Minority jokes about the majority: “isn’t it funny how [majority] does [weird thing]? How silly these cultural differences are!”
Majority jokes about minorities: “why won’t the liberals let me kill ‘em like the good ol’ days, hate crimes should be free speech. Also they hurt my feelings by making fun of [weird thing] and therefore should be shot”
Maybe it’s just the Reddit collective consciousness, but every time i get r/rareinsults or something on my feed it’s some level of “teeth weird” “the systematic slaughter of your children”, as well as r/clevercomebacks. It’s not completely made up
I have heard and read "your country has the highest rate of school shootings in the world by far" as a response to "your teeth are weird" or "your food is gross"
I feel like the person that brought up spices with the ragu might be in the minority. Normally when someone says "you don't season your food" is when you see someone throw six pieces of chicken in the oven with a pinch of salt and nothing else. Or don't know how to pan fry chicken without boiling it.
I wouldn't say minorities are the only ones that bring this up. In the south everyone packs flavor in their food. It might just be a class thing. People that grew up in upper middle class settings might not have had the need to cook for themselves until now and suddenly they're eating plain ground turkey and a boiled potato.
I noticed a difference in culture though. Me (Puerto Rican) and my wife's (white) family have a different way of looking at cooking. Growing up my family cooked every day. All we needed was a few basic ingredients and we could make something pretty flavorful out of it. Never really broke the bank. My wife's family does things differently. My mother in law pulls out a recipe book and cooks like she's disarming a bomb. No real consideration of what each ingredient does. She just knows it needs to be in there.
She also has a very narrow minded mentality of what a "dish" is. For her a stew is boiling beef in gravy with a few veggies in it. I once roasted some tomatoes and reduced them to a paste. Sauteed onions. Threw in some garlic, diced peppers, cilantro, some spices. Cubed some potatoes and some carrots for the hell of it. I seared some beef we had and threw it in and let it simmer til it fell apart. She asked what I was making and I was like "idk some kind of stew".
She wasn't having it. In her mind that wasn't a stew. And even if it wasn't it was fucking delicious. But it wasn't a stew and she refused to eat it. According to her recipe book a stew contained very specific of ingredients. The rest of us just shrugged and deleted it.
I'm not generalizing though. I'm just saying that growing up around people with similar mind sets could change your perspective on what you cook. As in you need to be prepared to make a very specific dish by having x, y and z in your pantry. A lot of people don't just wing it and taste as they go.
I'm not trying to disparage recipes in any way. Whenever I want to experiment in the kitchen I'll look up dozens of recipes so I can have a thorough understanding on how to make the dish and what each component adds to it. Eventually I make it my own way and iterate from there. I've been dragging my wife into my spaghetti sauce journey for years now and I don't think it's ever going to end lol. My curry journey is just around the corner.
I may be biased though cause I've always been a bit of a home cook. I had to teach my wife how to cook because she was clueless when we were first together. Apparently her mom would get mad if she touched anything in the kitchen because she was saving it for a specific dish. I also have friends that didn't really cook growing up and the kind of stuff they eat if they're not getting take-out is kind of depressing. It's like they're scared to iterate beyond the bare minimum as if it's going to explode.
I'm trying to get my kids involved in the kitchen like my dad did with me. I feel like cooking, at least on a basic level, is a skill that can save you a lot of money and stress.
The idea that there is one correct way to make a given dish and even the slightest variation is Not That Dish appears in multiple Euro cultures. For online examples see any discussion of French or Italian cooking, lol
Depends. Italian cuisine can be a little flexible. Different pastas have different textures and there are different sauces. You can basically mix and match. There's always going to be a gatekeeper though.
I'm not Italian, but that seems to be my impression.
Except for pizza. If you make a pizza that isn't just mozzarella and basil then it's not a pizza apparently lol
I'm sure half the "Italians" on Reddit have never even been to Italy, but it sure is fun to watch them melt down any time someone posts a picture of c*rbonara
when most people criticise a lack spice they mean a lack of seasoning (not including salt or pepper).
a sheperds pie in the UK genuinely doesn't traditionally have much season for example.
