The UNTOLD Story of Black Barbecue
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
- Have you ever wondered why Black folks love to Barbecue? Join us when we talk about the Historical reasoning behind Black Barbecue.
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I'm Mexican and I love black bbq, like I legit fall in a food coma every time I eat black bbq because I cannot stop. As a matter of fact, im going to excuse myself and go buy me a plate.
I’m black and I absolutely love barbecue & soul food. However, Mexican food is also a favorite. I always joke and say that I believe I was Mexican in one of my past lives!! 🤦🏾♀️💕💕 It just makes sense!! 🤣
the first people to be called negritos were the Indigenous Americans, they were the slaves those first 300 years before any other person was brought to the Americas as slaves. Native Americans were the only people on earth that knew how to grow Maize, Chilis, Rubber, and Sugar back then. so the first "blacks" were the natives.
Nothing wrong with that. I enjoy Mexican cuisine particularly (Tex Mex), my goodness!
@krono5el That is a bold faced lie. Black Spanish and Portuguese Jews were it's well documented and they were the first slaves of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade sent to San Toma, and Cape Verde Islands off of West Africa in 1452 50 years before Columbus. Documented. That's why he brought a Black Jewish slave as his interpreter on his maiden voyage.
I love tacos
The best way to get the whole family together
Sometimes. It depends on the family a person has. Drama family or loving family. I personally don’t do gatherings.
@@Yah-Izoa-Hakaboth Nobody ask for all that drama in your opinion.
@@Yah-Izoa-Hakabothif you have drama in your family, can I take your spot at the next BBQ ? I promise to pay attention and report back to you what happened at the BBQ as well as update you on old beefs. 😅
Great way to learn about your family, especially when drunk uncle lives up to his name and that holy roller starts invoking Jesus. It only gets better when the family Ho shows up and starts the whispers going and them cousins hook up down in the basement. 😲😆
Now that’s a family BBQ.
Drama??!! That’s 99 percent of all the fun and nostalgia and mystic of the whole thing!!!! Hahahaha 😂
As a black man. I can genuinely say everybody loves barbecuing.
Also fun fact : watermelon had a high yield per plot as well as vital hydration
And fried chicken not only killed bacteria that would make you sick it also held up longer so it was able to be eaten for a longer amount of time while in the field
Yea those slavery days are over. Chicken is grown in a laboratory along with the seedless Watermelon 🍉
Watermelon 🍉 literally kept us alive back then it’s full of so antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals!
Fried chicken was the luxury food of house slaves that they were allowed to eat .
Watermelon was planted by overseers direction between rows of cotton to prevent slaves from running off to a well or bucket to drink water ... They pointed with a whip at the watermelon and said "There is your water!"
All primitive Hunter gatherers small pen herders cooked over open fire and spices keep meat longer in tropical heat....
@@melaninsupergurl-vu4uvThank You. School that fool. Over hear claiming Black, but spewing the white folk version.
That's right Watermelon Proud and Fried Chicken all the way to the BRICS.
Before even watching this video, I must say that growing up.....Barbecuing is what the family did on the regular. The aroma of it all, we had to have the music going lol (never had a quiet BBQ😊), grandad, dad, and uncles rotating each time with being the grill masters with us kids running around enjoying life. It was always the ladies of the family inside preparing the sides, cakes, pies, and other main courses that went with the main course of the meats. Thinking about those times make me wanna cry because those were beautiful times as most of everyone I mentioned has passed on but I smile as well in enjoyment of the memories. I saw this video on my timeline and I thought I'd share what weight heavy on my heart in regards to the topic as those thoughts came rushing once I saw the title. Such good innocent times many years ago. Take care.
Man I have the exact same situation. Trying not to tear up. Lol The Best Times
Play a song…flip it 😂😂😂🔥🏃🏾♂️…enjoyed your comment on the real side..great memories and still grilling for the next generation
NO good barbecue is silent. It is to be celebrated!
I miss those days ❤
Yeah 90s babies 90s bbq was fire fire😭🔥
We need to carry the tradition same way our ancestors did that's only wau❤🎉
My great grandfather was the pit man for the 1st sit-down BBQ restaurant in N.C. I never knew this until about 10 years ago where I entered & won my first BB
THATS DOPE👍 DEEP ROOTS
Coopers?
@@rwilson40 Bob Melton
Rocky Mount, huh? Some alleged relatives of mine have a serious BBQ joint in NC: Grady’s.
Bull pure cubed and sold for dirt bull!!!
It annoys me that this isn't in history books, but then again neither is my people and we always been here. 🤷♂️ Preaching to the choir 🙌 Great video.
