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2019-11-26 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
'Indian food is terrible' tweet sparks hot debate about racism
h/t Instapundit
[BBC] "Indian food is terrible and we pretend it isn't," said international affairs professor Tom Nichols.

Critics called his comment a tasteless generalisation.

The remark led to a wider discussion of the immigrant experience and how many in the US have experienced racism in relation to food.

Mr Nichols - who teaches at the US Naval War College in Rhode Island - posted his opinion after another Twitter user had asked for "controversial food opinions".

...First-generation American Saira Rao wrote: "Having white people trash Indian food is extremely triggering as an Indian who has been told that I smell weird, that my food smells weird and that Indians [expletive] on the street which is why everything we are smells bad."

Comment cited by Instapundit
Any white man who doesn’t like Indian food is a genocidal racist.

Any white man who likes Indian food is guilty of cultural appropriation and is no better than Hitler.

Take your pick.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-26 03:01|| || Front Page|| [13 views ]  Top

#1 Indian food is British so he's "just" being anti British
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-11-26 03:57||   2019-11-26 03:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Indian food is British

I beg your pardon?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-26 03:59||   2019-11-26 03:59|| Front Page Top

#3 I never met a man, woman, or even animal who didn't like north Indian cuisine. Must be talking about southern, Gujarati or bengali food.

Anyway, what can be racist about it ? You like what you like. To an Indian, English fish and chips would be boring.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-26 04:16||   2019-11-26 04:16|| Front Page Top

#4 I thought they were talking about Pow Wow Chow with Oklahoma Crab Cakes
Posted by Frank G 2019-11-26 05:23||   2019-11-26 05:23|| Front Page Top

#5 
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-11-26 05:25||   2019-11-26 05:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Don't like most Indian food or Mexican food. Generally don't like Cumin or too much heat.

Like Italian and Chinese in general. But food is like people in that the individual dish is what matters.
Posted by AlanC 2019-11-26 08:24||   2019-11-26 08:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Was called a racist once for criticizing Mexican restaurants - don't know how they are in general, but in NM they think that slow service is a mark of a fancy restaurant.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-26 08:33||   2019-11-26 08:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Some Indian food is good, some is bad. Just like all regional cuisines.
Posted by DarthVader 2019-11-26 08:57||   2019-11-26 08:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Traditional northern & western European food is terrible - it's why so much time and effort was made bringing back spices from Indonesia etc.
Posted by Glenmore 2019-11-26 09:44||   2019-11-26 09:44|| Front Page Top

#10 I like a bacon and cheese hamburger with avocado, maybe a little mustard but not too much.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-11-26 10:48||   2019-11-26 10:48|| Front Page Top

#11 Mexican restaurants in California are generally pretty good. But pardon me if I'm not crazy about curry.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-11-26 10:50||   2019-11-26 10:50|| Front Page Top

#12 Grom those comments you highlighted are from Titania McGrath -- Godrey Elfwick-like satire
Posted by Regular joe 2019-11-26 10:51||   2019-11-26 10:51|| Front Page Top

#13 If you can, Biryani and Nihari (a beef stew) are two things you must taste before you die, no matter where you're from.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-26 11:18||   2019-11-26 11:18|| Front Page Top

#14 Indian food is high Beta. Done well, there's none better. Done poorly, none worse.
Did I just commit a hate crime?
Posted by Lex 2019-11-26 11:30||   2019-11-26 11:30|| Front Page Top

#15 Nothing beats a junky pepperoni pizza for me. Or a good ham sandwich when you need one. Food is food.

Hell, I've survived in Siachen on slim jims and beef jerky that is just divine after an 8 hour trek.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-26 11:35||   2019-11-26 11:35|| Front Page Top

#16 I've been told by Indian guys I used to work with that the best Indian food on the planet was in London.

Personally, put me down in the Hitler column (Like I wasn't already there!)
And if you are not familiar with Titania McGrath, it is one of the most savagely funny parody accounts going.
Posted by SteveS 2019-11-26 11:37||   2019-11-26 11:37|| Front Page Top

#17 Tell me Dron, do they have curry roller dogs in India ?
Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-26 11:54||   2019-11-26 11:54|| Front Page Top

#18 It's certainly colorful. Going in and out. All in a span of 30 minutes.
Posted by Unaitle Panda6599 2019-11-26 12:01||   2019-11-26 12:01|| Front Page Top

#19 do they have curry roller dogs in India

What's that, curry and ... sausage ? Errm...not that I know of. The possibility can't be negated though. India is so freakishly diverse you can travel it all yet miss some weirdo demographic that might eat just that. I think Goa could have such a thing.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-26 12:07||   2019-11-26 12:07|| Front Page Top

#20 Curry, Masala - all good. Phall curry now and then just to burn out the polyps
Posted by Rex Mundi 2019-11-26 12:43||   2019-11-26 12:43|| Front Page Top

#21 Jeez Phall's burn badly twice
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-11-26 12:45||   2019-11-26 12:45|| Front Page Top

#22 "They shall create a desolation curry roller dog and call it peace Vindaloo."

What ever happened to the old De gustibus non disputandum est thing? Different strokes for different folks!
Posted by SteveS 2019-11-26 13:10||   2019-11-26 13:10|| Front Page Top

#23 What ever happened to the old De gustibus non disputandum est thing? Different strokes for different folks!

These "people" don't feel safe unless everyone agrees with them.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-26 13:12||   2019-11-26 13:12|| Front Page Top

#24 ^They are, basically, ants.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-26 13:13||   2019-11-26 13:13|| Front Page Top

#25 De gustibus non disputandum est

Often translated as "Your taste is disgusting"
Posted by Mercutio 2019-11-26 13:15||   2019-11-26 13:15|| Front Page Top

#26 For Dron...


A 'Roller Dog' machine
Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-11-26 13:42||   2019-11-26 13:42|| Front Page Top

#27 I like chili, just not that Cincinnati stuff. I like Indian food even tho they insist on spelling "chile" as "chilli." Panang curry please...
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-11-26 15:14||   2019-11-26 15:14|| Front Page Top

#28 Mr. Wife brought me home a cookbook from his time in India — the pages are falling out. I really ought to scan the key recipes into the computer before he mistakes the scraps of stained paper for garbage, which is how I usually lose recipes.

M.Murcek, Cincinnati chili is strongly polarizing for those not born to it. It”s basically an unbaked Greek pastitsio without the bechamel sauce and with beans and/or chopped onion optional. (The pages of the Greek cookbook Mr.Wife brought home when he was starting up the factory in Athens also has loose pages...)
Posted by trailing wife 2019-11-26 20:11||   2019-11-26 20:11|| Front Page Top

#29 As for the good professor, we all now know better than to rond to a joking “Say something controversial about X,”right? The humourless scolds have destroyed another opportunity for lighthearted human interaction. I can’t wait until the Crazy Years are over.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-11-26 20:16||   2019-11-26 20:16|| Front Page Top

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