Posted on 05/24/2017 3:01:38 PM PDT by Cubs Fan
Full title--Portland burrito shop forced to close amid accusations of cultural appropriation, stealing recipes
The closure of Kooks Burritos comes a week after its owners, Kali Wilgus and Liz “LC” Connely” were featured in the popular Willamette Weekly, Fox News reported. The week-end pop-up shop, initially housed in a taco truck, was an immediate hit when they first started dishing out their Mexican-inspired cuisine after a trip to Puerto Nuevo last December.
“I picked the brains of every tortilla lady there in the worst broken Spanish ever, and they showed me a little of what they did,” Connelly told the Wilamette Weekly.
“They wouldn’t tell us too much about technique, but we were peeking into windows of every kitchen, totally fascinated by how easy they made it look.”
Connelly explained she recreated the tortillas they tried on the trip through a trial and error process and then filled them up with California-inspired ingredients for hungry passersby.
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While the shop had already been opened for months, the May 16 profile prompted harsh critiques and editorials that further fanned the outcry.
“Because of Portland’s underlying racism, the people who rightly own these traditions and cultures that exist are already treated poorly,” an article in the Portland Mercury reads. “These appropriating businesses are erasing and exploiting their already marginalized identities for the purpose of profit and praise.”
Mic.com also offered commentary: “In less than six months, Wilgus and Connelly have managed to build a business. And depending on how you look at it, their methods are either genius of the latest example of white folks profiting off the labor of people of color.”
Kooks Burritos has already deleted its website, Instagram account, Facebook page, and Twitter profile.
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This is just starting. There will be more mischief. Much more.
ML/NJ
And black women better stop straightening their hair.
THOU SHALT NOT CULTURALLY APPROPRIATE AS THINE OWN
I remember that commandment
The oh-so tolerant left strikes again.
Much of the food in the United States has appropriated from somewhere else.
Who knew?
So to comply they should start a new restaurant called “White peoples food for whites only” just so there is no trouble.
Minorities better not be seen driving a car.......Unless Miss Daisy is in the back...
They deleted the website, the Facebook page, and all that, but ARE THEY STILL ALIVE??? If so, justice has yet to be served!
The insanity caused by the mental disease known as liberalism is just beyond comprehension.
There is NO co-existing with these morons.
I hope these women are relocating their business to a friendlier and saner city filled with more intelligent and reasonable people than Portland. Our homegrown thought police tyrants could give the North Koreans a run for their money.
This is what marxism looks like. With a side of chips and salsa.
>>This is just starting. There will be more mischief. Much more. <<
Well my wife is from Mexico and is whiter than I am (not Martin Mull but close). She is Mestiza (like 99% of the people born South of the Rio Grande.
If you want to understand how important it is to be culturally appropriate, just watch Mexican telenovellos. I heard it described as “Swedish TV in Spanish.”
As usual, SJWs revel in their ignorance and vapidity.
I just made my own pizza at home. I’m probably guilty of some cultural crime now. I should go turn myself in. It’s for the chil’run.
>>There is NO co-existing with these morons.
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I so agree. The dilemma is, what to do with them!
Yet.....
Reality slapped in the face of these two women whom I guarantee are left of center. They will probably gleefully take their leftist re-education training to get them back in line.
Now is the Time to BAN ALL Non-Whites from every educational institution in America. They should voluntarily leave so as to not be accused of the cultural appropriation of white european culture.
This is insanity. Does that mean Asians shouldn’t wear Western clothe? Manage McDonald’s?
How is it cultural appropriation. I have never seen american style burritos anywhere in Mexico. Mexicans dont even use flour tortillas
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