# 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:** 9
**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, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/161 "2006-01-05T20:21:55Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > At times I believe I’m south Asian man trapped in a black man’s body. Do Asian men trapped in black men’s bodies like golf? ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/162 "2006-01-05T20:26:26Z")
> [@jakeline](#): > > I just had to jump in here. I know that this at least used to happen quite a bit. My dad speaks spanish with a bit of an american accent, and when he was younger, he would get shit from the recent immigrants. However, this was in the Imperial Valley in California and quite a few years ago, so YMMV. I didn’t know that. Thanks for reducing my ingorance a bit. Unfortunately, that shoots down my speculative explanation, so I got nothin’. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/163 "2006-01-05T21:25:55Z")
Has anyone else noticed how much the property value of this thread has dropped? Milkshake and burger-- good. Milk and burger-- not so good. Milk and pizza-- string cheese intestines. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/164 "2006-01-05T21:28:05Z")
Forgot to add. **Lemur** you get up on the downstroke. ---
**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 5, 2006, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/165 "2006-01-05T21:48:44Z")
“At least one glass of milk with dinner” was a hard-and-fast rule when I was growing up. As a result, milk with just about any dinner entree sounds normal to me. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/166 "2006-01-05T21:50:48Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Has anyone else noticed how much the property value of this thread has dropped? It’s about time for the Gays to come in and start Gentrification. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/167 "2006-01-05T21:58:15Z")
> [@Homebrew](#): > > It’s about time for the Gays to come in and start Gentrification. Just as long as they’re white, I don’t care how many miniature dachshunds they own. ---
**Author:** ![\_Deep\_F\_ied](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/7cd45c/32.png) [@\_Deep\_F\_ied](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Deep_F_ied)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/168 "2006-01-05T22:12:41Z")
My vanity search hamster just exploded… ---
**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, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/169 "2006-01-05T22:36:12Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > That shit is gross. Milk and a hamburger? I can’t define it. It’s one of those “black things.” The best I can do to correlate: we generally wouldn’t lick mayoniasse off a spoon, either. > > Next question… Wait, wait - do white people lick mayonnaise off spoons? Eww! > [@The Weird One](#): > > “At least one glass of milk with dinner” was a hard-and-fast rule when I was growing up. As a result, milk with just about any dinner entree sounds normal to me. Yeah, as a kid, my parents tried to get me to drink milk. I usually drank it with dinner; drinking a glass of milk - accompanied or not with food - grosses me out now. Plus it always strikes me as bizarre and childish when adults drink milk. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/170 "2006-01-05T22:48:22Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > Yeah, as a kid, my parents tried to get me to drink milk. I usually drank it with dinner; drinking a glass of milk - accompanied or not with food - grosses me out now. Plus it always strikes me as bizarre and childish when adults drink milk. What else would you drink with pancakes or peanut butter and jelly sammiches? ---
**Author:** ![Amok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f17d59/32.png) [@Amok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amok)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/171 "2006-01-05T23:00:02Z")
When I was in college, I had a black roommate my freshman year, and I spent a fair amount of time with him and his friends (and remained friends with some of them even after that year). I definitely remember them asking me some questions about white people. One of them went something like this… **Roommate’s Friend** Hey, how come white people don’t wear underwear? **Me** Uhh… We don’t? **Roommate’s Friend** Nope, whenever I watch porn, the white people in it don’t wear any underwear. **Me** Okay… ---
**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, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/172 "2006-01-05T23:50:02Z")
> [@Homebrew](#): > > What else would you drink with pancakes or peanut butter and jelly sammiches? (1) Pancakes are a breakfast food; one drinks coffee at breakfast (2) Peanut butter and jelly _sandwiches_ are food for small children; much as I don’t eat baby food, I don’t eat peanut butter and jelly _sandwiches_. Nor do I discuss them in cutesy baby talk. I’m not sure why that obnoxious childish affectation is so common around here - do you people actually pronounce the word that way?! - but it irritates me to no end. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/173 "2006-01-05T23:57:02Z")
> [@Homebrew](#): > > What else would you drink with pancakes or peanut butter and jelly sammiches? Bourbon. ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/174 "2006-01-05T23:57:31Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > I’m not sure why that obnoxious childish affectation is so common around here - do you people actually pronounce the word that way?! - but it irritates me to no end. I thought all Americans pronounced it that way. And it’s _jam_ not jelly, or if you are really posh, _preserve_. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/175 "2006-01-06T00:03:20Z")
> [@rayh](#): > > I thought all Americans pronounced it that way. You thought wrong, obviously. Honestly, I don’t think I’ve ever once heard anyone pronounce it that way, except maybe a child who was still learning to speak. (Though what children say is actually “samwich”, in my experience.) > [@rayh](#): > > And it’s _jam_ not jelly, or if you are really posh, _preserve_. Wrong on two counts. First, in the U.S. it’s far more likely that someone will be eating their peanut butter sandwich with jelly than with jam (and crazy foreigners don’t get to argue that point, as you guys don’t eat peanut butter sandwiches anyway. :)) Second, the canonical name is “peanut butter and jelly sandwich”; even if one is prepared with jam instead of jelly, no one would actually call it a “peanut butter and jam sandwich”. That just sounds weird. ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/176 "2006-01-06T00:11:15Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > That just sounds weird. **This** from someone with a funny accent? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/177 "2006-01-06T01:00:37Z")
> [@rayh](#): > > **This** from someone with a funny accent? :eek: This is what happens when we try to explain American customs like peanut butter and jelly, or a press that carefully defers to our federal government instead of trying to find the actual truth. Foreigners just don’t understand. ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/178 "2006-01-06T01:49:09Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > This is what happens when we try to explain American customs like peanut butter and jelly, or a press that carefully defers to our federal government instead of trying to find the actual truth. Foreigners just don’t understand. This is true, we don’t have customs just idiosyncracies. Our press doesn’t defer to our government, it just makes shit up. And why should we bother to understand a bunch of rebels that can’t speak proper English? ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/179 "2006-01-06T01:59:27Z")
Sammich is both a legitimate (mostly) southeastern regional pronounciation for sandwich and a slang term for a particularly _slamming_ sandwich. With roasted meat, buttered, toasted bread, deli cold cuts with watercress and all that shit. It is NOT infantile babytalk. :dubious: When six-foot-ten brothas with voices so deep their highest octave is a baritone ask for sammiches, you’d best make them the damn best sammiches you ever made. As for the jelly/jam controversy: it is always called jelly irrespective of whether the substance may actually be a jam, preserve, fruit butter or marmalade. IMHYUCO, jams are best. ---
**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 6, 2006, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415/180 "2006-01-06T02:49:51Z")
> [@Homebrew](#): > > What else would you drink with pancakes…? Apple juice or orange juice, generally. Or soda, if I’m in the mood. I don’t do coffee. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-black-people-like-fried-ice-cream/338415.md?page=10)