For over 400 years, the bland American diet wasn’t an accident, it was done on purpose.
From religious leaders calling hot spices a gateway to sin, to food scientists forcing plain, boiled meals on immigrants and prisoners, history shows that white American culture linked unseasoned food to being high-class and morally pure.
They believed that heavy flavor was wild, foreign, and low-class.
In this video, we are breaking down why those viral internet jokes about unseasoned chicken is real history.
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