For me, chocolate chip cookies.
This post was edited by SpunkySenior at June 11, 2021 6:58 PM MDT
Thanks for the household hint!
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That’s an actual meal for some people. My mother was born on The South (southern United States), and grew up on authentic soul food. When she became a mother, she often served for dinner pig’s feet, or pig’s ears, or pig’s snout, or pig’s tails, or chitterlings (which are pig’s entrails, intestines). My siblings and I absolutely HATED each and every one of these dishes, they never appealed to us even one bit, but since my mother had eaten them all her life, she was not only accustomed to them, she loves them thoroughly. The stench when they’re being cooked is indescribably horrible, it permeates the whole house. Trying to chew the thick hide and tough meat is an exercise is difficulty and torture. Neither any of my siblings nor I have ever eaten those things since our childhoods.
The history of pig parts as soul food is historical in that during slavery in the United States (1600s to circa 1860s), wealthy slaveowners and their families, guests, etc., ate well, but slaves ate scraps, unwanted leftovers, and garbage, basically anything the whites didn’t want to eat or would not eat because it was beneath them. The slaves, however, were often the ones who toiled to take care of and prepare most of the food. A “reward” for their hard labor was that the parts of animals that were discarded after slaughter became the slaves’ food. The best parts, or cuts, went to the whites, the slop went to the slaves. Rather than face starvation, slaves developed ways to turn out edible meals with the meager offerings.
It is the origin of the phrase, EATING HIGH OFF THE HOG. Those better cuts came from upper portions of the animals’ bodies, and lower parts were considered less appetizing, less refined. Feet, hooves, snouts, tails, etc. are the parts closest to the ground, closest to dirt, closest to urine and excrement, the most disgusting parts. In fact, the intestines are actually filled with excrement, which has to be cleaned from them before they can be cooked, back-breaking work that takes hours. That in turn accounts for the foul smell and taste. No self-respecting person would eat that, which made it perfect for slaves.
Decades after slavery ended, the socio-economic status of Blacks left them with fewer choices to break out of long-held practices, which is why a century after slavery was over, many Black people like my mother had a lifelong habit of eating the same way her ancestors had been forced to eat. Migration from The South in mass numbers, accompanied by better living conditions and more exposure to differing customs, all of these have little by little led to the practices being abandoned by successive generations. To this day, my mother, now in her golden years, still likes certain foods she has eaten since her infancy.
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Yes, many stores carry all of these items, some fresh, some canned, some in jars, some frozen.
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