Brotha, ain't nothing like REAL barbecue!!! Absolutely the best❤
Ain’t nothing better than home cooked ribs and your greens
🥬 potatoe salad My
God !!Best thing in the world 😂❤❤❤
My bad forgot the baked beans and the cornbread plus
all the desserts
@@clarascott5264yummy for my tummy!
Knowing and understanding what you’re doing, and have the ability and knowledge to Barbecue 🍗 how it’s done.
Is it me or does that sauce sound absolutely delicious 😋
On it❤
Ikr? Vinegar??? Plum?
I'm sure it kept our folks regular too! 😂
GOT DAM I LOVE BEING AFRICAN American!! ✊🏿
Yes!! Me too!!✊🏾
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White guy here giving you a fist-bump!
@@JM-wu8bh Lol! Thanks my guy!! 👊🏿
Until the Cops pull you over. 😂. Jkjk.
As a history teacher i love this channel I'm going to show this to my students
I grill every Sunday naturally , I even build grills and from South Carolina, bbq gotta be in my blood
South Carolina is the home of bbq. Mississippi my ass
Texas fool
@@pardymo9554 NC & SC BBQ all day whole hog, yall got some nice brisket and pretty sausage in Texas though ill admit.
Louisiana we got that STRANGE meat on the pit you ever had pig FEET or coon MEAT ? Cuz it ain't bad
I’m from SC too! BBQ is in the blood.
I love barbeque food. the flavors that the smoke gives to it is like no other.
I'm white, and I grew up in South Carolina. BBQ has always been a part of my life! So have other types of food people call "soul food." So thank you for sharing your food and recipes with the rest of us, along with so many other wonderful contributions to American culture! ❤
Black peoples have done lots of great things. They have changed the world.
@michaelvoisine7075 Amen!! Michael 100% agree with your comment.
Black on black homicide is 50 percent of all murder in America. Blacks are 13 percent of America and kill black men at half of all murders? Yes you blacks are changing America?
The word barbeque came from the Spanish word barbecoa. That being said is the first race to bring barbeque to America. Spainards were here before white or black and spainards brought all cattle, sheep,goats, hogs, pigs and chickens to America they even brought watermelon seeds? So if you bring all those animals from Spain to America don't you think they knew how to barbecoa = barbecue? The first cowboys were also the spainards teaching to Mexicans how to ride. Mexican DNA is 50 percent spainard and 50 percent American native indian. Mexican and indians perfected The pit barbequing in the 1500s.
@@richardmontonio1486 Richard don't get it twisted. My black Americans enslaved ancestors created barbecue way before being kidnapped and brought to America for servitude to white plantation owners. You don't understand black American history or American history. So don't make assumptions about saying the Spaniards did this and did that before black enslaved people came to America. You know nothing about my black American history and culture. My black Americans enslaved ancestors build america. We build the white house, we black man invented the stop light his name was Garrett Morgan. Heavy weight prize boxer Jack Johnson invented the wrench, George Washington Carver was a chemist who invented 365 products using a peanut. The list of black Americans invention go on and on. Before you claiming what the Spaniards go your local library and read your Americans inventors. You find that all those are invented by black Americans not white Americans or Spaniards. Do your research.
I love being black 😊❤
Me too
I certainly do love barbecue
I knew about the history of bbq coming from the Arawak of the Caribbean. I did not know about it’s origins as we have it now being from the African American society. I love seasonings, smoke, and flavors. I grew up around family that didn’t season food how I do. I am self taught. Now I’m coming to realize that I cook mostly Soul Food and I appreciate so much the flavors that the African American peoples have contributed to the world
Maybe the underground pit was a means of survival. I know the maroons in Jamaica cooked meat in an underground pit to hide their location.
Excellent presentation of a very woven sophisticated subject.
It’s great to get the history behind where the traditions of bbq came from.
"smoking meat over a gentle flame, it was a common practice in several Africa cultures ".- this means that Africans historically would BBQ inventively separate from natives but have historically had their own way.
Thank You. We didn't get Barbecue from no damn Taino Indians. That's why we were doing it completely different. Why don't they Barbecue the way we do in Puerto Rico then.
@@lroyjetsonson5060 Exactly, %100
@@lroyjetsonson5060Yea, based on the old depictions they were definitely different
Any links?
@@lroyjetsonson5060 two different processes. We were more so smoking verus flame cooking the meat in Africa. As a result, when they came across the Taino technique, it was familiar but the concept of fire cooking the meat over grates was new. So they took the idea of grates, then incorporated pit smoking/cooking techniques from home to create what we know now to be BBQ.
