Soul food review

[Anonymous No.14124494]

So today I went and tried soul food in a black restaurant, under the recommendation of my black friends. They hyped it up and said it would more aromatic, flavorful and hot that any "wypipo shit" Ive tasted before.

I was left disappointed. I could only taste a few spices in most of the dishes(jambalaya and fried catfish for example) while some like the steamed collard greens and chitlins had no spice at all.

The spiciness and aroma was nothing compared to the one found in indian and my country's dishes(Im iranian). I later found out that blacks use mainly just cayenne pepper, garlic, salt, black pepper and pour lots of lousiana hot sauce. While hot, this is very little variety compared to other cuisines that focus on spices. Where is the cumin, fenugreek, tarragon, turmeric, coriander, nutmeg, aniseed, etc?

[Anonymous No.14124508]

I feel as if this is some nice race bait. I do not think you are even Iranian.

[Anonymous No.14124612]

>>14124508
>if you dont think soul food is anything special you must be white

[Anonymous No.14124639]

>>14124508
Have you eaten iranian food to compare?

[Anonymous No.14124691]

>>14124494
bump

[Anonymous No.14124717]

>>14124494
Soul Food is objectively trash Anon. It is merely the worst components of Southern Cuisine.

Black people are literally retarded. Well half of them anyway, statistically speaking.
>85 IQ
>WEW LAD

[Anonymous No.14124763]

>>14124612
>aryans aren't whites

[Anonymous No.14124768]

>>14124494
Not sure what you expected. It’s food for the enslaved and impoverished. Subpar cuts of meat, offal, bottom feeding fish, leafy greens, and bread made from coarse grain, heavily seasoned with the few spices that were available to mask undesirable flavors. Don’t get me wrong, I like the stuff, but I don’t understand why people feel the need to elevate it beyond what it is.

[Anonymous No.14124774]

>>14124494
Cajun and creole food is great. Soul food, on the other hand, is garbage.

[Anonymous No.14124793]

>>14124768
Not to mention that soul food has a billion calories because of the work slaves were expected to do in a day.

[Anonymous No.14124820]

>>14124768
The there is nothing wrong with offal and such, but I dont understand why it has the reputation of having lots of complex seasoning.

[Anonymous No.14124826]

>>14124763
Im middle eastern

[Anonymous No.14124857]

>>14124768
This. It's glorified because its "cultural," but I think most people from what are essentially 3rd-world cultures can relate: Most "cultural" foods are garbage that people ate because there were no alternatives. Doesn't make it good.

[Anonymous No.14124861]

>>14124820
Because it’s compared to the typical middle-class “white” cuisine that developed in post-WW2 America.

[Anonymous No.14124868]

we can all agree that cornbread and collard greens are fuckin good tho right?

[Anonymous No.14124877]

>>14124868
Isnt collard greens just very overcooked spring greens?

[Anonymous No.14124886]

>>14124494
Sorry OP, I just think you don't know shit about anything whatsoever that you are talking about. To be fair, you went to 1 restaurant??? C'mon. I've had Persian food many times and from various sources, but I wouldn't rank my knowledge on a single experience either.

If you actually would like to learn something about black culture in food history and in the South in particular? I highly recommend PBS series: Somewhere South with Vivian Howard. Peek through some of the old Mind of a Chef if they feature a southern cook, as well. For really understanding it all, from soul to creole, and what defines it and done properly both, you need to look at the lifetime work on what the African diaspora did to food, which she labels the "foodway" by Jessica Harris PhD, whether cookbooks or some of her interviews, start there.
https://www.southernfoodways.org/interview/jessica-b-harris/

[Anonymous No.14124890]

>>14124868
Collard greens are just buttered and seasoned vegetables. There are a million other vegetables that would taste better with the same prep.

[Anonymous No.14124899]

>>14124877
you've done it, I'm convinced I don't like them anymore.

[Anonymous No.14124917]

>>14124868
They can be, but I’ve had a lot of flavorless greens and a lot of inedibly dry cornbread.

[Anonymous No.14124938]

>>14124826
Don't worry, it was an inside joke to myself. Do not become like the Americans.

[Anonymous No.14124971]

>>14124886
>you will enjoy this turd if you let me tell you about what I ate to make it

[Anonymous No.14124978]

>>14124494
When black people say white people don't season their food, they mean they don't literally encrust it in a layer of seasoning, like they do.

[Anonymous No.14125131]

>>14124978
Let’s be honest, anon, the cuisine of “white” middle-America is definitely lacking.

[Anonymous No.14125235]

>>14124978
the only way to encrust seasoning is to deep fry, but the spices have more aroma when they're in a sauce. Also the way black friends season their friend chicken isnt very tasty. They just put cayenne pepper and cheeto dust in the batter.

[Anonymous No.14125276]

>>14124978
black people seem ignorant about indian cuisine blowing them out of the water when it comes to seasoning

[Anonymous No.14125316]

>>14124886
>Please don't say you hate my shit tier slop! If wypipo find out they is gonna send us back to da plantation lawdy!
The only "black" food that is any good is Jamaican or Creole. Soul food is just salty slop with cayenne dumped in it.

[Anonymous No.14125323]

>>14124820
Nothing wrong with bottom feeder fishes either. Flounder is one of the best tasting fishes.

[Anonymous No.14125326]

>>14125276
>Black people are ignorant narcissists
Fixed that for ya.

[Anonymous No.14125330]

>>14125323
I do enjoy me some fried mullet and grits.

[Anonymous No.14125336]

>>14124508
Salty ass nigger.

[Anonymous No.14125402]

>>14124826
You are caucasian,Iran literally means home of the Aryans

[Anonymous No.14125490]

>>14125235
Blackened and jerk are both more or less encrusted.

[Anonymous No.14125528]

>>14125235
naw beetch dumb ayse wypipo muthafuckas eetin they bland chickin bruh. we SEEzon aur muthafuckin meat

[Anonymous No.14125693]

>>14124768
>offal
>leafy greens
>bread made from coarse grain
>bad

[Anonymous No.14125717]

>>14125490
Thats Caribbean black though. Im talking about niggas from georgia.

[Anonymous No.14125903]

>>14124494
>this nigga said fenugreek

[Anonymous No.14126000]

>>14124886
?
The genuine fuck?

[Anonymous No.14126077]

>>14124886
Ive eaten soul food several times since and Ive felt the same level of flavor or less, or modern additions like cheeto dust, italian herb seasoning, store bought chicken seasoning, etc.

[Anonymous No.14126204]

>>14125903
nigger