One time this Haitian dude was like “hey, I have question. why white people like cucumber so much?”
One time this Haitian dude was like “hey, I have question. why white people like cucumber so much?”
fair and good question. fellow white people???
White People Make Do
I mean I’m proud of this response because it invokes the Southern Girls Make Do image of vegetable dildos (contrasted against all those thick African gourds…)
While also invoking that classic wypipo food comes out of an actual pragmatic tradition, like, “potato salad with walnuts and raisins” is a dish that can be made entirely out of foods that can be preserved through the long winter of northern latitudes, two of them particularly energy/flavor-dense “treats”
Actually you know what’s a classic American farm laborers’ treat, a bountiful sweet food that comes ripe in high summer when the living’s easy and there’s no competing harvests, something that (before they bred the taste out to make it thick-rind crisp enough to stand refrigerated rail transport) wouldn’t be exported to distant markets but enjoyed in local feasting, in a way that got associated with black agriculture?
Watermelon