When I was a small boy, we lived with my grandmother for 1 or 2 years in Washington DC. She was a southerner through and through. We are white, but she had what I call soul food all the time and I came to hate it. Black eyed peas, collards, mustard greens ham hocks and Brussels sprouts. Man a night I was made to sit there for hours until all was gone. Maybe that's why I hate a lot of green vegetables now.