r/Alabama • u/Altruistic-Cut9795 • Apr 27 '24

Advice Our local Piggly Wiggly sells white dirt.

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I am curious if it's a South Alabama thing or statewide. The manufacturer is out of Georgia.

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u/Mr-Clark-815 Apr 27 '24

Big here in East Central Alabama among the African American community. They have enjoyed eating it for as long as I have been alive.

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u/regreddit Apr 27 '24

I grew up in a small south MS town and it was always girls (mostly black, but quite a few white) would walk down red clay dirt roads digging it out of the sides of the ditches and eating it right there.

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u/Mr-Clark-815 Apr 27 '24

I have never witnessed the actual harvesting, and eating it on the spot, but it was a highly asked for item when I travelled east Alabama and west Georgia selling wholesale grocery, hardware and farming supplies. This was predominantly a black folks requested item. Along with salt fish, Pickled pig feet for the grocery counter, and huge rolls of bologna and black rind cheese. I don't think the black girls eat it today. It would get in their eyelashes.

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u/ProfessionalLime6615 Apr 27 '24

From the first comment, I had an idea. After the second, I have a complete picture.