OR - SJWs close white women's burrito shop

[Anti Federalist]

At first glance, these two seem to be committed SJWs themselves.

If so, they were destroyed by their own.

Allow me to say:

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White women's burrito shop is forced to close after being hounded with accusations it was 'culturally appropriating Mexican food and jobs'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4538398/Burrito-shop-shuts-accused-stealing-culture.html#ixzz4i29jH4M0

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Kali Wilgus and Liz 'LC' Connelly opened Kooks Burritos in Portland, Oregon

The two friends did so after taking a trip to Puerto Nuevo, Mexico, last December

While there, they learned the basics by 'picking the brain of every tortilla lady'

'They wouldn't tell us too much, but we were peeking into the windows of every kitchen, fascinated by how easy they made it look,' Connelly told a magazine

Many accused them of stealing by looking into the windows without permission

Two white women have been forced to close their pop-up burrito shop after they were accused of cultural appropriation.

Kali Wilgus and Liz 'LC' Connelly opened Kooks Burritos in Portland, Oregon, after taking a trip to Puerto Nuevo, Mexico, last December.

For the first few months, the weekend pop-up shop housed in an taco truck was a smash hit. It gained so much popularity, a local weekly newspaper decided to profile the entrepreneurial duo.

But that's when the trouble started for Wilgus and Connelly, after quotes they gave to the Williamette Week led to them being accused of stealing their success.

The store initially a success, but it was forced to close after the duo was accused of cultural appropriation. Pictured is a meal from Kooks

Explaining their trip, Connelly told the newspaper: 'I picked the brains of every tortilla lady there in the worst broken Spanish ever, and they showed me a little of what they did.

'In Puerto Nuevo, you can eat $5 lobster on the beach, which they give you with this bucket of tortillas. They are handmade flour tortillas that are stretchy and a little buttery, and best of all, unlimited.

'They wouldn't tell us too much about technique, but we were peeking into the windows of every kitchen, totally fascinated by how easy they made it look. We learned quickly it isn't quite that easy.'

Those comments were latched onto by a food blog in the Portland Mercury, which accused Wilgus and Connelly of 'preying' on the women they met in Mexico.

After the duo gave an interview, many took to social media to accuse them of stealing from another culture

'This week in white nonsense, two white women—Kali Wilgus and Liz 'LC' Connely—decided it would be cute to open a food truck after a fateful excursion to Mexico,' the piece opened.

'The owners of Kooks Burritos all but admitted in an interview with Willamette Week that they colonized this style of food.

'So let’s recap the story thus far: These two white women went to Mexico, ate tacos, and then decided they would just take what the locals clearly didn't want to give them.

'If that wasn't bad enough, they decided to pack up all their stolen intellectual property and repackage it.'

The piece went on to claim getting the weekend taco truck closed was a 'victory' in Portland - a city it accused of having 'underlying racism'.

'These appropriating businesses are erasing and exploiting their already marginalized identities for the purpose of profit and praise,' it stated.

Many on social media and the comments section of the Williamette Week article shared in the outrage.

Many defended the duo after news spread that it had been forced to shut up shop amid the accusations

'Stealing is in their (white people's) nature so I'm not surprised. They're not creative so they had to get the idea from someone,' Tee McNeill wrote on Facebook.

'Kooks Burritos is now closed. Good riddance!' Jonas Lord said.

'Awww, so you nice ladies stole hard-working and low-income Mexican women's tortilla recipes and are now turning a profit. That's not white basic privilege at all. #disgusting,' Alicia Dominguez commented.

'Now that you all boldly and pretty f***ing unapologetically stole the basis of these women's livelihoods, you can make their exact same product so other white ppl (sic) don't have to be inconvenienced of dealing with a pesky brown middle woman getting in their way. Great job,' Shauna MacKinnon added.

However, after news of the closure spread, many came to the defense of Wilgus and Connelly.

'1. Burritos are from L.A. 2. Tortilla making is easy and not a secret 3. Breakfast burritos=white people food,' one person wrote.

'Seriously!!!!? Do you not think they were speaking metaphorically "looking in people's windows"? She ended up with a tortilla recipe she developed herself and she puts french fries in them. Such cultural appropriation,' another said.

'Oh my god. you cannot be serious,' another wrote.

