This was my second time reading Fried Green Tomatoes, and I found it just as warm, funny, and tender as the first time. I will admit, this time I noticed a lot of language and descriptions that bothered me much more than my first time reading it. Even though the book was very progressive for its time, there is still a lot of racism and prejudice that seems so much more jarring in 2019. On the one hand, I am so thankful we have grown as a society since the book was first published, but on the other hand, I'm afraid many readers will be so put off by its outdated language that they may dismiss all the good in this story, particularly the normalization of a same-gender romantic relationship. The love between Idgie and Ruth is what drew me to this story in the first place, and I hope other readers are just as charmed.