Posted on 07/08/2021 11:13:18 PM PDT by knighthawk
A food writer from the Washington Post sparked outrage after saying that foreign food should no longer be called 'exotic' because it reinforces xenophobia and racism.
In a Wednesday perspective piece for the paper, G. Daniela Galarza complained about recent responses she received to a story, with critics mentioning the recipe she described as being 'exotic'.
'Reading the word hit me like a slap, and initially, I wasn’t even sure why,' Galarza wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Trick question. Don’t care.
There is no foreign food. There’s only food I like, and food I don’t like, for various reasons. If people somewhere else eat it, and it’s good, bring it on.
These people who wish to Balkanize the US need to be derided until they quit.
who are these people to demand we talk and think in ways approved only by them?
ignore them and continue to speak the way you want to
laugh and humiliate them when they say this crap
who made you the boss of the world
your worldview is no better than mine, go eff off in the corner over there alone, no one wants you around
What about Cobra Vine, Rat’s ears, Monkey brains, Bull’s eyes, roasted Fruit bat or Dog stew?
Just another version of Apple Pie?
They have it so good they have to find reasons to be angry and offended.
The Leftist idiocy continues on with each passing day......
While the Wash Red Post bannerline says that “Democracy Dies in Darkness”, the real saying about the Post is “Stupidity Thrives at the Post”.
heck, what about balut?
I have never tried it. I can’t past the thought of what it is. I can’t handle durian or dinuguan either. 😀
There isn’t a CHINAMAN’S CHANCE of me ever engaging in this wokeist newspeak
‘Reading the word hit me like a slap, and initially, I wasn’t even sure why,
Mebe cause you are insane!
Exotic
1) : introduced from another country : not native to the place where found
2) : strikingly, excitingly, or mysteriously different or unusual
late 16th century: via Latin from Greek exōtikos ‘foreign’, from exō ‘outside’.
Seems like the correct word for foreign foods.
Never heard food being called exotic.
Oh, just a version of all American ham and eggs!
She must wonder why she gets slapped so much.
Because you crazy diva why.
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