Hmmm, you must be right. I have erred, as incredible as that sounds. I’m sure the people I met were South Africans (it was in Jo’burg).
Help me out here, which Africans have that charcoal dark skin?
(this is deep curiosity, not racism)
tony:
I’m here. I already said “it’s not that serious”. Nothing else to say. Though I still don’t see what I said wrong in the post.
That’s racism.
A slightly different kind of racism than we usually see, but it’s the same old duck. Looks like it. Walks like it. Is it.
Nothing’s wrong with it at all.
Except for it’s utter inanity, pointlessness, vacuousness, lack of factual support, and thinly veiled racism.
Other than that, it’s perfectly fine.
We know.
Now if you don’t mind, we’re trying to get to the bottom of this whole mayo-naze thang!
-LC
I never heard anything about the mayonnaise thing until I saw Undercover Brother.
Of course Colin Powell is not truly black.
Actually, he’s a semicolon.
I could be wrong, but my impression is that Undercover Brother was parodying the infamous FCC report that some advertisers were snubbing minority broadcasters.
I am unaware of a general perception that a taste for mayonnaise is determined by race – I think that the meme started with that report, and “black people don’t eat mayonnaise” naturally gets more play than “black people don’t eat beef”, because, while the two premises are equally absurd, the mayonnaise one has the added appeal of having a serendipitous association with the colour white.
It’s not just the colour white, though, it’s the “bland factor”. I can see a black comic (the one from the Simpsons who talked about how white people drive, but pay attention anyway) doing a joke about black guys put hot sauce on their chicken, white guys put mayonaise on it.
No offence to mayonaise, but it’s among the more boring of the condiments.
You can’t make potato salad without mayo-naze and there isn’t a soul food restaurant that doesn’t serve potato salad.
Real black folks don’t buy miracle whip.
[Oh brother where art thou] No he is NOT black. These boys is misegginated. I have it on very good authority that this boy sold his soul to the devil [/OBWAT]
Yep that’s what I thought of when I read the OP. Just as relevent, just as ridiculous.
Bullshit. My favorite potato salad recipie has no mayonase.
:wally
Okay, so I’m opening a fast food outlet called “PizzaBratz”, and I want to a menu with cutsie names, including a “Colin Powell”. What’s on the menu and what are each made from?
a “Colin Powell” is choke sandwich - white bread(no crust - too brown!), turkey (white meat only), and a slice of cheese. But not golden cheese, cause that’s too ethnic. Maybe some mozzarella, cause it looks nearly white.
Served with milk. Or water, if the milk’s not white enough.
Okay, now I get it. It’s racist because I’m implying that Jamaicans are stuck up. Sorry (I really didn’t see that at first).
And mayonaise is disgusting because it’s just a blob of fat spread onto food. Nonfat plain yogurt is a perfect substitute for sandwich-moistening.
Well strictly, yes - “A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution” (American Heritage Dictionary), but some people quibble over the semantics of the term, so let’s just say “stupid and ignorant”.
I went to a Black school where it was confirmed for me “yes, we do think you White guys are weird for the mayonnaise thing.” That was just a few close friends, though, who may just not like mayonnaise. I didn’t take a scientific poll or anything, and I do weird things with mayo like eat it on fries. YBEMV (your Black experience may vary).
I’ve noticed a lot of white people don’t like mayo, either, though. It’s a very polarizing condiment.
I’m white, and i think mayonnaise is weird (and yucky)
Not only that, but he can play the bass now.