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2021-07-10 -Great Cultural Revolution

Washington Post Warns: Calling Food 'Exotic' Reinforces Xenophobia, Racism

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Posted by Fred 2021-07-10 00:22|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 I'd like to see these c*cksucker's restaurant bills over the past few months; something tells me there's massive bullshit going on here.

Posted by Raj 2021-07-10 00:36|| 2021-07-10 00:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Using "exotic" ingredients means you get to charge an extra three dollars. If the menu's in French that's another three. If it's a non-Indo-European language that's an extra buck, and if it's a non-Indo-European language without a translation that's another two.

Posted by Fred 2021-07-10 00:40|| 2021-07-10 00:40|| Front Page Top

#3 If I have to buy more than one new spice or condiment to make a recipe, or learn a new technique, I count it as exotic. Back when Mr. Wife and I were in our first decade of marriage, I splurged on an 18 bottle spice rack. It came with all the usual American spices in labelled jars, some of which I have never used. A few years later, after Mr, Wife had brought me some cookbooks from some of the countries his job had taken him to, I had to buy a second spice rack — the two together, rotated 90* plus space on top, now hold 44 jars of spices divided between many of the usual American ones and exotics (Tex-Latino and Southeast Asian) I know they’re exotic because I have to order them from The Spice House because my local corner grocery store doesn’t carry them.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-07-10 01:02|| 2021-07-10 01:02|| Front Page Top

#4 ...hey, the Spice Trade, the western institution that would launch the horrible terrible European expansion across the globe. Should have left Constantinople alone, all that bad Western stuff might never had happen. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-07-10 11:46|| 2021-07-10 11:46|| Front Page Top

#5 What about multicultural foods (e.g. onigiri with zhug filling)?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-07-10 13:00|| 2021-07-10 13:00|| Front Page Top

#6 If the use of "exotic" gets you all het up to write a letter? You need to get a fucking life. Perhaps be beaten at random times of day so you have something else to fret about

Posted by Frank G 2021-07-10 13:05|| 2021-07-10 13:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Really just affirming their own American-centric racism, like those tv heads reporting on Libyans landing in Italy as African Americans.

They really are stuck in their own closet, even when the body travels.

Just the other day, the meme passed about how exotic Ranch Dressing is in the UK.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-07-10 13:30|| 2021-07-10 13:30|| Front Page Top

#8 I wonder what the Thais would say about a hot dog?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-07-10 14:12|| 2021-07-10 14:12|| Front Page Top

#9 Their personal life must be SO boring if they can worry about this.

Posted by magpie 2021-07-10 21:51|| 2021-07-10 21:51|| Front Page Top

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