Posted on 12/18/2015 8:07:24 PM PST by Impala64ssa
Students at an ultra-liberal Ohio college are in an uproar over the fried chicken, sushi and Vietnamese sandwiches served in the school cafeterias, complaining the dishes are “insensitive†and “culturally inappropriate.â€
Gastronomically correct students at Oberlin College — alma mater of Lena Dunham — are filling the school newspaper with complaints and demanding meetings with campus dining officials and even the college president.
General Tso’s chicken was made with steamed chicken instead of fried — which is not authentically Chinese, and simply “weird,†one student bellyached in the Oberlin Review.
Others were up in arms over banh mi Vietnamese sandwiches served with coleslaw instead of pickled vegetables, and on ciabatta bread, rather than the traditional French baguette.
“It was ridiculous,†gripes Diep Nguyen, a freshman who is a Vietnam native.
Worse, the sushi rice was undercooked in a way that was, according to one student, “disrespectful†of her culture. Tomoyo Joshi, a junior from Japan, was highly offended by this flagrant violation of her rice. “I f people not from that heritage take food, modify it and serve it as ‘authentic,’ it is appropriative,†she said.
Oberlin’s black student union joined in the fray this month by staging a protest outside Afrikan Heritage House, an on-campus dorm.
The cafeteria there wasn’t serving enough vegan and vegetarian options and had failed to make fried chicken a permanent feature on the Sunday night menu, the school newspaper reported.
Those students started a petition that also recommends the reduction of cream used in dishes, because “black American food doesn’t have much cream in it,†according to the Review.
The Nevada-based Universal Society of Hinduism joined the food fight last week after students discovered that the traditional Indian dish, tandoori, contained beef.
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Exactly. What does Lena Dunham , (pork fat be upon her), have to do with this story? Zilch. What a reach.
I can't believe students are that ridiculous.
Not too sure about though. Social Justice Warriors are freaking imbeciles.
LOL. I heard that Chinese Food, the American variety, was created by Herb Libowitz from the Bronx, NY. And his nephew Lyman invented the fortune cookie.
General Tso’s chicken was made with steamed chicken instead of fried — which is not authentically Chinese...
Hate to tell these snowflakes, but Gen Tso’s chicken isn’t a traditional chinese dish anymore than egg foo young or fortune cookies..
Food is racist.
Don’t eat food.
Michael Palin went around the world in 80 days. He was offered snake at a restaurant in I believe Shanghai.
He asked if it was “free range”
Memo to HR: in addition to cornell, don’t hire from Oberlin College
Thanks! I’ll ask for it by name!
We had a similar experience in a Chinese restaurant in NYC. We were out to dinner ,with Chinese colleagues, of my husband ,and one of the women did the ordering. The food was just awful. We left the restaurant starving.
I’d just close the cafeterias and give the students vouchers to eat at a restaurant of their choice. This is ridiculous.
General Tso’s chicken (named for Tso Tsung-t’ang, a nineteenth-century Chinese general) is apparently of US origin, as is chop suey.
Let them eat Soylent Green.
Mrs. Murphy.... Doesn’t say enough.
That’s Mrs. “Aretha Franklin” Murphy.
More famous than “Guitar”!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XOPZFhB3gE
Start at the 2:00 minute mark!
Pope?
One of my favorite movies!
Think!
—This movie did far, far more for racial relations in this country than 8 years of a partisan, arrogant, over-reaching, quick-to-blame albeit “black” president.
#Blueslivesmatter
Also AKA "Last part over the fence..."
The thing that sticks with me about authentic Chinese food is how little meat they use compared to the Americanized version. The vegetable-to-meat ratio of authentic Chinese is very high. You know how at the buffet people fish out the beef in Beef and Broccoli? All that's left is broccoli and you have to search for one or two little strips of beef? In my experience, that makes the dish all that more authentic!
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