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Many Asian restaurants – also check “family owned”, local restaurants – you never know!
One state I’ve regretfully never been to is Louisiana, but I love New Orleans’ dark roasted “Café du Monde” coffee.
Oddly enough, I started drinking it my senior year of high school. I live in the South, so maybe it’s just easier to find here, but I’m hoping my recommendation is heeded and enjoyed. I’ve even found the original coffee variety in an Asian grocery store!
What you need to know is that chicory root is added to this coffee, giving this variety a very unique taste – almost like chocolate. Chicory is the root of the endive plant (lettuce family). Apparently the French, during their civil war, found a clever way to enhance their coffee by taste and necessity, since coffee was more scarce at the time. The recipe was brought to America via the French Acadians (known as “Cajuns”) from Nova Scotia, Canada to New Orleans.
Typically, this Café du Monde coffee is served “au lait”, with the proportion of 1:1, or equal parts coffee and hot/steamed milk. The reason for the au lait is due to the bitterness of the chicory coffee, but you’ll just have to try it. I’ve introduced a few people who were non-coffee drinkers, and they’re converts now.
There is an actual Café du Monde restaurant in New Orleans’ French Market (Choctaw Indian territory), and they’re famous for this coffee and the French pastry, the beignet (pronounced ben-YAY’). They were established in 1862, and are open 24/7!
This Tuesday, March 4th is “Fat Tuesday”, or MARDI GRAS – if you’re down in the French Quarter, go get you some!!
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McDonald’s and Taco Bell rethink breakfast – Feb. 24, 2014
NOT that I’m a huge fan of McDonald’s, but my son used to work there, and it really is a large part of the fabric that makes ‘Murica…many childhood memories.
My son and I discussed the potential for McDonald’s to extend their breakfast hours just a few days ago, so it’s interesting that this news is exactly what we were thinking. We’ve both been restaurant cashiers, drive-through attendants, counter servers, waitstaff, and I’ve been a manager, so we often try to theoretically ‘fix’ places where we dine. We would only hope that any fast food chain these days offer better alternatives to all the chemicals they currently use, most needlessly, and give back to the world something healthier.
So please, for God’s sake, McDonald’s – please correct whatever is in McChickens that makes me sick, will ya…??
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Yeah, I said it – these things are RACIST!!!!
I did a little research on some of my favorite sweet treats, and whoa, did I find some interesting factoids – it’s the dark side, literally, of some of the world’s most beloved candy. How can such sweet be coupled with such bitter?
Backstory: some of the delicious chocolate-covered marshmallow treats you grew up eating have terribly racist names in some parts of the world. The food isn’t racist, of course, but their original names have caused controversy for as long as they’ve been around. WHAT’S THE DEAL?!
A great place to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate-coated_marshmallow_treats. While I try to never quote Wikipedia, I think it’s a good start.
EXCERPT:
“Chocolate-coated marshmallow treats are produced in different variations around the world, with several countries claiming to have invented it or hailing it as their “national confection”. The first chocolate-coated marshmallow treat was created in the early 1800s in Denmark.” [1]
OK, Denmark, let’s start with you. Let’s see how you depict your “original creation” of a negerkys (Negro kiss):
“Negerkys” marshmallow treats – old school racism
Thanks for the marketing photo, internet person – glad someone is keeping up with this kind of thing. It’s noted that the Elviraminde company no longer uses the name “Negro kisses” to market them, but they did until the early 2000s.
Anyhoo, other countries gave their chocolate-covered marshmallow confections names that referred to Africans:
The Sarotti chocolate-bearing Moor – no longer used in ads
Apparently this is a thing – owned, marketed and sold by Nestlé™
Now, not all of these are marshmallow confections, but you get the idea.
It’s not that referring to anyone of African origins is racist – it’s HOW the reference is used. Yikes on some of the advertising – truly degrading and insensitive. However, the term “negro” is, in several languages, the word “black”, which refers to the color, not anything racial. In America, it’s pejoratively used as a racial slur these days, so most Americans now try to avoid it. Historically, it’s been used positively and negatively, so it depends on the context entirely…but lately, it’s not been favorable to use. So, let’s not. In other parts of the world, though, the connotation isn’t necessarily racist, nor meant to be condescending in any way – and yet, some of the marketing appears racially insensitive, so much so that most of it is no longer used today. So, does that mean other countries were wrong to use those ads to begin with, or is it that we NOW see them as racist, over time? Good question.
Side note: America has “Moon Pies” and Mallomars – not entirely similar, but I’d venture a guess neither were associated with racism. I know – seems ironic, but there you are. And basically, Moon Pies are portably convenient s’mores. You’re welcome.
Here’s a video of Moon Pie manufacturing in Chattanooga, Tennessee:
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