• @Contingencyfork
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    272 months ago

    Can someone explain what COLLA GREENS means in this context? Collared greens?

    • @[email protected]
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      2 months ago

      Reminds me of that scene from the office

      Michael Scott: … colored greens …

      Stanley: It’s collard greens.

      Michael Scott: What?

      Stanley: It’s collard greens.

      Michael Scott: That doesn’t really make any sense. You don’t call them collard people. That’s offensive.

      • @[email protected]
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        152 months ago

        Jesus fucking christ, that was such a good joke. His ignorant / accidental(?) racism as a caricature was so funny to me because I know so many people like that

    • @chemical_cutthroat
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      332 months ago

      Yeah, my white grandfather’s favorite meal. Collard greens and corn bread.

      • Cethin
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        52 months ago

        As a white man, I love collard greens and corn bread. I can understand how it became associated with (poor) black communities, but damn is it good. It shouldn’t be an insult like some people make it.

        • @RestrictedAccount
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          52 months ago

          I live in the South. Nobody here ever heard of “Soul Food”.

          Everybody eats that because it’s awesome.

          Go to a meat and three after Church on Sunday. You will see it full of happy old White People eating exactly what you described.

          • @Charapaso
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            32 months ago

            Exactly: my first time outside the South eating at a Soul Food place was funny, because to me it was just Food.

        • @[email protected]
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          I’ve got a whole song arranged for Appalachian/mountain dulcimer about how great collard greens are. Iirc it’s by the prolific author “traditional”.

          Edit: oops, it’s about turnip greens. Totally different.

    • shastaxc
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      72 months ago

      Yes, collard greens. Loomer is just using racist “ebonics” in her post.