# 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:** 6
**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, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/101 "2006-01-05T03:22:56Z")
> [@you with the face](#): > > Trust me, we notice. Yeah. I know. Why is there no hanging head smiley? I’ll have to make due with ☹ White people love smileys. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/102 "2006-01-05T03:30:18Z")
> [@you with the face](#): > > Trust me, we notice. This is why I no longer clap to music. Once I learned that apparently all white people clap on the wrong beats, I got all scared to even try. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/103 "2006-01-05T03:40:18Z")
> [@](#): > > 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. If I had spotted this thread earlier, this is precisely the notion I would have posted, minus the cute and amusing part. Well put, you with the face, well put. I try to avoid those threads entirely. I don’t get worked up about them and certainly wouldn’t pit anyone over them, but I’m done with them and probably won’t post to such threads anytime soon. ---
**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, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/104 "2006-01-05T03:51:05Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > This is why I no longer clap to music. Once I learned that apparently all white people clap on the wrong beats, **I got all scared to even try.** 🙂 Why do white people always have to be scared when it comes to black people? I mean, just 'cause a few of yall have gotten pummeled for clapping on the 1 and 3 doesn’t mean all of you will, all of the time. Jesus. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/105 "2006-01-05T03:59:02Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > And what I mean by this is: country music is just that tasteless. As some Doper pointed out, ‘Country music is like cholesterol, there is a good kind and a bad kind.’ I may get a tattoo of that someday. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/106 "2006-01-05T04:00:50Z")
I have to confess: Today I was listening to some music at work and I became aware that I was clapping wrong. And then when I tried to “fix” myself, I became flustered and confused. Lord, please forgive me for I have sinned. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/107 "2006-01-05T04:11:35Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > I have to confess: Today I was listening to some music at work and I became aware that I was clapping wrong. And then when I tried to “fix” myself, I became flustered and confused. > > Lord, please forgive me for I have sinned. Replace “clapping” with “dancing”, and “work” with “a club”, and you get my usual expirience ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Leviosaurus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Leviosaurus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leviosaurus)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/108 "2006-01-05T04:41:51Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > White people love smileys. :smack: She’s got us all figured our! :eek: 😉😃 ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/109 "2006-01-05T04:42:34Z")
> [@UrbanChic](#): > > If I had spotted this thread earlier, this is precisely the notion I would have posted, minus the cute and amusing part. Well put, you with the face, well put. I try to avoid those threads entirely. I don’t get worked up about them and certainly wouldn’t pit anyone over them, but I’m done with them and probably won’t post to such threads anytime soon. You know, I think I learned here on the SDMB that there’s at least a perception that black people in the U.S. don’t swim. There _are_ differences, albeit pretty small ones, and some of this stuff is interesting to learn. I suppose it’s hard to imagine the reverse happening (“Do white people . . . ?”) On the other hand, I’m gay, and I’ve asked some “Do straight people . . . ?” questions. I guess if there were tons of them, they’d get old, but I find exploring variation in human groups interesting. > [@you with the face](#): > > Why do white people always have to be scared when it comes to black people? I mean, just 'cause a few of yall have gotten pummeled for clapping on the 1 and 3 doesn’t mean all of you will, all of the time. > > Jesus. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/110 "2006-01-05T05:53:47Z")
Egads!!! I’m really, really late to this thread, so my apologies. I don’t usually lurk in the pit, but Jakeline told me I needed to come here. As the “whitest” black person that she (and most of our friends) knows, I’m proud to address the OP thusly: **I absolutely LOVE fried ice cream!!!** I hope that’s a useful contribution to this thread. Oh, but just in case anyone’s worried about me, I _do_ have a subwoofer in the trunk, and I bump NWA with my windows down wherever I go! \ ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/111 "2006-01-05T06:12:22Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > That makes sense to you? > > Well, I try to answer things by speaking only of my impressions of socioeconomic ethnic groups I’m a part of or have interacted with. Nonetheless I feel pretty fucking confident stating (a) 99.99% black people all over the world have never eaten fried ice cream and (b) I doubt any of the white folks on these boards have ever cooked, cleaned AND eaten chittlins. ( **Zoe** is a Gibson County girl so she might prove to be the exception I wouldn’t be surprised by – and who the hell know what **Sampiro’s** Mom had him doing growing up.) I have never cleaned, cooked, and eaten them myself but I have seen it done. Um. Yeah. Traumatized at an early age by food. At least, it’s supposed to be food. ---
**Author:** ![Lama\_Pacos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Lama\_Pacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lama_Pacos)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/112 "2006-01-05T06:12:25Z")
I think the main problem is that the questions are worded in a way that betrays some level of simple-mindedness. “Is country music popular amongst the black population?” seems to me a much less stupid way of asking the same question. But the fact that the actual posters thought that it was even possible for “black people” as an entity to “like country music” or “like the blues” just seems kind of, well, dumb. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/113 "2006-01-05T06:12:30Z")
I came back just in time to revoke your race card, **Asimovian.** Eatin’ some fried ice cream. Probably wasn’t even chocolate! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/114 "2006-01-05T06:20:51Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > I came back just in time to revoke your race card, **Asimovian.** > > Eatin’ some fried ice cream. Probably wasn’t even chocolate! 😃 Boy howdy, am I ever busted! I actually despise chocolate with a passion. You know, my mom always told me that we moved out of South Central to have a better life, but I’m beginning to think we got evicted on principles… ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/115 "2006-01-05T06:22:50Z")
Oh, and I also married a white woman. Doesn’t that earn me some…what is it called again?..“street creds” or some such? ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/116 "2006-01-05T06:30:56Z")
Only if her name is “Shanneequah.” Rule of thumb is, if you have to ask what street cred is, you. Don’t. Have. Any. Not to worry! You don’t live near Florence and Normandie and you appear to be happily married. That’s a big one up on a bunch of brothers with street cred. ---
**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, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/117 "2006-01-05T06:38:43Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > As the “whitest” black person that she (and most of our friends) knows\ You’re Black? : Adds name to list : Next you’ll tell me that **Askia** ’s a dude. 😃 > [@](#): > > Oh, and I also married a white woman. Doesn’t that earn me some…what is it called again?..“street creds” or some such? No, but from now on I’ll be “hearing” your posts in the voice of Mr. DuBois from the Boondocks. ---
**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 5, 2006, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/118 "2006-01-05T07:15:41Z")
> [@](#): > > Doesn’t that earn me some…what is it called again?..“street creds” or some such? I think once you picked the user name Asimovian street cred was pretty much a lost hope. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/119 "2006-01-05T10:14:43Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > I think once you picked the user name Asimovian street cred was pretty much a lost hope. Yeah, black people should only reference Delaney or Butler. Course, that would make you gay too, but I guess all black SF fans are gay. So still no street cred I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/120 "2006-01-05T11:28:27Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > I have, but I’m a drummer, so I can clap on any damn beat or fraction thereof that you want. Yeah, but you can’t knock on someone’s door without speeding up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415.md?page=7)