The Hidden Truth About Why Black People Wash Their Chicken—and Why White People Don’t

Описание: For many, washing chicken looks like a simple kitchen choice—something your grandmother told you to do, or something you were taught not to do. But the truth is much darker. Black families inherited this ritual from the kitchens of slavery, where enslaved people were forced to prepare spoiled scraps instead of fresh meat. Washing with vinegar, salt, or citrus wasn’t superstition—it was survival, a way to make dangerous food safe. Generations later, that memory lives on, even when people don’t fully know why their hands reach for the sink.

At the same time, white households were shaped by institutions like home economics programs and USDA guidelines, which declared rinsing unsafe and unnecessary in an age of refrigeration. That divide hardened into culture, and today it’s even become comedy—Black comedians roast “unwashed chicken” while social media turns the debate into a running joke. But beneath the laughter lies history: two Americas, two kitchens, and one ritual that still carries the weight of 1619.

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