They have moved from offensive food to offended by food adjectives.
Late-night talk show host James Cordon recently found himself caught up in social controversy due to a feature on the show.In a variant truth or Dare Game, called Overflow your guts, or fill your guts, He posed a challenging or embarrassing question to a famous guest, and they could choose to answer or choose to eat the disgusting food provided.
Of course, this is the time we live now, and some people are offended. Some of the food he chooses comes from Asia, a separate Tik Tok account complained. Yes, it all happened. This life-challenged man created a storm in the bamboo steamer when he initiated the petition. After receiving a lot of angry signatures, Corden has succumbed and vowed to change his part.
This insistence on using food as a battlefield may stem from all the culinary conflicts portrayed in our culture. Of course, shows like “Cupcake Wars” and “Hell’s Kitchen” inspired this intolerant local aggression, and we are now letting the Washington Post expand this theme. One of their food writers, G. Daniela Galarza written A long column of rice cakes, she detailed the latest violations found behind the walk-in freezer.
“I received the first of several emails from readers, Complain, or blame me tenderly“When she started to complain, she wrote a newsletter entry.
One reader wrote: “You often serve exotic foreign cuisines. We don’t even order food in restaurants, and certainly don’t want to cook at home.” Another complained about the “exotic ingredients” in some recipes and asked Can I” please try to choose some recipes featuring ready-made ingredients? “
You might think, at this time, she is worrying about the challenge of ingredients, or cooking on top of their heads. Do not. Galarza is troubled by the use of the word “exotic”. She can’t imply that this neutral description is racist in some way, can she? Yes, she definitely can.
The more critical problem is that its use, especially when used for food, indirectly lengthens the metaphysical distance between one group of people and another, and in the process strengthens xenophobia and racism.
So now we must go down this rabbit hole and make sure we have non-GMO, vegetarian-friendly carrots when we go through the tunnel. As far as I know, the word “exotic” usually carries some positive changes. The definitions of rare, advanced, exclusive, and any other respectable are usually appended. Considering that “exotic” animals are rare and popular, “exotic” fashion is regarded as highly fashionable, and “exotic” cars are regarded as an interesting journey but very expensive. The same goes for “exotic” dancers.
In addition to the obvious despair offended by the word, this also provides the paradox of gourmet dissatisfaction. As the author puts forward, the complaint here is that the word “exotic” is alienated, and as far as food is concerned, it should be explored, accepted and enjoyed. Then you just jumped out of one minefield and entered another minefield because; we all know that when you eat and enjoy food from another country, you are appropriating their culture.
This is just an exercise in finding the problem. The practice of making food a social topic has become very stupid; it is self-defeating. Food should be one of the ways we bridge the gap between cultures. We start to travel through the menu, get to know others and expand our horizons. Strangers gather at the dishes; potential enemies can become allies by sharing drinks from each other’s land. Peace can be achieved through shared consumption.
The noble thinkers in our society want the opposite. They drew a battle line on the table, they made the dishes Balkanized. We cannot eat Mexican food or drink tequila on May 5th, otherwise we risk offending. For fear of insensitivity, we cannot provide foreigners with traditional items.In the Obama era, mentioning the president and fried chicken was a minefield because some highly sensitive souls declared racism, but then itEdit until the time in question Was photographed eating fried chicken unexpectedly.
This is how stupid things can become, and it’s easy. Making food a problem does not solve any problems, it only creates new problems. Food should bring other people together; it is not a wall between people and culture. Now, we have reached a new low point in the kitchen, where not only food can be regarded as a racial issue, but simply describing a food can also be racist.
This kind of harmless self-righteous pretentiousness is the driving force of our culture and media today. Here, we have a noble food critic who managed to write a 2,200-word complaint—one word. This migraine-causing idiot makes me want to drink an exotic cocktail. By making it a double attack, it is double offensive.
