# Suggestions for black and white food
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-black-and-white-food/690311
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [June 8, 2014, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-black-and-white-food/690311 "2014-06-08T04:38:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2014, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-black-and-white-food/690311/1 "2014-06-08T04:38:24Z")
A friend of mine is hosting a party that has a black and white theme: the guests are wearing black and white (ala Capote, but not as formal) and she wants to have as many black and white foods as possible as well. (Why it’s black and white is a long story.)
It’s not a full dinner party: these are more refreshments and snacks, though anything is welcome.
Any suggestions?
Some are obvious, of course: rice, popcorn, dark chocolates.
She particularly wants foods that use both black and white. (I recommended sushi if she can find a dark enough wrap.)
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance?
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### Author:  [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2014, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-black-and-white-food/690311/2 "2014-06-08T04:51:33Z")
You southerners don’t have black and white cookies, right?
> **[Black and white cookie](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_and_white_cookie)**
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> Black-and-white cookies, half-and-half cookies, and half-moon cookies are similar round cookies iced or frosted in two colors, with one half vanilla and the other chocolate. They are found in the Northeastern United States and Florida. Black-and-white cookies are flat, have fondant or sometimes royal icing on a dense cake base, and are common in the New York metropolitan area. Half-moon cookies are slightly dome-shaped (convex), have frosting on a fluffy angel cake base, and are common in Cent
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### Author:  [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2014, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-black-and-white-food/690311/3 "2014-06-08T04:57:47Z")
[Whoopie pies](http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Whoopie-Pies-107615) are yummy. When I was a kid my mom always made them for my class for my birthday instead of cupcakes.
What about black bean chili with a dollop of sour cream? or shredded Monterey jack cheese?
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### Author:  [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2014, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-black-and-white-food/690311/4 "2014-06-08T04:58:23Z")
These \*\*[Panda Rice Balls](http://4abe.blogspot.com/2012/05/panda-rice-balls.html)\*\*would be great for a party, if she can find the dark wrap.
If you could figure out how to present them formally, Hostess Cupcakes come to mind…😃
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2014, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-black-and-white-food/690311/5 "2014-06-08T05:22:26Z")
> [@Sampiro](#):
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> It’s not a full dinner party… though anything is welcome.
[Moros y cristianos](http://www.mynicolita.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/rice-and-beans2-1024x685.jpg).
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2014, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-black-and-white-food/690311/6 "2014-06-08T06:06:58Z")
Roast zebra and fried penguin.
A more serious suggestion: Coke floats with vanilla ice cream.
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### Author:  [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2014, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-black-and-white-food/690311/7 "2014-06-08T06:08:36Z")
Squid ink pasta with some kind of cream sauce.
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### Author:  [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2014, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-black-and-white-food/690311/8 "2014-06-08T06:13:47Z")
Forbidden rice shaped in a design with white rice.
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### Author:  [@wellanuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wellanuff)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2014, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-black-and-white-food/690311/9 "2014-06-08T06:19:18Z")
Oreos. Chocolate chip ice cream. Ice cream sandwiches. Black and white jelly bellies.
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### Author:  [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2014, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-black-and-white-food/690311/10 "2014-06-08T06:35:41Z")
I don’t know what strikes you as obvious, so here are all the ideas I could come up with:
1. Oreo cupcakes or mini-cheesecakes.
2. Water crackers with whipped cream cheese and either black olives or black caviar. For added black - and - whiteness, use poppyseed crackers.
3. Small slices of bread or white crackers with black olive tapenade. Could also be done with slices of mozzarella.
4. Cups of blackberries with cream, vanilla mousse, or yogurt. (Make sure the blackberries stay whole. Otherwise, you’ll end up with purple and white party food.)
5. Black bean and Northern bean salad, maybe made with hearts of palm for extra whiteness.
6. Small servings of squid ink ravioli with Alfredo sauce.
7. Mini ice cream sandwiches.
8. Black and white quinoa salad (purple quinoa cooks up almost completely black.)
9. Black and white liquorice all-sorts, or marshmallow and liquorice candies.
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### Author:  [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2014, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-black-and-white-food/690311/11 "2014-06-08T06:50:14Z")
Zebra brownies
Mashed potatoes
Macaroni and white cheddar cheese
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### Author:  [@Bozuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bozuit)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2014, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-black-and-white-food/690311/12 "2014-06-08T07:03:46Z")
Not just rice. Black beans and rice. Alternatively, black-eyed beans and a mixture of white and wild rice. Then you get a black and white thing in a black and white thing.
Don’t forget drinks:
Guinness.
Alternate between black and white Russians. Or if any of you are disgusting, black and white sambucas.
Domino’s Pizza?
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2014, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-black-and-white-food/690311/13 "2014-06-08T10:15:20Z")
Blackberries and cream?
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2014, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-black-and-white-food/690311/14 "2014-06-08T10:39:54Z")
Blinis with a cream sauce and caviare
Black olives with cubes of feta cheese.
Irish coffee
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### Author:  [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2014, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-black-and-white-food/690311/15 "2014-06-08T11:39:00Z")
Moving from IMHO to Cafe Society.
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### Author:  [@chinchalinchin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chinchalinchin)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2014, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-black-and-white-food/690311/16 "2014-06-08T11:51:37Z")
Sort of related question, do they make black and white food coloring? If so, problem solved.
Also, is off white acceptable? Then I definitely submit cheesecake. Delicious, delicious cheesecake. Mmmm.
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2014, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-black-and-white-food/690311/17 "2014-06-08T11:56:58Z")
Icebox cake
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2014, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-black-and-white-food/690311/18 "2014-06-08T12:27:47Z")
Marshmallows
White & Black Jellybeans
White chocolate
Coffee
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2014, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-black-and-white-food/690311/19 "2014-06-08T21:27:11Z")
For a BDSM party, I once made some gingerbread pigs. I made my own cookie cutter, and covered the cookies with black icing. Then I put those little silvery ornaments around the edges.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2014, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-black-and-white-food/690311/20 "2014-06-08T23:47:28Z")
Raisin bread.
Chopped olive sandwiches: chopped black olives and mayo, basically, on white bread, cut into triangles.
Refried black beans with some chili spices, served with sour cream on saltines.
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