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Is it a Black thing???

AJ Drew

AJ Drew

Hopefully we can have a serious conversation without folk thinking the conversation is some sort of racist weirdness,

Not long ago, Secretary Clinton said something about liking hot sauce.  I forget the brand she had at the time, but it came out her purse and it was not one of the big commercial makers,  In a later interview, she spoke of a hot sauce collection in the white house while her husband was in office,  She also talked of the heath benefits of spicy foods.
 
I thought she was sincere.  After all, how many votes can you get by lying about enjoying hot sauce.  Critics said she was pandering to the black vote.  I thought it was the dumbest thing in the world to think she was making it up to win votes from black folk.  Wife said there is a stereotype about hot sauce and black people just like the stereotype involving watermelon, 

Could it possibly be true that there is a stereotype of black folk loving hot sauce?  I have never heard of such a thing,  The only hot sauce stereotype I know of is that military folk use it a lot,  As a vet, I think that one is true due to the lack of flavor of mass prepared foods,
 
sicman said:
You honestly think there is a serious conversation to have? You actually want to have a serious conversation about this. I find that offensive,lol.
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tru dat..............
 
A good friend of mine who I work with was born in Trinidad, grew up in South Carolina and has been here in Hawaii for the last 12 years. He was the one who turned me on to authentic hot sauce using fresh fruit and habanero's. It was his mothers recipe. He is as black as black can be and he eats everything with hot sauce.
So from my perspective, 100% of all the black people I work with love hot sauce.
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sicman said:
You honestly think there is a serious conversation to have? You actually want to have a serious conversation about this. I find that offensive,lol.
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Yes, I do want to know if Clinton was pandering for votes or if she really does like hot sauce.  I cant form an opinion without knowing if it is some stereotype I have never heard of.  Of course there are much more important issues, but I thought it cool that President Obama is a home brewer too.  Then there was when Reagan slapped his wife on the butt and she giggled like a school girl.  These things make the politicians seem more human.
 
Here's your serious answer on all counts.

Do a lot of black folk seriously love hot sauce?  Let me put it like this.  If you go into a soul food restaurant that doesn't have at least two varieties sitting on every single table; you're probably in a soul food restaurant owned and operated by white people.  Hell, the BBQ place down the street from me keeps a rack of 6 different house sauces on every table and only one of them is plain sweet.
 
Does Hillary like hot sauce?  Super mild stuff like Tabasco, yeah.  Her EDC hot sauce is the Whole Foods Siriracha knockoff specifically because:  (A) She legitimately likes the taste.  (B) It appeals to anti-GMO voters.  (C) Her casual endorsement of that specific brand pushes sales that make money for several wealthy Democrat contributors.  I really wish I was kidding, but she's always been tactical as all hell.  Talk about a net win, eh?

Was she pandering...?
 
Think about when and where she made the hot sauce statement in question.  She didn't make the statement at any of the dozens and dozens of dinner speeches she attended (you know...where it makes sense to profess a love of spicy food).  She also didn't make the statement until large groups of black voters started to dig Bernie's message.  She then made a point to conveniently mention how much she looooooved hot sauce while being interviewed by Charlamagne Tha God about non-food things on an insanely popular NY radio show centered around African American culture.  NY was a must win for her.  The only heavier pander, in my opinion; would have been if she told Charlamagne that she had been listening to Illmatic on the way to the studio that morning.
 
She got on the hot sauce and produce train during Bill's initial run when the camp realized he was polling poorly with farmers.  For years you had to beg the kitchen for a bottle of hot sauce even if they were serving greens at a gov dinner.  Think about that for a moment.  These people ate greens without hot sauce and saw nothing wrong with it.  Try that in any black household and see if someone doesn't bitchslap you out of your chair.  To quote Forrest Gump, "And that's all I have to say about that."
 
As to hot sauce as a black stereotype, I've got four different bottles open at the moment (and some Whataburger Spicy Ketchup...woop!).  My one white friend is the only dude I know whose countertop doesn't look like the lineup of sauces at a Firehouse sandwich shop.  My Nigerian and Ethiopian friends always made their own and I deeply regret not getting the recipes.  The only house in my neighborhood without at least 3 different bottles at all times is a white chick who moved here from the northeast.  Did I mention that I'm white and my family's out of Chicago?  I should probably mention that.  I largely grew up in southern ghettos surrounded by equally poor black folks.  There's meat to almost any stereotype, but it's not a skin color thing, it's a straight up cultural thing.  That culture isn't 'black' so much as 'urban poor'.  Cheers.  :)
 
AJ Drew said:
if she really does like hot sauce. 
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Invite her to my house.....
 
I'll call in some favors from the THP Titans.....
 
I'll roll out the Circle-H red carpet for her. Or what we call around here:
 
The path to the bathroom....;)
 
There's meat to almost any stereotype, but it's not a skin color thing, it's a straight up cultural thing. That culture isn't 'black' so much as 'urban poor'.
 
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 Ding ding ding, we have a winner.
 
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Many of the things i love to eat today i would have never tried if i had not spent time overseas or lived in a small town. Culinary selection is color blind and when you are hungry, you are more willing to try things that will fill your belly. I didn't grow up poor but my grandparents lived through the Depression in a small town. The local marina served fried carp yet the town is mostly white. I had it many times and it was very common table fair every time i was there.
 
A buffalo fritter sammich with tartar sauce and hot sauce aint half bad if you grew up eating it. Now i drive quite a distance to relive the experience. Its worth every mile.
 
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ShowMeDaSauce said:
People in some cultures grow up eating a lot of spicy foods.
 
Some grow up never eating mayo.
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What demented soul doesn't like mayo?
 
That's like using Ketchup as a condiment over the age of 10.
 
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