The Democrats want to "go green" at the 2008 national convention, and nothing is sacred - including good old Southern fried food.
If the Democrats want to win friends and influence people at the Denver national democratic convention, then they might want to start with the menu. When the food of your "people" (and especially those of Southern hertitage) are held up as the standard of ridicule, then you're not going to make many brownie points - nor get to eat any brownies either.
Several online news sources including the Atlanta Journal Constitution are reporting that the menu at the convention will be healthy and include three of the following colors: red, yellow, green, white, purple/blue. In addition, no fried foods will be served - period.
In the South, we don't plan our meals by the colors. Nope. It's all about the flavors. We can give you red, yellow, green, white and blue/purple. That's fine. But, cooking is not color by numbers.
We also fry a lot of foods here in the sunny South. That's not all we do. We love our fresh garden vegetables and southern grown fruits. It's all about the seasons and the balance.
Government has gotten bigger and bigger but sure not better and better. There are issues much more complex and important than the menu at the convention.
However, banning the food of an area where Democrats struggle is not such a grand idea.
Perhaps Democrats could look on the sunny side. Request what you do want rather than listing a ban on our Southern fried chicken, chicken fried steak, and okra rolled in cornmeal and fried in butter.
Or, put the food out there and let folks decide.
The big brother attitude of the Democratic party has not been setting well in the South, and it's not likely to improve when they talk trash on our Mamma's cooking.
