Driving Miss Daisy : Eating pork chops ???

Hoke gets the left over pork chops but decides to eat the salmon. Jews don't eat pork so how could Daisy have leftover pork chops ?

Daisy is Conservative Jewish, not Orthodox.

"The appalling silence and indifference of the good people"MLK

She also complains about being late on their trip because her cousin will have fixed crab - Orthodox Jews don't eat shellfish, either.

Perhaps more important is/was that most African Americans don't eat pork either, especially cuts that are not cured, but also the denigration and establishing where Hoke stood in the pecking order by having him eat left over pork chops.

I mean there was no such thing as left over pork chops at that time. Woman would have the butcher cut and they would prepare the exact number of chops they needed, for they were basically uneatable as leftovers.

In the rarity there was a leftover chop, it would usually go to the dog.

Whenever I fry pork chops I always fry extra. I love a cold leftover pork chop.
Delicious with cheese grits.

Different time. This was long before the food channel and I've lived in Atlanta for over fifty years. We may get ice twice a year.

Most African Americans don't eat pork? That's news to me.

Ever heard of Steak and eggs? Chicken and waffles? While they didn't originate, they proliferated in the African American community, for most don't eat Ham, bacon or pork sausage.

I mean, good Lord. Salmon out of the can is basically cat food and Hoke opted for that over eating pork.

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Perhaps more important is/was that most African Americans don't eat pork either

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Huh?

Pecking order had nothing to do with it. Nothing wrong with leftovers; very little gets escapes my refrigerator uneaten. But the pork chops in question were stiff, which means they were a bit overdone when first cooked. A bit overdone is no problem when first served but a bit overdone as leftovers is a different matter.

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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men ~ F Douglass

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These threads have a way of becoming runaway trains and Im as guilty as anyone of pulling the pin, for the directions was more about the can of salmon and not the pork chops.

That said, I was raised in Atlanta and during the sixties the only thing I recall that made a repeated trip to the table was a cake.

Frost-free refrigerators, microwaves and retrofitted air conditioning for the older housing stock didn't make their way into our homes until the seventies and eighties, but primarily, domestic help to clean, provide child care and cook two meals ran four dollars a day.