Word: chitlin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wrinkled currency stiff with age, smelling faintly of the lemon verbena that scented great-grandmother's chiffonier. "Save your Confederate money, son," the vainglorious slogan insisted. "The South will rise again." It took a century and a Southerner in the White House, but the time has come. With chitlin chic upon us, once worthless Confederate bills have become a gold mine for Rebel diehards...
Gene Hudson's 500-acre farm in Warm Springs was one of the few places in Georgia where most of the talk was not about Jimmy Carter. Roughly 125 men had gathered at the farm on a chilly night for the monthly meeting of the Chitlin' Club, founded in 1936. Between liberal swigs of bourbon and peach moonshine, the hardy souls consumed 200 lbs. of boiled hog intestines, which smelled a lot like a thousand dirty socks, and talked mostly of their bygone feats of athletic prowess. Said Hudson: "Most folks come to the Chitlin' Club...
Dirty Jokes. Eventually, Foxx worked up to the Chitlin' Circuit, the trade name for the black clubs and music halls around the country...
...Easy Reader a hip-talking addict of the printed word, and Julia Grownup a butterfingered TV chef, whose recipes become a kind of primer. There are parodies of soap operas, TV quiz shows (Wild Guess) and the film 2001, but some of the sassiest material seems lifted from the "Chitlin'," or black vaudeville circuit...
Harris also reported that blacks tended to watch less news but more National Educational Television, which has been far ahead of the commercial networks in black programming. Such heavy TV viewing has helped kill off the so-called "Chitlin' Circuit" of black variety houses. Harlem's famous Apollo, the Palace of the circuit, still survives and it is in trouble, say its owners. They are white...