Soul Food Was K!llin' Big Mama! | Soul Food Film Criticism

[@sherrylatrice8733]

My favorite dish is dressing. I have so many memories of helping my mother make this growing up. It's comfort food, but I only make it every now and then on Thanksgiving. Not really a holiday person anymore. Great video! As always I enjoyed the commentary. Soul Food is a classic movie.

[@HeitCheri]

I feel like I'm going through a phase where I'm not a holiday person anymore either. It's just not the same anymore and the memories can be difficult this time of year. - Cheri

[@SamDavidJr]

Yo, I just realized something the other day….WHY do black films with big dinners forget the Mac & Cheese? Like, I’m appalled!

[@HeitCheri]

🤔

[@SamDavidJr]

@ Coincidentally, this was one of the movies I was watching. In this and Temptations, I didn’t see ANY Mac & Cheese. Like…

[@JustCoraSharice]

Hey! There was mac and cheese I'm the film. There were preparing it during the kitchen scene. It was a fast clip but it was there

[@SamDavidJr]

@ I didn’t see it once they got to eatin…

[@ambergardner1596]

I think it’s because they know it’s hard to get right.

[@RGF91]

That Boondocks episode was right all along

[@Shewasandishere]

“This is the food that killed Big Mama”

[@Shewolfgoddess44]

Cornbread dressing is far more superior than stuffing

[@HeitCheri]

Agreed!

[@GrapeTeaNews]

Soul Food Is So Toxic. 😂 It’s definitely a thanksgiving movie. It’s still a favorite of mine. Can you guys review Love Jones ⁉️ I love you guys work. I’m subscribed to this channel, axiom, & even heit music review channel. Keep Grinding Yall. 💯

[@HeitCheri]

Thanks so much for sticking with us! ❤️❤️❤️ Love Jones is definitely on the radar... Not sure exactly when we'll tackle it, but we'll see. 😊

[@trent_king]

Thank you for the Rice Dressing definition because I was so lost 😂

[@HeitCheri]

🤗

[@dwmusic147]

I started to watch Soul Food on thanksgiving day in the last few years 😅

[@quietstorm7684]

My Favorite Dish Is Macaroni and Cheese. I've never eaten chitlins.

[@essieweekly9010]

I dont eat chitterlings. Growing up, we had turkey &dressing, giblets gravey,corn, candied yams,homemade cakes and pies , I think we had greens also

[@ladytinag4276]

I’ve never considered SF to be a Thanksgiving movie. I feel like the food aspect represents the bonding of black families through food. These big meals were common for Sundays. I ate chitterlings growing up and I still enjoy them. However, I don’t eat them anymore because I don’t want to clean them and I don’t trust anybody else’s cleaning. 😂 MY FAVORITE DISH IS DRESSING 😋

[@DivaAkiaShenise]

My favorite Thanksgiving dish is Sweet potato soufee

[@HeitCheri]

I don't think I've had it that way. Sounds yummy! ❤️❤️❤️

[@DivaAkiaShenise]

It is an Alabama thing.

[@Drebws]

It is a thanksgiving movie just wish it came out during Thanksgiving it would’ve made sense instead of September.

[@JusticeLong3317]

My favorite dish is beans and rice with hot sauce. 18:49 My Mom and Dad are both Anti-chitlins so we never ate them for Thanksgiving. However, I do remember one thanksgiving my Dad, my brothers, and myself went to my paternal grandparents house and my grandma made chitlins. We stayed in one of the rooms with the door shut because it stunk up the entire house. 44:31 It’s crazy but there are people who legit are like this. Who are so concerned about someone saying their food is nasty they disregard the requests of people who are trying to be healthy 54:13 I would love for yall to talk about Soul Food the series. I really enjoyed that show all the way until season 5.

[@misseauxtis5105]

I randomly wanted to watch Soul Food the Series and found episodes on here but I was a little shocked it wasn't streaming anywhere at all..

