D’Angelo Barksdale: Now you think Ronald McDonald gonna go down to the basement and say, “Hey Mr. Nugget—you the bomb. We sellin’ chicken faster than you can tear the bone out. So I’m gonna write my clowny ass name on this fat-ass check for you.”
Shit. Man, the nigga who invented them things? Still working in the basement for regular wage, thinking of some shit to make the fries taste better or some shit like that. Believe.
Baffled by his dad’s reluctance to change his traditional soul food diet in the face of a health crisis, filmmaker Byron Hurt sets out to learn more about this rich culinary tradition and it’s relevance to black cultural identity. He discovers that the love affair that his dad and his community have with soul food is deep-rooted, complex, and in some tragic cases, deadly. Through candid interviews with soul food cooks, historians and scholars, as well as doctors, family members, and everyday people, Soul Food Junkies puts this culinary tradition under the microscope to examine both its benefits and consequences. Hurt looks at the socioeconomics of predominantly black neighborhoods, where it can be difficult to find healthy options, and
The secret of Harlem Globetrotters’ legend is in… Chicken wings.
A 2003 South African commercial for Chicken Licken.
Harlem Globetrotters. Behind the scene
Music track : “Soul man” by Sam & Dave.
Why is your street address such a good predictor of your health? Increasingly, Southeast Asian immigrants like Gwai Boonkeut are moving into neglected urban neighborhoods where African Americans have long suffered, and now their health is being eroded too. What can be done to create a neighborhood that promotes rather than destroys health?
This clip is excerpted from “Place Matters,” Episode 5 of “UNNATURAL CAUSES: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?” This ground-breaking documentary series looks at how the social, economic and physical environments in which we are born, live, and work profoundly affect our longevity and health.
From the comedy documentary “Fat Head,” a comedian’s reply to “Super Size Me.” Morgan Spurlock wants you think it’s McDonald’s fault we’ve gotten fatter. I think that’s moronic. You can gain weight or lose weight eating any type of food; it’s about the choices you make. So I ate nothing but fast food for a month — including plenty of cheeseburgers and fried chicken strips — and lost weight.
DJ Academe is suspicious of the “Fat Head” guy, but he gets major cred for wearing a shirt from her alma mater: McNeese State University.
Clip from the documentary “Fat Head.” Guess what? Fat and cholesterol don’t cause heart disease. The theory was based on bogus science from the very beginning.
