Pushing the Pussy Envelope
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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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? -
Hilarious. We're going to have to reclaim the hamburger, blue jeans, etc. from the rest of the world, it's only fair.
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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. -
I raff out roud at the pussy asians. FUUUUUUCK YOU.
Your fucking great-grandfathers were dive bombing Zeros into the sides of battleships and you're fucking complaining about 'lack of diversity in asian menu'?!?
Fuck you right in pussy.
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I am pretty sure this falls into the "I hate everyone and hope they get napalmed while being devoured by a horde of mutated sloths" category.
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Damn, based on the title to the thread, I thought "we" finally had a taint licking topic.
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FTFYFire_Marshall_Bill said: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. -
Japanese Superiority Guywhatshouldicareabout said:
FTFYFire_Marshall_Bill said: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. -
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 -
This is ridiculous, but it's the inevitable result of turning private college into a 50k/yr consumer good.
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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.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 -
This. I mean, technically the only ethnic food we have for black people is black people themselves.PurpleJ said:
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.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
Is that too racist for this board? I'm still getting dialed in. -
日本人は照り焼きを食べていません。HTH。
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Why the fuck hasn't the sun engulfed the earth yet. Does the sun need more time? For fucks sake kill us off already
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Disagree. It's just a lot different.AZDuck said:日本人は照り焼きを食べていません。HTH。
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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.H_D said:
Disagree. It's just a lot different.AZDuck said:日本人は照り焼きを食べていません。HTH。
But glazed meat on rice? Pass. -
No disagreement there. A decent yakiniku and/or shabu shabu restaurant would make a killing.AZDuck said:
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.H_D said:
Disagree. It's just a lot different.AZDuck said:日本人は照り焼きを食べていません。HTH。
But glazed meat on rice? Pass. -
Why weren't the Vietnamese included in this shit? They make Pho King Good food.