[@HeitCheri]

Yeah, and the quality on here was so bad it was hard to watch. It has to be that it's not streaming because of a dispute of some kind or they don't wanna pay what it's worth.

[@micenabled9418]

Yeah the entire show is on KZbin but it looks like it was recorded on a VHS back when it aired

[@alynettabeck7]

My favorite dish is sweet potatoes (not candied yams 😂). I’m from Louisiana too! A good ‘boil’ too!❤ This was good conversation.

[@HeitCheri]

❤️❤️❤️

[@lackeyfami123]

It was November 27,1997, I was born on thanksgiving . 😁

[@HeitCheri]

❤️❤️❤️ Happy early birthday 🎉🎂

[@lackeyfami123]

@@HeitCheri thank you !!!

[@essieweekly9010]

Always thought it was Sunday Dinner on The Movie Soul Food.

[@HeitCheri]

Sunday Dinner was most definitely the emphasis.

[@marklouis1890]

​@@HeitCheriwhich gives more evidence that the movie takes place outside of Thanksgiving 😂

[@derickspencejr.6998]

I feel like Soul Food is a thanksgiving movie even though it came out in September because they showed that in the movie. Hope you review movies that are related to this one like Light it up, Barbershop, Big momma’s house and Roll Bounce.

[@TheRetroWoman80]

🖖it's been a minute😊 My favorite dish is hard to choose😆 Great video, Heit and Cheri! The doctor's informative segment was dope too. It made me think of my late dad and all the diabetic complications he constantly faced. Just a tidbit: some traditional "soul food" dishes, like mac and cheese, did not originate from this country. A black slave who was allowed to travel to France with his master brought the the French influence back to the states. So much gets revised and rearranged through generations though, you know?? I cannot remember the channel I recently watched this on but it had various videos about unknown facts regarding black history/American history.

[@HeitCheri]

❤️❤️❤️

[@jswizzle29]

What do you yall think about the possibility of a sequel? There is one in development called More Soul Food. George Tillman Jr is writing this one too and Babyface and Tracey have agreed to produce again....

[@HeitCheri]

Too much time has passed and it might not be the same magic as before. I would love to watch it and find out though!

[@jswizzle29]

@HeitCheri I agree, it's been almost 30 years but it would be interesting to see what they could come up with. I wouldn't even expect the same magic as the first one but if they could get the same actors it could possibly come close...

[@roselynholloway7863]

Didn’t know

[@aoarecruiter]

I never thought of it as a Thanksgiving dinner but just about having dinner on a sunday. Til this day my family have a big sunday dinner because of soul food.lol

[@therealmarlonbellamy]

MY FAVORITE DISH IS CATFISH. I don’t consider Soul Food a Thanksgiving movie. It’s a black movie in my opinion. Can we please get breakdowns on the following movies: Def By Temptation The Five Heartbeats Strictly Business Talkin Dirty After Dark Mo Money Class Act Fresh Who’s The Man The Inkwell Sunset Park

[@HeitCheri]

All great suggestions Marlon! 😊

[@therealmarlonbellamy]

@ Thank you 😊

[@trent_king]

I had chitterlings when i was 4, they were good if memory serves right. They're always prepared by my family but because the cleaning takes so long they were always cooked in a small portion and reserved for higher ranking family members. Also my family always makes dressing with a combination of croutons and cornbread😂

[@HeitCheri]

I don't think I've ever had dressing that mixed both cornbread and bread! Probably tastes just as amazing... 😊

[@marklouis1890]

In my family one of our meals included a Green Bean Casserole 🥘😋. We would also enjoy collard greens. Discussing the soul food TV series would be a Christmas present 😂😂😂. I like the series more than I like the movie. They flush out the characters and you see them rise and fall throughout the series, amongst your individual story lines. Damn now I have to buy a DVD player so I can purchase the boxes

[@HeitCheri]

I love collard greens! They are by far superior to mustard and turnip greens! 😂- Cheri

[@thejewjewbox1079]

I consider it a Sunday dinner movie lol I would love to hear a take on the TV series from you both My favorite soul food dish is Yams

[@HeitCheri]

❤️❤️❤️

[@chaosb4peace]

Definitely a heart warming movie about the importance of family and how food can hold a family together, but never thought the food in the movie looked very appetizing it seems like they hired people who didn't know how to cook to prepare the food.

