Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists on Nostr: I just learned that Blacks in the Jim Crow South were forbidden to eat vanilla ice ...
I just learned that Blacks in the Jim Crow South were forbidden to eat vanilla ice cream in public. So, Blacks invented butter pecan flavor using leftover pecans they had lying around and ate that in public instead. #icecream #workaround #creativity #jimcrow #blackhistory
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