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submitted 8 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

A married couple who fled Haiti for Virginia achieved their American dream when they opened a variety market on the Eastern Shore, selling hard-to-find spices, sodas and rice to the region’s growing Haitian community.

When they added a Haitian food truck, people drove from an hour away for freshly cooked oxtail, fried plantains and marinated pork.

But Clemene Bastien and Theslet Benoir are now suing the town of Parksley, alleging that it forced their food truck to close. The couple also say a town council member cut the mobile kitchen’s water line and screamed, “Go back to your own country!”

“When we first opened, there were a lot of people” ordering food, Bastien said, speaking through an interpreter. “And the day after, there were a lot of people. And then ... they started harassing us.”

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[-] mr_robot2938@lemmy.world 89 points 8 months ago

Oxtail, fried plantains and marinated pork; in addition to being racists, the town council doesn't know good food. That all sounds delicious.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

How we ended up with a native cuisine inferior to the English is something I don't get. It isn't like the entire planet is injecting us with immigrants at all times.

[-] Soggy@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

Gotta get out of WASP neighborhoods, there's tons of good American food developed (mostly by immigrants and slaves) over the hundreds of years since colonization. And it's not like the native population was eating dirt.

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Fried peanuts and oxtail. Fuck Americans that don't get it.

[-] mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I'd argue Cajun cooking is native cuisine, granted that was cobbled together from the cooking traditions of several immigrant cultures.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Native to your area. I can't get it without a bit of work.

[-] mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

The same can be said about provincial french cuisine. You are so used to a world of food chains that you can't imagine a past history where EVERYTHING was regional.

[-] Facebones@reddthat.com 1 points 8 months ago

I live on the east coast and travel to major east coast cities a few times a year for fun. Seeing people in NYC eating at like Chipotle or other fast food drives me bonkers.

I know some people are locals and that's reasonable, but visiting a place like that and not eating the local grub seems so dumb.

[-] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 8 points 8 months ago

The palate for oxtail is way different than mayonnaise on white bread. Or even plain rice and boiled chicken.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The plantains might be a little too much for them too.

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That's the sort of thing we eat down here all the time. What's wrong with fried plantains? Oxtail is kind of hit or miss, but if you know someone who can cook it well... 👩‍🍳😘 Truly divine. And who hates marinated pork? It makes the best tacos.

[-] mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

What’s wrong with fried plantains?

Judging by their open bigotry, what's wrong with all of this is that it was cooked by black folk.

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

So it would seem.

What a disappointing state of affairs.

[-] mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

There is literally no benefit to racism but a fucktonne of limitations and loss of opportunity. It really breaks my brain why people keep making it so central to their identity.

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