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GrundleStiltzkin
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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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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?
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.
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.
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.
But glazed meat on rice? Pass.