As a kid growing up in the south, I never understood the whole racial stereotype with fried chicken because I had never met anyone who didn't like it. Great video! Very informative.
I grew up in the north, and I always thought the same thing. Fried chicken is delicious. I have literally met no one who wasn't a vegetarian/vegan who didn't emphatically say, "Yes," if anyone else suggested they have fried chicken for lunch/diner.
BTW... as a white boy growing up in Texas, I ate collard greens, okra, sweet potatoes, fried chicken, chicken fried steak, and grits (my favorite)...later someone told me that was Black Soul food...I said "What??? that was just food!!!"
Had this very same discussion with a white man years ago,( I am Southern, SC here) around the time when the movie Soul Food came out. Tbh, he was on the hefty side & I remember he stated something like " I don't know why people think only black people love fried chix, collard greens,mac & zz, black-eyed peas, pinto beans, biscuits, cornbread,chix & dumplings peach cobbler, pound cake etc....I'm white & I eat all of the above. I don't call it black people's food or whoever , I call it good eating."😆😆😂😂🤣🤣
It’s black soul food because it’s the food y’all ancestors didn’t want. We got the left overs and made it delicious with our flavors Hello. White southerners need to quit acting obtuse. “We all ate it” 😂
#FACTS ALSO, TO RUNAWAY SLAVES. A PIECE OF CHICKEN AND FRUIT SUCH AS AN APPLE. THE FRUIT WAS FOR THE BEVERAGE AND ELECTROLYTES. YOU KNOW YOUR HISTORY....
And it turns out watermelon is one of the healthiest foods there is. It is insanely good for you. It's not some junk only fit for poor people. Watermelon is gold. If they had known back in the day how good it was, they would never have allowed poor folk to eat it.
It wasn't until a year or so ago that I encountered people on RU-vid who did not like watermelon. I nearly said this time what I said then, everyone likes... I dont say that anymore. I have come to realize that there are some crazy people.
I love this! My father was a 1st gen Japanese immigrant and soul food was his favorite! We always had it on special occasions. He said it brought him even more comfort than the food from his childhood
I don't like it when he stated that the Scottish fried chicken was "unseasoned" when he just told everyone how the Scottish prepared their chicken before frying it. But also, spices wasn't available everywhere to everyone and people had to work with what they have. It was all about trading spices, goods, animals, weapons, material, etc.
@@disguiseddv8ant486 seems like they hadn’t really considered spices. But I do like when he explains slaves were forced to eat even dead chickens so they cleaned that meat and used spices to mask any poor flavor. Now we all add spices to chicken. Very interesting history.
Me too! Reminds me of wonderful summer picnics me and mom would prepare together including real steeped Lipton iced tea, with dissolved sugar and tart lemon 🍋! Great taste 👅! Washington DC - Assateaque Island; Ocean City MD - 1970’s.
Fried chicken: the ultimate anomaly. Something so good, used to separate and denigrate. Yet people around the world have so much in common with the dish.
Thank you my friend. You agree, I agree, but there's still this pesky racism thing to shoo off. Wish I had an answer for the people 'cause I already figured it out. You're welcome to my house and table, neighbor, check your guns though, capiche?
Exactly. People don't know that evryone loves fried chicken. They think black people "love" fried chicken, go to South Korea, fried chicken and beer joint on every corner, celebrities even compete on variety shows just to win a chance to eat some fried chicken, it's like that.
I grew up in Ohio and my stepfather always had a pot of greens on the stove. We ate fried chicken, pork chops, mashed potatoes, gravy, cornbread, sweet potato pie, all that stuff. I remember when watermelon had seeds in it. Big glasses of lemonade and iced tea. I moved to Seattle and discovered this little chicken joint called Ezell’s. Some of the best fried chicken. I used to buy big buckets of it and eat it cold and drink beer and watch football or basketball games. Soul food is the best food. I may have to get some chicken and ribs tonight.
As a White guy, I thought everyone liked fried chicken. It's delicious. I still don't get why it's considered stereotypical of blacks, or any other identity.