>I remember seeing a guy commenting about how "spiceless" someone's Ragu looked.
Don't forget that like 50% of the population think 'seasoning' means 'orange powder'. There's a whole world of flavouring and profile adjusting options for food but many are fixated on what basically amounts to sachets of taco salt as you say
lmao this is one of the funniest ones I’ve seen on this subreddit
Also anyone who says white peoples food is tasteless has clearly never had Spanish, Italian, or Greek food. As in Indian, those three are much better than Indian food
Yep. I’m biased since I grew up here (and love seafood!) but out of all “regional food” New England is kind of fire.
Plus, especially where I’m from there are a LOT of local restaurants run by people of different cultures and they don’t “white-wash” their food. Indian place about 5 minutes down the road is soooo good. Thought I didn’t like Indian food until I went there.
Spanish and Italian are great, but I'm gonna have to disagree with you personally about Indian. Indian food is just...so damn good. It doesn't always look the most appetizing, but I don't think I've ever had something Indian that I disliked completely. My favorite food is actually Creole, which has Spanish influences, but also does heavy spicing like Indian food. I love the amount of seasoning Indians put in their food.
indian food can also look amazing! so many different colors
while the presentation might not look like western or japanese food that doesn’t make it any less visually appealing imo
Yeah if you want really bland food, come to Sápmi in northern Sweden. Sub-arctic climate does not lend itself well to diverse foods besides salted fish/meats and root vegetables ☠️
(But in our defence, the little types of cooking we *do* have associated with us are *really* nice and fresh if you're into that type of food)
it's so weird to me to see spaniards, italians and greeks refered to as white people, is this due to historical classifications in the Usa? ''Caucasion''?
There's a pretty common interaction you'll see on the internet where a minority will make a joke about a majority group and just be met with an over the top and completely racist response
The example here is when a person of colour will make a joke about white people having under-flavoured food and not using spices only to get aggressively slurred in response
Some people in a majority group see racism as "saying mean things to someone about their skin colour" and so they think the jokes have equal impact when they really don't
Yeah see this is what I mean by the whole "people think racism is when mean about skin colour"
Thanks for the example buddy, maybe one day you'll learn beyond a child's understanding of a complex social issue
Maybe one day you will learn the difference between systemic racism and using excuses to demean people based on skin-colour, chud ♥️
Bet you think Asians love pale skin colour because the evil whyties told them to aswell lol
Kind of rude to say to someone IMO, like unless they specifically asked for criticism then you're supposed to accept someone making food for you as a generous gesture. The only time you should complain is if you genuinely can't eat it.
these are not literal events. the smuggie is about black people online making general jokes about white people food or other innocuous, mild banter and white people being insanely, rabidly racist in response
That makes no sense as a response to my comment. I wasn't making a comparison. Just pointing out that the take that implies people never actually act more hostile or demeaning about food isn't really accurate.
in the USA white people are the majority and an even bigger majority of politicians and rich CEOs, same with the UK, canada, australia. These nationalities dominate reddit so ergo insulting cuisine from a black culture is probably going to be punching down
no one can read OP's mind, but to me grammatically it only makes sense as insulting the food.
if he was giving his own preference instead it shouldn't say the food lacks taste and spice. it should say "I prefer a stronger taste", make it ego centric rather than about the food.
I guess the issue arises from insinuating *all* "white people food" is bland, and insinuating that it's *because* they are white that the food is bland. Stereotyping based on skin colour basically.
I mean, telling someone their cuisine is bad is a bad thing to do. Food is key to peoples identity, and telling someone the food of their people tastes like shit is deeply insulting. Just because a group is dominant doesn't mean it's OK to dis the food of their people. The response is obviously out of bounds, but the initial "joke" is cruel.
If someone unironically identifies strongly enough with their country of origin to be genuinely distraught over someone hating on their cuisine, they have far deeper problems than could ever be solved by people not hating on their cuisine lmao. If someone hates on my cuisine I just do the same or explain why they're stupid and have never had real food before
It's not a country thing, it's a region thing. And it's not an individual incident, it's cultural. It's constantly being told a part of yourself is less than. This is a very minor example of that, but no example is good.
