Need to tread lightly here .. but I can't ignore a pop culture trend! C'mon inside to find out more!
Read this quickie caption first, and then you can peruse my write-up afterwards!
Yes, I know many African-American families will call recipes "receipts" but it didn't look right in the caption, and for those that didn't know, I didn't want to confuse them in any way.
There's been a thing the last few years about potato salad and how the south has the best potato salad. It's been brought up a few times on Saturday Night Live, and some other pop culture programs, so when I saw this picture, for some reason, it popped into my mind. And no, Karen, there should NOT be raisins in potato salad, nor curry nor peas. Peas are more for pasta salad, and I don't like them there either!
It's funny, because I looked up potato salad recipes, and most of them jive well with my families version, containing mayo, mustard, paprika and perhaps hard boiled eggs along with the potatoes. I wonder if this was some recipe in a magazine in the 30's or 40's for Miracle Whip .. or just poor people's adaptations that were handed down generation to generation (my family was the working class factory poor in Canada until they migrated down to this area in the late 1890's - early 1900's) for special occasions.
Anyway, I tried hard not to stereotype too much, other than many ethnicities do celebrate days off from work, AND weddings in spectacular fashion .. and that was what I was going for. Maybe a spice of cultural appropriation, but in a nice way. Anything more, I wouldn't cop to because .. someday soon I'd like to try Black Potato Salad .. if I can ever get an invite. I know I'll never get a receipt for it!
Hope everyone is enjoying cookouts this summer. What special food stuffs do your friends and family make for those special occasions? Love to hear about it below! And do talk about the caption too!
And since I mentioned it above, here's one of the SNL sketches .. Black Jeopardy.
I think that it was this sketch that really brought it out into the open.