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GrundleStiltzkinGrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,515 Standard Supporter

A Food Fight at Oberlin College

Last week, students at Oberlin made national headlines for casting complaints about bad dining-hall food––a perennial lament of collegians––as a problematic social-justice failure. Word spread via people who saw their behavior as political correctness run amok. The New York Post gleefully mocked the students “at Lena Dunham’s college.” On social media, many wondered if the controversy was a parody.

In fact, it is quite real.

The core student grievance, as reported by Clover Lihn Tran at The Oberlin Review: Bon Appétit, the food service vendor, “has a history of blurring the line between culinary diversity and cultural appropriation by modifying the recipes without respect for certain Asian countries’ cuisines. This uninformed representation of cultural dishes has been noted by a multitude of students, many of who have expressed concern over the gross manipulation of traditional recipes.”

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  • Fenderbender123Fenderbender123 Member Posts: 2,988
    WTF is culinary diversity and cultural appropriation? I don't really listen to hip-hop, so please help me out here.

    Also, how do you respect a cuisine? I always thought a cuisine was just food, and therefore incapable of having thoughts or feelings. But it's been awhile since I went to college, and I know science has come a long way since then.

    Did Clover (likely a 3-leaf) give any consideration to the fact that a food service vendor is in business to make money, and that maybe they found out that they can make more money by modifying the recipes so that they actually have flavor, in which case she (I'm assuming it's a she based on how pretentious and bitchy her "grievance" is) should be complaining about their customers?
  • doogsinparadisedoogsinparadise Member Posts: 9,320
    Hilarious. We're going to have to reclaim the hamburger, blue jeans, etc. from the rest of the world, it's only fair.
  • Fire_Marshall_BillFire_Marshall_Bill Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 24,399 Founders Club
    edited December 2015
    Yeah I saw that on Fagbook three or four days ago.

    I can understand a student from Tokyo saying, "Gee, this teriyaki isn't the same as it back home, maybe they should change it." OTOH, you're in fucking Ohio. What exactly did you expect? To throw a hissy fit protest over it, carry it to this extent, and play martyr over it is stupid.

    Some black organization there wants to be paid for protesting. I thought I was reading The ONion or something. Get a real job.
  • whatshouldicareaboutwhatshouldicareabout Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 12,918 Swaye's Wigwam

    Yeah I saw that on Fagbook three or four days ago.

    I can understand a student from Tokyo saying, "それは家に戻って、多分彼らはそれを変更する必要がありますようジーは、この照り焼きは同じではありません。" OTOH, you're in fucking Ohio. What exactly did you expect? To throw a hissy fit protest over it, carry it to this extent, and play martyr over it is stupid.

    Some black organization there wants to be paid for protesting. I thought I was reading The ONion or something. Get a real job.

    FTFY
  • H_DH_D Member Posts: 6,098

    Yeah I saw that on Fagbook three or four days ago.

    I can understand a student from Tokyo saying, "それは家に戻って、多分彼らはそれを変更する必要がありますようジーは、この照り焼きは同じではありません。" OTOH, you're in fucking Ohio. What exactly did you expect? To throw a hissy fit protest over it, carry it to this extent, and play martyr over it is stupid.

    Some black organization there wants to be paid for protesting. I thought I was reading The ONion or something. Get a real job.

    FTFY
    Japanese Superiority Guy
  • HuskyJWHuskyJW Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 14,889 Swaye's Wigwam
    No shit.

    First thing in cafeteria during Black History Month at the college I work at....fried chicken and watermelon.

    As someone as white as the driven snow I LOL'ed....but part of me shook my head in absolute disbelief
  • doogsinparadisedoogsinparadise Member Posts: 9,320
    This is ridiculous, but it's the inevitable result of turning private college into a 50k/yr consumer good.
  • PurpleJPurpleJ Member Posts: 37,511 Founders Club
    HuskyJW said:

    No shit.

    First thing in cafeteria during Black History Month at the college I work at....fried chicken and watermelon.

    As someone as white as the driven snow I LOL'ed....but part of me shook my head in absolute disbelief

    People act like blacks are the only race who eats fried chicken and watermelon (with waffles and hennessey). I call bullshit on that. They didn't invent that shit in Africa. It isn't "ethnic" food.
  • Fenderbender123Fenderbender123 Member Posts: 2,988
    PurpleJ said:

    HuskyJW said:

    No shit.

    First thing in cafeteria during Black History Month at the college I work at....fried chicken and watermelon.

    As someone as white as the driven snow I LOL'ed....but part of me shook my head in absolute disbelief

    People act like blacks are the only race who eats fried chicken and watermelon (with waffles and hennessey). I call bullshit on that. They didn't invent that shit in Africa. It isn't "ethnic" food.
    This. I mean, technically the only ethnic food we have for black people is black people themselves.





    Is that too racist for this board? I'm still getting dialed in.
  • AZDuckAZDuck Member Posts: 15,381
    日本人は照り焼きを食べていません。HTH。
  • H_DH_D Member Posts: 6,098
    AZDuck said:

    日本人は照り焼きを食べていません。HTH。

    Disagree. It's just a lot different.
  • AZDuckAZDuck Member Posts: 15,381
    edited December 2015
    H_D said:

    AZDuck said:

    日本人は照り焼きを食べていません。HTH。

    Disagree. It's just a lot different.
    Put it this way - there's a shit-ton of "teriyaki" joints in the South Sound. Not one of them serves something that an actual Japanese person would recognize as Japanese food. Believe me, I'd be hitting up any semi-decent yakitori or izakaya every fucking night.

    But glazed meat on rice? Pass.
  • H_DH_D Member Posts: 6,098
    AZDuck said:

    H_D said:

    AZDuck said:

    日本人は照り焼きを食べていません。HTH。

    Disagree. It's just a lot different.
    Put it this way - there's a shit-ton of "teriyaki" joints in the South Sound. Not one of them serves something that an actual Japanese person would recognize as Japanese food. Believe me, I'd be hitting up any semi-decent yakitori or izakaya every fucking night.

    But glazed meat on rice? Pass.
    No disagreement there. A decent yakiniku and/or shabu shabu restaurant would make a killing.
  • RoadTripRoadTrip Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 7,912 Founders Club
    Why weren't the Vietnamese included in this shit? They make Pho King Good food.

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