According to the U.K. gossip site, Mirror, black celebrities were recently given Fried Chicken and Crispy Creme donuts at an upscale awards dinner, that coincided with U.K’s Mobo Awards. Word is, they even flew over Popeye’s Chicken, especially for Beyonce.
Read a snippet:
It’s meant to be the most blinging night in the showbiz calendar, where guests should feast on champagne and caviar.
But organisers at tonight’s Mobos have ruffled a few feathers by drafting in high-street fast-food joint Nando’s to provide chicken wings for high-profile guests. Instead of a lavish three-course spread a makeshift grill will be put outside the Royal Albert Hall to whip up 10,000 peri-peri chicken wings and burgers – a portion costs just £3.95 – for the likes of Beyonce, Coolio, Jamelia, Lemar and LeToya Luckett to tuck into.
An insider says: “It embarrassing. We hope they provide napkins, because the stars will go mad if there are grease stains on their dresses.”
They’ll also be, ahem, “treated” to 2,000 Krispy Kreme donuts, washed down with Red Bull and 3,000 bottles of water. [READ MORE]
Beyonce was a no-show for the actual awards event [see related posts], I guess she was pissed about that Fried Chicken..
And this is a problem because ???
Listen: Black People Like Fried Chicken
Chinese People Like Chicken Lo Mein
Italin People Like Spaghetti
Spanish People like Rice & Beans
White People Like Liver pate
and so on and so forth….
I hope they had some Kool Aid to wash it down with, and Watermelon as Desert !!
LOL i dunno what to think about this. but i really do love the texas fried chicken around my neighborhood lol
Nandos don’t even serve friend chicken, its a portuguese resturant that serves grilled chicken.
saying that tho it is still cheap as hell but hey its the MOBOs i’m suprised they even served them food at all.
and unless they imported it in from the USA no Kool-aid they don’t sell that here lol
rofl @ bill
anyways this is just perpetuating the stereotype.aint a damn thing changed
I don’t want to get off topic, and I understand This Blog was created to give you a “release” from the the stress & issues of your life, but I need to say something:
Sometmes we as a Race, the Black Race, Sometimes we get a tad bit sensitive about things that has no real bearing on life…
We got people that have been missplaced by Katrina.
We got Blacks losing their lives at an Alarming rate due to HIV
We got a large percentage of our Black Men that are incarcerated
We have a Large unemployment rate in the Black Race.
Blacks are losing their homes due to Foreclosure & Debt…
..I’m just saying, We got OTHER things to concern ourselves with as a Race, than something silly like what is on a Dinner Menu…
If the fact that the served Fried Chicken at a Dinner attended by Blacks offend you that’s cool.
I just hope yours also offended by Poverty, AIDS, Drug Addiction, Teen Age Pregnancy, Hurricane Katrina Displacement, and other issues of SUBSTANCE.
* Sorry to get on a soapbox so early in the morning, but some things that we worry about is just ridiculous.
Peace
How ghetto! why not just send some trees and cult 45!
I agree with Bill, this seems like a non issue. It sounds like they just wanted to have a casual menu with something people would like and most people, not just black people like chicken. Farmers aren’t raising no chickens only for us so we need to stop being ashamed or embarassed it. If an asian person eats food from Asia there eating things from there culture, its comfort food. Southern cuisine is part of our culture and our comfort food. Why not celebrate it, and serve it at celebrations.
and to address Bill,
I do agree, we have more important things to worry about, but the reason we never get anything done or any recognition is because others already have it in their head what we’re about, what we are worthy of before we’ve even opened our mouths.
If we stopped perpetrating these sterotypes, maybe other races wouldn’t assume to know what we feel, what we’re going to eat at their awards shows etc.
The reason Katrina was such a tradgedy was not because of the storm but the aftermath. Tell me it wouldn’t have been a different reaction with different races. They bascially believed the evacuees were poor, uneducated and useless! Now dont get me wrong, everyone has someone in their town that takes on that image, but for them to assume the whole city was like this is wrong.
And why would they believe this other than the sterotypes that we put out there about ourselves, or the ones assumed upon us.
I am black, love chicken but I love other foods too. Now if I went to a BBQ and they had fried chicken I wouldn’t be offended. If I went to my company picnic and they had a special plate made up for me of fried chicken I would be! Why would you assume thats all I eat!
Thank You Kesha.
