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Originally Posted by Mermaid
You have to take into account that southern cuisine is heavy because it was created in a time when farming and other [laborious] jobs were the norm. ...
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The North didn't have robots. To say the South was more labor intensive than the North has not factual or logical sense to it. Not like they purposefully fried chicken to add calories they didn't know what a calorie was. Not that your all wrong or anything, but the premises that the South was somehow working harder and needed higher calorie food doesn't make sense to me. They did grow crops like cotton that needed much more labor to be profitable. But they were not paying for much of the labor prior to the civil war so that made sense at the time. Because they were not paying for labor they did not get into industrialization as much as the North but those jobs at the time certainly were not light labor.