'If learning how to make a food from another culture and selling it is now considered cultural appropriation, then why not take this issue up with the successful Portland businesses that have been doing this at a much larger scale for years, and stop harassing these two women struggling to start a small business,' another added.

Kooks Burritos has deleted its website, Instagram account, Facebook page, and Twitter profile.

[Dr.3D]

I hope they don't close any Italian food places the same way.

[Swordsmyth]

If GOD has a sense of humor (and he does), these Morons will spend several centuries on their own island in purgatory, denied access to any thing that their own ancestors didn't invent, and denied anything that their ancestors built on top of something they got from others.
I would almost trade my right to eat burritos to get a ringside seat to watch them play caveman.

[phill4paul]

Is that a chicken and waffle burrito? I don't know that chicken and waffles are a "thing" in Mexico.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/05/24/17/40BF673F00000578-0-image-a-10_1495642205336.jpg

[dannno]

Um, ok, all of the Mexican places that sell burgers should also shut down.. cultural appropriation..

Fucking retards.

[tod evans]

Shoulda kept it open and hung a "whites only" sign on the door....:cool:

[phill4paul]

Um, ok, all of the Mexican places that sell burgers should also shut down.. cultural appropriation..

Fucking retards.

Now that you mention it 90% of the Mexican places in town offer a "kid's" menu with burgers, hot dogs, and tater tots. Lol.

[phill4paul]

Shoulda kept it open and hung a "whites only" sign on the door....:cool:

I would have went for a "No Snowflakes served. Only satisfied customers."

[dannno]

Now that you mention it 90% of the Mexican places in town offer a "kid's" menu with burgers, hot dogs, and tater tots. Lol.

Then there's, "welcome to yack-in-a-box"

[RJB]

This type of BS is going to lead to a helluva backlash.


They should protest Taco Bell if anything.

[lilymc]

This sounds like more divide and conquer crap to me. Phrases like "cultural appropriation" or "cisgender".... Who comes up with these idiotic, divisive phrases? Probably those who want us all to be fighting each other so we take our attention off of the true enemy.

[Madison320]

Reason #24,256 not to own a business in the U.S.

[Dr.3D]

It's a good thing Marco Polo didn't get caught bringing back the pasta recipe from China.

http://www.sbs.com.au/food/article/2016/07/29/who-invented-noodle-italy-or-china

[anaconda]

I hope they don't close any Italian food places the same way.

German restaurants.

[Dr.3D]

German restaurants.
We're all gunna starve!

[otherone]

This sounds like more divide and conquer crap to me. Phrases like "cultural appropriation" or "cisgender".... Who comes up with these idiotic, divisive phrases? Probably those who want us all to be fighting each other so we take our attention off of the true enemy.


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[sparebulb]

I have no sympathy for Kali and Liz until I see their voting records and their party affiliation.

What are the odds that two female "partners", and one named "Liz", located in Portland, OR would be constitution-thumping free marketeers?

I'll wager zero chance.

Until they provide evidence of their worthiness, these two hairy armpitted lezzies can go double-dong their burrito.

[euphemia]

Is that a chicken and waffle burrito? I don't know that chicken and waffles are a "thing" in Mexico

If it is, it would be Southern appropriation. I want reparations. And a pony.

[Swordsmyth]

I have no sympathy for Kali and Liz until I see their voting records and their party affiliation.

What are the odds that two female "partners", and one named "Liz", located in Portland, OR would be constitution-thumping free marketeers?

I'll wager zero chance.

Until they provide evidence of their worthiness, these two hairy armpitted lezzies can go double-dong their burrito.


If your educated guesses are right it is poetic justice, now the other freaks need to get theirs.

[oyarde]

Now that you mention it 90% of the Mexican places in town offer a "kid's" menu with burgers, hot dogs, and tater tots. Lol.

My Mex place has Ribs and a mushroom burger , both of which go well with Dos Equis Draft . I usually opt for the shrimp and steak fajitas .

[Anti Federalist]

Looks like a handful of re-fried sick.



Is that a chicken and waffle burrito? I don't know that chicken and waffles are a "thing" in Mexico.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/05/24/17/40BF673F00000578-0-image-a-10_1495642205336.jpg

[Anti Federalist]

This sounds like more divide and conquer crap to me. Phrases like "cultural appropriation" or "cisgender".... Who comes up with these idiotic, divisive phrases? Probably those who want us all to be fighting each other so we take our attention off of the true enemy.

