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The thing is that both are great foods but knowing how a southern white clown thinks... they meant it. Fuk 'em
Ikr? I fucking love fried chicken and watermelon but they had to go and ruin it for the rest of us.
Right? I've never understood how that became a stereotype in the first place. Fried chicken is basically ubiquitous in all cultures in one form or another, including Europe. Turns out the vast majority of people like deep fried meat. Were southern elites just lying their asses off like "fried chicken? Yeah, disgusting. Totally hate it"?
Such a dumb fucking stereotype
Chickens were often the only animals enslaved people were allowed to raise for themselves. Like many racist stereotypes, it's more rooted in the 20th Century than slavery or early American history. There used to be some chain restaurants - notably Coon Chicken Inn - that used racist caricatures to sell their fried chicken, so it's basically an advertising meme.
Pretty much the same thing for watermelon. It was an easy to grow fruit that freed slaves used as a source of income and they caricatured it in racist media.
The weird thing is a huge percentage of people living in Charlotte aren't even from the south. There are a lot of corporations headquartered in Charlotte, which has led to a huge influx of transplants over the last two decades. Hell, It's got a large enough Western NY population that there are Sabres/Bills bars and I could get regional products like white hots at the grocery store.
Source: I was one of them until two months ago when I relocated again.
oh, you don't need to be white to think this was a good idea.
Not really wanting to weigh in myself if he's right or wrong.