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..."

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. 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. 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. 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. The whole "chef" thing has run amok in
the USA.

--Bryan

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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? If they are really taking culture,
there are hundreds and hundreds of cultures in the world, and billions
of people with mixed cultures. My roots are European, but a mix of
English, Irish, Scottish, French and German. They are all distinct
cultures. 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. 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. 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.

On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 18:55:42 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>We have to get rid of this attitude that every jackass in the world has
>a right to be offended.

If I had a signature, that could be it.

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 .
--
Snag
Illegitimi non
carborundum

On Sunday, December 20, 2020 at 8:36:36 PM UTC-6, Snag wrote:
> 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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? If they are really taking culture,
> > there are hundreds and hundreds of cultures in the world, and billions
> > of people with mixed cultures. My roots are European, but a mix of
> > English, Irish, Scottish, French and German. They are all distinct
> > cultures. 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. 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. 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 .


"The fact that you are offended does not constitute a problem for me..."

"Life is not a 'safe space'..."

--
Best
Greg

GM wrote:
....
> "The fact that you are offended does not constitute a problem for me..."
>
> "Life is not a 'safe space'..."

show on this map where climate change touched you.


songbird

On 12/20/2020 6:52 PM, GM wrote:
> On Sunday, December 20, 2020 at 8:36:36 PM UTC-6, Snag wrote:
>> 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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? If they are really taking culture,
>>> there are hundreds and hundreds of cultures in the world, and billions
>>> of people with mixed cultures. My roots are European, but a mix of
>>> English, Irish, Scottish, French and German. They are all distinct
>>> cultures. 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. 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. 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 .
>
>
> "The fact that you are offended does not constitute a problem for me..."
>
> "Life is not a 'safe space'..."
>

"work, not woke"

On Sunday, December 20, 2020 at 11:53:26 AM UTC-10, 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..."
Here you go, Hawaiian cucumber kim chee. There's no Korean pepper flakes, no fish sauce. It's a very light, refreshing kim chee. FOB Koreans would probably be horrified.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/dkiFyUHwcR5cp55AA