I don't doubt for a second that the puppet masters, the ones pulling the strings, are all about that.

But the shock troops on the ground?

They believe the "Cultural Marxist" propaganda with a religious, fanatical zeal.

I used to not think that, but this last go around, rubbing shoulders with Bernie supporters and then watching the utter hysterical meltdown over the election, has now got me convinced.

[Danke]

Next time I see an Injun is a Westen suit, I'm gonna punch him in the face and demand he close his tribe's casino.

[Anti Federalist]

I have no sympathy for Kali and Liz until I see their voting records and their party affiliation.

What are the odds that two female "partners", and one named "Liz", located in Portland, OR would be constitution-thumping free marketeers?

I'll wager zero chance.

Until they provide evidence of their worthiness, these two hairy armpitted lezzies can go double-dong their burrito.

I didn't want to come right out and say it that way, but since you did, yeah, what he said.

[AuH20]

I don't doubt for a second that the puppet masters, the ones pulling the strings, are all about that.

But the shock troops on the ground?

They believe the "Cultural Marxist" propaganda with a religious, fanatical zeal.

I used to not think that, but this last go around, rubbing shoulders with Bernie supporters and then watching the utter hysterical meltdown over the election, has now got me convinced.


They believe all of the nonsense. Progressive utopia and what not.

[Anti Federalist]

Next time I see an Injun is a Westen suit, I'm gonna punch him in the face and demand he close his tribe's casino.

How about anybody that is not white, Western European, in a Halloween costume?

[Anti Federalist]

If it is, it would be Southern appropriation. I want reparations. And a pony.

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[lilymc]

I don't doubt for a second that the puppet masters, the ones pulling the strings, are all about that.

But the shock troops on the ground?

They believe the "Cultural Marxist" propaganda with a religious, fanatical zeal.

I used to not think that, but this last go around, rubbing shoulders with Bernie supporters and then watching the utter hysterical meltdown over the election, has now got me convinced.

Yeah, I know that many believe the cultural Marxist propaganda zealously. That's why it's sad to me… So many are taking the bait.

[merkelstan]

Then again, they *did* put french fries in burritos....

[Dr.3D]

Yeah, I know that many believe the cultural Marxist propaganda zealously. That's why it's sad to me… So many are taking the bait.
Well, it's what they pay to hear in college.

[specsaregood]

Reason #24,256 not to own a business in the U.S.

Meh, they were just not well-suited for it. They should have seized the opportunity to use the bad publicity and gotten all the sane folk to buy their food instead. But they tucked tail and ran away without a fight.

[oyarde]

Everyone in Portland is an identity poser .

[lilymc]

Well, it's what they pay to hear in college.

True. I remember hearing similar stuff when I was in college (unfortunately) and that was a long time ago. So it's probably a lot worse now.

[dannno]

Then again, they *did* put french fries in burritos....

There is a place 'round here that does that, run by some very nice middle eastern dudes. They also put fried mozzarella sticks, melted cheese and chicken tendies on some of their sandwiches. It's called stoner food.

[Danke]

Then again, they *did* put french fries in burritos....

pommes frites

[Dr.3D]

True. I remember hearing similar stuff when I was in college (unfortunately) and that was a long time ago. So it's probably a lot worse now.

I know it is.... my son was told to write a paper on why Obama is such a great president. Said he got a bad grade on that paper too.

[Swordsmyth]

I know it is.... my son was told to write a paper on why Obama is such a great president. Said he got a bad grade on that paper too.

I probably would have been expelled.

[Brian4Liberty]

For years I have frequented a halal pizza place with an Italian name (bought by Muslims when all of the old Italians were driven out of the area). Pretty good, and I could still get Canadian bacon on my pizza...

[Anti Federalist]

For years I have frequented a halal pizza place with an Italian name (bought by Muslims when all of the old Italians were driven out of the area). Pretty good, and I could still get Canadian bacon on my pizza...

Pffft...not bacon.

[Noob]

Hell with the snowflakes just make your own burritos to piss them off..


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_gRVTJbr5A

[Brian4Liberty]

Last time I was in Mexico, I had a burrito in a small shop run by a couple of American women.

[Brian4Liberty]

Hell with the snowflakes just make your own burritos to piss them off..


