Supermarket apologises for fried chicken slur

Ananova | 13:01 Wednesday 6th February 2002 | UNK

[mywifecallsmerobi]

Well nobody had better offer me any pate de foie gras!

Fattened duck liver is good but you just can't beat a good helping of cheap fried chicken

[mywifecallsmerobi]

When I was young I knew an old Black gentleman who enjoyed barbecued raccoon.

I have had bar-b-q coon & it was pretty darn good

[cactmh]

"soul food samples"

Isn't this racist...btw, like a guy said on Boortz, Yankees must have started this sterotype. Southerners eat the same types of food as "blacks". If you ask me, it tastes pretty darn good.

[mathurine]

Well, I think next month is women's history month, and some of them may be white. As to the fried chicken complaint against this European-owned company, I will say politically incorrectly, that some people are covered with scabs they hope some way will be picked by someone or something somewhere and somehow to reconfirm their fundamental victimhood and maybe give them some publicity or even a cash settlement. Sort of like saying "Look at me, notice me; don't look at me; don't notice me; and so forth in that mantra ad infinitum. And then adding if you look I'll sue, if you don't look I'll sue. Etc.

[Kaslin]

[Doctor Raoul]

Several years ago, when invites to a much bigger organization's Black History Month luncheon, there was plenty of "soul food" type items like greens, chitlins, sweet potato pie and watermelon on the menu, but NO fried chicken. I always wondered if the organizers kept it off to avoid something EXACTLY like this.

[nmh]

Hmmmm, some folks are mighty touchy.

[aruanan]

“Not all African-Americans eat fried chicken, greens and chitlins. We like salad, roast beef, low-fat chicken, just like everybody else,” she said.

Gee, I haven't see any salad bar, roast beef, low-fat chicken restaurants here on the south side of Chicago. I have, though, seen many Harold's Fried Chicken Shacks and other fried food franchises, including lots of advertising for catfish and ribs.

[SamAdams76]

Well I was really offended at all those beer commercials during the Super Bowl. Seems that advertisers take it for granted that we football fans sit around chugging beer all the time. I'm really, really offended at that racist stereotype!

[Savage Beast]

Actually, I don't eat pate de foie gras because, in the first place, I'm a vegetarian and, in the second place, its production is very cruel. But ANYWAY, it's the principle of the thing! I don't like being stereotyped.

[cactmh]

Neal Boortz' side kick Royal said that some black people won't eat Fried Chicken in public for this reason. (Royal is black)

[Fraulein]

Geez, I suppose it's not enough that the store was celebrating Black History Month?

Some people will always find something to complain about.

[What Is Ain't]

I heard about this while listening to a local talk-radio show here in KC this afternoon. The host was relating an experience he'd had while in college during "Black History" month. It seems the cafeteria offered offered a meal of fried chicken, greens and chittlins in honor of the occasion.

[4CJ]

ROTFL!

I'll have you know that your post offended me.

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Just kidding!

[mseltzer]

Isn't just having a sale for Black History Month insulting in that it implies that blacks need a sale to get by?

[Savage Beast]

I did drink beer during the superbowl--for the first time in months. Maybe I am a stereotype. Or maybe the advertisements were effective.

[mywifecallsmerobi]

I agree it's a very cruel way to develope food.

I don't like being stereotyped.

I agree no offense and appreciate your eating habbits

[breakem]

A BLACK guy I worked with quit and bought 6 Lousiana Fried Chicken stores in LA. I aske dif he would put one near my home. He said are you crazy, we sell three times the chicken in black neighborhoods, why would I open in a white suburb?