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EDIT: Okay, it was a bit silly of me to drag my heels in, I don't strictly hate it and there are good things about British cooking (mostly veggies), but I find the meme's meat obsession super silly. I am having stomach pains and cramped arteries just looking at this stuff.

Highly underratedI love how it's superimposed on the diapers lmao, I hope the meme was ironic

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

dawg I know you mean well here, but you are doing race essentialism based on food utensils. Chinese Americans have existed in America for nearly 200 years and have distinct foodways based entirely on the history of regional cuisines, available ingredients, and the interaction between those two things and other cultures in a new space. It is called Chinese American because it is distinct from the remembered cuisine and unique to the space where it was created. This is what happens to any and every culture when they are displaced, forcibly or voluntarily. Chinese-Argentinian food will be related to Chinese-American food but will be unique to that culture and local ingredients.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

If they were truly unique, then you wouldn't consider them American food either. They would just be their own set of dishes that is neither Chinese nor American but its own thing. I could respect that and even make an argument earlier that Chinese American, Chinese Peruvian, Chinese Korean, and so on could be lumped together as Chinese diasporic food that is neither "pure" Chinese nor food of their host countries. But you are not doing that. In comparison to Chinese food, it's "these dishes are heavily divergent from Chinese food," but in comparison to American food, it's suddenly "uh aktually, these are American dishes despite having little in common with other American dishes." Chinese American food might be different than "pure" Chinese food, but it's still a helluva lot similar to that than "pure" American food. Why the double standard?