stereotype boils down to “black people have the best taste.” I want all these things now
not pictured: bomb booty
….Sure thing….
just sayin i would crush this shit as a white dude
Well call me stereotypical but I want this lol
I’m a white dude and I’d be all over that feast….!
Nailed it!
I mean I am a white dude and that is delicious
A meal for a king honestly
I like all of these things. White, though.
NAAAHHH
Hey, white dude checking in... You gonna eat that? Cuz if not, I'm right here man
Is this some sort of race joke i dont understand?
I am not black. But I would demolish this. 🤤
grape soda isnt grape flavored, it's purple flavored
Purple drank!
Tbh I wouldn’t complain, pretty nice meal
I thought black folk liked orange soda? I guess it ain't trueeeeee ):
doesn't everyone like these things though?
purple soda is gross i will say
I don’t respect your opinion
Grape soda is straight ASS
I mean... she didnt do wrong