Quick question. My mom always put a little salt on the watermelon. I grew up doing the same thing. My wife and kids think I'm crazy. Anyone else add a little salt to their watermelon?
Yep, my dad taught me that.
Yes, when Vance called Trump “Hitler”, everyone just assumed it was a criticism. It wasn’t. It was a compliment as far as Republicans are concerned.
The real tragedy in all this, of course, is the besmirching of the reputation of a great fruit, the watermelon, which is now stigmatized forever.
Popular and Pervasive Stereotypes of African Americans
Stereotypes of African Americans grew as a natural consequence of both scientific racism and legal challenges to both their personhood and citizenship. #ANationsStorynmaahc.si.edu
Watermelon
Before it became a racist stereotype in the Jim Crow era, watermelon once symbolized self-sufficiency among African Americans. Following Emancipation, many Southern African Americans grew and sold watermelons, and it became a symbol of their freedom. Many Southern whites reacted to this self-sufficiency by turning the fruit into a symbol of poverty. Watermelon came to symbolize a feast for the "unclean, lazy and child-like." To shame black watermelon merchants, popular ads and ephemera, including postcards pictured African Americans stealing, fighting over, or sitting in streets eating watermelon. Watermelons being eaten hand to mouth without utensils made it impossible to consume without making a mess, therefore branded a public nuisance.
Hell yes. And also on cantaloupe.
Nah, this is Taliban/Afghanistan v Pakistan… it’s a new one!
With the winner to play Israel in the next round?
My parents did also.
Since climate change is a hoax, what are they blaming for the drought? Let's just play their game and blame Abbott
When we went on trips when I was a kid and stopped to take a break, my father would get a Pepsi and a bag of salted Planters peanuts. He would put the peanuts in the Pepsi. I can still see him drinking the Pepsi and eating the peanuts. I thought it was gross.