It is pretty shocking how some people managed to create negative associations between a delicious meal and people who enjoy it. Quite interesting how the first fried chicken kind of came from two places at once
When you are convinced by the high tier of society to, as a society, hate minority groups, you can find anything to hate and mock about them. Regardless of if it makes sense or is true. It also further helped mentally dehumanize and self justify the oppression of fellow human beings. Well. Not much has changed. History does tend to repeat if not properly learned
@@MrInuhanyou123 As if the sad past was not enough, the society simply does not learn that pigeon-holing people into superficial identities just divides them and pits them against each other.
I’m black and to be honest I love ribs, veggies and beef. And not all black people this includes blacks in the United States , blacks in the Caribbean Island and blacks on the African’s continent like or love chicken. Many of us blacks do eat healthy and we are vegetarian and we don’t eat meat like that and if we do eat meat it’s a small percentage.
@@cartier2312 Americans in general need to make a lot of progress towards a healthy diet. Imagine if learning to prepare healthy and simple dishes was part of the school curriculum
They're still doing it now,in today's society.Black citizens are still considered lazy,being inferior to whts,dim-witted,criminals.They blame black citizens for all the-CRIME-in america also.
@EidelmaniaOh please. Like the euro race are saints. They have been k!lling , st£aling and destr0ying globally for centuries. For example, the British m0narchy. The French , Dutch , Spaniards… People in glass houses should not throw stones. Add the 🇺🇸 g0vernment too!
I'm Japanese but I'm a big fan of both your American-style fried chicken (KFC, Popeye's) and our Japanese-style fried chicken (called karaage). In fact, I've never met anyone who did not like fried chicken.
I remember as a kid growing up hearing about "soul food" on TV. So I was always sort of curious about "soul food". One day my job took me to Louisville Kentucky and I ran across a soul food restaurant. I went inside and looked at the steam table as it was cafeteria style. I thought to myself "Heck this is the same stuff my mama cooks." I had been eating soul food all my life and didn't even know it.
It's a.lie. Fried chicken with batter is Black Americans origin. It's not scottish and it dis not come from africa. Africans weren't frying chicken and weren't frying chickennin batter. That's revisionist lies. There is a reason Noone was doing it before Black Americans. Because it only was started by Black Americans.
Facts, blacks taught the world how to frie chicken as its known today. The original Scott's where black as well. Not the same ppl that reside in that land nowadays.
@windog551 I actually do. This is another i.migrant lie to steal Black Americans Culture. You all mocked it, now trying to claim it. Also, how you make something that the ingredients are INDIGENOUS to America. Yall may have had chicken, but you didn't make it fried like it's known now. ITS Black Americans origin. This is documented in old books. So stop the revisionism.
Me too. LOL. Eat it with boiled potatoes and corn with a apple soda or coke.Sounds like a-GREAT-meal to me !!! Mind if I come to join you for a Sunday meal in Colombia ??? I'll bring the potato salad. LOL.😋😋😋😋
All this talk about fried chicken and there is a soul food place down the road from me. Absolutely delicious and reminds me, a white man, of the food my white great grandmother used to cook when I was a kid growing up. Fried chicken, okra, greens, hog jaws, spinach, mashed potatoes and gravy (brown) biscuits and gravy (white), all the goodness that was here in the south in central Florida. Miss you grandma!
Trust me, bruh. More than black folks love fried chicken. I worked for a Gray's IGA grocery store. Whites loved it. All I heard was give me the usual lol
That and if you don't wash it;especially the thighs. You end up with this slime between the loose skin that has a mild barnyardyness. When I was in Asia they washed the chicken. The only place I didnt see it done was europe and particularly France and Germany. Adam ragguessa has an entire video on why you shouldn't wash the chicken and needless to say we Inna comments roasting anyone who disagrees 😂
Who the hell is making fun of you? Nobody cares ugh 😫 the miserable drum beat of perpetual self loathing is enough already! It's unattractive and tired and old.
