Speaking of Kermit, does green eggs and ham count as offensive?
Posted on 08/07/2022 1:24:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
When Kermit the Frog found El Sleezo Cafe, a stereotypically Mexican joint in 1979’s “The Muppet Movie,” he nervously muttered, “Foreign food … but a man’s gotta eat.” Never mind that the house special turned out to be frog’s legs — such a scene today would go straight to the cutting-room floor and the creators exiled to Cancelville.
Once upon a time, it was permissible to make light-hearted fun of cuisines that were unfamiliar or exotic to film audiences.
But in today’s unforgiving and witless world of Indigenous-Cuisine Purity, good-natured jokes are strictly verboten. Worse, just about any dish not from Western Europe that isn’t cooked by a native-born chef is either a fake version of the cuisine or a wicked ripoff of it — or both.
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Any food cooked by the first arrivers made with beef or pork or is culturally appropriated, as well as any dishes made with chicken that descended from the European stock rather than the small group brought by the Polynesians that exists in Chile.
‘Cultural Appropriation’ is an impossible phrase.
To appropriate something is to take something that is owned by someone else for your own. But cultures, languages and religions do not have owners. Only users.
You can not take it.
Even if you use it, the originators, still have complete and total use of it.
“A bear in his natural habitat, a Studebaker!” — Fozzy Bear
“That’s pretty dangerous building a road in the middle of the street. I mean, if frogs couldn’t hop, I’d be gone with the Schwinn.” — Kermit
... and to show that the Muppets knew from progressive women in comfortable shoes, as Robin Williams called them:
Kermit : It’s too bad the dancing girls are on vacation; this crowd’s getting ugly.
Fozzie : Huh. If you think this crowd’s ugly, you should see the dancing girls.
I come from the “phuk em all if they can’t take a joke” clan.
I do not care what “other” people think of me, or if they find me rude, crude or unfeeling.
My family loves me, I love me, and they like me too.
The best thing about getting older is, you are not required to suffer fools.
The goal is to create a sense of unease and defensiveness constantly to deconstruct and destroy our culture to recreate it in Marxist style.
If you exclude then you’re racist as being exclusionary.
If you incorporate, you’re a cultural appropriator.
So if you’re white, you lose.
It’s insane and no wonder libs are mentally ill.
Speaking of Kermit, does green eggs and ham count as offensive?
People with too much time on their hands
Go ahead make lutefisk and call it stinky white fish in butter and white sauce. No Swede will care
I appropriated a big burrito yesterday.
I’ve never heard of Diana Kennedy before. I’ve eaten lots of Mexican food. She’s a Brit, a people who aren’t known for their food. Maybe that’s why she liked Mexican food.
I’m guessing she was considered an expert in Britain and in places in America who look to Europe for “experts”.
Jamie Oliver: “Your immediate reaction is to be defensive and say, ‘For the love of God, really?’ And then you go, ‘Well, we don’t want to offend anyone.’ ”
Then you are a bigger fool than the woke. And your cooking sucks.
Me neither. I know of Rick Bayless, who also specializes in Mexican cuisine. He has a show about it on PBS. Surprised it hasn’t been canceled yet by the woke operators there.
You are correct.
“Appropriated” would mean the original owner no longer had “it”.
A better word would be adopted or adapted.
Amen
‘round, ‘round, get around, we got around.. yeah!
The idea of all this woke crap is to stir up animosity between ethnic groups. To that end, anything that would encourage racial harmony is deemed to be racist and is designed to engender racial hatred. That’s why inanimate objects are designated as racist. The harder one tries to reconcile racial divisions the more racist he becomes and the wider the divisions are. If you buy in to this nonsense you can’t win, because you are not supposed to win. Only the race hustlers can win. The only answer is not to play at all.
Two Mexican guys run the local gyros stand. (The Greek owner recently retired. They worked for him and he sold the business to them.) Outside of gyros, the menu consists of hot dogs, burgers, subs, some dinners. The only things remotely Mexican are tacos and frozen tamales.
They should do the right thing and go out of business or do Mexican only.
Then there is the Texas Pizza Bread that is being sold in the frozen food section across the country (USA).
Quite frankly we have been imitating each other since time began. Person A sees person B placing a nut on a rock before hitting it with another rock. Person A realizes that this works much better then placing a nut on the ground and hitting it with a rock. Person A then figures out that if you place the nut in an indentation in the rock it does not move as much when you hit it. Person B sees this and does the same.
Exchange of ideas begins and the first faltering steps toward civilization are taken.
If Person B had thrown a fit about ‘Cultural Appropriation’ no advancement would have happened.
Latin America and Africa are gonna have to give back to New Guinea all those bananas.
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