These are only a handful of the many experiences I’ve had involving food and cultural appropriation. They make me feel like I need permission to be proud of my cuisine and eating habits—but this permission seems to be granted at the whim of others.
As a result, I’ve become increasingly protective of Indian food while living abroad. I am quick to rebuke friends and acquaintances for eating roti and rice like a burrito. I get upset when they call anything and everything Indian “curry.” And I snap when someone tries to school me about turmeric latte or curry powder.
People who eat messy curry dishes with their fingers should stay in their 3rd world s***holes.
So. I have just wasted two minutes skimming an article about some moron complaining about food shaming.
(sigh)
The Cultural Appropriation of My Lunch—
Talk about making mountains out of molehills.
It's amazing she actually has any friends ...
Using eating utensils is more hygienic than eating with your fingers. Anyone is free to adopt that cultural practice from Westerners. I won’t get mad.
When I eat spicy wings or ribs I do so with my fingers.....which I wash BEFORE (and after) using the men’s room. Guys understand what I’m saying.
So scub up after your turmeric and you’ll be fine.
I caught flak from my sardines...nuts to the whiners!
People resonated with the Apu character on the Simpson’s for a reason.
[I believed that food was a way to bring people across the world closer to one another.]
Yay! Celebrate diversity! And the New World Order!
“Before I left my home in Mumbai to study in the Netherlands,...”
IOW, there to appropriate Dutch culture.
My, isn’t she special?
I rented a room one time and in the same apartment were some Chinese students renting rooms as well. Every day I would smell the most disgusting smell of garlic and onions wafting up from the kitchen to my room (which was right above the kitchen). I hated that.
It’s one thing though to prepare your stinky food in your own home, as my Chinese roommates had every right to do (much to my chagrin). But entirely another to bring your stinky food to a conference and then get offended when someone says something about it.
This woman is living in the Netherlands yet expects her countrymen to accept her stinky, slob like eating habits instead of the other way around. If she were in India and some European were complaining about her food smell or habits that would be one thing. But she is in another country another culture yet is offended when they are offended by her food habits.
She should ask herself who’s really trying to “appropriate” who’s culture. Seems to be she’s the guilty party here.
Get over it.
Madhura needs to spend more time with Mohammed, Jugdish, Sidney, and Clayton.
First they brought in the curry,
Then it was kimchi
Next it will be Limburger
But I draw the line at Surströmming
Kids in Sweden laughed at me for switching my fork to my right hand. They were still kind and welcoming.
I’ve read enough about Japanese thinking that Westerners smell bad that I would be afraid to eat meat or wear scent if visiting there.
When I eat in middle eastern homes or Indian homes or Native homes I always follow one rule..... when in Rome
Curry should only be allowed to be cooked or eaten in rooms with 30 foot cement walls.