Point taken & And I understand your position.
hope they had collard greens…cause you know most of these celebs are on that vegetable diet…
lol Bill you’re funny
im eating watermelon right now!
holla!
sorry but it wouldnt have bothered me in the least
im all for expanding ones taste pallete and trying new and exciting foods but when i go to these fancy company event functions i dont really care for tuna tartar or watercrest sandwiches ok
i want me some popeyes by the bucket
and i know as my white co-workers pass by my desk they’re looking at my plate like hmmm mmmm
hey if its not one stereotype they will have about you it will be another
Unless it is known that the function is going to be a barbeque type of affair, it is really inappropriate to be serving burgers, chicken and donuts.
How presumptuious of them to think that fried chicken is something everyone would enjoy. Especially wings…not exactly the neatest or cleanest food to be eating at a function. I don’t even order wings on a date for simple fact that they aren’t the easiest things to eat without looking crazy.
Also, I would think that some of these people may be watching what they eat, diet wise and may not want to eat fried, greasy foods. I would be pissed.
This is like for the average person to be attending a wedding, and being served fried chicken. Not even there would that be acceptable unless it is a realllly informal, down-home affair.
I would be thinking, I put on my nice dress for this. I could have gone to popeye’s in some jeans and been just as happy.
Kesha,
Every Year, The School that I work for will sponsor a Year End Banquet for all the Teachers.
The School asks its entire staff to bring dishes that reflect our Culture & Heritage,
e.g. basically our favorite Dish.
Like Clockwork it never fails, The Jamaicans, Bring Curry Goat, or Jamaican Beef Patty’s, the Dominicans Bring Rice & Shrimp ( Paita maybe), The Puerto Ricans bring Dishes with Rice & Beans, The Mexicans Bring Taco’s And the Blacks bring some sort of Chicken.
IS That Racist?
I think Fried Chicken is a BIG part of our culture.
Heck, I grew up on Fried Chicken & Kool Aid.
Sometime when I’m in a fancy restaurant, I order Fried Chicken. I eat it with my hands, and I smack my lips for all the Caucasians around me to hear.
Lol. Just Kidding. I don’t act a fool in Restaurants. I do act up a home though!
When my Caucasian Friends come by my house, My Wife will cook Fried Chicken, Collard Greens, Corn Bread, & and Red Velvet Cake.
They Love it! We wash it down with Kool Aid.
Now, I agree, Fried Chicken is what I’m all about.
There’s so much MORE to me. I like a lot of dishes from all Ethnicity’s.
I guess what I’m saying is this
Don’t let anyone define you or make you feel bad or ASHAMED of what you like.
Listen, Half of my family is Deep Ghetto.
They can be very LOUD in the movies. When I go by their houses, I eat whatever they serve me with a smile on my face, because that’s family. I may have to vomit afterward
(I can’t take pig feet, chitterlings or ox tail)
But I would NEVER be embarrassed by them, because that was ME 20 years ago.
When you know better, you’ll do better.
Peace
It is my opinion that black people are being brainwashed to believe that these sorts of things are insignificant and meaningless in terms of the grand scheme:
but think about this:
(1) When other ppl heard about Katrina, what if they said “oh, all those niggers do is eat fried chicken and watermelon with Red Kool-Aid”…it aint like they did something with their life”….then it would offend you, why?
(2) When ppl see the Black American and Black African HIV/AIDS community, they think “oh, all they do is sit at home sexing each other up and down and collecting welfare checks…and then give birth to AIDS-infested babies” why does that offend you, then?
When you let little stuff slide you are slowly stripping away part of you.
