# Do black people like fried ice cream? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 4, 2006, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415 "2006-01-04T17:00:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/81 "2006-01-04T21:25:09Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > Not the ones I’ve met. Most of them prefer babies’ brains, preferable fresh, like some weird scene out of _Faces of Death_ Well yeah. But it’s not \*just \* about enjoying the brains. It’s about demonstrating that they know which spoon to use. ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/82 "2006-01-04T21:25:58Z")
The “Do black people like \?” trend is annoying, not offensive. To me, it’s annoying because it reflects a societal attitude that black people are “them” while everyone else is “us”. In isolation these question threads are cute and amusing. But if every other week there seems to be a new variation on the Let’s Discuss How Different Blacks Are From Everyone Else! theme, it’s not so much fun anymore. That’s probably why you don’t see much of my input in them. In the year 2005, black people are still often viewed as alien and separate from the mainstream. Why is this? Are black people really that hard to figure out? Maybe it’s me being black and all, but I don’t see why blacks are any more enigmatic than Latinos, Asians, and other minority ethnic groups in the US. Yet it seems (and I could be wrong about this) as if blacks are the source of more curiosity. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/83 "2006-01-04T21:29:18Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > Well yeah. But it’s not \*just \* about enjoying the brains. It’s about demonstrating that they know which spoon to use. And pretending to know which $1,000 bottle of virgin’s blood goes best baby brain. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/84 "2006-01-04T21:33:36Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > None of those questions were stupid per se, but I’m always a bit amazed at how how often these “do black people…?” questions come up in the SDMB. First few years are fine. Now that I’m officially approaching year seven (ignore my “2001” start date – I originally joined in 2000 under my full name and I’ve lurked here at least 1 years before that) – it’s like I want to SHAKE some of y’all and yell: GIT SOME BLACK FRIENDS IN REAL LIFE, PEOPLE! GO VISIT A BLACK BAPTIST or AME CHURCH! EAT AT A CHINESE JOINT IN THE HOOD! WE ARE NOT THAT MYSTERIOUS!! But then I think: _Shit. There I go scaring the white folks again…_ But isn’t it kinda racist to seek out friendships based on race? That’s the conundrum I got myself into a few months ago, when I was reading some about race relations and wishing I had more non-White friends. Thinking about it made my head hurt, so I stopped. ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/85 "2006-01-04T21:33:50Z")
> [@you with the face](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > In the year 2005 > > black people are still often viewed as alien and separate from the mainstream. D’oh! It’s probably not going to be until May that my brain finally accepts that it is 2006. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/86 "2006-01-04T21:37:36Z")
> [@you with the face](#): > > Maybe it’s me being black and all, but I don’t see why blacks are any more enigmatic than Latinos, Asians, and other minority ethnic groups in the US. Yet it seems (and I could be wrong about this) as if blacks are the source of more curiosity. _Shrug_ Personally, I notice the same sorts of questions and generalizations about Mexican and Asian people, perhaps moreso. My impression is that African-American culture is more mainstream than these other cultures, but a) I’m white sand b) I live in a neighborhood that’s transitioned from Polish to Mexican and I hear all sorts of questions about Mexican culture from people who have expatriated from the neighborhood. Some questions and generalizations are mere curiosity, some are ignorant, and some are plain racist. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/87 "2006-01-04T21:44:57Z")
> [@cowgirl](#): > > Polish people all have something specific in common: they come from Poland, and from this we could assume that they have a shared language, food, culture, etc. You cannot say this about black people. A black person raised in Mississippi will have substantially less in common with a black person raised in Malawi than they will have with, say, me (a white Canadian). They are so different that such generalizations are pointless. Now, say “African Americans” or “descendents of slaves” or “West Indian immigrants” and you may have something. > > Sorry to get all serious on y’all. You are absolutely correct. That’s why I used the term African-American (a cultural one) as opposed to black (a racial or physical appearance one) in my post. I use both the terms “African-American” and “black” in my speech, so it’s not a matter of “political correctness,” but they have distinct meanings for me, and they are the same ones you seem to hold. I interpreted the question about whether blacks in the South listen to country music as referring to African-American decendants of slaves. The wording may have been imprecise, but I don’t think the OP was interested in the listening habits of Nigerian-Americans or Jamaicans. But that’s how I read it. ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/88 "2006-01-04T22:06:28Z")
> [@cowgirl](#): > > But they didn’t ask about African-Americans, they asked about black people. That includes Africans (and North Africans, West Africans, etc) and West Indians (and Jamaicans, and Trinidadians, etc) and African Canadians and lots of people who have no shared culture whatsoever within the past 500 years. Except the OP specifically asked about “black people in the south,” which is as valid a grouping a Polish people. ---