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_gRVTJbr5A

Not bad, except for the poor meat choice and marinade, unappetizing salsa, and refrying the beans for no apparent reason. Keep the beans whole. The fresh veggies were all good, especially with cilantro. Better meat choice would be carne asada meat from a good carniceria. It's usually very lean, sliced thin for tenderness, and you can get it pre-seasoned. Probably less expensive.

Soy sauce? Yuck. No fan of Asian-mex fusion.

So-Cal or Baja style is just carne asada with guacamole. Nor-Cal has all of the other ingredients like veggies and beans. Burrito is not really a Mexican thing, so "authentic" is very regional. Taco Bell will use refried beans, but so might an actual Mexican cook not familiar with Alta California burrito recipes. Mexicans would make a taco with the meat, not a burrito.

[Anti Federalist]

Meh, they were just not well-suited for it. They should have seized the opportunity to use the bad publicity and gotten all the sane folk to buy their food instead. But they tucked tail and ran away without a fight.

White guilt.

[Anti Federalist]

The fresh veggies were all good, especially with cilantro.

I've made my distaste for Mexican food well known, I won't re-hash it here, but that is one of the reasons why:

Am I the only one who thinks that spice tastes like soap?

And yes I know that coriander or cilantro, is European/Asian and was introduced by the Spanish to South America.

It's just that it features prominently in Mexican food and I think it tastes like dish detergent.

[specsaregood]

White guilt.

like I said, they just weren't prepared to run a business.

[dannno]

I've made my distaste for Mexican food well known, I won't re-hash it here, but that is one of the reasons why:

Am I the only one who thinks that spice tastes like soap?

And yes I know that coriander or cilantro, is European/Asian and was introduced by the Spanish to South America.

It's just that it features prominently in Mexican food and I think it tastes like dish detergent.

It's an acquired taste for some, I didn't like when the Baja Fresh opened up down the street when I was a little kid cuz they used it in everything.. But over time I ended up liking it.

[Anti Federalist]

Science!


Science Explains Why Cilantro Tastes Like Soap For Certain People

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/24/why-does-cilantro-taste-bad-like-soap_n_7653808.html

By Carly Ledbetter

When people say they hate cilantro, they often attribute this food feeling to a soapy aftertaste. Thanks to a new video from SciShow, we finally know why cilantro tastes like soap for some 4-14 percent of the population.

“How cilantro tastes to you has a lot to do with your genes,” says SciShow’s Hank Green. He explains that after conducting a few separate studies, scientists were able to pin down most cilantro haters as people with a shared group of olfactory-receptor genes, called OR6A2, that pick up on the smell of aldehyde chemicals. Aldehyde chemicals are found in both cilantro and soap. Uh, yummy?

If you are one of those anti-cilantro folks, at least you know that it’s not really your fault and you can blame your parents. To avoid that soapy taste in your dishes, we suggest swapping parsley for cilantro.

[sparebulb]

Science!


Science Explains Why Cilantro Tastes Like Soap For Certain People

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/24/why-does-cilantro-taste-bad-like-soap_n_7653808.html

By Carly Ledbetter

When people say they hate cilantro, they often attribute this food feeling to a soapy aftertaste. Thanks to a new video from SciShow, we finally know why cilantro tastes like soap for some 4-14 percent of the population.

“How cilantro tastes to you has a lot to do with your genes,” says SciShow’s Hank Green. He explains that after conducting a few separate studies, scientists were able to pin down most cilantro haters as people with a shared group of olfactory-receptor genes, called OR6A2, that pick up on the smell of aldehyde chemicals. Aldehyde chemicals are found in both cilantro and soap. Uh, yummy?

If you are one of those anti-cilantro folks, at least you know that it’s not really your fault and you can blame your parents. To avoid that soapy taste in your dishes, we suggest swapping parsley for cilantro.

Science proves that white folks are genetically racist.

Let the thinning begin.

[specsaregood]

Science!
Science Explains Why Cilantro Tastes Like Soap For Certain People


Its also the power of suggestion. I used to like cilantro until I read here years ago about how some people think it tastes like soap. Now I can't stand it, I get a taste of it in something and all I can taste is dawn detergent. I had never put the two flavors together before it was suggested, now I can't separate the 2.

[tod evans]

Soap gene here too.......

[Anti Federalist]

Its also the power of suggestion. I used to like cilantro until I read here years ago about how some people think it tastes like soap. Now I can't stand it, I get a taste of it in something and all I can taste is dawn detergent. I had never put the two flavors together before it was suggested, now I can't separate the 2.