Yes, I am a 20 yr old Black woman….yes I LOVE fried chicken, yes, I LOVE RED KOOL-AID(As though it is a flavor)….and I will eat some good, ripe watermelon in the summertime….but if I attend a classy dinner, and I see that there is a table of these things set out specifically for me, exp. when it only cost $6.00….I will feel ridiculed and small, belittled—and I would speak out or leave—-when one black person shrugs it off for the “bigger” cause, you leave the burden on the next black person to break the barrier and say something…if that person doesn’t, it will go on and on until BOOM!!!!!! It explodes into something waaay big that could have been nipped in the bud a long time ago and avoided catastrophe
Ex: Blk ppl ignore country stereotypes made by counterparts (even of the same race)…i.e.: blacks are too stupid to leave in a disastrous situations, they are stubborn—no one ever says, we have to teach them and show them what could happen or …this is all they know—they have nowhere else to go….then BAM—Katrina comes along and FEMA says “Oh, Johnny always said that the blks are stubborn and wouldn’t leave—so let their asses stay there a little longer—-it’s not like they even tried to help themselves”
Then all of a sudden, the weight of the blk community’s muteness has to fall onto someone—a Kanye West who made a very bold, scolded and yet pariased, national upheavaled statement—which could have been avoided had we not ignored the “little slick, sneaky, underhanded, develish, and sometimes, ignorant (as in “innocent”) things that were said ahead of time
Think of this: If you are deaf and you talk a certain way, would you want to walk into a room and everyone is all of a sudden pretending to talk like you? When you bring forth your intra-racial similarities only to be mocked later, it is WRONG…no matter how many AIDS, KATRINA, or HIV victims are in the world b/c it all starts somewhere —recognoze real talk
PS: If I were Beyonce and I found that out, I would not have shown up either~ but I guess that fans have a right to still be disappointed—but who says they were fans????
Bill, I agree it may be part of the AA culture, however, it doesn’t have it’s place at that type of affair. It would be like going to that Latin Grammy’s where they are serving taco’s. While it is true, it is part of the culture, that kind of food is very informal, messy, and isn’t necessarily something everyone would eat which should be a consideration.
yeah, but not all black folk folk eat fried chicken…….some of us are trying to keep our figure RIGHT! I love fried chicken but when I go to an award event I expect to have the high end shit
and lately fried chicken makes me sick and tired as hell
Basically, I think what it boils down to is the person in charge of the menu was being lazy and lacks a certain kind of sophistication. When you are serving food, you have to be considerate of what people can and cannot eat. IE something for vegetarians, some salad for those watching their weight, etc.
Damn, I hope they took the chicken out of the bucket first!
who cares food is food!! i thought the MOBOs was aight bee got 3 awards and letoyas performances was great!
I was shocked when i saw Amerie there.. but anywho she looked great!
Oyster,
I understand NOW.
I couldn’t understand what the uproar was about until you explain it to me from an aesthetics point of view
Fried Chicken IS messy & greasy (like Taco’s).
I understand now.
Thanks Oyster!
I LOVE fried chicken and krispy kreme donuts, but sadly I have to have it in moderation because like #15 said, I gotta keep my figure on point. I actually have not had a piece of fried chicken in almost a month BUT not having all th grease and fat are sure paying off on the scale and you do feel alot lighter w/o all of the grease weighing you down.
I don’t see ANY problem with having what you want to eat at a “fancy” gathering. Shoot, sometimes I really don’t want baked or grilled chicken at an event but that is usually what is on the menu.
I would of been happy! I love fried chicken and crispy creme donuts! Not ashamed of that! Shoot, it would of been a nice change for me especially if I was famous and was used to eating that fancy ass food!
THat’s just me though!
I can see why it would be insulting to some, but I would of gotten my eat on for sure!
I think some of us think we are a bit *too* cute.
First of all, it’s not so much the food as it is the presentation. At restaurants like Georgia Brown’s and B. Smith’s, Southern (or “ethnic” cuisine) are a main component of the menu, and these are considered fairly fancy spots.
I think the issue is that we are feeding into the very stereotypes we’re trying to fight against. Fried chicken is certainly a favorite of my people, but it’s not “black food” and it’s also not something to be ashamed of. Recently Bill Clinton had a meeting with a group of political bloggers and you want to know what was on the menu? Fried motherfuckin chicken, sweet potato fries, cornbread and sweet tea, LOL! Good food is good food. Southern cuisine is as much a regional and cultural thing as feta cheese or pesto sauce.
But yes, if you slapped a piece of fried chicken on my plate with a donut I’d be pissed whether I was at an awards dinner or my best friend’s house.
Bill said:
(I can’t take pig feet, chitterlings or ox tail)
Oh Bill, you don’t know what you missing out on with the pig feet and chitterlings! YUM, YUM!
Anyway, you’ll know Beyonce too good to eat chicken. & Popeyes chicken is the best chicken to me! I would’ve asked where is my red beans, biscuit and kool-aid to go with my chicken?
Well, I’m certainly not offended by it- At the end of the day, black is black..
So what they served fried chicken? I agree with Bill- with everything that’s going on in this world, you would think that our focus would be on the current state of the world today rather than stereotypical issues such as this one
To add to what I am saying, I do not think that they should remove baked or grilled chicken ( because it will never happen) but add fried chicken to the menu too.