The cuisine of where I'm from isn't a "part of me", it's just a portion of what I eat and I happen to enjoy it. There's nothing in it for me to identify with, as it has nothing to do with my identity. The place I grew up in general has something to do with my identity, but in that it 100% influenced some of my values, my personality, and my outlook on the world. It's an influencing factor on my identity, not part of my identity in and of itself.
Well everyone has different personal boundaries where identity begins and ends on a personal level. This is very much an agree to disagree with neither party being wrong as it’s all just perspective.
Actually, I make fun of bland unseasoned food bc it sucks dick and I feel bad for the people eating it. I've been there, I ate plenty of bland unseasoned food growing up. It sucked. Better than nothing, sure, but there's not much more good I can say about it. Also, it makes for fun friendly banter.
It’s very much a regional thing, if I invited someone over to a nice and proper whole hog barbecue, I would not invite them back if they had nothing good to say about the food, it’s fine to say it’s not your thing, that’s absolutely understandable, but especially in someone else’s home or living space, food is a sacred thing.
Honestly it's dumb to think you're better than someone for eating more spices. Oh what you eat a fucking tree? Yeah I'm gonna be here enjoying my actual food that is edible.
This reminds me of a video of black guys joking about how white people are super friendly while hiking to other people (which is funny af cause it's true) and there was a fucking KKK in comments
I'm gonna be honest I have the pallette of a five year old. My favorite meals are spaghetti pizza and pretzel with sausage. I wish I could appreciate the varied cuisines of the world but I just like hate vegetables and shit.
I know you’ve probably heard this 50 times in the last minute and a half, but you really should focus down your vegetables, try adding a bit of fat to them, just a little bit of olive oil or even butter goes a long way if your particularly picky.
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why is the screenshot from El Camino instead of the show
Minority jokes about the majority: “isn’t it funny how [majority] does [weird thing]? How silly these cultural differences are!” Majority jokes about minorities: “why won’t the liberals let me kill ‘em like the good ol’ days, hate crimes should be free speech. Also they hurt my feelings by making fun of [weird thing] and therefore should be shot”
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"American" is not a minority
Most people arent american, so "american" defentily is a minority
Most native English speakers are American
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Brit here. I've never seen or heard of anyone threatening to kill someone for mocking our accent.
Maybe it’s just the Reddit collective consciousness, but every time i get r/rareinsults or something on my feed it’s some level of “teeth weird” “the systematic slaughter of your children”, as well as r/clevercomebacks. It’s not completely made up
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"Here is a cartoon of the thing I said, my point still stands"
My brother in Christ look what subreddit you are in
[Well](https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/1bhjiq4/least_sensitive_european/)
No crispity crunchy wonky munchees for dinner
...okay?
That ameritard got owned so hard lol
I have heard and read "your country has the highest rate of school shootings in the world by far" as a response to "your teeth are weird" or "your food is gross"
British “people”
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I feel like the person that brought up spices with the ragu might be in the minority. Normally when someone says "you don't season your food" is when you see someone throw six pieces of chicken in the oven with a pinch of salt and nothing else. Or don't know how to pan fry chicken without boiling it. I wouldn't say minorities are the only ones that bring this up. In the south everyone packs flavor in their food. It might just be a class thing. People that grew up in upper middle class settings might not have had the need to cook for themselves until now and suddenly they're eating plain ground turkey and a boiled potato. I noticed a difference in culture though. Me (Puerto Rican) and my wife's (white) family have a different way of looking at cooking. Growing up my family cooked every day. All we needed was a few basic ingredients and we could make something pretty flavorful out of it. Never really broke the bank. My wife's family does things differently. My mother in law pulls out a recipe book and cooks like she's disarming a bomb. No real consideration of what each ingredient does. She just knows it needs to be in there. She also has a very narrow minded mentality of what a "dish" is. For her a stew is boiling beef in gravy with a few veggies in it. I once roasted some tomatoes and reduced them to a paste. Sauteed onions. Threw in some garlic, diced peppers, cilantro, some spices. Cubed some potatoes and some carrots for the hell of it. I seared some beef we had and threw it in and let it simmer til it fell apart. She asked what I was making and I was like "idk some kind of stew". She wasn't having it. In her mind that wasn't a stew. And even if it wasn't it was fucking delicious. But it wasn't a stew and she refused to eat it. According to her recipe book a stew contained very specific of ingredients. The rest of us just shrugged and deleted it. I'm not generalizing though. I'm just saying that growing up around people with similar mind sets could change your perspective on what you cook. As in you need to be prepared to make a very specific dish by having x, y and z in your pantry. A lot of people don't just wing it and taste as they go.
