![]() ![]() ![]() To someone who swoons over a “crack cookie,” crack is an abstraction, a vague stand-in for “intense, addictive pleasure.” These foodies never consider the fact that crack abuse is a devastating problem for some people, because they never have to. In 2010, Congress passed the Fair Sentencing Act (FSA), which reduced the sentencing disparity between offenses for crack and powder cocaine from 100:1 to. Crack is the drug metaphor of choice among food worshipers precisely because it’s alien to them. Cracker is a pejorative, yes, but one that’s related to an imbalance of power stemming from slavery, where white slave masters would literally crack a whip, physically assaulting black slaves. Black trash, by that thinking, is almost redundant. Kind of like we can call ourselves that but you cant use it a s an insult. Lately it has been embraced by some whites in Florida as a badge of honor. Most have to do with driving livestock with a whip. There are several theories about origins. Why don’t foodies who wish to express the intense sensual appeal of a certain food compare it to a drug that they have some firsthand experience with, like alcohol, marijuana, or even powdered cocaine? Probably because it’s obvious to anyone who’s chugged beer, taken a hit of marijuana, or done a bump of cocaine that their effects are pleasurable in very different way from how food is pleasurable. White trash, as described by Wray, is an oxymoron. Cracker is a derogatory term for poor white southerners. How many people who smirk when they order a piece of Crack Pie have ever met anyone who smokes crack, let alone smoked it themselves? The social and economic chasm between the kind of people who buy $10 sundaes at Ample Hills Creamery and the kind of people who buy $10 crack rocks is impossible to ignore. ![]()
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