It is important to acknowledge inspiration. I agree, they did not get BBQ technique from Tainos but used Taino tools to optimize the African process.
Thanks for educating me, I always wondered why I have always had this deep feeling in my DNA to BBQ. It hits me 4 to 5 times a month.
OMG! Now I'm hungry! This was an interesting video seeing the true roots behind BBQ but it is very important staple in the black community especially during the spring and summer seasons everywhere you go somebody's Barbecuing and every family has their own methods that have been passed down one generation to the next which adds FLAVOR 😋😋😋😋😋😅😁
We originally barbequed underground. Small hole dug. Food wrapped in banana leaf. That doesn't burn Covered with burning objects. Then ground covered. Original pit.
And banana leaf adddd great flavor and aromatics to the food
It's called a earth oven.....
The Australian aborigines also did that
@@Lupo32 Right. Aboriginies used it across the globe. South America too.
We still do it, at least my family does.
Native Americans did both from all the Americas, they love slow roasted meats to make sure they are fully cooked, none of this raw steak nasty bullshit the europeans like.
The recipe for "Gang Sauce" is interesting. You don't usually hear about using plums in bbq sauce, but it makes sense. A1 sauce uses raisin paste as a main ingredient to give it that unique flavor we all know. If raisins work for steak sauce, it makes sense to think that plums would work for bbq sauce. I have to try this.
Yup..and blueberries..and...
I'm also going to try this recipe
Both of my grandfather's were grill masters and they made their own sauce
You answer all the questions I think about when it comes to Black People! And I love it😂🤣❤️
Thank You for this Awesome Black History Lesson 👏👏👏
Jamaican 🇯🇲🇯🇲 🇯🇲 🇯🇲 outside cooking method on woodfire is pure 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥. Jerk meat and fish is on another level 👌.
The Enslaved Africans brought the BBQ style of cooking with them from the Mother land AFRICA to the Caribbean Islands. Our American Cousin's did the exact same thing.
yeah but no africans ever came to the Americas those first 300 years of slavery in the Americas so that's impossible.
I WAS THINKING THAT. i FELT LIKE HE SKIPPED A STEP IN NARRORATING THAT LOL
@@elleo1776 he didn’t skip it. He mentioned that the meat smoking methods from West Africa were merged with Amerindian style barbecue. Meat smoking and barbecuing are very similar techniques so it makes sense that people conflate the two but they are still different and unique. Same with open flame cooking/grilling, many people also categorize it as barbecuing but it is actually a different technique.
Sir, you do know real history, i am from the caribbean my self and i have been reading about this for many years. Your info.. is on point. Thank you cheers from 🇵🇷
Africans have been Barbecuing for centuries before Europeans, so no, he doesn't know history. We lived hundreds of miles from the Caribbean, and Tainos were almost exterminated hiding in the mountains of their islands, so they didn't teach Barbecue to the people in the 13 Colonies. Plus the average slave in the Caribbean only lived on average 5 years. That's why Caribbean culture is so Africanized to this day. If they were dying so fast, how did all the population of New Slaves get taught by the Tainos who were hiding in the mountains🤔
@@lroyjetsonson5060While i dont doubt that there is Taíno influence on modern day bbqn, America is undoubtably responsible for it… Clearly they werent the only group in the Americas to cook that way. The southern method wasn’t the same as the method of the Taino’s, and neither were the the ingredients used in the tradition so it had to have come from other cultures as well. “barbe-a-queue” “babbake”
@jerzydevoos5413 I highly doubt it. Because most of all, the so-called descendants who come here. Haven't seen of our techniques until they come here. That's the beauty of the internet, we can explore vlogs, docs, and UA-cam videos of people who encounter new cultures for the first time. Another thing is that they also have ancestry DNA test videos and breakdowns now, so I know for a fact that MOST OF THESE PEOPLE CLAIMING TIANO ANCESTRY have little to no Tiano ancestry and their AFRICAN ANCESTRY is what is giving them the little melinated tinge to their mostly European ancestry. So you don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to deduct that their AFRICAN ANCESTRY is most responsible for their similar cooking and Grilling techniques. Giving their affinity for Beans and Rice all the time. Even paella comes from the Moors from Senegal, Rice isn't indigenous to Europe and isn't present in any other European classical dishes. Think about it 🤔
@@lroyjetsonson5060Moors were not sub saharan, real Moors neutered their sub saharan slaves (and the few that survived the process) were used as guards for real Moors hareems.
