Posted on 08/05/2018 8:13:10 PM PDT by Rebelbase
(snip) According to the press release, National Geographics Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted, scheduled to air next year, promises three key ingredients: unlocking a cultures 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.
Lets look at all three elements.
The first two are about a sweary, loud-mouthed chef with little understanding of a countrys cuisine, traipsing around with a camera crew, discovering their centuries-old culinary secrets, traditions and customs.
And lets 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, lets 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.
Its the third part of the statement thats had everyone riled though.
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.
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.
One price of freedom, is the requirement that we not care about the opinions of people like her.
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?
And turn off the AC biotch!
Should we stop sending food aid to the rest of the world because our food is so immoral?
Also take off the watch.
Cultural appropriation!
Cultural appropriation!
Oh where are my smelling salts? I think I might swoon.
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.
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!
Don’t forget “indoor plumbing”.
Eventually.
Thanks. Bet Miss Thang aint drinking domestic
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.)
It doesn’t matter where the material comes from. We are talking JEANS. LEVI TYPE BLUE JEANS. Strictly, culturally American.
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.
I’ve been looking into ordering one of those DNA kits. Not sure which one is most accurate.
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