I feel as though if you don’t want it, then plain and simple don’t order it. That’s just my opinion.
Check it out:
http://www.gbrowns.com/dir/menu.aspx
bill I dont think its racists if I bring in a plate from my culture. I dont think by serving someone chicken is racists either.
I think that assuming that someone of a certain culture will want someone just because of that culture is racist.
If you noticed I never used racists in my post, I said sterotypical.
And I agree with Oyster, if I went to a wedding with fried chicken, black white or whatever I’d be pissed that I brought a nice outfit and a nice present for some chicken wings. Its tacky.
Now didn’t the world make a big deal about Britney Spear’s tacky ass trailor park wedding. Why then, there’s nothing wrong with it right?
I mean we should all wear sweatsuits and eat fried chicken and ho ho’s at public events. (not to mention how you look sticking you hands all in your mouth- adults eat in public with folks and knives)
This wasn’t a BBQ, a picnic of anything to the sort, it was an awards dinner (I’ve never been honored or been to an awards dinner that served finger foods- but thats just me)
And some of you are correct, though you may not like the high priced no tasting foods that some cultures eat, the reason why most of the times when we go to events they are presented are because they look nice on the plate and they are easier to eat without looking like a pig
I dont want to sit next to someone eating greasy chicken with their hands and then look down at the bones on the table- imagine how that looks. NOt to mention the folks that eat the bone and the calterlidge (I know i messed that one up but you know what I mean)
its not the point that they served chicken I think it was the manor. Even if it was chicken cultets it would have been better, you can atleast cut them up with a folk
I don’t get how its racist, the MOBOS is a black awards show (Music Of Black Origin) and the organisers behind it are black.
Is there that much of a difference between black british and black americans? That the actions of one can be seen as racist in relation to the other?
anyway chicken being served wasn’t even fried, its grilled after the customer orders it. It doesn’t come in a bucket or a box, its served on a plate and brought to the table…
Lady J, we just keepin it sexy, preserving the sexy, lol…
Chitterlings smell like chit, an aquired taste….I use to love them too when i was li’l….. until my moms told me what they were…..now i’m good
Damn, could yo imagine chitterlings at an award show, lmao….and watermelon gives me gas, just so you know…..but my peeps will tear it up.
All I wanna know is where the COLLARD GREENS at. I love COLLARD GREENS, i will tear up some collard greens with a li’l tobasco sauce, you know the real hot sauce. I’m hungry now
Since we’re talking about southern foods im going to be checking out sylvias rest. in new york soon. and at the awards i wouldn’t be offended but they should of offered other options.
if they had roti and curry chicken, callaloo and crab, crab and dumblings, and bake and shark wash down with some mauby…i’ll be there.
Shit I’m trini and proud…stereotype me when it comes to food I don’t give a fuck…that’s my roots
Lol @ # 29.I understand completely about preserving the sexy but shoot a sistah want some grease sometimes at these weddings, social gatherings and fancy events.
I WILL be serving FRIED CHICKEN at my wedding reception along with other options for chicken. I LOVE it and will never be ashamed of it
Is it me or did Coolio turn into an official old man over night?
Beyonce lookin real Mariah Carey’ish in that picture too.
@ Trinib, that sounds good too…….
Yadda Yadda Yah……….They might as well have eaten before they came to the awards ceremony.Half of them probably had fried chicken on their way there, in the limo…………….
This doesn’t offend me.
uhm, whatever black people are too sensitive.
lets talk about the award. i heard beyonce won 3 awards and rihanna won one. i also heard that when beyonce’s name was called the audience boo’d…god bless she wasn’t there
not to say, but who cars, did they eat it? i can see the disrespect, i would have left for all of that then…what can u say about this.
ummm cry me a river? all those celebrities are rich as hell, they dont like the menu, DONT GO… chicken is bombbb stop complainin & shut ur whiney asses up
LOL @ #1 Bill. That’s true. Black peeps will find a reason to get mad. We’ll die, go to Heaven, and find racism up there.
I thought that the MOBO’s was a load of crap, the crowd was dead no vibes at all!
I think that becoz the MOBO’s relied on US artists in the past & not there own, a lot of the British artist boycotted it. Leaving the smae artist to perform yr after yr (but this is just my opinion).
