OMFG- Are food bloggers fuelling racist stereotypes?

[snooper2]

If this issue is causing one to get "triggered" I really hope that you are enjoying your privileged life jesus bethany christ on a bic pen people.

Oh, and I need to take a trip to China and find anyone serving meatloaf. Because MEATLOAF is an American food and if you aren't doing it JUST like my wife does and her AWESOME meatloaf I am going to have a sad and be REALLY UPSET!


BBC Trending
Are food bloggers fuelling racist stereotypes?
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-39142260

Filipino-American Celeste Noche, who is a food and travel photographer, shared her thoughts on the "exotified" depiction of certain recipes within the blogging and gourmet community on the podcast The Racist Sandwich.
"I think microaggressions in social media are reflective of food media as a whole in that appropriation," Noche tells BBC Trending, "These microaggressions can be as simple as a lack of research."



Noche added that established food blogs like that of Andrew Zimmern also fed into stereotypes.
&quot His) recipe for Filipino short ribs is styled with chopsticks even though Filipinos traditionally eat with spoons and forks or their hands".


Pembroke College of Cambridge university said they were taking complaints from ethnic minority students about their menu "seriously".
"Dear Pembroke catering staff, stop mixing mango and beef and calling it 'Jamaican stew'," a student posted on the college's Facebook page. "I'm actually half Jamaican, pls show me where in the Caribbean they mix fruit and meat."






Jesus Fucking Christ

[LanternWaste]

1. I suppose it comes down to who we want to laugh at, and how we justify it.

I thought the Japanese were idiots for their offense taken when I walked invited into their home, but with my shoes on. On the other hand, a lot more people thought I was the idiot.

I suppose it comes down to who we want to laugh at, and how we justify it.

[Igel]

3. It comes down to who has authority to impose their views on others.

When you walk into somebody else's home, it's them. The best you can do is say, "Uh, excuse me," and remove the shoes or remove yourself.

When you walk into a restaurant, it's them. Don't like it, leave.

In both cases it's rude and arrogant to make fun of the householder or restauranteur, unless s/he's doing something intentionally to aggravate people. They deserve the same respect those who don't take their shoes off, those who insist on serving poor food in a poor manner.


Which is the point with a lot of people and their attempts to impose their views on other. Some people are all about feeling good, some are all about money, some are all about power. The first we call hedonists, and it's considered a character defect. The second we call greed, and it's considered a character defect. The third we tend to think is good when it's us and bad when it's them, but that's hypocrisy and justifies, well, a character defect. We keep alcoholics away from booze; the power-hungry should be dealt with in the same way.

Those seeking power through manipulation also tend not to have a sense of humor. The "microaggressions" in "exoticizing" ethnic foods are seen in the presentation of "non-ethnic" foods, as well. Then they seem just foppish, and we can be sane in dealing with them because we're not sensitized to the idea of being offended at everything possible so as to compel others to serve us.

[guillaumeb]

2. I think that I will have red wine with my Velveeta on pita sandwich today.

And.....................I will eat it with chopsticks.

[lunasun]

4. Made up fantasy dishes with incorrect cultural cues . adds to the unculture who think this is real

or authentic but I don't think many care if it is or not
it is what they want to think and many don't like it pointed out . Actuality is not the goal

When I tell people for example fortune cookies are not in China they think I am telling a lie
because they always go for chop Suey and got fortune cookies at the end of the meal and they know it is a Chinese tradition to give fortune cookies after dinner
I don't go on any further and I am not Chinese so they really won't listen to me breaking thier fantasy
Often here foods are one of the few introductions people have to other cultures but then there is an American change so really it is thier own culture's version and this happening is not unique to just here either

They did try to introduce fortune cookies in mainland China
but the American cookie did not become popular
Oh they will produce them for export just like many other things they do not use there but produce

[Behind the Aegis]

7. It is actually a Japanese-American invention.

The fortune cookie was "invented" by a Japanese-American who ran a Japanese Tea House in San Francisco in the early 1900's. He was removed from the position by a racist politician, but the former head of the Tea house had many San Franciscans who stood behind him and got him rehired. To thank them, he took a traditional Japanese "after dinner" cookie and slipped a note in it, in Japanese, thanking them. Eventually, the Chinese-Americans latched onto the idea and viola, fortune cookies after the end of ever Chinese meal. Cultural appropriation which most wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole.

[lunasun]

13. I have never had a meal at a Chinese American home that ended with fortune cookies

Plenty of Chinese sweets but never fortune cookies .

Maybe you meant every Chinese restaurant meal

[Behind the Aegis]

14. Yes, I meant restaurant meal.

[PoliticAverse]

5. And Canadians have real bacon. n/t

[GulfCoast66]

6. We have a lot to accomplish

Before I spend one bit of concern on BS like this.

Fajita anyone? I love Mexican food.

[KittyWampus]

8. IMO, intention has a lot to do with how I personally would react to something.

It's interesting to think about.

Since I'm a white female, I don't go through life marking off the millions of annoying racist messages that fire off around me.

I occasionally do register misogynist messages, but generally ignore them.

Maybe if more of my awareness was spent shielding myself from obnoxious, erroneous messages I'd be quicker to get pissed off.

[Egnever]

9. As soon as micro aggression is claimed

You lose me.

[ismnotwasm]

10. So Filipinos shouldn't object to certain kinds of racial stereotyping?

Who gets to choose? I mean, I love me some adobo--to the point I learned how to make it when I want it, but I've never seen it served with chopsticks.

[snooper2]

12. well if you do serve it with chopsticks be sure to make them stand straight up

LOL

[clarkrd]

15. While wearing a green hat.

[Oneironaut]

11. This exemplifies my annoyance with the modern media.

Does every absurd opinion need to be broadcast and analyzed? There is virtually no reason to refute opinions that do not deserve to be addressed. Everybody already knows that this is ridiculous.

In reality, stuff like this makes the news because it pisses people off. This makes it more prone to going viral.

[JHan]

16. Mango and Beef? did I read that right?

You mix mango and beef and decide to call it jamaican stew?

Yes Fyah bun dem.

Wtf.