[@jeanellnewmuis2167]

Yes. Chitterlings was a Thanksgiving staple for my family. Unfortunately, my aunt who made them passed away, so we do not have them anymore 😢

[@marklouis1890]

You know what I never thought of soul food to be connected with a particular holiday. Judging by the time of year I would say it's January February or March since they live in Chicago. I never connected this to Thanksgiving or Christmas 😮

[@toyaJM]

I have seen chitterlings being made but haven't had them straight up but I love menudo which has tripe which is the same thing. I think of Soul Food as a fall movie in general like how I think of You've Got Mail. The best scenes are centered around fall even though the movies are over a year or so.

[@TheRetroWoman80]

The smell is so off putting🤮 I have never eaten it.

[@toyaJM]

@ oh it’s definitely terrible, but I’ve noticed the way people clean them makes a hell of a difference.

[@jeanellnewmuis2167]

Stuffing and dressing are different. They are not the same.

[@HeitCheri]

The definitions are regional in terms of what lay people actually call it.

[@Essencejournal]

It’s a Sunday dinner movie-the family had their dinners every Sunday-no matter the the holiday or occasion.

[@marvinwhittaker]

My Favorite Dish Is Fried Chicken.

[@Kilasays30]

Nothing about the movie makes me think of Thanksgiving. It's all about a traditional sunday dinner that Big mama had to bring the family together. I don't believe the word Thanksgiving was said one time in the movie. I could be wrong.

[@HeitCheri]

It was written on the screen and the word holiday was used. I think this was an attempt to possibly be PC.

[@hduece78]

Yall should one on is coming to America a Christmas movie because I always felt it is a Christmas movie.

[@NompiloKhumalo-jm7sm]

Never got into the movie. I'm not a holiday girl. I'm looking forward to the day where I'll spend the holidays on my own. Can you PLS do a review on Blade 1. I would like your take on the Blade-Karen relationship. I secretly shipped them together as a black couple but there was a mother-son dynamic going on

[@Shewasandishere]

I’m from Miami , first generation American. Not going to lie… Soul Food disgusted and fascinated me the first time I saw it. The sheer volume of food was so odd to me. And now as an adult I know the TASTE of soul food is regional and a lot of these regions can’t cook 🙃🤣🤣🤣 them greens are HEAVEN SENT tho

[@roselynholloway7863]

Where is your family from

[@Shewasandishere]

@@roselynholloway7863 Bahamas, Haiti, Turks & Caicos and Trinidad. Our Thanksgivings always has a mixture of cultures with American influences.

[@roselynholloway7863]

@ oh cool

[@ycartyahoo]

Not a Thanksgiving movie for me... they eat...🤷🏽‍♀️🤭 To be a holiday movie, the majority of the movie has to be around the holiday.

[@HeitCheri]

I'm starting to feel that way too! - Cheri

[@micenabled9418]

Yeah it’s just a movie to me they were having big meals because everybody was at the house doesn’t someone mention thanksgiving being like an even bigger meal in the movie?

[@caliBornbEauty]

after knowing what chitlins is, and all you have to do to make it edible, I don't know why anyone would eat it my favorite soul food dish is the #Dressing....... I stuck around lol

[@HeitCheri]

I never really wanted to try them. It just isn't my thing.

