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Something that has been getting on my nerves recently and becoming increasingly prolific is the use of the word "southern" to describe a type or flavor of food.
Southern Fried Chicken. There's no such thing, southern people don't fry chicken any different than anyone else fries a fucking chicken.
Southern-style XYZ. There's no such thing as southern style green beans, it's just green beans with some meat in it, I'm pretty sure that's not uniquely Southern or required in green beans in the south. Never have I been to a restaurant in the South where if the green beans didn't have meat somebody yelled to get this Yankee shit off my table. The worst is like potato chips that say Southern spice. Holy fuck I wasn't aware we had a spice, much less that it was a specific spice that we put on potato chips.
But the worst part about all of this is that they're applying the terminology largely in part the food that tastes like absolute shit purely as a marketing ploy because southern food has a reputation for being very rich and flavorful. The only one constant with Southern food is a ridiculous amount of butter. If you say to yourself "holy shit that's too much butter" then double it.
Not to pick on Matt but he made me think of it with his Mississippi roast recipe. I know I've been out of the state of Mississippi for a while but I wasn't aware the state legislature passed a recipe for roast.
Southern cuisine is not a spice, a flavor, or even a method of cooking. It is a belief that food should come from the soul, and is prepared without giving a single thought to obesity, diabeetus, high blood pressure, or any other thing that makes food taste like shit. There is a reason than Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana are the three fattest states in the Union and it's not because they have some special kind of spice.
Southern Fried Chicken. There's no such thing, southern people don't fry chicken any different than anyone else fries a fucking chicken.
Southern-style XYZ. There's no such thing as southern style green beans, it's just green beans with some meat in it, I'm pretty sure that's not uniquely Southern or required in green beans in the south. Never have I been to a restaurant in the South where if the green beans didn't have meat somebody yelled to get this Yankee shit off my table. The worst is like potato chips that say Southern spice. Holy fuck I wasn't aware we had a spice, much less that it was a specific spice that we put on potato chips.
But the worst part about all of this is that they're applying the terminology largely in part the food that tastes like absolute shit purely as a marketing ploy because southern food has a reputation for being very rich and flavorful. The only one constant with Southern food is a ridiculous amount of butter. If you say to yourself "holy shit that's too much butter" then double it.
Not to pick on Matt but he made me think of it with his Mississippi roast recipe. I know I've been out of the state of Mississippi for a while but I wasn't aware the state legislature passed a recipe for roast.
Southern cuisine is not a spice, a flavor, or even a method of cooking. It is a belief that food should come from the soul, and is prepared without giving a single thought to obesity, diabeetus, high blood pressure, or any other thing that makes food taste like shit. There is a reason than Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana are the three fattest states in the Union and it's not because they have some special kind of spice.
Just figured I would use what has become the widely-accepted nomenclature of that particular combination of ingredients. I get what you're saying though. What is the difference between southern food and soul food?