@@jeltoninc.8542Sorry but they made fun of black cuisine long before Rap Music and this new black culture of today. Yup, like black people are supposed to love fried chicken and watermelon. Don't forget hog intestines, I know plenty of blacks that won't touch them
What a fascinating video, and glimpse into the way one seemingly unrepresentative aspect of something can come to define the whole thing according to people who aren't that bright
One of my coworkers at my last job invited me and a bunch of us to his house for a cookout. Him and his wife made fried chicken and other food with recipes that was passed down from his family all the way back to when his ancestors were slaves and it was fantastic. He said to me “you haven’t been to a cookout until you’ve been to a black family’s cookout” and he definitely wasn’t lying lol.
@@1976smbI had to create new family recipes for my children bc I gave up eating pigs, cows, butter, sugar, pasta, bread, dairy, and wheat 50 years ago. European food makes our health deteriorate, and our food of fresh greens, black eyed peas, cornbread, fresh fish, fresh fruit, and squash keeps us alive
@@crankybastid2197 I didn’t but they loaded me up with plates full when I headed home lol. I’m going to be grilling up some deer meat for them and I’ve already dropped them off about 50lbs of raw deer for them. I’m gonna try to get him out for deer season this firearm season so I can take him on his first hunt.
Wow! With all my info gathering as a history hobbyist, this was a big surprise! You manage to find the most interesting information and I thoroughly enjoy your content!!
This a very popular one. I just learned korea learned fried chicken and bbq grilled foods from blks too. My korean friend from the army even confirmed it i was shocked but not shocked lol
Wow, thank you I never understood why this was a thing. I was always like "Everybody loves fried chicken!". What I learned from this is that media seems to be the cause of a lot of our problems.
Church Bird is another name for fried chicken. Cheapest meat to buy when grocery shopping but when did wings become more expensive than legs thighs or quarters even in restaurants I'd rather buy a over priced burger than a 4 piece wing now
I had a restaurant manager tell me years ago they used to throw the wings in the trash because no one really ate them. Now today they are the most popular piece on the chicken. That's why their so expensive...
Never knew fried chicken went that far back! This was a great story I can't imagine frying chicken without seasoning! That's like baking a cake without flour😵😂 still black people do it best👍👍👍💃😋😋😋
It doesn't. Learn botanist and you'll see all these immigrant lies to steal Black Americans Culture. Africans keep trying to displace Black Americans Culture as their imprint. Crops were introduced to africa. Learn the true origins of crops. America
I agree we have the best fried chicken. Guses the best chicken in the world to me was originally made by blk people, the Nashville hot chicken came from us as well. We all know chicken and waffles comes from us
My mom never put season salt on chicken wings I ran away one day didn't eat almost 2 days my friends mom gave me some wings with that was seasoned my eyes opened like Adam when he bite into the fruit Eve gave him now I know I call my girl no welps cause I slavery time the mater would say don't beat her the hands make the best chicken
We Asians have been frying chicken centuries before any of you existed in America. The domestication of chicken happened in Asia thousands of years ago. That's how far back this Asian legacy traces back.
Yep, I lost the plot thinking about those “culinary gnomes” running about the kitchen. Not sure I’d like to see a “menstrual show” though. Probably a good idea to edit the subtitles after the auto-generated content. It’s a shame that the subtitles rob interesting content of its efficacy.
Did you know the KFC produced in Black nations - especially those in the Caribbean - is utterly and completely different from the KFC produced in the rest of the world? I don't know about in the U.S. but here in the U.K. KFC is now practically inedible. However, in the Caribbean, it remains crisp, tasty, and delicious, especially in Antigua.
@@darkcharmrecords The last time we purchased it as a family, the chicken was literally rotten to the point where I could smell it. I took it back, and they gave me another rotten bucket; we were pretty much done with it after that. If you ever get the opportunity, try the KFC in Antigua or Jamaica. I'm 58, and their KFC reminds me of the KFC my late mother would sometimes treat me, my brother, and my sister to on Sunday nights here in the UK, when we were kids
They went downhill when YUM brands bought them out. I haven’t had a decent chicken breast from there since ‘99 when my roommate used to bring home buckets after his shift ended.
@@zeroturn7091 don't forget that the US govt. made everybody change the oil everything is fried in. nothing tastes as good as it used to, even potato chips.
