On 12/20/2020 5:55 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2020-12-20 6:40 p.m., Bryan Simmons wrote:
>> On Sunday, December 20, 2020 at 3:53:26 PM UTC-6, Lenona wrote:
>>> For those who don't know, she's also an author and a syndicated
>>> advice columnist.
>>>
>>> http://www.advicegoddess.com/archive....html#comments
>>>
>>>
>>> First lines:
>>>
>>> "People need to realize how obscene it is that chefs are accused of
>>> cultural crime for cooking dish not from their exact culture and not
>>> bowing and scraping properly to the culture it comes from..."
>>>
>> If the bogus "chefs" could make ethnic food as good as the ethnic
>> immigrants,
>> and sell it at a competitive price, more power to them, but their
>> overpriced
>> creative imitations seldom come even close.Â* Yesterday, I got a couple
>> tostadas
>> from a Mexican store on the East Side, Fairmont City, IL, a suburb of
>> EAST ST. LOUIS,
>> Yeah, East St. Louis.Â* None of these *chefs* are selling spectacular
>> steak tostadas,
>> and their frufru fusion crap is inferior and pricier.
>>
>> I try to come close to duplicating some ethnic dishes at home, but
>> they're never the
>> real thing.Â* I love the melting pot of immigrants bringing their foods
>> to the USA, but
>> it takes generations for ethnic foods to become mainstreamed, and
>> often that
>> means dumbed down to American tastes.Â* The whole "chef" thing has run
>> amok in
>> the USA.
>>
>
>
> I have at it up to my ears with this political correctness bullshit.
> There say culture but what they probably mean is race.Â* They don't want
> people of one using the cuisine of another race because they might find
> that they do a better job on it?Â* If they are really taking culture,
> there are hundreds and hundreds of cultures in the world, and billions
> of people with mixed cultures.Â* My roots are European, but a mix of
> English, Irish, Scottish, French and German.Â* They are all distinct
> cultures.Â* There have been controversies in Canada and the US about
> people dressing as native characters and complaints of cultural
> appropriation. Well hell, they do it all the time.Â* There are a few
> hundred "first nations" in the country, some of them sharing some
> aspects of a culture but many of them completely different from the others.
>
> If chefs and cooks aren't to use the traditional dishes of other
> cultures it is going to cause a major problem in the restaurant
> business. Look at the number of Asians and Hispanics working in the
> kitchens of American restaurants.Â* My son managed restaurants in Toronto
> and most of his kitchen staff were Tamils.
>
> We have to get rid of this attitude that every jackass in the world has
> a right to be offended.
>
>

But Dave , they DO have a right to be offended ! They just have no
right to force me to change because they're offended . Forget political
correctness , I don't call a spade a spade , I call it a ****in' shovel .
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