Blame me.

I'm pretty sure I participated in that bitch fest a few years back.

[dannno]

Its also the power of suggestion. I used to like cilantro until I read here years ago about how some people think it tastes like soap. Now I can't stand it, I get a taste of it in something and all I can taste is dawn detergent. I had never put the two flavors together before it was suggested, now I can't separate the 2.


Blame me.

I'm pretty sure I participated in that bitch fest a few years back.

Same thing happened to me with goat cheese a la Adam Carolla.

Next time you eat goat cheese, start chewing it up, then open your mouth, and breathe in and out slightly. It tastes like a petting zoo.

[Swordsmyth]

Try Italian Parsley. It is similar to cilantro and may not activate those soap sensor taste buds.

[The Gold Standard]

Then again, they *did* put french fries in burritos....

Stealing from the French too I see. They're monsters.

[specsaregood]

Try Italian Parsley. It is similar to cilantro and may not activate those soap sensor taste buds.

parsley is good, but totally different flavor. It isn't like they are interchangeable in any other way other than both being leafy green herbs.

[Swordsmyth]

parsley is good, but totally different flavor. It isn't like they are interchangeable in any other way other than both being leafy green herbs.

Italian Parsley is different from the regular kind. And I said similar not identical.

[specsaregood]

Italian Parsley is different from the regular kind. And I said similar not identical.

i'm familiar with it, we go through 2 bunches a week of the stuff. chock full of vitamin K it is.

[Brian4Liberty]

Science!


Science Explains Why Cilantro Tastes Like Soap For Certain People

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/24/why-does-cilantro-taste-bad-like-soap_n_7653808.html

By Carly Ledbetter

When people say they hate cilantro, they often attribute this food feeling to a soapy aftertaste. Thanks to a new video from SciShow, we finally know why cilantro tastes like soap for some 4-14 percent of the population.

“How cilantro tastes to you has a lot to do with your genes,” says SciShow’s Hank Green. He explains that after conducting a few separate studies, scientists were able to pin down most cilantro haters as people with a shared group of olfactory-receptor genes, called OR6A2, that pick up on the smell of aldehyde chemicals. Aldehyde chemicals are found in both cilantro and soap. Uh, yummy?

If you are one of those anti-cilantro folks, at least you know that it’s not really your fault and you can blame your parents. To avoid that soapy taste in your dishes, we suggest swapping parsley for cilantro.

Can you smell silk? It has a bit of a fishy smell, especially when new. Most people can not detect it.


Its also the power of suggestion. I used to like cilantro until I read here years ago about how some people think it tastes like soap. Now I can't stand it, I get a taste of it in something and all I can taste is dawn detergent. I had never put the two flavors together before it was suggested, now I can't separate the 2.

Love cilantro. And I make a conscience effort to forget about the "soap" stories before I prepare or eat it. ;)

[dannno]

Can you smell silk? It has a bit of a fishy smell, especially when new. Most people can not detect it.


Ya I don't think it smells good.

[Brian4Liberty]

The original story:

Kooks Serves Pop-Up Breakfast Burritos With Handmade Tortillas Out of a Food Cart on Cesar Chavez

http://www.wweek.com/uncategorized/2017/05/16/kooks-serves-pop-up-breakfast-burritos-with-handmade-tortillas-out-of-a-food-cart-on-cesar-chavez/


During an impromptu Christmastime road trip last year to Puerto Nuevo, Mexico, Kali Wilgus and Liz "LC" Connelly lost their minds over tortillas.

"In Puerto Nuevo, you can eat $5 lobster on the beach, which they give you with this bucket of tortillas," Connelly says. "They are handmade flour tortillas that are stretchy and a little buttery, and best of all, unlimited."

Connelly and Wilgus were so enamored with the tortillas, they tried to uncover the recipe.

"I picked the brains of every tortilla lady there in the worst broken Spanish ever, and they showed me a little of what they did," Connelly says. "They told us the basic ingredients, and we saw them moving and stretching the dough similar to how pizza makers do before rolling it out with rolling pins. They wouldn't tell us too much about technique, but we were peeking into the windows of every kitchen, totally fascinated by how easy they made it look. We learned quickly it isn't quite that easy."

Connelly and Wilgus have turned their passion into new weekend spot Kooks Burritos, which has a concept that fits twee Portland: a breakfast burrito pop-up inside the hip Tight Tacos food cart in a Southeast Portland parking lot.

