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IKEA in Atlanta is slammed for offering 'racially insensitive' Juneteenth menu featuring fried chicken and watermelon
UK Daily Mail ^ | 06/22/2021 | Andrew Court

Posted on 06/22/2021 3:04:02 PM PDT by DFG

IKEA in Atlanta is under fire after its management team devised a 'racially insensitive' menu for Juneteenth which featured fried chicken and watermelon.

Bosses purportedly sent out the menu to employees in an email last Friday, saying they wanted to serve the foods to customers as a way to 'honor' the federal holiday.

However, the management team - which allegedly featured no black employees - failed to realize that many of the food items have been derogatorily associated with black Americans for more than a century.

According to NPR, both fried chicken and watermelon were common foods fed to slaves in the South, and have been 'a mainstay in racist depictions of black Americans' ever since they featured in the 1915 film Birth of A Nation.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: EvilCapitalist

Not to mention the chitlins and a 44 of malt liquor.


41 posted on 06/22/2021 3:16:02 PM PDT by dblshot (RActually Texas City)
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To: lightman

LOLOLOLOLOL! Glad to see the video has been updated. Sadly, the systemic offenders wouldn’t get it. Just about blew soda pop out of my nose. You should be proud.


42 posted on 06/22/2021 3:16:06 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: DFG

No sweet tea or hominy!?


43 posted on 06/22/2021 3:17:09 PM PDT by skepsel
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To: dfwgator

derogatorily associated ...
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Says who?


44 posted on 06/22/2021 3:17:26 PM PDT by delta7
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To: rktman
You should be proud.

It's still June...maybe you could rephrase that. LOL.

45 posted on 06/22/2021 3:17:52 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: week 71

Bet they haven’t cancelled billeee eyelash for her insensitive tiktok video from days past. Because she put out a statement saying “that’s not who I am...” Sure it ain’t.


46 posted on 06/22/2021 3:18:22 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: DFG

If they had offered food items commonly associated with white people - say spaghetti, quiche, Waldorf salad, and yogurt, wouldn’t that also be called insensitive and racist? And didn’t they spell “potatoe” the same way that Dan Quayle spelled it, and was mocked for?


47 posted on 06/22/2021 3:18:31 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: DFG

Menus have everything to do with this federaldayoff. Sauers kicking in, it’s hot and salt trade down in Atlanta in a lot of feeling cooking down in Atlanta, I don’t really see the problem here.

I’m looking at this thinkin’ “that’s southern cooking.” I spent a lot of time growing up on bases in the south, everybody eats that way.

The old Maine Ave fish market in DC served it up, and chowders too and it was all southern downhome cooking. It was good too!

Maybe “Turkey’s” would have been symbolic...


48 posted on 06/22/2021 3:18:34 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distribBluted right.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Not to mention the chitlins and a 44 of malt liquor.


49 posted on 06/22/2021 3:19:40 PM PDT by dblshot
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I like watermelon after mowing the grass on a hot afternoon.


50 posted on 06/22/2021 3:19:42 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (I voted for prosperity, and I got poverty.)
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To: lightman

Okay. You should take pleasure in almost making me spew soda out of my nostrils. Better? :-}


51 posted on 06/22/2021 3:19:48 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: Jane Long

Did the menu items sell?
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I used to shop at IKEA in Atlanta, I went for the $3.99 Swedish meatball plate, I never noticed many African Americans shopping or eating there.


52 posted on 06/22/2021 3:20:05 PM PDT by delta7
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To: dfwgator

Exactly. And where’s the cultural misappropriation outrage over IKEA serving Swedish meatballs on its regular menu? But for double standards, the leftist woke wacko mob would have no standards at all.


53 posted on 06/22/2021 3:20:19 PM PDT by Ahithophel (Communication is an art form susceptible to sudden technical failure)
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To: dfwgator

Hell. I like everything on that menu.


54 posted on 06/22/2021 3:20:20 PM PDT by Iceclimber58
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To: DFG

I call BS on NPR.

Fried chicken was NEVER a popular slave food. It doesn’t even come up. Okra, potatoes, and corn meal were a staple.

Watermelon and black-eyed peas came over from the slave trade and were popular on colonial dinner tables for whites and blacks by 1775. So it wasn’t exclusive.


55 posted on 06/22/2021 3:20:23 PM PDT by Salvavida
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Thay are popular with everyone in the south in summer.


56 posted on 06/22/2021 3:21:58 PM PDT by Tennessee Conservative
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To: DFG

I thought they serve Swedish food. Does anyone actually eat those rancid meatballs?


57 posted on 06/22/2021 3:22:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: rktman

Yea verily.


58 posted on 06/22/2021 3:22:41 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: dfwgator

Hi.

“I mean how stupid can you possibly be?”

Off the chart stupid.

5.56mm


59 posted on 06/22/2021 3:23:00 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Guess they were supposed to offer fried watermelon and sliced chicken?


60 posted on 06/22/2021 3:23:09 PM PDT by bray (Hating Whites is racist)
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