[Mary]

I think this is a combination of social class and family background. A lot of black food and culture is Southern – or rather African as shaped by the American South. In general, Southerners in the United States eat and drink sweeter foods than Northerners. There is also a class component to this: the wealthier and better-educated a family, the less likely they are to consume a lot of junk food. I live in a mixed neighborhood – yuppies moving in to a traditionally lower class black/hispanic area. In the morning, I see the yuppie moms go into the corner store with little kids. The Yuppie kids get stuff like OJ, water, milk, bagels, fruit, or cheerios. The lower class moms buy their kids soda, those Hi-C juice bottles, chips, and all sorts of packaged pastries, cakes etc. As a yuppie living in NYC, I drink diet coke, club soda, gatorade, and once in a blue moon, gingerale (Canada Dry only, everything else is too sweet for my taste). I don’t know a single peer (of any color) who drinks grape, orange, or other fruity drinks – in fact most of us who drink gatorade for athletic reasons cut it with water b/c we think it is too sweet. Hispanics in the US, in my experience, also drink lots of super sweet fruity sodas, but having traveled in Latin America, I can say that this is part of their culture and all classes like this stuff.

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Name : Mary, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 33, City : New York, State : NY, Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class, 

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