"On the drive back up to Oregon, we were still completely drooling over how good [the tortillas] were, and we decided we had to have something similar in Portland," Connelly says. "The day after we returned, I hit the Mexican market and bought ingredients and started testing it out. Every day I started making tortillas before and after work, trying to figure out the process, timing, refrigeration and how all of that works."

Well, she figured it out.

Connelly rolls out the tortillas in front of you and cooks them on the cart's flat-top griddle, bubbles forming through the uneven circle as the gentle smell of frying dough wafts from the cart. That tortilla is stretchy, pie-crust flaky, char-kissed and stuffed with fixins authentic only to SoCal burrito joints: french fries, scrambled eggs, guacamole, cheese and your choice of bacon or carne asada.

The result is as decadent as it sounds, the flake of the tortilla and soft crunch from the fries contrasting with the gooey goodness of the eggs, cheese and guac in a hangover-killing burrito. Served with Wilgus' neon-green serrano salsa and neon-orange chile de árbol salsa, both spicy and bright, breakfast doubles as a 'grammable burrainbow.

"The second we had the tortilla, we were like, 'We're doing this,'" Connelly says.

Get up a little early this weekend, and you can do it, too.

Update: Kooks Burritos has closed.

[RJB]

Cilantro's flavor reminds me of that taste when I get hit on the head really hard.

[Brian4Liberty]

The SJW literary diarrhea:


This Week in Appropriation: Kooks Burritos and Willamette Week
By Jagger Blaec • May 22, 2017

Portland has an appropriation problem.

This week in white nonsense, two white women—Kali Wilgus and Liz “LC” Connely—decided it would be cute to open a food truck after a fateful excursion to Mexico. There’s really nothing special about opening a Mexican restaurant—it’s probably something that happens everyday. But the owners of Kooks Burritos all but admitted in an interview with Willamette Week that they colonized this style of food when they decided to “pick the brains of every tortilla lady there in the worst broken Spanish ever.”
...
So let’s recap the story thus far: These two white women went to Mexico, ate tacos, and then decided they would just take what the locals clearly didn't want to give them. If that wasn't bad enough, they decided to pack up all their stolen intellectual property and repackage it in one of the few places where such a business could plausibly work: Portland, Oregon.
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Week after week people of color in Portland bear witness to the hijacking of their cultures, and an identifiable pattern of appropriation has been created. Several of the most successful businesses in this town have been birthed as a result of curious white people going to a foreign country, or an international venture, and poaching as many trade secrets, customs, recipes as possible, and then coming back to Portland to claim it as their own and score a tidy profit. Now don’t get me wrong: cultural customs are meant to be shared. However, that’s not what happens in this city.

Because of Portland’s underlying racism, the people who rightly own these traditions and cultures that exist are already treated poorly. These appropriating businesses are erasing and exploiting their already marginalized identities for the purpose of profit and praise.

People of color are nothing more than an afterthought when the white perpetrators of this tradition continue to do this on a regular basis. While Portland is supposedly a progressive place, super liberal white people usually only have other super white liberal people to answer to—which means this cycle of cultural appropriation will never end until people of color call attention to it.
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Immediately after the fury continued online, a different resource emerged and quickly went viral: a Google doc showing exactly how prevalent this epidemic is. The list titled “White-Owned Appropriative Restaurants in Portland” provides a who’s who of culinary white supremacy.

An introduction to the document begins by saying, “This is NOT about cooking at home or historical influences on cuisines; it's about profit, ownership, and wealth in a white supremacist culture.”
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More: http://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2017/05/22/19028161/this-week-in-appropriation-kooks-burritos-and-willamette-week

[tod evans]

Immediately after the fury continued online, a different resource emerged and quickly went viral: a Google doc showing exactly how prevalent this epidemic is. The list titled “White-Owned Appropriative Restaurants in Portland” provides a who’s who of culinary white supremacy.

If I ever get back to Portland I'll be sure to patronize as many as I can, and tip well too...

[specsaregood]

If I ever get back to Portland I'll be sure to patronize as many as I can, and tip well too...

Exactly my point last page, you are not alone!

[PierzStyx]

German restaurants.

There go all the hot dogs.

