Speaking of Kermit, does green eggs and ham count as offensive?
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.
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.
‘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.
“Chilled Monkey Brain”...bet they cut that part out now.
The proper response to these joyless scolds is to grin back at them while chewing noisily.
Being a woke leftist means that you have absolutely no sense of humor.
So the question is: which culture will endure? One based on a reality which is time-tested, rational, empirical, scientific, mathematically correct, and experience-grounded? Or one based on a pretend reality--a reality that is based on your wishes, based on your feelings, one that, for all of human history, has never been tested?
Speaking of Woke reality as having never been tested, I read the other day that a Wokester now declared that she was a bird. That's her reality now.
I challenge her to demonstrate her reality. Climb up on the roof of a house and step off. If she is a bird, no problem. She will take wing.
If not, I guess we can conclude that reality isn't as fluid as the Wokesters say it is.
Insanity.
Is serving pizza when one isn’t Italian cultural appropriation if it is in Jordan or Thailand? I wonder.
Or is it only improper if as a White, western (American) one eats something that only a really starved attention whore (read leftist trying to qualify for the progressive Olympics) could come up with.
Makes me wonder just how guilty I am, and what penance is due, for eating Chinese food at a Mexican-American owned & operated restaurant in Show-Low, AZ some 30 years ago?
Were there any swine or bovine in the new world before the Europeans brought them?
-Domesticated cattle were introduced to the Caribbean in 1493 by Christopher Columbus, and between 1493 and 1512, Spanish colonists.
-Hernando De Soto, a Spanish explorer, was the first to introduce domestic swine (family Suidae) to the mainland of North America. During his exploration throughout the southeastern United States (red line shown above), he and his men brought along domestic swine from Europe for food.
What were they putting in those tacos before then? Looks like the Indigens have some splainin to do.