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[ SECRET POST #6327 ]
⌈ Secret Post #6327 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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(Anonymous) 2024-05-03 12:11 am (UTC)(link)And while Idgie may have been drinking buddies with some of them, it didn't stop her from serving all of them the "special" barbecue afterwards.
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(Anonymous) 2024-05-03 02:28 am (UTC)(link)Idgie lit her Camel and smiled. "Well, Grady, tell you what. The next time those 'some people' come in here, like Jack Butts and Wilbur Weems and Pete Tidwell, I'll ask 'em if they don't want anybody to know who they are when they go marching around in one of those stupid parades you boys have, why don't they have enough sense to change their shoes?"
"Now, wait a minute, Idgie—"
"Oh hell, Grady, y'all ain't fooling anybody. Why, I'd recognize those size-fourteen clodhoppers you got on anywhere."
Grady is one of Idgie's best buddies, likewise the other KKK members mentioned are portrayed as goofy good ol' boys and upstanding citizens. Even members of the Dill Pickle Club, along with Grady and Idgie. These same guys are shown frequenting the diner where the cook is black, the guy in charge of bbq is black, and black customers are regularly served at the back door, and they're fine with it. Grady in particular is portrayed as being a cop with a heart of gold, not just looking the other way but actually collaborating with Idgie when she steals food supplies off of trains and throws the stuff where poor people can find it. The book has this to say about Grady not being a racist even though he's a member of the KKK:
Idgie shook her head as she watched him go on down the street.
"Ruth, I wish you could have seen that big ox, down at the river for three days, drunk as a dog, crying like a baby, 'cause Joe, that old colored man that raised him, died. I swear, I don't know what people are using for brains anymore. Imagine those boys: They're terrified to sit next to a nigger and have a meal, but they'll eat eggs that came right out of a chicken's ass."
"Oh, Idgie!"
Idgie laughed. "I'm sorry, but it just makes me mad sometimes."
"I know, honey, but you shouldn't get yourself so upset. That's just the way people are and there's not a thing in the world you can do to change them. That's just how it is."
As for the Alabama KKK being so scary and violent that they frighten away the Georgia KKK members, this is what happens:
Grady went out and talked to a couple of the men. After a few minutes, one man nodded and said something to the others, and one by one, the men began to leave, as quietly as they had come.
Yeaaaah, that doesn't really sound like "practically shit themselves in their rush to get away". Are you remembering something else, maybe? And then there's this, which is the bit that comes to closest to maybe hinting at what you describe:
Grady came back into the cafe, unconcerned. "They didn't want nothing. They was just a bunch of old boys out to throw a little scare in you, that's all. One of them was over here the other day for something or another and saw you was selling to niggers out the back door and thought he'd try to shake you up a little bit. That's all.”
Idgie asked him what he had said to get them to leave so fast.
Grady got his hat off the hat rack, "Oh, I just told them that these are our niggers and we sure as hell don't need a bunch from Georgia coming over here telling us what we can and cain't do."
He looked Idgie right in the eye. "And I'll guaran-damn-tee you they won't be back," and he put his hat on and left.
Even though Grady was a charter member of the Dill Pickle Club and a confirmed liar, that day he had told the truth. What Idgie and Ruth didn't know was that although these Georgia boys were mean, they were not stupid enough to ever fool around with the Klan in Alabama and were smart enough to leave in a hurry and stay gone.
Now, the book doesn't say why the Georgia KKK were so reluctant to fool around with the Alabama KKK, but it could be because the Alabama KKK were hardcore and crazy violent, like you said. However, as I said above - NONE of the named KKK members are ever described that way. They're portrayed as the opposite, in fact. Though Grady does offer these vicious insults - that "Georgia boys" don't know what good bbq is, followed up later by a sly insult that implies "Georgia boys" (in that instance, law enforcement) are gay, because everyone concerned would consider that a slight.
As the men headed to the cafe, Grady bragged to the others. "That nigger makes the best goddamned barbecue in the state. You've gotta get yourselves some of that, then you'll know what good barbecue is. I don't think you Georgia boys know what good barbecue is."
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""Naw, the truth is, boys, Eva would take one look at him and throw him back in the water."
They all laughed again.
Smoote said, "Well, I guess you know what you're talking about," and squinted his eyes at Idgie again.
"Yeah, well, that's just the facts of life!" Grady continued. He winked at Idgie and Smokey. "From what I hear, all you boys over in Georgia is a little light on your feet."
Smokey sat there giggling. "That's the way I heard it."
As for Idgie serving her KKK buddies the special barbecue, I'm not sure that's really clear she does that. It's not even clear she knows what makes the barbecue "special". The murder of Frank Bennett is described as being between Sipsey and Big George, with Sipsey committing the murder (to save Ruth's baby from getting kidnapped) and Big George and his son Artis doing body/evidence disposal with the barbecue.
At seven-thirty, Big George had already started slaughtering the hogs and started the water boiling in the big black iron pot—a little early in the year, but not too soon.
Later that afternoon, when Grady and the two detectives from Georgia were questioning his daddy about the missing white man, Artis had nearly fainted when one of them came over and looked right in the pot. He was sure the man had seen Frank Bennett's arm bobbing up and down among the boiling hogs. But evidently, he hadn't, because two days later, the fat Georgia man told Big George that it was the best barbecue he had ever eaten, and asked him what his secret was.
Big George smiled and said, "Thank you, suh, I'd hafto say the secret's in the sauce."
Idgie does serve the detectives from Georgia pie, which apparently was delicious. Re: the special barbecue, Idgie is not mentioned as being the one who serves the detectives, and serving it to her KKK buddies is not mentioned, either.
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(Anonymous) 2024-05-03 11:16 am (UTC)(link)