#grits are credited to the Muscogee but there's lots of variations on hominy all over the continent
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only americans are real people. a not american picked foods that, yes are historically black and historically poor people food, that has been modified into comfort food, but, I need to point out, ARE STILL WEIRD if you haven't grown up with them, same as LITERALLY ALL OTHER COUNTRIES AND FOOD TRADITIONS ON EARTH. americans are having a fucking shitfit about it, as if americans don't immediately reach for poor people food and ethnic minority foods when making fun of other people's food traditions. it's fine when you fuckers replicate classism at people living in a society where class is real and tangible in ways you guys don't even understand that's just a joke bro calm down, but god forbid anyone do it back at you. get over youselves, if you gonna dish you gotta take it.
I'm well aware of classism in England, since it's one of the primary reasons my dad moved to the US and had me, a dual citizen who is uniquely positioned to see through your complete and utter bullshit.
Classism and racism exist in both countries. Stop acting like Americans, who live under greater wealth inequality than Brits do and in the country with the most billionaires, don't know what classism is. Stop acting like Brits don't know what anti-Black racism is when Black people are the third-most impoverished ethnic group in the UK and are so marginalised the UN filed a report on it in January.
Making fun of beans on toast is not the same as making fun of grits. Both sustain people through poverty, but only one sustained enslaved people through being bought and sold like livestock.
I did not expect the OP to know that when they made the post because I do not expect people to know everything about American culture or history. But you (and the OP) should have backed off once people tried to educate you about the importance of many of the foods on the list. My 80-year-old English grandmother would tell you the same.
Sending me a pissy ask like this tells me everything I need to know about you. Your behavior has nothing to do with your country of origin.
You're just a racist twat.
#tw slavery#tw racism#the OP made the poll in response to one that listed English foods. none were ethnic.#this was specifically a white Brit refusing to back down from making fun of Black American foods after being educated#i'm not 100% sure that people brought up the origin of grits to the OP#but i'll say it here in the tags: grits are a Native American food.#that's why they were an accessible 'slavery food'.#grits are credited to the Muscogee but there's lots of variations on hominy all over the continent#grits were probably eaten on the fucking Trail of Tears#and in the modern day we associate them with soul food and Black people#so it's just doubly fucked up to go EWWW GROSS INDIGENOUS FOOD THAT SUSTAINED ENSLAVED PEOPLE#AFTER that's been fucking explained to you#sorry for bringing up months old discourse#this appeared in my askbox TODAY
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