This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. Chitlins, oxtails, and pig feet. Why do we eat those? I know some of your

miles of watering right now. Some of you are just absolutely repulsed, which is

the appropriate response.

Why do we eat chitlins, oxtails, and pig feet?

I'm just naming a few.

Because it was part of a diet of an enslaved person.

It was the entrails, the hoofs, and the tails, the parts that Master didn't want,

the parts that would go on the garbage, that some... that

the parts that would go into garbage that somehow enslaved people made into something

delicious. To this day actually, Oxtails I know for a fact cost a lot of money. My mother

would buy them all the time and

cook for my dad and chitlins which my mother didn't cook but I know that if you

order them in a restaurant they're expensive and it's considered a delicacy they're now worth a lot but

during the enslavement period in this country for 400 years it was what black

folk ate whether it was a plantation in South Carolina, or one in Jamaica, because that was all that they

had to eat.

And it wasn't a diet that was made of anything that was nourishing, it was what they could get.

And my question to you, my question to you is,

why are we still eating like slaves?

But the larger question is, the chitlins and the ox tails and the pigs feet are

a metaphor for how we actually live beyond the food. We take the scraps from

people's plates,

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