soulfood

soul food

noun
traditional black American cookery, which originated in the rural South, consisting of such foods as chitterlings, pig knuckles, turnip greens, and cornbread.
Origin:
1960–65, Americanism

Related forms
soul-food, adjective
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soul food
 
—n
informal food, such as chitterlings or yams, traditionally eaten by Black people in the southern US

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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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