**Author:** ![Cerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@Cerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerri)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/89 "2006-01-04T22:07:28Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > You are absolutely correct. That’s why I used the term African-American (a cultural one) as opposed to black (a racial or physical appearance one) in my post. I use both the terms “African-American” and “black” in my speech, so it’s not a matter of “political correctness,” but they have distinct meanings for me, and they are the same ones you seem to hold. > > I interpreted the question about whether blacks in the South listen to country music as referring to African-American decendants of slaves. The wording may have been imprecise, but I don’t think the OP was interested in the listening habits of Nigerian-Americans or Jamaicans. But that’s how I read it. Heh…on the subject of the term African-American, one of my very good friends is from Liberia (been here oh…I think about 8 years now, and is now a naturalized American citizen) and absolutely _loathes_ the term. Call her African-American and she’s more than liable to respond with “I’m not an African-American. I’m an American and I’m fucking black!” in her beautifully melodic African accent. 🙂 Cerri, white person and frequent listener of the Ngoma African music station on XM Radio…and country music fan! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/90 "2006-01-04T22:29:58Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > None of those questions were stupid per se, but I’m always a bit amazed at how how often these “do black people…?” questions come up in the SDMB. First few years are fine. Now that I’m officially approaching year seven (ignore my “2001” start date – I originally joined in 2000 under my full name and I’ve lurked here at least 1 years before that) – it’s like I want to SHAKE some of y’all and yell: GIT SOME BLACK FRIENDS IN REAL LIFE, PEOPLE! GO VISIT A BLACK BAPTIST or AME CHURCH! EAT AT A CHINESE JOINT IN THE HOOD! WE ARE NOT THAT MYSTERIOUS!! But then I think: _Shit. There I go scaring the white folks again…_ Well, my Token Black Friend, John, gets upset when I sit with a notebook and record his strange cultural practices. > [@Johanna](#): > > Speaking of music and FIC, does anyone remember _One Nation Under a Groove_ by **Funkadelic**? At one point they were chanting during a fade-out > > FRIED ICE CREAM IS A REALITY! > FRIED ICE CREAM IS A REALITY! > FRIED ICE CREAM IS A REALITY!.. Awesome album, but I don’t seem to remember that bit . . . > [@you with the face](#): > > D’oh! It’s probably not going to be until May that my brain finally accepts that it is 2006. :: scribbles frantically in his notebook :: Black people forget what year it is after the New Year, just like white people. ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/91 "2006-01-04T22:46:31Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Honestly, it was just a bit of a pain in the ass to make, and don’t exactly come packaged in convenient serving sizes (ten pounds is a lot of chitterlings for one white boy.) 🙂 The advice given to me was to clean _all_ chitlins, even supposedly pre-cleaned ones. So, yeah, a bit of a hassle to make. > > But I did like them. Then again, I like animal innards of almost any kind. Tripe, especially. I bought some “clean” chittlin’s at Albertson’s last year, and they were almost clean. The problem with that is they’re 3lb packages at $7.95 a pop. I’d rather buy 40lbs and clean them myself since if I make them everybody and their mommas stop by. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/92 "2006-01-04T23:10:28Z")
> [@](#): > > Well, I’ve had calamari, alligator, frogs’ legs, rattlesnake meat and caviar! Granted I aine killed none of 'em Okay, I can maybe see the squids, the frogs, and the fish. But if you’re going to eat an alligator or a rattlesnake while it’s still alive you’re just asking for trouble. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/93 "2006-01-05T00:02:22Z")
> [@you with the face](#): > > D’oh! It’s probably not going to be until May that my brain finally accepts that it is 2006. Dang! And here I was all set to start a GQ thread titled: Do Black People realize it’s 2006 yet? ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/94 "2006-01-05T01:43:49Z")
I asked the black guy at my office–actually he’s the janitor–if he liked fried ice cream, but he just made a Black Power salute and took my wallet. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/95 "2006-01-05T02:06:28Z")
> [@Homebrew](#): > > No flute? Nah. Clarinet’s girthier. ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/96 "2006-01-05T02:44:14Z")
Maybe I should start a thread called “White People: Have Yall Learned How to Clap on the 2 and 4 yet?” ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/97 "2006-01-05T03:03:56Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > Awesome album, but I don’t seem to remember that bit . . . [http://www.duke.edu/~tmc/motherpage/lyrics\_funkadelic/lyr-1nation.html#lyr-s-promental](http://www.duke.edu/~tmc/motherpage/lyrics_funkadelic/lyr-1nation.html#lyr-s-promental) It’s in there down at the end of the song “Promental…” etc. > [@Askia](#): > > I didn’t think fried ice cream had been around that long… Maybe that was (1978) the first time the phrase had ever been uttered… and someone listening to it, not realizing that George Clinton was just kidding? went ahead and invented the FIC recipe for real. Thus the song becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy? ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/98 "2006-01-05T03:07:03Z")
> [@you with the face](#): > > Maybe I should start a thread called “White People: Have Yall Learned How to Clap on the 2 and 4 yet?” I have, but I’m a drummer, so I can clap on any damn beat or fraction thereof that you want. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/99 "2006-01-05T03:13:28Z")
It’s possible, with great concentration and determination. But sometimes I get caught up, clap on the one, and do a little spazzy dance while looking around to see if anyone noticed. ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/100 "2006-01-05T03:20:17Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > It’s possible, with great concentration and determination. But sometimes I get caught up, clap on the one, and do a little spazzy dance while looking around to see if anyone noticed. Trust me, we notice. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415.md?page=6)