[PierzStyx]

The SJW literary diarrhea:

From the comments:



That list of "white-owned" businesses and the nearest "POC"-owned alternatives is so crazy--and they didn't even get it right. The idiots who put Bison Coffeehouse as "Indonesian"(it's owned by Native Americans) and don't know the difference between ramen and Korean BBQ and Japanese and Chinese food or between Chilean/Argentinan food, Peruvian, or Brazillian food should be ashamed of their cultural ignorance. They have BORC on the list, but it's mostly just British dishes with maybe one or two Indian or Burmese influenced dishes(that became standard dishes in the UK over a century ago)

Also, the Alibi Tiki Bar is a kitschy historical bar from a past cocktail era--there's no real attempt to claim that they're authentically Polynesian, and only an idiot would think that the Hawaiian-styled Poke Mon is a similar establishment. Dear lord, what a bunch of morons.


Another;


So hopefully you're getting the idea here, dear author, that maybe your reasoning is specious, and your glee about this is misplaced. But let me be specific:
-After you actually described someone cooking the cuisine of another place as "colonization of food," you even less believably went to "This is where things go from quirky to predatory," in describing their efforts to find out why this food tasted the way it did.
I'm pretty sure that under this ideological purity test, the only thing these two women could do that would be acceptable to you would be to uproot these women from Mexico and give them a food cart in Portland. This is problematic for lots of reasons, and not just practicality.

-You then managed to misuse the term "intellectual property." I like tortillas too, but I know they aren't anyone's property, intellectual or otherwise. You later -halfheartedly- note that all cuisine is borrowed at least, but for some reason you continue to describe this particular venture as genocidal, somehow.
For instance, you also describe the recipe as 'stolen.' No, you can't steal this sort of thing: people already know how to make tortillas. And the Mexican women were good enough to tell these Americans what goes into making a tortilla, but stopped short of explaining how to make one, assuming they -like many others- could figure it out.

-There's lots of "well, I'm not sure that's true" moments in here, but my favorite is the whole part about "this cycle of cultural appropriation will never end until people of color call attention to it."
Yeah? What if they do it poorly? With bad reasoning and sloganeering rather than marshalling decent argument with good examples? What if all they traffic in is shitty generalizations and blanket statements? I dunno: what exactly is an acceptable response to your critique, actually? Does Andy Ricker need to import only Vietnamese chefs? Or is it okay for people everywhere to cook everything, and make money? How about a suggestion from you as to what would make it right?

But based on your entire approach here, I'm pretty sure you'd rather talk shit about something much more rooted in capitalism than in someone's malevolent approach to other cultures, because you don't know the fucking difference. So I'm asking again: under your strictures, what is an acceptable food for white people to make and market, other than -say- Velveeta and Miracle Whip on Wonder Bread?

And hey: if there's a Korean family that opens up a place that sells pot roast and creamed tuna on biscuits, can I be outraged? Seriously, be coherent about this.


Even the Blue Leftists recognize that the argument is stupid:


Although white business owners arguably enjoy economic advantages over POC business owners, I personally don't believe in completely boycotting their businesses if they are kicking ass at what they do, especially in a white-dominant part of the world like Portland where it is statistically more likely for a business owner to be white. After all, do we really want to segregate culture?

Besides, many "white-owned businesses" are supporting the country of origin through their sales of imported goods; take for example the sale of fair-trade artisanal mezcal that directly supports the palenqueros of México, keeping them from having to abandon their farms and distilleries in order to immigrate to metropolitan areas for arbitrary labor.

Instead of focusing on negativity, why not make a conscious effort to spread the love and support POC-owned alternatives that you most likely haven't heard of (because of those economic disadvantages).

[otherone]

Next time you eat goat cheese, start chewing it up, then open your mouth, and breathe in and out slightly. It tastes like a petting zoo.

I never tasted a petting zoo. You must have some stories to tell.

[dannno]

I never tasted a petting zoo. You must have some stories to tell.

Try it some time, you will see what I mean.

[Anti Federalist]

So I'm asking again: under your strictures, what is an acceptable food for white people to make and market, other than -say- Velveeta and Miracle Whip on Wonder Bread?

I know this author is trying to defend the Burrito Broads, but, fuck that too.

Some of the very best cooking in the world, the very best recipes, the very concept of haute cuisine itself, is white, western European sourced.

