Why You Should Be Sipping Strawberry Soda On Juneteenth - Chowhound
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The significance of strawberry soda and other red-hued foods and beverages has traditionally been associated with the blood shed by enslaved people during their 400 years of subjugation in America, but there may be even deeper roots. According to food historian Michael Twitty, for the enslaved Yoruba and Kongo people from West Africa who were brought to Texas by their captors in the 1800s, the color red had…
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