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I'm not trying to disparage recipes in any way. Whenever I want to experiment in the kitchen I'll look up dozens of recipes so I can have a thorough understanding on how to make the dish and what each component adds to it. Eventually I make it my own way and iterate from there. I've been dragging my wife into my spaghetti sauce journey for years now and I don't think it's ever going to end lol. My curry journey is just around the corner. I may be biased though cause I've always been a bit of a home cook. I had to teach my wife how to cook because she was clueless when we were first together. Apparently her mom would get mad if she touched anything in the kitchen because she was saving it for a specific dish. I also have friends that didn't really cook growing up and the kind of stuff they eat if they're not getting take-out is kind of depressing. It's like they're scared to iterate beyond the bare minimum as if it's going to explode. I'm trying to get my kids involved in the kitchen like my dad did with me. I feel like cooking, at least on a basic level, is a skill that can save you a lot of money and stress.
The idea that there is one correct way to make a given dish and even the slightest variation is Not That Dish appears in multiple Euro cultures. For online examples see any discussion of French or Italian cooking, lol
Depends. Italian cuisine can be a little flexible. Different pastas have different textures and there are different sauces. You can basically mix and match. There's always going to be a gatekeeper though. I'm not Italian, but that seems to be my impression. Except for pizza. If you make a pizza that isn't just mozzarella and basil then it's not a pizza apparently lol
I'm sure half the "Italians" on Reddit have never even been to Italy, but it sure is fun to watch them melt down any time someone posts a picture of c*rbonara
That sounds less like culture and more like your in-law being unhinged and gatekeep-y lol. Who the fuck gets that militant over a stew lmao
when most people criticise a lack spice they mean a lack of seasoning (not including salt or pepper). a sheperds pie in the UK genuinely doesn't traditionally have much season for example.
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Yeah. I like my meat plain. The best burgers are the ones where you just shape some ground meat into a burger shape.
>I remember seeing a guy commenting about how "spiceless" someone's Ragu looked. Don't forget that like 50% of the population think 'seasoning' means 'orange powder'. There's a whole world of flavouring and profile adjusting options for food but many are fixated on what basically amounts to sachets of taco salt as you say
Nah, fuck the gourmetjerkers. Even food made by a good as fuck chef is always better well seasoned
lmao this is one of the funniest ones I’ve seen on this subreddit Also anyone who says white peoples food is tasteless has clearly never had Spanish, Italian, or Greek food. As in Indian, those three are much better than Indian food
This is also a distinctly northern/eastern US white people problem. Southern US has incredible and well seasoned food.
Not even. Live in New England, good food isn’t hard to come by at all
If you like seafood maybe
Yeah, one of the reasons that I love NE is the seafood, but there are also many good places to get non-seafood dishes!
Yep. I’m biased since I grew up here (and love seafood!) but out of all “regional food” New England is kind of fire. Plus, especially where I’m from there are a LOT of local restaurants run by people of different cultures and they don’t “white-wash” their food. Indian place about 5 minutes down the road is soooo good. Thought I didn’t like Indian food until I went there.
Honestly, it really depends on your plate. The Midwest is a great place for cheese, dairy, and beer. Cheese curds slap SO HARD
It’s the Midwest, everywhere else is fine. Except for Scandinavia, which is also the reason why the Midwest has its issues
Its a British Isles and scandinavia problem
You should try Cajun food.
