(sniff) Cornbreadd makes me so proud of my hometown.
Cornbreadd's prior mega-hit is here. Is it strange for me, a middle-aged white man, to like Popeyes? I like their spicy chicken with a side of red beans & rice. (I also like watermelon. So I like fried chicken and watermelon. But I draw the line on Big Red. Just throwing out some retarded stereotypes out there.)
Anyway. This is worse. The Big Choke against Buffalo is an historic moment in Houston's history.
Lightnin' Hopkins is a famous Houstonian and important in music history, as he should be. But he never wrote a trademark Houston song.
Archie Bell and the Drells had a good Houston song about 40 years ago. Archie danced just as good as he walked. It's still a great pop song.
Since Archie Bell and the Drells? Nothing. ZZ Top did a weird song called Heaven, Hell or Houston that few people remember. Houston deserves a signature song, like Tony Bennett singing about San Francisco, or Sinatra singing about New York. But for now I guess we'll have to settle for Cornbreadd.
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I like Popeyes too, although I don't eat it much. And I am the whitest lookin' ass nigga you have ever seen, just like the song says.
I do feel like I'm the only white guy in there every time I go into Popeye's. I'll take mine spicy with red beans and rice.
When I want to bother, I can grow my own watermelons. But what do you do when it's suddenly "the season", and about 6 are ripening every day? What a mess.
I always thought the mention you got in Truckin' was apt, but I guess not cool enough?
Don't forget this classic .
Funny, but when I grew up we called it White Trash food. Greens, cornbread (heck, my dad still called em hoe cakes), watermelon, and yes Big Red. My dad grew up dirt poor in Florida and ate "soul food" all his life as did generations of poor red necks before him.
Poor southerners eat the same foods. It's just that blacks took the food north and labeled it "soul food". Soul food doesn't have the stigma attached to it that it would if you called it Southern Cuisine.
But if you do like it Mikki's Soul Food Cafe is seriously some of the most awesome Southern Cuisine around. It's literally like what my dad cooked. Artery clogging goodness.
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