A visit to the Soul Food Museum

“And then there’s ‘a tin of Lucille Ball Predic-a-mints,’ which may seem an unlikely artifact, but not to Dr. Willhoite:

“‘Soul is the essence of who we are. And she had it,’ he explains. ‘We all love Lucy. I wouldn’t think of having a soul food museum without Lucy.’

“His collection also includes some less inclusive concepts, such as a bag of ‘Original White Trash’ — ‘a snack mix coated in white chocolate,’ as well as ‘figurines of blacks in ingratiating poses.'”