The Official "Ask A Brotha" Thread - Part 1

[Goshdarn Batman]

The watermelon one dates back to the days of slavery. Slave masters used to give their slaves the disgusting, barely digestible parts of animals to cook and eat for themselves. The slaves knew that no rational person should eat some of that slop, but they had to eat it anyway. To combat these forced bad eating habits, hey would also consume massive amounts of watermelon because fruit will flush out your system like it's nobody's business.

As for chicken, who the hell doesn't like chicken? You'd have to be a vegan or vegetarian to not like chicken. If anything, that stereotype needs to be shared with every racial group with access to the damned animal.

Thanks!

I don't know...I would be pretty angry if a chicken murdered my parents in cold blood. Hope I didn't give DC Comics any ideas for a new Batman reboot now

I've heard that chicken came from plantation owners, since "pieces" of the chicken were always left over. To add....frying the pieces was a way to bring more flavor and do away with bacteria.

Fruit as a "digestive cleaner" is well documented and has been for a long while.

I've heard that chicken came from eggs. Kidding

Thanks.

 

[Lencho01]

I thought the stereotype was about fried chicken and just chicken in general.

 

[Manic]

I don't know...I would be pretty angry if a chicken murdered my parents in cold blood. Hope I didn't give DC Comics any ideas for a new Batman reboot now

No, but you probably gave a bunch of people ideas for Batman analogs that'll either appear in one of the 52 universes or some deconstructionist indie comic.

 

[PyroChamber]

White people only claim half-white/half-black people if they think that person is white to begin with. See: Mariah Carey in the 90's, Wentworth Miller from Prison Break, Vin Diesel when everyone thought he was just Italian or something, and Carol "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" Channing.

Did they claim Jennifer Beals and Rashida Jones also? I remember a few years back there was a rumor claiming that Annalynne McCord was part black, but I never knew about Carol Channing.

 

[Manic]

I don't know about Jennifer Beals, but I've always been shocked by people who didn't know Rashida Jones was black. The first time I saw her on Boston Public, I was like "Wow, another black cast member? This has gotta be the blackest non-black show on TV!"

Carol Channing kept it quiet until a few years ago.

 

[charl_huntress]

What did she say?

He asked her if she thought she was black, and she said "I'm not black.". I am so surprised this interview didn't bring her more notoriety because I remember it so vividly.

I thought the stereotype was about fried chicken and just chicken in general.

It's aligned with how blacks like chitlins.

 

[PyroChamber]

He asked her if she thought she was black, and she said "I'm not black.". I am so surprised this interview didn't bring her more notoriety because I remember it so vividly.

It's aligned with how blacks like chitlins.

God, I hate chitlins. I personally don't see how anyone can eat them.

 

[Manic]

I don't see how anyone can be in the same room as them. They smell godawful.

 

[charl_huntress]

They are probably the most disgusting thing ever...but then someone told me what menudo was....

 

[E-Man]

I don't see why anyone would be pissed at Mariah for saying she's not black. Alicia Keys said the same thing. She said that she's just as much Italian as she is black, and that race doesn't matter and all that. I didn't think that Mariah was dissing her black side at all.

 

[charl_huntress]

I so wish I remember that comment in its exactitude, but it was over 20 years ago.

Trust me when I say, it was not as benign as what Keys said.

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

No, but you probably gave a bunch of people ideas for Batman analogs that'll either appear in one of the 52 universes or some deconstructionist indie comic.

Superman (horrified): "Why are you doing this, Bruce? Don't punch that poor chicken! You'll murder him!"

Bruce Wayne: "You don't understand, Clark! Joe Chick killed my parents many years ago... On that day, Butcherman was born! What's your excuse?"

Clark Kent: " Excuse? Why would I need one? My cow-parents taught me to be a good person!"

The Joker: "This is indeed a distoibing universe..."

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

They are probably the most disgusting thing ever...but then someone told me what menudo was....

Is it even worse than balut?

 

[charl_huntress]

I'm going to ask you what that is without the benefit of The Google....

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

"A balut or balot is a developing duck embryo that is boiled alive and eaten in the shell. It is commonly sold as streetfood in the Philippines"

Balut

Yum.

 

[PyroChamber]

Sounds delicious

 

[charl_huntress]

That's ****ing gross... I really don't know which is worse.

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

And where I'm from, some people eat sheep heads (tongue, eyes etc). I haven't tried it myself, but I found some in the store last christmas.

It was there, right beside the "Mr Cannibal's Pizza! Made from real human flesh."

 

[charl_huntress]

Here's a question, Goshdarn.... Why do people eat that where you are from? I know the origins of chitlins here in U.S.... but I have never understood the delicacy of eating sheep head?

 

[Manic]

Well, chitlins are pig intestines. The feces-filled bowels of a pig. As far as I'm concerned, that's way grosser than unborn baby duck and sheep head.

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

Here's a question, Goshdarn.... Why do people eat that

Vikings.

 

[charl_huntress]

I can't keep with this conversation.... It's too disgusting....

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

We're only disgusting! Hawhaw...get it?t:

 

[roach]

Well, chitlins are pig intestines. The feces-filled bowels of a pig. As far as I'm concerned, that's way grosser than unborn baby duck and sheep head.

I used to work in a food processing plant...where hogs were killed and turned into food...the chitlin room was the worst

 

[chamber-music]

Scandinavians and their rotting fish meat loving ways is something I will never understand.

Sweden has Surströmming (fermented Herring).

The worst is Iceland's Hakarl (rotten shark meat).

Killed, gutted, and then boned (or more correctly "cartilaged"), a shark's flesh is divided into pieces, washed and then buried in a large hole with coarse gravel. This meat is then left to decay and rot in the pit for 6-8 weeks to a few months, depending on the season. Afterwards the meat is dug up, washed, and aired out in a drying shack for another 2-4 months. Once the curing process is done, the meat is taken, its brown crust is removed and the remaining whitish flesh is carved up into small pieces to be served.