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It’s not a snooty thing. It’s just that when you don’t know much about soul food, and what you do know is eating crawdad soup, pig’s feet and chitlins, you tend to get scared away pretty easily, because it is like eating scavenger food -leftover parts, which is its origin – eating what the white people discarded – and some people still think of all soul food that way. As far as sweet potato pie, white people’s sweet potatoes are eaten once a year, at Thanksgiving, with brown sugar and marshmallows. I’ve never been able to stomach it. But when I reluctantly ate sweet potato pie over a lot of protest, I was amazed how good it was, much better than pumpkin. Concerning greens: again, most greens, like cabbage, dandelion greens, etc., are either not that good, due to overcooking, lack of spices or bitterness. But when someone made them for me Cajun style, they were great. White people just grow up with parents overcooking brussel sprouts, cabbage and other greens, or making black-eyed peas with no spices, and it makes a world of difference. My friend and I always laugh at Thanksgiving when we go into the market: Black people have greens, white people have broccoli.