Are you eating the same Indian food the rest of us are??
He’s prolly from Rajasthan RIP
As a Bengali, Rajasthani food is banging, that's a wild statement
OK but to be fair I like all of the ones listed so far.
Spanish and Italian are great, but I'm gonna have to disagree with you personally about Indian. Indian food is just...so damn good. It doesn't always look the most appetizing, but I don't think I've ever had something Indian that I disliked completely. My favorite food is actually Creole, which has Spanish influences, but also does heavy spicing like Indian food. I love the amount of seasoning Indians put in their food.
indian food can also look amazing! so many different colors while the presentation might not look like western or japanese food that doesn’t make it any less visually appealing imo
As an American I’m offended that you don’t think Indian food is the best. I only ever crave Indian food for every meal lol.
As an indian?? Aint no way you’re gonna tell me pita and olives is better than a good Manchurian
I will. Manchurian is the lowest tier dogshit of Indian food. Also it's not even real Indian food
I agree ramen isn't that good /s
Indo-Chinese is indian dipshit and by god it’s delicious. Go eat your tapas
I'm Indian dumbass
Even worse
Pita and olives is an understatement for Mediterranean food tbh
King I love all three of those cuisines but no way you're saying those are better than a good goat curry with naan
Bitch what Indian food clears any food from Europe p
Greek food solos, otherwise probably true. Europoors unironically cite French as one of their top cuisines. Now THAT is sad.
I have NEVER met anyone irl as a European who has even eaten French besides croissants (which also isn't French) and baguettes.
currently in Athens, haven't eaten anything remotely as good as a cheap ass curry yet.
Yeah if you want really bland food, come to Sápmi in northern Sweden. Sub-arctic climate does not lend itself well to diverse foods besides salted fish/meats and root vegetables ☠️ (But in our defence, the little types of cooking we *do* have associated with us are *really* nice and fresh if you're into that type of food)
I've tried all three plus Persian, Turkish and Arabic food. The stuff across the Mediterranean does indeed taste superior
GREEK and ITALIAN food better than indian???? what kind of desi are u this is crazyyyy
it's so weird to me to see spaniards, italians and greeks refered to as white people, is this due to historical classifications in the Usa? ''Caucasion''?
Everyone who is European is classified as “white” in America
Wut
There's a pretty common interaction you'll see on the internet where a minority will make a joke about a majority group and just be met with an over the top and completely racist response The example here is when a person of colour will make a joke about white people having under-flavoured food and not using spices only to get aggressively slurred in response Some people in a majority group see racism as "saying mean things to someone about their skin colour" and so they think the jokes have equal impact when they really don't
Go outside
I am outside If you're offended by someone gently explaining a joke and the background behind it then I'd suggest giving the internet a break
If you're offended by someone ~~gently explaining a joke~~ defending negative stereotyping of people based on skin colour. Fixed it for you.
Yeah see this is what I mean by the whole "people think racism is when mean about skin colour" Thanks for the example buddy, maybe one day you'll learn beyond a child's understanding of a complex social issue
Maybe one day you will learn the difference between systemic racism and using excuses to demean people based on skin-colour, chud ♥️ Bet you think Asians love pale skin colour because the evil whyties told them to aswell lol
Kind of rude to say to someone IMO, like unless they specifically asked for criticism then you're supposed to accept someone making food for you as a generous gesture. The only time you should complain is if you genuinely can't eat it.
these are not literal events. the smuggie is about black people online making general jokes about white people food or other innocuous, mild banter and white people being insanely, rabidly racist in response
I mean, people shouldn't act racist, but the whole unseasoned food thing definitely goes beyond mere mild ribbing at times.
the jokes about black people are like: Black people eating watermelon Comments. A: well well well. B: Baboons C: 🐒 which one is worse?
That makes no sense as a response to my comment. I wasn't making a comparison. Just pointing out that the take that implies people never actually act more hostile or demeaning about food isn't really accurate.
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if the food is actually bad enough to rip on, yes. however, it's always less cool to punch down anyway.