My mother used to marinate chicken pieces overnight, and then baked them in the oven for Sunday dinner, Served with roast potatoes and steam vegetables 🥦
I'm half Japanese. I love fried chicken. Out of what I've had, black people have made the best, and my favorite. As for watermelon, I'd say there are more Asian people who love it than black people. Thanks for helping to dispel stereotypes. Just know that I see it as something that brings all people together.
I didn't get the stereotype till now. We all love fried chicken, and it's especially very popular in Japan, too! Karaage dates back around the 1600s but wasn't introduced in restaurant menus until the 1930s. It's very cool to see where it's originated and how cultures do theirs differently.
I being a quarter Scottish, I now know why I love fried chicken, but I am so glad African Americans added spices. In my area we have some places that don't add spices to their fried chicken, nor do they offer hot sauce. While I love KFC and Popeye's, the way the grandma of a former African American girl I dated made hers, was on a whole nother level, and I wish I got the recipe.
@@PeanutGallery89 I didn't think of checking on here, but from my attempts in the past copying recipes, things get close, but just don't match, and sadly makes me miss it more. But I've also learned emotional connection plays a big part in how you remember flavors and smells. Sadly she passed within a year after that girl and I split and while I was deployed.
One of the first real meals I remember as a little girl was my grandma’s fried chicken. I loved the drumstick because it was easy for my little hands to hold. She would serve it with mashed potatoes and either fresh corn on the cob or green beans. Sometimes she would make either cornbread or biscuits to go with the dinner. That was my favorite meal. I never associated it negatively. To me it was always associated with home, love, and good times. I also learned almost every good cook has his or her special recipe. The best fried chicken places are usually small and the chicken is made using a family recipe that has been handed down for generations. America really owes a debt of gratitude to those early cooks who invented what has become a national dish.
If you ever have the chance, try Korean fried chicken. They learned the recipe from the blk people in world war 2 that were allies, and then ran with that shit. The double fry (at 2 diff temperatures) just make it so much more crispy and juicy, makes all the diff. As a blk man myself, i didn't think we could be outdone, but Korea has us and it's not even close in the chicken game
@@draperscott7698 it really depends on your korean population, if you live somewhere like Kansas where there isn't a lot of korean ppl, they don't even try. it's like "we know this is the only spot you can get this, we'll charge you 30 bucks and not care" when you are in k-town though, that shit always slapping
Excellent documentary. Might want to proofread your subtitles/captioning. I’m white of German descent and my wife is Taiwanese. We both love fried chicken and watermelon. Taiwanese food culture is replete with fried chicken as a staple element of numerous dishes. I love your matter-of-fact delivery of this information, aimed at enlightening others to the intricacies and nuances of black culture in a positive and informative tone. Thank you for this, and I’ll be looking forward to seeing your other videos!
I'm a white guy and I'm in love with good fried chicken! I still have fantasies and memories of how KFC used to taste in the 80's when i was a kid 😋 🍗 got too corporate and changed by the mid 90's. I bet the original Kentucky Fried Chicken when restaurant first opened was bomb 💣 anyway I've been to all kinds of different cookouts & bbqs and love it all baby.
Oh Yes, KFC was the bomb when they first opened in the early 80s.My Parents would send my Sister and I to get a whole bucket of chicken. The BEST. Aah Memories
It's entirely different, as Col. Sanders would lament. He hated what they did to his recipies. Called the mashed potatoes unfit to be wallpaper paste. Brutal. And he was right.
Fried Chicken was, and is, enjoyed by just about every single culture worldwide. My understanding is that frying is a food prep that, besides being tasty, is a useful way to set and keep the protein in an age before refrigeration. If we knew that we going to be working in the field all day, we would pack a lunch of foods that will “keep” without the benefit of sitting in a modern day fridge or cooler. Great video, as usual.
For such a small country, Scotland has had a massive foundational influence on modern western culture. Being Scottish myself, I take great pride in our ability to deep fry everything in sight.
The amount of influence that Scottish people have had on Western culture is extraordinary but is nothing compared to the ability of the English to take credit for the accomplishments of others, so let's not forget about how fried chicken was invented by the English.
