Black Americans Southern Food tutorial

Corn, sweet potatoes, and squash are indigenous to America — grown by the American indigenous people long before Europeans or Africans arrived. Black Americans turned those same crops into soul food staples: cornbread, candied sweet potatoes, and fried squash. Our food didn’t come from Europe. It was built on what was already here. 💯

A confirmation of my claim being factual.

@jake_oncall Excuse me but salmon cakes at dinner it's salmon cakes and scalloped fried potatoes with onions. For breakfast it's salmon cakes, scrambled eggs and biscuits with seedless strawberry jam (jelly is acceptable).

@jake_oncall As soon as she said corn bread and milk, I knew I found my people. All of these I grew up eating and I was born in the Midwest 😭🙏🏾 my folks did buttermilk instead though w the cornbread, and biscuits and gravy is my favorite breakfast dish to this day

Absolutely this is Black American Twitter/X side of town!😂😂

@jake_oncall Salmon croquettes as grits and eggs!! Trust me! Then you have the leftovers with rice for dinner , could make a lil butter slurry to go over it. But my people are from Savannah and are Gullah

@jake_oncall I was just talking about cornbread and milk the other day. Haven’t had it since I was a kid.

@jake_oncall We used to call the cornbread and buttermilk’mush’. It was a treat for me growing up in North Carolina.

@jake_oncall In El Salvador we have corn tamales and I add into milk and eat it like that! Delicious 😋

@jake_oncall Thank god I'm not from the south, every time she spoke all I keep thinking about is missing limbs & clogged arteries!

Don’t do that you must be an African or Caribbean.

@jake_oncall Brooklyn born & Raised, they're not the only ones who care about what they eat.

They don’t care about what they eat in their homeland, bushmeat is on the menu and possibly human flesh.

@jake_oncall Well if I had to choose between bush meat or pig shit, I'd choose bush.

You could eat a boiled monkey all you want push come to shove and I don’t eat pork. I’ll pick the hog malls and chitlins. over boil monkeys all day.

@jake_oncall

@jake_oncall I never heard nor seen cornbread and milk (Big Backs)

@jake_oncall This IS NOT BLACK FOOD. I’m SO tired of yall pretending yall got the market cornered on good food. This is SOUTHERN FOOD. I am a WHITE CAJUN and my grandmother taught me to make every one of these

Your are a liar ,and this is Black southern food! We are not going to let these crackas rewrite history in 2026! Cornmeal is indigenous to America — not Europe. Native Americans were grinding corn into meal and baking flatbreads thousands of years before Europeans arrived. Enslaved Africans later turned it into the cornbread we know today. Stop acting like everything we eat came from the other side of the ocean. 💯

You’re right But homie is right too my Brother. White Cajuns was fw us Back in those days. People also think Africa was originally all Black But it wasn’t, it was diverse, just like other countries. There’s full Blown Chinese that look Caribbean with Chinese features. Been there way longer than you and I and my kids ages combined 💯 sht wild lol just like the real reason reparations didn’t happen. There’s ppl who we think is the enemy that really isn’t 💯

@TheLala915 Nobody give a fuck about them white Cajuns copying us

@jake_oncall Lost me at corn bread and milk 🤦🏾‍♂️ THE FUCK IS YALL DOING DOWN THERE ??

@jake_oncall @BlacSocial Dam I miss butter milk and cornbread 😋‼️

@jake_oncall It’s ok to evolve black people. Be smart about what you’re eating. Losing limbs and living with high blood pressure ain’t it!

@jake_oncall Salmo crouquette with grits it’s breakfast but rice it’s dinner in NC

@jake_oncall It used to gross me out watching my grandma eat cornbread w/buttermilk. She also loves to squish it into her collard greens. Probably why i can't stand wet bread now lol

@jake_oncall Hot water cornbread, with the collar greens before the gym..iykyk

@jake_oncall She made me hungry asf

@jake_oncall Im from California. I went to NC a few years ago. My stomach was tore up from all that rich food. The sweet tea taste like syrup. It taste good but damn 😁

@jake_oncall Buttermilk and cornbread, salmon croquettes and grits!!

@jake_oncall The way my grandma made it was cornbread, buttermilk and onions! Amazing! Haven’t had it since she was still alive that’s been since 06

@jake_oncall Salmon Pattie’s & mashed potatoes with sweet peas or collards! My kids were just asking for these for dinner the other day! And let’s not forget about the Dukes mayo! That’s my secret ingredient for salmon patties!

@jake_oncall My mouth is WATERING 😩😩😩

@jake_oncall My grandmother used to make me clabber milk and cornbread. It was SO tasty! Maybe I need to learn how to make some clabber milk....

@jake_oncall 💯 My folks from Alabama & that cornbread & buttermilk was really a thing😵‍💫

@jake_oncall Preach Queen! 😉 You are 100% correct and very beautiful!! As a Grandma, I love everything you mentioned except the cornbread and milk. I’ve never had it and can’t tolerate mushy bread. I can’t eat Krystal burgers for that very reason, but everything else, yum! 😋

@jake_oncall The way she started this list with the cornbread and milk I knew it would be solid! Yeah she legit southern. I grew up on all this and still hit it up till this day.

@jake_oncall Here come the contrarians in the replies. Can’t just enjoy content. Always gotta find something to nitpick at.

@jake_oncall I’m from California and knows about all but one, the milk and cornbread. My grandmother, aunts, and uncles migrated to Cali from the south in the late 60s. Yes. Yes. and YES. I miss my grandmothers cooking😩

@jake_oncall Stop giving up the culture trying to proud you look stupid 😤 keeping "them" alive shut up

You think this isn’t known already? It’s top secret information?

@jake_oncall Side note - its buttermilk Not just regular whole milk

@jake_oncall I’m in love with you!!!! You spoke to my heart!!!!! Baby girl do you lol

@jake_oncall Them salmon patties..just need 2 pieces of bread and hot sauce…🔥🤤

@jake_oncall My grandma did buttermilk and cornbread that’s a southern thing

@jake_oncall Welcome to the south @gogirlmiri