DAS RITE!!!!!!!!!
How many Sub-Saharan African foods can the North American Pavement Apes even claim? Okra/black eyed peas/pigeon peas sure, and watermelon is Sudanese in origin so we can argue over if they were kang enough to get credit in antiquity. Technically they get credit for rice because they domesticated it independently of chinks. But chickens were domesticated by the chinks and pigs by the near east and/or chinks. All their breadings are bastardized from European methods using European grains and/or corn. Grits/Hominy/Cornbread are corn. Potatoes/Tomatoes are American. Their seasonings are just black pepper (India), various chilies (new world) and dehydrated vegetable powders (european). They basically have a bunch of B and C tier vegetables that even they will only eat with breading and/or pork fat.
Depends on the spice and what you're using it for. Dried thyme is usually fine. I've never seen much of a difference. Nothing substitutes for fresh basil, though, or fresh garlic. About the only reason to use dried garlic or dried onion is when you want to dust the surface of something with it rather than cook with it, or mix it in with a breading, which you can't really do with fresh onion.
In fairness, I've encountered enough white americans complaining about bland food to consider it a broader cultural issue than just niggers. There's a strand of american culture that seems to believe european food is just dull and tasteless, except when they can re-cast it as "people of colour" food, at which point it is magically invested with all the potent flavour and spice the universe can offer. They come to Europe (to the UK especially) and either act constantly surprised at how much flavour everything has, or they eat nothing but cheap junk food and loudly declare how boring and unseasoned everything is. Pisses me off. Niggers are, of course, over-represented in this contingent, but it's more than just them.
I always wondered what the Italians used before tomatoes came along. It's almost like they were waiting for some missing piece of their soul.
Don't almost all Brits eat Indian from time to time? Wherever Indians are, they know white people actually love tormenting themselves with heat and even invented imaginary dishes like phall that don't really exist in India, just to have something even hotter.
I dislike collard greens because they have lots of twig-like crap strewn throughout it.
You left off the most important one, sweet potatoes/yams.
Or because I forgot I don’t have any and I’m already cooking the damn food and WHY THE FUCK WOULDNT I CHECK MY FRIDGE FIRST BEFORE STARTING THIS RECIPE GODDAMNIT!??
Nandos is neither spicy in the US nor in the UK. Last I was in London I ended up at one and was highly disappointed by all the hype of it being actually spicy. I barely had any sensation at all* even with the spiciest sauce.
This is why I always assemble my ingredients beforehand to make sure I have them. I still fucked up once recently because I needed red onions and saw a bag of red onions, but it was a translucent bag and it turned out it was actually apples, wtf. I'd just gone out and got everything else I needed.
Yams are an everywhere but Europe thing so I guess they can get the same shared credit they get from rice.
I've found there's a lot of variance north to south, but I think they also changed their recipes in the last few years, because they're not as strong or unique as they used to be. Probably reaching for some greater mass-market appeal, I guess.
The earliest people outside the Americas to use sweet potatoes were the Polynesians.
Maybe Indians ate them but I haven't really heard of it with them, only potatoes with Incas. Polynesians and West Africans are the only people I know of using them as a major staple of their diet.
Toward the end and immediately after the American Civil War, Union soldiers were going to plantations to "free" the negro slaves. On more than a few occasions, arrived to the plantations with negros cooking their fellow negros over a firepit.
I read once in an old history book that the modern Andeans told some Spaniards there used to be another group of them back in time. Legit?
It's true.
My grandma used to make the candied ones for thanksgiving and it was by far the worst thing she made (she was an otherwise excellent cook and most of what I know about cooking I learned from her). My mom liked to slice and roast them so at least we got exposed other methods of preparation. Sweet potato oven fries are a treat and I like to make those when we have guests as a surprising number of my friends have never had them.
there is a gruop of white people in S. America before the Spaniard "officially" arrived. Allegedly, could have been Vikings or Celts who ended up here and couldn't go home. There is also evidence of Chinese people in America before the Spaniards.
Oh this part for sure. Same for the Polynesians. There's no way one of the greatest seafaring civilizations in human history just magically stopped at Easter Island.
Turns out, evidence might prove some form of contact between the Polynesians and the Mapuches of southern Chile. They found old skulls on an island just off the mainland with some Polynesian morphology, perhaps indicating a mixing event between the two. Probably the result of a lost expedition that landed in South America in pre-Columbian times.