@@matthewmoore7447could say the same about how the Scots played a HUGE part in colonising the world in the name of the British empire, but somehow convinced the world they are victims to English imperialism. Now that’s clever.
Very interesting, very well presented, with excellent images and explanations. As a hearing impaired person who often finds closed captions horribly inaccurate/annoying, your transcript is a real blessing, very easy to read and totally in sync with the narration. I am looking forward to viewing more of your videos!
Lorillard Tobacco Company in 1954 “We Need to start selling Menthol Cigarettes to N***s and Monkeys. Our Competitors sell Spud and Kool to White People, why not sell our own brand to Spooks?”
When I was in the Army, I made fried chicken everyday, for over three years for lunch, and dinner. From cutting up the chicken to, marinating to, dredging to, frying to, serving. I stopped using the recipe card almost immediately. I came up with my own herbs and spices. It went over so well, I was selected to cook 50k pounds for REturn of the FORces to GERmany (REFORGER), one year. Was the longest day of my life. I had four 55 gallon barrels cut lengthwise, that I used as fryers. Three, on two sides, and two, on one end. The open end was to move the chicken. Btw. I was one of only three white guys, in my unit of 50 cooks. I was also the only one who could make BBQ sauce, from scratch.
Around 7 minutes in you mention the explosion in fried chicken consumption, around WW2. The reason for this largely comes down to the fact that chicken, since it was labour intensive and not often eaten, it wasn't a rationed meat in America. This also led the A&P grocery chain (pre-Walmart) to establish competitions in fairs for farmers to breed a superior chicken. They were successful in breeding chicken stock that was around three times bigger, and matured quicker than the regular chicken at the time. Both of these together really helped increase the consumption of chicken which in turn led to the fast food chains sprouting up - because there wasn't a limit on the consumption of this meat during the war and so it was an easy thing to promote.
Fried Chicken is delicious, everyone eats it.. white people people from Europe and everywhere else around the world, African Americans need to be proud of their culinary delicacy. I know I am, because I know where it came from and I know why the food exist with aside the African-American community, and for me that's a very prideful thing, I feel no shame. Even if it's thrown around as a racial trope
I've often wondered and asked where these stereotypes started. This is what my family has ate since I can remember as a child (I'm old now and white). My Dad always said the same. Grandma always killed the chicken for Sunday dinner. I never understood why black folk were stereotyped with the fried chicken and watermelon. Good video!
I was born in 62 and it was around back then but that whole time period was a strange one. Everyone had a religion. The religions did not like each other much. People would openly ask what your ethnicity is because most were children of immigrants. And jokes about the race would follow and of course if they were irish or polish etc they would have to hear one back at themselves. So the jew and the priest and the baptist in a bar jokes were openly said and razzed each other. But you also have to remember the second world war had not been to long before this and many were still alive who had been through the great depression, vietnam was going on and people didn't know if they would see their sons again. History is taught in parts and often glamorized. The hatred for the japanese was still very raw for many. They had their reasons when you look up what they had done. It bothered me because I didnt understand. But when I found out why they carried that hate for so long I understood but didn't carry it myself. Those generations before us all went through a lot of evil stuff. We just need to stop the carrying on of it.
No I’m not I’m African American, I chose to serve in the army for America, but I will not deny that my ancestors came to this foreign land and fought to have their freedom, and we have completely different cultures.
In her 1903 book titled Education, Ellen G. White wrote, "Grains, fruits, nuts, and vegetables, in proper combination, contain all the elements of nutrition; and when properly prepared, they constitute the diet that best promotes both physical and mental strength."
This doesn't come as a shock.. We as a nation of people , never get credit or respect for anything positive or the thing's contributed to make life better for people.
That's a good video I enjoyed watching this video. Fried chicken is a good meals along with mashed potatoes, and fresh vegetables 😋 . African -Americans does fried chicken very good 🍗🥗🥔.
As an Indonesian it's amazing to see that almost every culture now have some sort of fried chicken recipe (that's coated in batter). In here because the big chains like kfc and mcd are expensive to us, locals had made their own recipe. Now every city has their own local fried chicken joint. Every culture here (Indonesia have very diverse culture groups) claims that their recipe is the best. It's so interesting to see the origin of this deep fried goodness and see it essentially becoming one of our own culture.
