...looks like...
...Hottentot hair!
Posted on 06/21/2021 10:54:40 AM PDT by algore
Jamie Oliver will refer to Kaffir lime leaves as 'lime leaves' going forward
It follows concerns that word has been used as a racial slur in South Africa
Growing number of British supermarkets changing name of Kaffir lime leaves
The word was used in apartheid South Africa as an anti-black insult. In 2018, a woman was jailed there for abusing a black policeman with the word.
The term Kaffir comes from the Arabic 'kafir', meaning infidel or unbeliever. It was used in a derogatory way due to the fruits' ugly appearance.
Settlers in Africa dubbed the local population this because they did not follow the same religion. It was used in 1588 to describe them, with one saying the Nguni traders were 'Cafer merchants'. It was not believed to have been meant rudely. It is thought to have been referring to them in the way people do the 'British' or 'Swedish' today.
In 1607 William Keeling from the East India Company used it loosely as 'Cafares' for the people in the Cape of Good Hope. He is not believed to mean it in a negative way.
Because of the word being generally thrown around to describe people on the continent, the recipients were thought to have found it offensive. It came to be seen as a highly inflammatory word meaning 'inferior' and 'of poor quality', like the fruit.
It morphed into phrases such as 'kaffir-lover' and 'Kaffirboetie' for a white person close to a black person which can be traced back to 1820.
It is thought Scottish botanist HF MacMillan introduced the fruit to the English-speaking world, using the name Kaffir lime in the late 1800s.
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Got it.
I’m offended that he might even think ‘they’ would be offended. :)
“Be not a niggard of your speech, how goes’t?”
Shakespeare. Macbeth.
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Kaffir lime leaves and lime leaves are not the same thing you stupid git.
I will have to add kaffir to my everyday speech. I could care less about Jamie Oliver. He’s a half-assed, over-hyped chef that has apparently gone woke. He can go broke now.
He’s just another leftist brit. He catered for the Obama’s during a summit in London, but refused to cook for President Trump.
In this context he would be a limey liberal..
I learned it reading “The Iceman Cometh.”
How much less could you care, a little or a lot?
I know a gentleman that fought in Rhodesia, and he despises that term greatly. He lost many good friends there (black and white) and he will not tolerate this slur.
Have a care around whom you sling ‘new words’.
An itty bitty bit, which is about this much, particularly on Mondays
And then there were people going into full-scale panty-twisting histrionics when “Sambo’s” changed their name and Amazon stopped carrying the books....
The L word. Limey is a racial slur against the British.
Jamie Oliver is a moron. Just because he cooks and run overpriced eateries, doesn’t mean that he knows what is going on. Jamie, STFU...
Hey I just call them Makrut leaf which is the official term Actually they add a real nice pleasant citrus note in Indian and Thai dishes-
Hey I just call them Makrut leaf which is the official term Actually they add a real nice pleasant citrus note in Indian and Thai dishes-
Yes, essential for many Thai dishes. Asian food stores usually store a small bag of them in the freezer, enough for 3 or 4 meals costs around $1. They taste a little lemon-like but with different overtones. There is no substitute.
KAFFIR LIME LEAVES are what they are called in recipes.
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