[@allanteetheridge4689]

That sounds like the Waywns Family

[@micenabled9418]

I always thought Soul food meant you didn’t use a cook book or any measuring cups or its comfort food

[@HeitCheri]

🤔

[@missmisher]

I may have an unpopular opinion, but here’s my assessment of this movie: 1. Teri was TIRED, yet she was villainized. She went and got an education and was afforded the same opportunities as her sisters, who both chose not to pursue higher education, and that’s fine. As the oldest child who chose the the same path as Teri, I don’t think that Teri should apologize for her accomplishments nor should she have to financially support her family, other than helping her mother, Big Mama. 2. I disagree about Maxine. I thought she was ratchet and messy. She stole Teri’s man, married him, and Teri was forced to have to look at them throw their relationship in her face every Sunday at dinner. Yes, she was a good mom to Ahmad (you don’t see her really interact with her daughter Kelly, and yes she took care of Big Mama, but that’s the least she can do since Teri has a demanding career and financially takes on all of Big Mama’s responsibilities, wants and needs. I didn’t like her character in this movie. 3. Bird… Nothing really to say about her except she tried to be the peacemaker between her sisters. 4. Big Mama was the real villain because she allowed Maxine to carry on with Kenny, marry him, have his kids and make Teri deal with it. She had all of that money hidden and could have helped Bird and Maxine financially, yet she let Teri continuously use her own money for the house, lending her sisters money, etc. Overall, the family was toxic and Big Mama kept pushing for the whole “forgive and forget” method, which makes things worse. This movie was triggering for me. I didn’t see it as a Thanksgiving movie because they ate the whole movie. It was a Sunday dinner movie.

[@lakeciahodges]

I have been looking for the series too

[@micenabled9418]

It’s on KZbin in vhs quality

[@nexxaj2370]

😂im from tx my friend mom mad us clean her chittlings when we snuck out i was horrified by the smell 😭😭 never ate them

[@HeitCheri]

I have never smelled this process. I wonder how bad it really is, but not enough to find out. 😆

[@serenitymoon825]

​@HeitCheri the ENTIRE HOUSE smells like dookie from the moment the container is opened

[@HeitCheri]

😂 Nooo 🤮

[@coreywalker5651]

MY FAVORITE DISH IS YAMS

[@G-TV_TheOneManArmy]

Yes soul food tv show let's good

[@marquishaile8]

I'm having a hard time with soul food being bad for you. We have parents, grandparents, and even some great grandparents that lived or is still living at the age of 80 and older still eating soul food. Big Mama in the movie never practiced moderation and modification as she told Maxine that she never used a measuring instrument of some kind

[@micenabled9418]

I have smelled Chitlins being prepared but never ate them they smell like poop

[@jeanellnewmuis2167]

My favorite dish is mashed potatoes

[@essieweekly9010]

Chicken &Dressing❤

[@andreaselchez2738]

This is a Thanksgiving movie isn't it!?!

[@lakeciahodges]

Dressing 😊

[@laela6289]

Your take about toxic families is so out of touch. Black families will outcast gay family members but keep cheating husbands and uncles who prey on their nieces and nephews. Meanwhile daughters are ask to sacrifice themselves to keep the family together while dealing with their mother’s toxic passive hatred. It’s a move in the right direction that we are holding our families accountable instead of enduring physical, sexual and mental abuse for “blood”.

[@HeitCheri]

I'm sorry you feel this way about our assessment. We've actually spoken about many of the "cultural norms" of anti-LGBTQ attitudes and sexual predators in within our culture. Your outlook lumps Black families together and makes a blanket statement when I know that while this happens in many families, it's not all. I'm sorry that the world has presented itself in such a way that this is your perspective. I'd never suggest that you were out of touch though. Instead, I take your word for your experiences (directly or indirectly) that have led to your assessment. We simply have differing opinions about all of this. Just to add, I don't think either of us EVER suggested in any discussion that we've had that blood precludes them from being held accountable.

[@hatetharealme]

im 19 from nc and we have all that for thanksgiving still but my grandmother is still alive so, yams, greens, chicken, turkey, ham, dressing (pretty sure its cornbread even though we never called it that 😂😂) mac n cheese and other sides

[@micenabled9418]

I have smelled Chitlins being prepared but never ate them they smell like poop