Posted on 11/26/2012 1:17:44 PM PST by PJ-Comix
Have you been enjoying your Thanksgiving turkey leftovers? Do you have a preference for the white meat? If you do, then racism could explain why you prefer the white meat to the dark meat.
In an article worthy of The Onion but published in all seriousness in Slate, writer Ron Rosenbaum plumbs the depths of absolute ridiculousness to explain his white meat racism theory. First he details why white meat is supposedly so horrible:
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***Maybe it because I prefer Breast!
Sexyst male exployter of womyn!! ****
Wasn’t John Wayne asked that in THE HORSE SOLDIERS. “Do you prefer leg or breast?”
I forget which city (Boston or New York) but I asked for a cup of coffee at a hotel and after an employee asked how I preferred it, my response was “just a regular coffee.” She poured cream or milk and was about to add sugar. I said again “I just want a regular coffee” and she told me that “This is a regular coffee.” I told her I didn’t want a milkshake, just coffee. So, no white stuff in my coffee; how “progressive.” And oh, I like white turkey meat.
I’m ashamed to say, I use white toilet paper, I guess that makes me a racist.
because white toilet paper is racist I try to turn it brown
And, stupidity would explain why a "writer" would make a statement like that. Well, stupidity and racism.
Beautiful dogs you have and a beautiful location.
Anyway, the $0.19 a pound chicken was when the Ruskies put a temporary tarrif on our chicken imports and our market became saturated with 'dark' meat parts.
What does that say about someone who likes both white and dark meat? Oh yeah must mean they voted for Obama,,,a real “turkey roll” of both pressed white and dark meat if I ever did see one!
Ditto that. Turkey thighs and Dove dark chocolate.
I prefer white turkey meat. However, I prefer Chocolate ice cream. So, what does this mean?
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It was then I learned the etymology of the phrase in America. It hails from the plantation days, when the white slave owners dined on choice pork chops cut from "high on the hog" while the slaves made do with the lower parts of the pig—the ham hocks, the pigs feet, the pork bellies, and the innards. White meat was high on the hog, but not higher on flavor than other (often darker) cuts. Indeed the "other white meat" now available most frequently in lean and tasteless pork chops and cutlets has little more taste than white meat turkey.
Despite its superior taste, dark meat has dark undertones for some. Dark meat evokes the color of earth, soil. Dark meat seems to summon up ancient fears of contamination and miscegenation as opposed to the supposed superior purity of white meat. I guess it shouldn't be a surprise that white meat remains the choice of a holiday that celebrates Puritans.
Indeed, the connotations of the pale and darker parts of the turkey constitute a meaty metaphor for the Thanksgiving feast itself. The allegedly more refined and daintier white parts, the wings and breast, have never touched the ground the way the earthier darker legs have done. And you know how dirty dirt is.
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Maybe that's why I have a prejudice against the white-meat sacrament of the holiday that covers up the white man's crimes.
It's Lowell writing about his pilgrim ancestors who began the rolling genocidal slaughter of those nice Native Americans who made the first Thanksgiving possible.
The real Thanksgiving story is extremely dark, far darker than any leg and thigh meat.
Could fear of facing our dark history be behind the prejudice against dark meat? Or is there more to the darkness of dark meat that feeds that fear?
Dang it! He figured me out! I was hoping I could take my secret of why I prefer to eat white meat to the grave!
So what if you prefer white meat and Hersey’s Special Dark chocolate? (not together)
No, that’s not it! It’s racism, I tell you! Racism!
Racism is why stupid blacks think anything white is bad and anything black is racist. I know blacks that won’t eat “white bread”.
Nope. That just makes you three times the racist. (so there)
To which the correct answer is "Yes!"
What a loon!
Dark turkey or chicken is tastier, and healthier.
White meat lacks sufficient fat, and usually results in constipation for most people, and they don’t even know why.
Does your grandmother react like a typical white woman?
I believe that “Regular Coffee” in either one of those cities would be coffee with at least cream and probably sugar as well. “Regular” means different things in different parts of the country.
She no longer reacts at all. To anything.
That article is insane!
White meat has no fat, and thus isn’t even legitimate food.
Lack of animal fats in the diet leads to type 2 diabetes rather quickly. Forming cell membranes with vegetable fats makes them literally water-proof, so the glucose can’t get in to be burned and remains in the blood to be deposited as fat in the abdominal areas.
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