This is a meal, as opposed to a paper plate of re-fried sick, sold off a roach coach:

http://a.abcnews.com/images/Travel/ht_SW_pepper_crusted_Chateaubriand_jt_120831_wmain .jpg

[specsaregood]

I know this author is trying to defend the Burrito Broads, but, fuck that too.

Some of the very best cooking in the world, the very best recipes, the very concept of haute cuisine itself, is white, western European sourced.

This is a meal, as opposed to a paper plate of re-fried sick, sold off a roach coach:

http://a.abcnews.com/images/Travel/ht_SW_pepper_crusted_Chateaubriand_jt_120831_wmain .jpg

I had a burger tonight topped with pulled pork, sunnyside up egg, bacon, bbq sauce and garlic aoli. Served with a IPA. If these are white people's food i'll pass on the burrito as well.

[tod evans]

I'll see your roast and raise a rib.......
http://www.seriouseats.com/assets_c/2011/05/20110516-cowboy-steak-primary-thumb-625xauto-160207.jpg

[Swordsmyth]

I know this author is trying to defend the Burrito Broads, but, $#@! that too.

Some of the very best cooking in the world, the very best recipes, the very concept of haute cuisine itself, is white, western European sourced.

This is a meal, as opposed to a paper plate of re-fried sick, sold off a roach coach:

http://a.abcnews.com/images/Travel/ht_SW_pepper_crusted_Chateaubriand_jt_120831_wmain .jpg


I'll see your roast and raise a rib.......
http://www.seriouseats.com/assets_c/2011/05/20110516-cowboy-steak-primary-thumb-625xauto-160207.jpg

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FNHGZBa_cibA%2F maxresdefault.jpg&f=1

[GunnyFreedom]

Looks like a handful of re-fried sick.
Whadya expect from a damn yankee? ;D

[Anti Federalist]

I had a burger tonight topped with pulled pork, sunnyside up egg, bacon, bbq sauce and garlic aoli. Served with a IPA. If these are white people's food i'll pass on the burrito as well.

Man, that sounds good.

I cooked for the crew tonight: pan seared veal tenderloins, dirty rice, brussel sprouts and a key lime pie dessert.

[Anti Federalist]

Whadya expect from a damn yankee? ;D

LOL, I can almost always count on drawing somebody out when I start bashing Mexican food.

How are ya brother, long time no see.

[GunnyFreedom]

LOL, I can almost always count on drawing somebody out when I start bashing Mexican food.

How are ya brother, long time no see.

Chicken and waffles is a lot of things, Mexican it is not. :D

Doing well, hope you are. Randomly busy and slow, it's driving me batty.

[specsaregood]

Man, that sounds good.


It was the burger of the day at our weekly brewpub and it was so damn indulgent I couldn't pass it up.

[Anti Federalist]

Doing well, hope you are. Randomly busy and slow, it's driving me batty.

I hear you...my line of work is in a death spiral right now, but the family are all OK.

Spoke briefly to Larry Lepard via text the other day, he's doing well also.

[Anti Federalist]

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BET: Katy Perry Latest ‘White Pop Act’ to Appropriate ‘Black Urban Culture’

http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2017/05/25/bet-katy-perry-latest-white-pop-act-to-appropriate-black-urban-culture/

[phill4paul]

Man, that sounds good.

I cooked for the crew tonight: pan seared veal tenderloins, dirty rice, brussel sprouts and a key lime pie dessert.

Brussel sprouts? I'd mutiny.

[Anti Federalist]

Brussel sprouts? I'd mutiny.

You don't like the baby cabbages?

[Swordsmyth]

You don't like the baby cabbages?
Maybe he doesn't like ANY vegetables.

[phill4paul]

You don't like the baby cabbages?

If god had meant for seafaring folk to eat greens he would have drained the oceans.

[Swordsmyth]

If god had meant for seafaring folk to eat greens he would have drained the oceans.

He meant for them to eat limes.

[phill4paul]

He meant for them to eat limes.

Key lime is fine. It's not a "green." Excepting, perhaps, in color.

[Anti Federalist]

If god had meant for seafaring folk to eat greens he would have drained the oceans.

LOL

[Danke]

Injuns have culturally appropriated our casinos.

[Natural Citizen]

Edit- nm.

[DGambler]

I know it is.... my son was told to write a paper on why Obama is such a great president. Said he got a bad grade on that paper too.

I did a paper on black on white racism, cited and everything, thought the teacher was going to kill me... Gave me an F and I got a talking to. This was in 95.