Cajun Food vs Soul Food

[American2020]

Your favorite food ?

[Santander]

Soul food. Yet another case of the immensely valuable contributions African-Americans made to America.

[SevenEleven]

Soul food, I suppose.

[Donerail]

I'll vote Cajun b/c it tends to lean more on seafood, which I enjoy (the only seafood I associate with soul food is fried catfish). Both are excellent.

[Never Made it to Graceland]

Both are great but Cajun food has a slight edge.

Does soul food have a strict definition? I'm thinking cornbread, fried chicken, green beans, fried okra, macaroni and cheese?

[dead0man]

Cajun, not close

[DINGO Joe]

Creole Soul Food.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Both are great, at least from what I've had of them. They're among the few cuisines we don't really have much of up here in metropolitan New Jersey. I would love to try those kinds of foods from more authentic places. That's one thing I'll give the South for as much as I tend to dump on the region.

[Santander]

Both are great, at least from what I've had of them. They're among the few cuisines we don't really have much of up here in metropolitan New Jersey. I would love to try those kinds of foods from more authentic places. That's one thing I'll give the South for as much as I tend to dump on the region.

The Korean and Indian food is good, though.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Both are great, at least from what I've had of them. They're among the few cuisines we don't really have much of up here in metropolitan New Jersey. I would love to try those kinds of foods from more authentic places. That's one thing I'll give the South for as much as I tend to dump on the region.

The Korean and Indian food is good, though.

Here in New Jersey? Absolutely! Hell, I live mere miles from our own Koreatown.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

I like both, spicy chicken and red beans and rice and greens

[H. Ross Peron]

Both are great, but Cajun food is more flavourful.

[Battista Minola 1616]

I think that during my February vacation the food I ate at the Key West Pinchers was vaguely cajun and the food I ate at Michie's Tavern was vaguely soul and by that logic I take soul food because man that fried chicken was f[inks]ing awesome (and 1000 times better than the one I had at KFC two days after) and also black-eyed peas and cornbread are cool.
However I don't really know much of either cuisine.

[Dr. MB]

The last time I got soul food was at some restaurant in Portland a couple years ago. Chicken and waffles. It was alright but a few hours later I puked all over my carpet. So I'll give the Cajuns the edge here.

[Mr. Smith]

Not an either or decision.

[Del Tachi]

My dad is from Mississippi and my mom is from Louisiana, so I will consider myself an expert on this subject lol

Soul food is the ultimate comfort food.  However, Cajun cuisine utilizes more diverse ingredients and cooking techniques that impart "layers" onto the food. Both are very good, but at a basic level everything that is "soul food" just end up tasting like pork fat :/

Does soul food have a strict definition? I'm thinking cornbread, fried chicken, green beans, fried okra, macaroni and cheese?

Soul food is an ethnic cuisine that was historically prepared and eaten by enslaved African Americans in the South.  It incorporates some traditional West African cooking practices, but mostly applied to Colonial and Native American ingredients.  It's one of the most resolutely American cultural artifacts. 

Soul food is broadly linked with the cuisine of the American South more generally but spread nationally during the Great Migration.  The prefix "soul" was adopted as a descriptor for this type of food during the 1960s-70s, and this development can be seen as occurring during the broader context of the "Black Power" movement.         

[Santander]

My dad is from Mississippi and my mom is from Louisiana, so I will consider myself an expert on this subject lol

Conway and Loretta?

[Lechasseur]

Cajun food