It isn’t just negroes who eat watermelon this way.  Southern Whites also eat watermelon and chicken using their hands.  Some are also into putting salt on watermelon.  My parents insisted their children eat watermelon, chicken, and pizza using a knife and fork to impress on us that we were not Southerners even though we were living in the South.  I noticed the children of upper class Southerners avoided eating fried chicken or watermelon in pubic if at all possible.  On one occasion, I remember friends from well to do Southern families had no choice but to eat fried chicken in public and used a knife and fork to make it clear they were not White Trash.

My dad was from the south and used to put salt on both watermelon and cantaloupe.  And we ate it with our hands and a knife.

Watermelon, with your hands and just a touch of salt.  The only time a knife is used is when slicing the melon.  Best served outdoors on a hot day...


...to niggers

fnord wrote:

On one occasion, I remember friends from well to do Southern families had no choice but to eat fried chicken in public and used a knife and fork to make it clear they were not White Trash.

I am confused, I use both techniques depending on the circumstances.  Out in nature hands are the tools used for consumption.  Dining in, of course, has a whole set of rules about which tool is correct for which food.  [One is taught how to eat "properly" in the Army as a class in one of the levels of the mandatory NCO Academy Schools.]

Also, some of us are taught to eat like the locals in any given place.
[Watch out for the left hand thing.]

So, what am I, fnord?  White trash once removed?  Twice removed?  Or what...  ?

The Proper Procedure

Bozos!

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Lenny Bruce routine, from memory, black guy on death row:

Tomorra mornin, Ize be gwine up to Hebbin, on da big Ribba Boat.
An when I gets up deh, gonna get me lotsa fried chick'n and waw-d-melon.

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fnord wrote:

You either are or are not White Trash, there are no degrees of White Trashiness.

I disagree. There were no velvet paintings in the White House these past 8 years, and yet...

AladdinSane wrote:

fnord wrote:

It isn’t just negroes who eat watermelon this way.  Southern Whites also eat watermelon and chicken using their hands.  Some are also into putting salt on watermelon.  My parents insisted their children eat watermelon, chicken, and pizza using a knife and fork to impress on us that we were not Southerners even though we were living in the South.  I noticed the children of upper class Southerners avoided eating fried chicken or watermelon in pubic if at all possible.  On one occasion, I remember friends from well to do Southern families had no choice but to eat fried chicken in public and used a knife and fork to make it clear they were not White Trash.

And then, there's this...

Well, thinking impartially, given the amount of hands he shakes in one day, I'd be damned if I'd eat with my fingers, either.  You're just asking for a nasty virus.