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To: rightistight
Speaking of cultural appropriation...

Some twenty years ago I had a consulting job for a major Turkish firm. The "handler" they assigned to work with me was a young lady engineer who had received her MS in Engineering Management at an American university. One day she mentioned to me that the thing she missed most about America was corn chips and salsa(!).

Several years later I attended an international engineering conference in Istanbul. To my pleasant surprise, my friend showed up. I told her that if I'd known she was going to be at the conference, I'd have brought her some chips and salsa. She replied, "Oh, no, we have them now in our supermarkets."

Good food knows no national boundaries. My wife (born in Canada) frequently makes me beef nachos for dinner. She knows I love them.

72 posted on 05/06/2015 12:21:52 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney ( book, RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY, available from Amazon)
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To: JoeFromSidney

For that matter, the burrito itself is by definition an act of cultural appropriation.

It always has a flour tortilla wrapping, almost always contains cheese, and often has pork, beef, sour cream, etc.

All those ingredients are Eurasian in origin.

Montezuma probably dined on enchiladas regularly, but he never had a burrito.


74 posted on 05/06/2015 3:42:30 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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