Another Year, Another Racially Insensitive Cafeteria Menu(Moonbat Madness Barf Alert)

Pajamas Media ^ | January 30, 2011 | Ed Driscoll

[lbryce]

Do these stories happen every year? This was posted yesterday at the Daily Caller:

A California university says it was bad taste to serve chicken and waffles on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Officials at the University of California, Irvine, say the menu of stereotypical black food was served on Jan. 17 — the first day of the school’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. symposium.

The dining hall advertised the meal as an “MLK Holiday Special.”

The co-chairman of the school’s Black Student Union and another student lodged formal complaints.

University spokeswoman Cathy Lawhon tells the Los Angeles Times that the cafeteria staff made a last-minute decision about the menu. She says the intention was to offer holiday comfort food. The company that runs the cafeteria says it will conduct cultural sensitivity training for its chefs and managers.

Last year, the NBC commissary at Rockefeller Center in New York featured this menu:

As somebody quipped on twitter back then, “I’m simultaneously offended and hungry.”

Presumably they too had cultural sensitivity training in response. Is there a firm that first supplies these menus to cafeterias and then the requisite cultural sensitivity training afterwards? OK, I didn’t think so, but why do these things keep happening amongst our enlightened betters in the media and academia?

[lbryce]

Don't you know these people can never be satisfied, don't you know that with these people, if it's not this, it's that, if it's not that, it's this, if it's not this or that, it's always something else?

[AppyPappy]

Smoked Turkey??? What kind of Yankee scum puts smoked turkey in collards?

[Red Badger]

At least they didn’t have watermelon..................

[Red Badger]

A kosher one?...............

[evad]

See Fuzzy Zoeller for the latest update on Black Soul Food Etiquette

[org.whodat]

Duh, you should have put this in breaking news, it only been posted a few dozen times.

[AppyPappy]

NBC (to black cook): Create a Black History Month menu so we can show our commitment to diversity.
Cook: Will do.
(Later)
White liberal: I’m offended by this menu.

[Walkingfeather]

Clearly these students have never been to Roscoes Chicken and Waffles. THE BEST! Regardless of you race.

[JPG]

Shut up and eat.

[camle]

so we should BAN ‘traditionally black’ food on MLK day?

[Fawn]

If they DIDN’T Serve Fried Chicken, they would of complained about that too...saying they didn’t respect the culture or some crap.

[AppyPappy]

Kosher collards????
You put ham or side meat or hog jowls in collards.

[BenLurkin]

[rarestia]

Everything sounds good except for what you point out. It’s a travesty to put smoked turkey in collards!

[lionheart 247365]

. . . don’t get upset ,,,, in another 20 or 30 years we will be having White History Month , it all evens out in the end .

That’s Racist !!!

[StolarStorm]

Why isn't intent ever important anymore? I have no doubt the "intent" was to be nice and do something to honor the day. Most likely the the staff has a few African Americans that could have requested the menu. Just because something is "stereotypical" doesn't mean people don't like it.

I'm Polish. and yes, I like stereotypical Polish food. I would not be offended if on Polish American day a cafeteria offered pierogies and kielbasa. I would be very pleased in fact.

[bgill]

Wow, who knew MLK enjoyed Aquafina bottled water?!? Where’s the chitlings and watermelon?

I had some fried chicken last night. It’s so confusing, does that mean I’m PC or un-PC or just enjoy some good ol’ southern fried chicken?

[AppyPappy]

My mom is staying in a Jewish nursing home doing rehab. For dinner on Saturday, they had Hungarian Pork Chops. ??? Pork? On Shabbot?

[lbryce]

I appreciate you letting me know. As always, before posting any article I do a search, submitting the title, various keywords to uncover any article that may have been previously posted. As a search using the parameters I've just mentioned showed no previous postings on this matter, I proceeded to post it. After seeing your comment, I once again repeated the process and again showing no related posts. I invite to try the same. Let me know how you fare.

[Malone LaVeigh]

A more contemporary menu for Black History month would have included wagyu beef and lobster, courtesy of the Obama’s.