@@lroyjetsonson5060I saw one on YT and it was animal but it had flies all over it yuck so yall can keep that over that
My Dad was the pitmaster of the family, I took over after he passed. I was always there watching anyways
Thank you so much for this video. My 7yo just asked me where does barbque come from. Now i can tell her
My grandfather would bury a whole hog in the ground and let cook all night, in Tennessee. Shoulder sandwiches was great and was a share cropper.
bet he never thanked the Indigenous Americans either, shout out to Galverino and Hatuey.
Bruh thank you. I learned a lot through this.
Thank you for this interesting post; now I'm hungry! What an awesome contribution persons of colour have had and continue to have on American culture!
Now, if I may, my Brotha... the man's French name at 1:46 is pronounced, "zhock," kinda like Jacque Cousteau.
Again, I appreciate the posts!
As a Memphian…. I stand with you🎯🎯🎯
Yes sirr 💯〽️🔟👌🏾
Agreed! Memphis ♥️ is my home. Grew up with barrel grills smoking under the tree rain, hail, sleet or snow. I moved away after high school and still keep the tradition where I've lived since and whenever I return home to Memphis and visit.
Memphian eh? Sounds like you're from another planet.
Thanks for posting this. I love to BBQ and I follow the BBQ culture of today. If you watch BBQ shows and competitions on TV today, you would think that black people never had anything to do with BBQ.
And if you have ever tasted competition BBQ, you see that these competition circuits have even changed what "good BBQ" should taste like. They want sugary meat candy.
I prefer my elderly uncle's BBQ. He cooked on an old converted 1940's washing machine, and his meat would blow away much of this stuff cooked on $10,000 custom smokers! Thanks again for your work.
Wow! Your uncle was a GOAT of BBQ!
This needs more views
I find nothing better than getting up at 4:00 in the morning whether its in the middle of summer or the dead of winter, firing up my smoker & throwing a brisket or pork butt on.
Barbecue is based on slow cooked meats cooked over open fires in AFRICA. I literally travelled to West Africa and ate indigenous West African smoked meats with spicy sauces and spices in Ghana, Ivory Coast, NIGERIA where most African Americans ate from🙄
Lmao what 😂😂😂 I'm a genealogist and can tell you we are not from Africa. Did you do a papertrail on your family or only what the europeans teach you in school? None of my family tree goes back there.
@@alaskanwhiskeyI’m interested in mapping out my family tree, what advice can you give me? Where should I begin, as far what sites/books/resources are most reliable. Thank you in advance.
Very interesting. West Africans use roasting method. I’m convinced it’s a combination of indigenous, Caribbean and Africans. Though west Africans did arrive in the Caribbean’s first.
The Taino arrived in the carribean first then the Europeans , then the Europeans brought west Africans after most the natives died off, stop revising history
@@shanceeaton9508Africans were with the first Europeans namely the Spanish and Portuguese. Not to mention he meant Africans were in the Caribbean before they were anywhere else in the Americas.
@@kudjoeadkins-battle2502 no the fuck we weren’t , you niggas will find one slave out of 10 expeditions and be like we was there first. The help doesn’t get to take credit.
The truth is "Black" people were here already, the lies is we all came from Africa from slavery
Notice that the Natives were Chickasaw which have tons of black descendants. We are only told out Africans side to prevent us from having a connection to the land. Remember, after slavery they wanted us to get out of the country. So, they made up the whole African story. it's true, but not as big as they make it sound cause most slaves went tot he Caribbean, and latin America, only around 300,000 came here
The rest were here already, but slavery ,and natives selling us out, forced both Africans, and Native blacks to unite under Negro or African. The trick worked until now cause we know this country is built on our backs, and we lay our claim, then we need reparations. If we just focus on our African side NOTHING but dreams will happen cause we are a new people
All the people you just mentioned are indigenous. So called blacks are the only people who are indigenous and also alot of so called black people were in these lands way before the invaders came and way before slavery started
Because it taste good for one thing..!!!!!
What a great video!!! You see them cooking shows now with Caucasian men giving their tips etc on how to do it but Black BBQ is the best!!! I’m black and Mexican….when I tell you the fam bbq’s with combined cultures are so tasty please believe me lol
Hey we're just a little behind but we're willing learners
Love "grilling", or putting barbecue sauce on grilled meat?
I think most men of any race loves it because it feels so natural, simple and primitive to just cook over an open flame versus a stove or oven.
Im hispanic and i love it. And watermelon too. And grape soda
I have a book about BarBQ and it's tells if a letter written to England, explaining BarBQ to someone. In the letter he says," the lowly class partakes in this event"😢
Man not just black people love Bar-B-Q, other races now love it as much as we do. And I know you are just giving us a bit of history.
i grew up in odessa tx, i miss that bbq
Nothin like the smell of a backyard barbecue with your love ones
Could you give us that bbq sauce recipe again please
We love barbecue Becuz we’re Indians. We been having barbecues since time existed
This does help out that narrative 🤔
@jerzydevoos5413 Not African. Delineation is a thing.