Also, yesterday was the first time that they (MOBO) had introduced the official catergory for the best UK Female etc?!?! Even Coolio thought that this was a joke!
However, I did watch it to the end though because there isn’t m/any Black shows in the UK. When there is they either cancel it by saying ‘not enough viewers’ or they put the programmes on late at night!!
You can’t get anymore ghetto then that ish^
OKAY, SO WHAT’S THE REAL ISSUE HERE? I’M SURE ALL THOSE PEOPLE THEY MENTIONED, UNLESS THEY ARE ON SOME TYPE OF SPECIALIZED DIET, EAT FRIED CHICKEN. FRANKLY, I’M OFFENDED AT THE WAY THE STORY WAS WRITTEN UP, SAYING “FRIED CHICKEN WAS SERVED TO THE LIKES OF LETOYA, COOLIO, AND BEYONCE.” SO…SHIT! SO ONCE YOU BECOME FAMOUS, YOU ARE NO LONGER TO BE SERVED FRIED CHICKEN IN PUBLIC! IF IT’S GOOD ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE ELSE, THEIR ASSES CAN EAT IT, AND BE GLAD TO HAVE IT! I’VE NEVER HEARD OF THE MOBO AWARDS, SO I DON’T KNOW HOW THEY USUALLY DO IT; AND I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY THIS BECAME A TOPIC FOR DISCUSSION….LET’S KEEP IT MOVIN! DAMN, I THOUGHT SOMEBODY HAD DIED AFTER EATING THE CHICKEN!
I BET Jay convinced Bey not to go…she was probably mad as hell that she missed out on that chicken and them goodie bags!
trinib dont forget the sorrel
cant forget the sorrel
Bill straight up man. I was thinking the same thing, hell I’m mad as hell I missed this shit myself.
Hell, damn sister didnt feel like cooking today. LOL!
No, seriously…what is the problem? A meal is a damn meal. Next time just tell them to add the 6 piece chicken wings and half fried rice, and shrimp fried rice to diversify the meal. Hell, we eats Chinese food alot too.
Niggas “ack” like they grew up on “sauteed mushrooms” and shit. Man please, eat them chickens and drink tha Kool-Aide. Oh, I miss the 80′s.
TriniB, as a West Indian I love the food too But…..
Roti, rice and peas and curry is one thing and least you can use a knife and fork with them.
Imagine you go someplace nice and they offer beef patties, salt fish and bakes, or doubles, coco bread, and tamarind balls for dessert. That wouldn’t be funny then! I know for a fact they don’t even serve stuff like that to West Indian diplomats or Prime Ministers or even Embassy staff.
My point is, there is a time and place for everything. It isn’t about denying your roots or heritage. Someone mentioned Georgia Brown’s and another mentioned that Clinton was at a function that served soulfood. B Smith’s serves soul food in an upscale kinda way. But trust me when I tell you, there is no classy way of presenting or serving no damn Krispy Kreme donuts at least have something like a sweet potato pie if you must have soulfood.
One more thing, others are saying they don’t understand why this is even a topic of discussion. Other than because it was posted, I know if this had been a generally white function honoring black artists and that food had been served, Folks would be insulted and there would be an uproar. There is nothing wrong with expecting better from ourselves.
Just my opinion.
There is a way of still being who you are without giving in to stereotypes.
For the record, some people did grow up on sauteed mushrooms and some grew up on chicken and Kool Aid, the point is as a person catering for a such a function, you should have something for everybody.
why the red bull though?
Actually there’s a good way for serving all foods…
Presentation is everything in the culinary business…at least people who takes it seriously
and who determines what is classy and what isn’t?
Yup…it would’ve been funny…ignorance in others are alwayz funny to me…life is too short to take on BS…..and I woulda take a to-go plate….
lol
Cosign with TriniB…dats my gyul. I would have specified importing richard’s bake and shark…with taramind sauce…but that’s just my preference…lol
Ha! I’d like to see BeYAWNce’s ass actually eat some greasy ass fried chicken.
WTF is wrong with Coolio??? Celebs need to leave that crack alone, it’s not cool…
LOL…..@BILL
Yeah man, just eat em and shut up. There’s people who have nothing to eat. It’s like the dude in this clip said to Dave Chappelle:
“Come on, buddeee, cum on buddeee….in Mississippi it’s no secret that Blacks and chickens….are quite fond of one another.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4hBnKmy4ig
Shit, id be happy
Tacky as Hell!