Set in the southern United States of America, where it’s hot enough to boast an abundance of big green tomatoes, and paradoxically the heartland of fried food (perfect cold-climate fare), Fannie Flag’s novel pulls no punches in pointing out the equally schizophrenic nature of its inhabitants: a supposedly Christian people hell-bent on denying civil rights to all but white, heterosexual males. So, just as the title was not Human Barbecued Ribs at the Whistle Stop Café, we’re going with the fried green tomatoes. While this is the piece de resistance of the movie, and of the book upon which it was based, it is difficult to lead on that recipe. The most iconic of these is when the ‘good guys’ serve up the ribs of Ruth Jamison’s abusive husband Frank Bennett to the detective investigating his disappearance. Fannie Flagg’s Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe contains some of the most jaw-dropping moments in literary food history.
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