It goes all the way back to the Old Testament and the Hebrews...
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Verse?
@@johnsondoeboy2772How about you UA-cam West African Jews, Igbo Jews, or Lemba Jews and you'll see a white Small Hats sitting down with the elders admitting that they are the original BLOOD LINE HEBREWS on Camera 😂😂😂
@@johnsondoeboy2772 the Leviticus 2: 7 is basically about the Hebrew frying Chicken, but they would also "semantically " Barbeque Beef for the Levites to include in the offering to the most high!
@@petecole6729 I see the verse about the frying. Where is the verse about the bbqing of beef?
Mexican American and my uncle was taught by a black man in south Texas …my uncle is in his 60’s.
Thank you so much for sharing this inspiring information! Greatly Appreciated!
Thank you for sharing
Barbecue, spare ribs, burgers, chicken, lamb, they can keep the exotics. For real!
Didn't know I needed a reason to enjoy bbq. Pretty sure everybody likes bbq 😂😂😂
Who doesn’t love BBQ 😊
Just barbecued Sunday and Monday for no reason at all… Thanks for the video black family
Some of yall in these comments do not use critical thinking, smh, the narrator never said it was a black thing, he is stating how it relates to black people. Smh
Exactly they can't comprehend correctly smh
Excellent historical presentation of barbeque.
I’ve often wondered why this is. Thanks for the video.
Black people are the natives that started barbecuing
Great content
I am Irish , our family is from rural Ky. & we like bbq also , my srupid white folk ancestors thought eating high on the hog( the supposed better cuts were best) until they figured out the cheap cuts they gave to slaves were better when smoked/grilled properly, they don't like us either( rich plantatation slave owners) they call us cockroaches. But black folks grew up eting the cheap cuts which are better & so did we, & us siblings were the workers & why most of our families had 12 or more children
great info thanks for sharing
Barbecue Bob was a great blues singer/guitarist of the 1920s and 1930s. He was discovered when a record producer heard him singing while he was manning the pit and had a long recording career. I listen to him all the time on Amazon Prime Music.
Thanks!
I love this channel man
Enjoyed From The Caribbean 🇻🇨
Look people been cooking on coals since civilization began.
Amazing content and info!!
Great video!
Alot of Native Americans were Black or Africans who came to America before Columbus
White, hispanic, europeans, and asians love it just as much😎
Thanks man
Interesting, new to your channel👋🏽👋🏽
Nice job, fascinating!
Thank you
Friday after next depicted this video perfectly
Went from master of the BBQ to master of the Ramin
Black folks have always cooked outside,we are natural ppl from our roots. And we were the baddest mofos on the planet,because we lived with the biggest and baddest in nature back 1million years ago😂they keep on finding older civilization..we have no clue how long ppl been on earth..
Great history
Best video I’ve seen in a while
Excellent video.
I’d love to go to a black barbeque Sunday ❤.
I grew up in many foster homes from age 2-18, and have never been to a bbq. I was always seen as less than and forced to work in abusive conditions. I was always hungry and had bad clothes. I was severely punished for wetting the bed. I wish I had bbq and a loving family.
Because it tastes good?
But as a foundational black American growing up in Texas and then Arizona BBQ has always been a staple at every family function and I always believed that it was something that we've been doing and perfecting since slavery im glad i know for sure now
Good stuff 👍👍
Happy to hear about the history of somethin I love so dearly , & I guess ima real one cuz I’ve had bbq from 2 of the spots that were in the pictures shout out to Everett & Jones real Oakland shit & Rodney Scott’s out in Atlanta !
I love the history of the barbecue :)
Nice info yo
Us Mexicans love bbq too we call it carne asada
Every culture all over the world love barbecue
Book of Jubilees/Jasher has Abraham teaching his sons how to BBQ.❤
I really appreciate your history of barbecue. I study much history of many different foods, and I totally agree with you on the history of Bbq. It is hugely appreciated for many white people, and I try to follow the tradition. Having had many people employed in my business over the last 38 years that are African-American. I’ve come to learn a lot, more than I could possibly ever learn from a simple video. Not seeing your video is simple, but is that tradition needs to be preserved and the history of all cooking of all cultures should be preserved. I’m going to give you a recommendation of a book called. I hear America is cooking, which is an amazing book but I’m also going to say to you. Thank you for your contribution to culinary arts, skills and history, which I love to preserve
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