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My grandmother had what I would call food racism. She would regularly dismiss rice as being ethnic food. It was profoundly annoying to deal with, but I always f
by ouid 10y ago
My grandmother had what I would call food racism. She would regularly dismiss rice as being ethnic food. It was profoundly annoying to deal with, but I always felt that I really had no right to confront her about it. I wish I could articulate why I felt that way. It's almost exactly the same pattern of thought that people racism is (but without victims).
She didn't really have a good system for describing what made food (or by extension, people) good, and instead of just living with some uncertainty, her brain created a bunch of rules that correlated with her enjoyment. Then she lazily conflated that with an honest to god definition of good food (people), and used that to exclude just about everything else as uncivilized.
I don't think that the author of this article would consider this the underlying cause of the problem, and I agree that he comes off as a bit whiny, but I think he's noticing a real problem. Maybe the most intractible problem that we have.
- ajmurmann 10y agoI think what you are describing is actual racism what the author is describing to me sounds like someone being unhappy with the culture the live in being different and being badly educated about the culture their ancestors came from. Food is core to every culture. We all need to figure out what is edible and what isn't. Raw foods and fermented foods are right in the riskier category of what's edible and therefore frequently considered problematic by other cultures. That's a good thing. It means we have different cultures and diversity on our planet.