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Cultural-appropriation of food is not OK so I won’t be watching Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted
UK Metro ^ | 8/3/18 | Sejal Sukhadwala

Posted on 08/05/2018 8:13:10 PM PDT by Rebelbase

(snip) According to the press release, National Geographic’s Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted, scheduled to air next year, promises ‘three key ingredients: unlocking a culture’s culinary secrets through exploration and adventure with local food heroes; tracking down high-octane traditions, pastimes and customs that are specific to the region in hopes of discovering the undiscovered; and, finally, testing Ramsay against the locals, pitting his own interpretations of regional dishes against the tried-and-true classics.’

Let’s look at all three elements.

The first two are about a sweary, loud-mouthed chef with little understanding of a country’s cuisine, traipsing around with a camera crew, ‘discovering’ their centuries-old ‘culinary secrets’, traditions and customs.

And let’s not forget the bit about ‘local food heroes’ – but why not ask the said heroes to front their own TV show? Why does it take a white chef to ‘discover’ their cuisine and present it as if it were a spectator sport?

Let the experts speak about their own food, let them tell their own stories and please, let’s not turn this into entertainment to prod, poke and point a finger at.

The ‘undiscovered’ has remained undiscovered – to a foreign audience anyway – precisely because the so-called ‘natives’ have been given little opportunity to talk about it.

It’s the third part of the statement that’s had everyone riled though.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bloggers; dietandcuisine; godsgravesglyphs; gordonramsay; nationalgeographic; notnews; sejalsukhadwala; uncharted; unitedkingdom
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To: Rebelbase

Dummies who don’t know anything about food or how it influences cultures or how it has traveled around the world since Marco Polo brought home the noodle from China.

Liberals trying to make the world a dumber place.


61 posted on 08/06/2018 4:24:44 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: henkster

Remember also, that Brits and even Indian Brits are wildly jealous of Ramsey’s success.

I much prefer him traipsing the world than Anthony Bourdain.


62 posted on 08/06/2018 4:26:58 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: I want the USA back
It’s not over. There will be something else after “cultural appropriation.” The point is to beat Whites into submission, forcing them to their knees, beating their chests in pathetic cries for forgiveness.

One price of freedom, is the requirement that we not care about the opinions of people like her.

63 posted on 08/06/2018 4:28:29 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("It rubs the rainbow on it's skin or it gets the diversity again!")
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To: Rebelbase

Is that wine she’s holding made in India? How dare she appropriate French or Italian culture by enjoying something that wasn’t grown in her own back yard?


64 posted on 08/06/2018 4:42:44 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: blueplum

And turn off the AC biotch!


65 posted on 08/06/2018 4:50:25 AM PDT by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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To: Rebelbase

Should we stop sending food aid to the rest of the world because our food is so immoral?


66 posted on 08/06/2018 5:11:00 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: Rebelbase
She needs to put down that wine RIGHT NOW.

Also take off the watch.

Cultural appropriation!

Cultural appropriation!

Oh where are my smelling salts? I think I might swoon.

67 posted on 08/06/2018 5:40:47 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea is getting cold.)
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To: Rebelbase

So, we can’t mix the races? That’s called Apartheid. It’s also a key believe of the KKK.

So we can’t mix the races cuisines? Sounds like apartheid to me.

Once again, we see how Social Justice Warriors are the real racists!

F ‘em. We’ll do what we want! SJW are NOT the boss of me.


68 posted on 08/06/2018 5:47:32 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (MAGAMarchOnWashington.com)
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To: Rebelbase; All

I’m eating German chocolate and Irish butter. Am I gonna die?


69 posted on 08/06/2018 7:06:45 AM PDT by redhead (PRAYfor little ones in pedo pipeline: child livestock: raped, tortured, and satanically sacrificed.)
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To: redhead
I’m eating German chocolate and Irish butter. Am I gonna die?

No, but if you have no Teutonic or Gaelic blood in you, you are likely guilty of appropriating their cultures. Off to the re-education camp for you!

70 posted on 08/06/2018 7:10:06 AM PDT by SamAdams76 ( If you are offended by what I have to say here then you can blame your parents for raising a wuss)
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To: SamAdams76
Whew! Irish/English/Scots/Welsh, and Dutch/German/whatever... Mutt. Through and through. Vive la difference!
71 posted on 08/06/2018 7:12:13 AM PDT by redhead (PRAYfor little ones in pedo pipeline: child livestock: raped, tortured, and satanically sacrificed.)
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To: Rebelbase
Half of what is called 'haut cuisine' I wouldn't eat(much less pay big $$ for) Mostly raw meat, baby food type purees smeared on a plate, weird combinations. That said, anyone can cook whatever the hell they want to eat. Do we really want to be limited to our 'cultural' history of eating? Will there be food police? Laws for eating out and shopping? I would be limited to eating only French and Spanish foods- ok; so blacks can't eat anything that didn't grow in Africa? Norwegians can't eat tacos? Mexicans can't eat ice cream? Good luck enforcing that!
As for Gordon Ramsay, I'd watch him make toast. He's the total package- looks, accent and he cooks!
72 posted on 08/06/2018 7:22:28 AM PDT by ClearBlueSky (ISLAM is the problem. ISLAM is the enemy of civilization.)
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To: blueplum

Don’t forget “indoor plumbing”.


73 posted on 08/06/2018 8:27:31 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: redhead

Eventually.


74 posted on 08/06/2018 8:31:42 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Robert DeLong

Thanks. Bet Miss Thang ain’t drinking domestic


75 posted on 08/06/2018 9:18:10 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: gattaca

Wonder what I should eat?

The four strongest bloodlines in me are Spanish, German, African, and Taino (the Indians of Puerto Rico; I did one of those ancestry.com DNA tests.)


76 posted on 08/06/2018 1:17:59 PM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites.)
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To: nopardons

It doesn’t matter where the material comes from. We are talking JEANS. LEVI TYPE BLUE JEANS. Strictly, culturally American.


77 posted on 08/06/2018 2:18:46 PM PDT by Hildy (The worst part of betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.)
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To: Hildy
"Jeans" is a fairly new term; from the very first time that Levi Strauss made his pants, they were called DUNGAREES and called that for a reason! And as far as white Europeans go, it was the Brits who first "appropriated" the material!

Go read the history!

This whole "misappropriation" garbage is patently ridiculous; however, without enough factual knowledge, you are going to lose every single argument that you have with one of those KOOKS!

There are many things that white, male Americans have invented ( European ones too ), that easily blows away their uneducated arguments...we need to stick to those.

78 posted on 08/06/2018 2:26:02 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi

I’ve been looking into ordering one of those DNA kits. Not sure which one is most accurate.


79 posted on 08/07/2018 3:55:16 AM PDT by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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