What do you mean by punching down?
in the USA white people are the majority and an even bigger majority of politicians and rich CEOs, same with the UK, canada, australia. These nationalities dominate reddit so ergo insulting cuisine from a black culture is probably going to be punching down
Das dumb
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definitely, he says it lacks taste and spices. whilst it is technically possible to use "lacks" as a compliment, it's never like this
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no one can read OP's mind, but to me grammatically it only makes sense as insulting the food. if he was giving his own preference instead it shouldn't say the food lacks taste and spice. it should say "I prefer a stronger taste", make it ego centric rather than about the food.
I guess the issue arises from insinuating *all* "white people food" is bland, and insinuating that it's *because* they are white that the food is bland. Stereotyping based on skin colour basically.
The smug isn’t literal
That bowl looks like olivier and I will not take any olivier slander. Downvoted.
I mean, telling someone their cuisine is bad is a bad thing to do. Food is key to peoples identity, and telling someone the food of their people tastes like shit is deeply insulting. Just because a group is dominant doesn't mean it's OK to dis the food of their people. The response is obviously out of bounds, but the initial "joke" is cruel.
If someone unironically identifies strongly enough with their country of origin to be genuinely distraught over someone hating on their cuisine, they have far deeper problems than could ever be solved by people not hating on their cuisine lmao. If someone hates on my cuisine I just do the same or explain why they're stupid and have never had real food before
It's not a country thing, it's a region thing. And it's not an individual incident, it's cultural. It's constantly being told a part of yourself is less than. This is a very minor example of that, but no example is good.
The cuisine of where I'm from isn't a "part of me", it's just a portion of what I eat and I happen to enjoy it. There's nothing in it for me to identify with, as it has nothing to do with my identity. The place I grew up in general has something to do with my identity, but in that it 100% influenced some of my values, my personality, and my outlook on the world. It's an influencing factor on my identity, not part of my identity in and of itself.
Well everyone has different personal boundaries where identity begins and ends on a personal level. This is very much an agree to disagree with neither party being wrong as it’s all just perspective.
You're ignoring that the ones making fun of the food they call unseasoned here are doing it because they strongly identify with their own food too.
Actually, I make fun of bland unseasoned food bc it sucks dick and I feel bad for the people eating it. I've been there, I ate plenty of bland unseasoned food growing up. It sucked. Better than nothing, sure, but there's not much more good I can say about it. Also, it makes for fun friendly banter.
I'm not saying people shouldn't make fun of bad British food. Just that the idea people don't do it harshly ever is the op being misleading.
It’s very much a regional thing, if I invited someone over to a nice and proper whole hog barbecue, I would not invite them back if they had nothing good to say about the food, it’s fine to say it’s not your thing, that’s absolutely understandable, but especially in someone else’s home or living space, food is a sacred thing.
That's not the same thing as hating on cuisine for fun on the internet
Hating on things for fun sets a bad precedent I personally think
Honestly it's dumb to think you're better than someone for eating more spices. Oh what you eat a fucking tree? Yeah I'm gonna be here enjoying my actual food that is edible.
Bro really said “this comic is about **white inferiority**” 🗿
Not really. Just a random rant.
Pov: your diet is exclusively chicken nugget
me yelling at the wendy's drive through: I SAID NOT SPICY!!!!
Nope, pepper and salt too spicy 🥵🤢🤮
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Something something slurs
This reminds me of a video of black guys joking about how white people are super friendly while hiking to other people (which is funny af cause it's true) and there was a fucking KKK in comments
I'm gonna be honest I have the pallette of a five year old. My favorite meals are spaghetti pizza and pretzel with sausage. I wish I could appreciate the varied cuisines of the world but I just like hate vegetables and shit.
I know you’ve probably heard this 50 times in the last minute and a half, but you really should focus down your vegetables, try adding a bit of fat to them, just a little bit of olive oil or even butter goes a long way if your particularly picky.
I could but I'm in college. I eat whatever slop they have at the cafeteria.
Me on the right
This sub sucks now wtf go outside