@@windog551 i like history, different perspectives are important. n bein intrigued in world war 2, i never found a channel that had a uniquely black perspective on the matter, so its coo.
But this is why I hate stereotypes because it's almost the same type of energy is being ungrateful... Like God made watermelon perfectly sweet without sugar so that people could just like drink something that wasn't water with little effort and then people want to like use that to be terroristic towards black people. If it ain't a chicken or Kool aid or watermelon joke, it's trying to make you act aggressive or hint that you should be more urban or perceivably ghetto. Fish and plantains aren't stereotypical, but Africans and islander Africans eat those just as much as fried chicken
@@windog551Yup will literally watch a comedy show, history lesson, or some random dude talking shit on white people and laugh and agree the whole time. But boy you better not do it back. Then you'll get a history lesson on why it's racist for white people to laugh about black jokes but not the other way around. Shit ain't slick and I aint stupid.
Fried chicken is beyond delicious, and anyone who thinks otherwise must be insane. I am Cherokee, and wish that our human history wasn't filled with such horrific treatment with each other. Yet all those things have brought us here at this moment learning from the wrongs, and hopefully making it harder for those evil ways to return to any form of reality.
If you're bothered by the horrific treatment of people throughout history, just remember that although we more easily note, record, and remember the bad things, people treated each other well FAR more often than they treated each other poorly.
I’m from Eastern Europe fried chicken was a weekend ritual. The whole black ppl fried chicken stereotypes threw me for a loop. Also, fried chicken is best with parsley garnished baby new potatoes fried in duck fat.
@@OGdienomyte850No one is more emotional than niggas in the USA.😂 Worse than women. No self control whatsoever. I guess an absent mother and a hoodrat of a mother would produce such a being.
It's not worth explaining to you if you have to ask. Being educated on new things and absorbing facts about such things, is a sign of intelligence. @@joesmith5247
I grew in a small town in Canada in the sixties and seventies. My mom made the best fried chicken, and watermelon was a treat in the summer! I don’t think I ever hear of any racial association with fried chicken and watermelon until I was in my twenties.
Everyone and everything doesn't come from the land called Africa bro. So called blacks where already here and all lands. Brothers and sisters from that land that you call Africa don't call it that so neither should any of us. Stop letting these invaders tell us about us ! 1love to the People!!!
I swear you took the words right out of my mouth. He must be Non FBA to keep saying off code stuff to impress YT people. WE WERE HERE ALREADY they need to stop with that racist YT talking point.
Love this video. Well put together with the art and history, The narrator -- old country boy, and even the information about stereotyping. Great video.
This popped on feed and glad it did. Never knew the history and I shared it. Also subscribed for more Black History cause this country only gave us a month and we all know we contributed way more than a month's recognition 👏🏽 👍🏾 🙌🏽 ❤️
Ha...I've always wondered how it was so tied to just one race...great explanation of the history! Thank you. Now, I don't know if the jokes and stereotypes will ever go away, but there's nothing to be ashamed about, and much to be proud of in formulating everyone's love for this food.
Great history presentation. The west African connection and evolution of the food through time was very well done. Properly done fried chicken is always a culinary highlight. I have also read it was a way of making prpared chicken "portable" (for a reasonable period of time) during the post-bellum migration of freed slaves to northern industrial centers. Good job.
Thank you for giving such a detailed and informative history of fried chicken/whenever history skip the contributions we made. A higher power has to intervene to bring into the light.
In her 1903 book titled Education, Ellen G. White wrote, "Grains, fruits, nuts, and vegetables, in proper combination, contain all the elements of nutrition; and when properly prepared, they constitute the diet that best promotes both physical and mental strength."
I'm so glad I know the history of this! When I first heard of this stereotype in my 20s (2000 decade) I was confused why it was a stereotype and why some people made fun of African Americans for eating it. Great video! ^^
It’s a stereotype because if the way black people behave. The actual food and recipe is from white people, who also enjoy eating it. White people just don’t make it a feature of their personality.
