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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_cuisine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_cuisine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cuisine http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
by mynameishere 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_cuisine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_cuisine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cuisine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cuisine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_cuisine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_cuisine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_cuisine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_cuisine
etc times 100. I'm sure we all appreciate Goya for helping to keep the dying Washington Post alive with their paid-for articles, but the headline is absurd on its face. I mean, I have distinct memories of eating Mexican food long before I heard of Goya corporation. And I'm pretty sure black beans and kidney beans were not unheard-of as well.
To be fair, the reporter's original headline might have been, "A short corporate biography of Goya Foods", only to be changed by the editor to something more eye-catching.
- rmc 13y agoIt's a caled "othering" or "exoticification". Yes there is English, German, etc. cuisine, and all of these are 'ethnicities'. But sometimes people treat ethnicities of 'The Other'[1] as 'ethnic' or 'exotic'. [1] Us vs. Them stuff here. Who is 'Us', and who is 'Them'/'The Other' depends on where you are.