25 Forgotten HBCU Cafeteria Meals Black Students ACTUALLY Ate in the 1960s

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25 Forgotten HBCU Cafeteria Meals Black Students ACTUALLY Ate in the 1960s!

Monday was smothered chicken. Wednesday was fried chicken. Friday was the fish fry. Sunday, after chapel, was the plate that mattered. Every Black student at Fisk, Howard, Spelman, and Morehouse knew the rhythm of the cafeteria line. In the basement of Jubilee Hall at Fisk, a stainless steel well of collard greens held a long-handled fork sticking straight up. Miss Pearlie ran that line, and she knew every dish on this list by smell. Number 18 was the side that grown men wrote home about. Number 11 was peeled by hand by six women at a long steel table every morning. Number 3 was the dish half the students hated and the other half defended. These 25 meals were not cafeteria food. They were Sunday supper, six days a week, cooked by women feeding Black students since before integration. Hit that subscribe button. Here are the 25 forgotten meals
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