The Real Reason Black People Love Butter Pecan Ice Cream
Black History Year
PushBlack
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🗓️ 24 October 2024
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
If this sounds absurd, that’s because it was. Back in the day, we couldn’t be caught eating vanilla ice cream.
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine a delicious patty nestled between two buns with cheese and ketchup. |
| 0:04.7 | It's not a burger. |
| 0:05.6 | That patty is actually sausage, which makes this a sandwich. |
| 0:08.6 | A breakfast sausage sandwich, the new 199 sausage sandwich from McDonald's. |
| 0:12.8 | Made with RSPCA at short pork. |
| 0:15.6 | Until 11am. |
| 0:16.6 | Price and participation may vary. |
| 0:17.8 | Up charges and fees apply to delivery. |
| 0:19.2 | Subjects of availability. |
| 0:23.4 | If this sounds absurd, well that's because it is. |
| 0:27.4 | But back in the day, we wouldn't be caught eating vanilla ice cream. |
| 0:33.2 | This is two-minute black history. |
| 0:35.4 | What You Didn't Learn in School. |
| 0:53.6 | The Jim Crow South was a dangerous place for our people, full of laws and customs to keep us from living in the country we built. |
| 0:54.7 | But this one food restriction was the most bizarre. |
| 0:59.3 | Black people were denied vanilla ice cream every day except July 4th. |
| 1:06.7 | This is ironic considering an enslaved man Ed Edmund Albius, revolutionized the cultivation |
| 1:13.1 | of vanilla in the first place. |
| 1:15.6 | Maya Angelou wrote, People in stamps used to say that the whites in our towns were so |
| 1:21.6 | prejudiced that a Negro couldn't buy vanilla ice cream, except on July 4th.. Other days he had to be satisfied with chocolate. |
| 1:31.3 | Many chose butter pecan instead, and now it's a staple for us. Poet Audrey Lord appears to |
| 1:40.4 | co-sign the foolish practices around ice cream. When her parents tried to treat her to vanilla ice cream at a soda shop during a family trip, |
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