Posted on 10/11/2016 2:02:51 PM PDT by RightGeek
Hey, you! You, with the Starbucks pumpkin-spiced latte in your hand. That ridiculous concoction – with its fluffiness, lack of substance, and triviality – is the ultimate expression of white privilege. So shame on you.
I learned about the true meaning of the pumpkin-spiced latte in a scholarly paper, called The Perilous Whiteness of Pumpkins. It was peer-reviewed and published in a genuine academic journal. Lisa Jordan Powell, its lead author, is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of British Columbia. “Starbucks PSLs are products of coffee shop culture, with its gendered and racial codes,” it warns. They make up just one part of the “pumpkin entertainment complex, whose multiple manifestations continue the entanglements of pumpkins, social capital, race, and place.”
Ms. Powell (who did not respond to an offer to comment on her paper) is merely one of countless academics toiling in the fertile field of race and gender studies. I don’t mean to pick on her in particular. Like everybody else, she must publish or perish. They churn out this stuff like Halloween candy. We pay for it.
Vast tracts of the social sciences have gone insane. If you doubt it, I urge you to check out New Real Peer Review, a Twitter feed whose purpose is to expose the absurdity of what passes for scholarly research. It’s run by a small team of anonymous academics who fear their careers will suffer if people know who they are. They have no shortage of material. Their greatest hit to date is a piece claiming that glaciology – the study of glaciers – is misogynist, and that we need to “feminize” it. (Some people thought that paper was a hoax, but sadly it was not.)
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
How about the sexist study of glaciers?
Look Charlie Brown, its the Great Morons - Linus Van Pelt updated...
White Watermelon. We need white watermelon. Oh, and white apples, white lettuce and white carrots and peaches and on and on. How about white Black berries....that should make a few heads explode. LOL
“... are products of coffee shop culture, with its gendered and racial codes ...”
Doesn’t most of the coffee Starbucks sells come from Third World areas (Columbia, Guatemala, Kenya, Sumatra, Ethiopia, Tanzania, etc.)? So “privileged” Starbucks coffee drinkers are actually helping the Third World economies which export coffee beans, correct?
No, silly person! It is further colonialism against the third world countries as well as further atrocities of cultural appropriation! /s
“It’s run by a small team of anonymous academics who fear their careers will suffer if people know who they are.”
This is ridiculous. It’s time for patriots and conservatives in college towns to stand up for professors who are exposing the cultural marxists. If that means marching on College campuses with torches and pitchforks, then get it done. The bed-wetting snowflakes will run away, along with the gutless, politically correct administrators.
HiTech RedNeck wrote:
HiTech RedNeck wrote: “What most of us think of as “pumpkin” is actually the traditional pie spices, and it’s really easy (and cheap) to overdo the spices or get them out of balance. I have made “pumpkin” pie out of carrots and people could not tell the difference.”
Since I would not be able to tell the difference, I wouldn’t like the carrot version either would I? It’s not the spice that turns me off. It actually smells rather nice. I do not care for the texture or the flavor. Simply a waste of a good pie crust.
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What most of us think of as “pumpkin” is actually the traditional pie spices, and it’s really easy (and cheap) to overdo the spices or get them out of balance. I have made “pumpkin” pie out of carrots and people could not tell the difference.
Pumpkin pie filling can be rather grainy and sometimes even stringy, depending upon the skill of the person who baked it. Sweet potato pie has a very similar flavor but the texture is entirely different, smooth and creamy. But, the skill of the baker comes into play there, too. It's easy to ruin a sweet potato pie by getting the filling too thick.
In Korea I had pumpkin kimchi. It’s really quite tasty :)
“Lisa Jordan Powell, its lead author is barking mad.”
I managed to get through about 2/3s of her journal article. Whew!!! She says a lot, but with no point but that white people adopt pumpkins as some sort of racist, elitist symbolism.
She derides Starbucks for not using any pumpkin in its pumpkin spice latte without ever realizing that “pumpkin” is an adjective for “spice.”
I suppose she would have another meltdown if she were to think of the origin of the Europeans’ use of that particular spice set.
Process them .... Pull the guts out. Chop them put them in a crock pot with a cup of water on high for 4 hours. Peel off the skin. Purée. Freeze. I weigh out 1 pound bags. Soooooo much better than canned.
I have a recipe for pumpkin sausage soup that is awesome!!!
White/ racist pumpkins are more watery than orange and look like apple sauce when puréed. Not quite as sweet but yum.
Ps: PSL is gross and overpriced
Is there a recipe? That would be fun. I dislike the texture of pumpkin pie
McDonalds Japan offers pumpkin spice and chocolate sauces for your frenc fries.
Their economies would collapse were it not for Starbucks and other coffee purveyors.
I don’t like sexist glaciers either.
I looked...and the authors, at least the lead author and one other, are..."men" (scare quotes obviously needed there).
Right you are, Redneck. I have done the same thing as you, but with sweet potato.
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