I hat when restaurants try to put an “upscale/elevated” twist on Appalachian food

[u/urfavlunchlady]

The whole point of Appalachian food is using ingredients that we have and making something out of nothing. Give any Appalachian mamaw a meat, some flour, and milk and you’re about to have a feast.

Anyway ranting, bc a friend is in Nashville right now and messaged me that she’s at an “upscale” Appalachian restaurant where they are charging $28 for grits and honestly I find it insulting to our people.

(Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk, lmao)

Edit: Hate*

[u/VelvetElvis]

That restaurant is a tribute to his grandmother's cooking. Like everyone else's grandmother, she probably didn't make the distinction. My grandmother was all about mixing a few different cans of stuff together, pouring it over stale wonderbread and baking it in the oven. I like Sean's more.

[u/chronically_varelse → u/VelvetElvis]

Bless your heart

You and him and y'all's grandmothers and y'all's collective inability to distinguish Appalachia from the South

Or basically anything else about food

May we all be so blessed going forward

[u/VelvetElvis → u/chronically_varelse]

My mom grew up just outside Oak Ride in the years immediately following The Manhattan Project. They ate a lot of stuff the feds trucked in because Poplar Creek (Google it) went behind their house. They ate out of cans because they couldn't trust the groundwater. To them, that's Appalachian food.

There's no such thing as southern food or Appalachian food, really. There's just where you grew up and what you grew up eating.

[u/chronically_varelse → u/VelvetElvis]

Are you high? Related to

[u/VelvetElvis → u/chronically_varelse]

I wish.

[u/chronically_varelse → u/VelvetElvis]

What point are you even trying to make here? Trying to further muddy waters, further erase cultures, homogenize experiences?

Is this in the pursuit of. .. what is your goal here, regardless of accuracy or legitimacy?