Roy Wood Jr’s Childhood: Country as a Sugar Sandwich

Your Mama’s Kitchen

Higher Ground

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Comedian Roy Wood Jr. dishes on his Birmingham roots and how his radio personality dad and law school student mom navigated meal times with their opposing schedules. He shares the simple but delicious meals that limited his palette before he ultimately became the foodie we know and love today. Plus, we learn about the biscuits that had his cousins fighting over who gets the last one.

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0:40.6	Like, in my grandma's house, you would wake up and you'd already smell breakfast happening.
0:42.0	Breakfast is in progress.
0:44.8	That was the constant.
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0:54.4	They float to wherever the scent is coming from.
0:58.5	That was me back in the old days.
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