BBC: Are Chopsticks Racist?

Breitbart (referencing BBC News article) ^ | March 4, 2017 | Virginia Hale

[RayChuang88]

“Are food bloggers fuelling racist stereotypes”, asks the BBC in a headline on its news website, the article highlighting concern about “microaggressions” in food media.

“Food media is predominantly generated by white people for white people, so when the subject veers toward anything outside of the Western canon, it’s not uncommon to see things generalised, exotified, or misrepresented,” Filipino-American food and travel photographer Celeste Noche told BBC Trending.

“I think microaggressions in social media are reflective of food media as a whole in that appropriation,” Ms. Noche said, citing photographs of Asian dishes placed on bamboo mats or framed with chopsticks and banana leaves as examples.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Oh come on! My cats will eat me when I die.

[Maceman]

I am so tired of racist leftists leftsplaining to us what we may or may not say and do.

I’m white. I eat sushi with chopsticks. Try and stop me.

[windsorknot]

There’s an old saying: He who smelt it, dealt it. That also goes for those so ready to accuse others of “racism”.

[Exit148]

Years ago, In NY’s Chinatown, I was at a small restaurant for lunch. At a nearby table were 1 Asian and 1 Caucasian— both young guys. The Asian was using a fork, and the other used chopsticks.

[windsorknot]

I am White and eat Chinese food with chopsticks, and I’m thrilled if that triggers a snowflake.

[Jeff Chandler]

Not to mention all the racists restaurants that will have to close like panda express, taco bell, and tokyo joes????

First they came for the Sambos Restaurants, but I didn't say anything . . .

[Jeff Chandler]

I’ve been known to deep fry tamales

Do you wrap them in bacon and batter them first, then serve them with butter? It's the only way I'll them.

[LegendHasIt]

I guess I’m not a racist or appropriating something from a xeno-culture identity.

I’d starve to death if I had to eat with chopsticks.

[rbg81]

What I had in mind was using utensils (fork, spoon, knife, etc.) was racist.

[tbw2]

I’ve been in Asian restaurants staffed by immigrant Asians ... and they never cared how I ate or what I requested. They thanked me for the business and the money.

Is it cultural appropriation when a family of Chinese near us run a Mongolian grill, when they aren’t Mongolian? Or that they have several Mexicans working in the kitchen? If we keep up this cultural authenticity crap going, everyone becomes morally obligated to live down to the smallest detail the stereotype liberals assign them, including clothing, words, beliefs and diet. And they say conservatives are the racists?

[Lee Enfield]

Sounds bad for you (that's snowflake for tasty).

[rbg81]

Let face it: White people eating is racist.

[ThanhPhero]

I learned to use sticks In Viet Nam on my last day in country-1969. It occurred to me I couldn’t go home from such a place and not know how to use them seeing as I loved the food. I went into a café that didn’t normally have GI customers but I knew the proprietor and got a little bit of a dozen different things and a pair of sticks. I mastered it before I left there. My NN friends all say I don’t hold them right but” hey, that’s okay, it works for you!” I have come to prefer them where efficient. Wife and I and one of my kids use them regularly and wife and daughter cook for it, with everything in sticks sized pieces. You think how can you eat soup with them??? Well I do and it works fine.

[freedumb2003]

>>White people eating is racist.<<

So is eating white people.

:)

[sergeantdave]

Here’s the latest poll:

Should the Nazi racists at BBC be machinegunned at dawn?

Yes - 98.7%
Don’t know - .00056%
This question confuses me - 2.0754%

[RayChuang88]

I’m white. I eat sushi with chopsticks. Try and stop me.

Oh, it's even more fun when you eat this type of sushi:

With your bare hands. Westerners think I'm crazy, but interestingly most Japanese people approve eating it this way (that's because it's only after the Meiji Restoration people in Japan started to eat nigiri sushi with chopsticks).

[reformedliberal]

Oh, good! I eat sushi with my fingers. I use chopsticks for sashimi. I was feeling gauche reading about sushi and chopsticks.

In a Maui restaurant I had to request extra sauce, wasabi and ginger because the portions were inadequate. The next time I ate there, I not only got larger portions of condiment, the chef sent out an unordered little plate of unidentified sushi that were gorgeous and delicious. I didn’t even ask...just said thank you and enjoyed. I was impressed they remembered me.