What is slave food? I didn't even know slave food existed until last week.?

Question

My friend was brought up in the Haitian culture, so when I was talking to him about cornbread he had no idea what I was talking about. I asked my brother's friend if he knew, because he's also Haitian and he was like yea, that's "slave food". We don't have cornbread in Haiti.

Slave food?

Answer 1

America is now having a RENEWED problem with this issue.

because of B husseine Obama..

I have 10 $$ your friend IS SO VERY wrong.. corn bread is very Latin..

what happens in Haiti I don't know IT IS NOT America..

BUT Mexico Has IT"S slaves also..

SO..?

Get real ,,,ANY Black or people Of color,, have the same opportunities,,, and any colored sports person or another million blacks who are $1,000,000,000ers

what are you trying to prove

Sorry there is NOT one American slave Alive today..

that was,, 200 ± years ago...

animosity has gathered the loosers..

Next is Jihad

Answer 2

It is recorded fact that chittlins, ham hocks, hog jowls, and other 'remains' were left to the slaves to eat, while the masters got the prime cuts. This constitutes 'slave' food. It is not just 'soul' food, but the food that was directly consumed by slaves.

Answer 3

Slave food? It is a rude stereotype of black people food from dumb people. Sorry but it is awful thing to say.

Answer 4

Soul food and slave food is one and the same. The heritage of all African Americans is slavery. No African Americans came here as free people. They all came as slaves. Consequently, their food was that was given to them by their masters was basically food that the masters would consider less than prime meat to eat. To their credit, the slaves made the best of what they had and created a cuisine labeled soul food. Slave diet varied by region so Haiti may not have seen corn bread is not a surprise. Just understand that slaves were given whatever the masters did not want to eat and it was in abundance.

If you are African American and did not know that your African  ancestors came as slaves, I am truly sorry to tell you.

Answer 5

i have never heard of slave food but soul food is  to just name a few cornbread turnip greens stewed tomatoes mac& cheese seet potatoes i persoanl like to call it home cooking makes mu hungry just  thinking about it

Answer 6

i've heard of sould food, but not slave food.

Answer 7

Black people love themselves some fried chicken. You cannot have a social function without fried chicken. Fried chicken has become such a staple of the black family household that it’s just one more thing we’re believed to have invented.

Fried chicken is a staple of traditional Scottish cuisine, originally deep fried in fat. When the Scots arrive in the rural south, they brought their recipes with them and taught the kitchen slaves how to prepare them. The slaves, who were able to bring spices from their native lands, as well as cultivate local herbs, enhanced the flavor of the chicken dishes, as well as substituting oil for fat.

Fried chicken became popular amongst slaves because they were allowed to raise chickens in their quarters, and they soon discovered that fried chicken could be kept well and eaten as snack when working in the fields.

I looked this up on Google and this was one of the answers I got.

Answer 8

I've never heard the term, but cornbread is a very American thing.  It's not part of the Haitian or other Caribbean food cultures.

Perhaps your Haitian friends use the term "slave food" for foods that blacks started to prepare during their early life in America.  Not part of their African heritage, but invented out of necessity with ingredients available in the U.S.  With time, it became part of their own African American food tradition.    

I can see how that term might catch on in the Caribbean, where they may feel closer to their African roots with their cuisine.  Caribbean blacks also sometimes resent assumptions that they are the same culture as African Americans.  They are culturally distinct, with different traditions and history, and will sometimes take opportunities to remind people of that distinction.

Answer 9

I heard that gumbo was made from the table scraps of the masters. All that stuff was thrown into a pot, etc.

And SOMEONE needs to answer the d**n question without getting into twisted racial politics!