we ain’t born in europe in them mess up climates. we born here and survived

on bakes and souce and all them things for years. don’t get fool and try to live like

some of these other people ya hear.

SLAVERY IS responsible for where we find ourselves now

i can justify this statement but i wrote a long comment on this a minute ago and lost it
will justify the statement

as black people our abilty to survive given any circumstance would have given rise to the cultural pratices as seen in the way we prepare foods and the way we do other things such as dress and talk. we as slaves were deprived of everything: our music, our names, our identity, our dignity, our pride, our self-confidence, our history, our lineage, our EVERYTHING. slavery was not easy at all ! –but we had to survive

music : we developed tuk music based on imitation of the british army bands that played the marches , the landship came out of a similar experience.

our foods: as explained already the slaves used the leftovers from the kitchen of the great house to develop pudding and souse for example. the slave master had no use for the hog head and feet or the belly so the slaves use them.

the way we dress: imitation of the slave master’s style of dress which was quite unlike how we dressed in africa— a tropical climate. we used all the slave masters old handme-downs which of course were old jackets and ties and big old dresses

so we did things to survive whether it was with food to keep the physical intact
dress for cover of the same or music to satisfy the psychological. it shows the resilience of the black man

i couldn’t let that pass

pudding and souse is also slave food-(discarded entrails and offals from the pig -thrown away by the slave masters and put to use by the slaves)
cou-cou– is slave food or duck food as some people call it-(same reason as above)

for the record
i never like bakes—could not get them eat
i never did like cou-cou either and i dislike flying fish
so i guess my bajan status might be questioned

for the record
I have never bought kentucky fried chicken
if kentucky and cheffette had to depend on me or people like me
they would not last a month in business

tamarinds -oh i love bajan tamarinds, bajan bananas,
bajan oranges and bananas are the best tasting in the world—why we dont grow more and sell overseas is a mystery to me.

i had the benefit of growing up in town as well as the country and i ate a lot of fruits in both the country and town—-fruits from st vincent , dominica and st lucia–in town-

bajan fruits from the country included : goose berries, guavas, sour-sop, golden apples, ackees, grapes, fat pork, almonds, mangoes, oranges and bananas.
other delicacies were sugar cane from the fields, coconuts, sugar apples, bajan cherries -the highest concentration of vitamin c in the world, passion fruit and pears and paw-paws
–just to name a few

any how doan let jdid scare yuh with
talk about trans fat and bakes
i know a lot o people who eat them in my boy days and they were old then and they are still living now

jdid might have a point though because if you eating and not exercising and burning it off you might be in trouble

the old people used to work hard, walk everywhere they going, wuk-up nuff to tuk band music and wuk-up whenever they felt like. i have seen some old women hice-up their clothes and just start wukking up just so and all they were hearing was the music in the head. so the old people wuk hard : they din used to catch a zr van to go from the corner of deacons road to carlton supermarket as i see people–young lazy-ass people doing nowadays

wow ! -this was a long comment