On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:49:24 -0400, I wrote:

>       Hominy, in that story, is food for poor Blacks, and self-respecting
>Blacks that have attained a certain socioeconomic position in that story
>consider it insulting to be served - or even offered - hominy in any form.
>Thus, since in that setting, Blacks have generally become mid-level civil
>servants, a restaurant that caters to them won't even have hominy on the
>menu.

There's actually a similar kind of sub-story in Diane Duane's _The Romulan
Way_, part of the _Rihanssu_ cycle of Star Trek novels: In this particular
book, she tells the story of the sundering of the Vulcans who refused
Surak's teachings (and would eventually become the Romulans) from those who
accepted those teachings. Those who refused chose to leave Vulcan and find
a new world; during the voyage, one of the ships had a hydroponic crop
failure. The other ships donated what they could to help, but the affected
ship's eventual rations were mostly a tuber called 'flatroot'. The people
from that ship ended up mostly being settled in one region, and even a
couple of thousand years later, those people will not eat 'the wretched
root'.

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