You know you’re from a backwards place if hummus is considered weird by some folks. I really enjoy “ethnic” food. Ethiopian. Vietnamese. Persian. You name it. But I know some people, usually family, who tell me that I eat strange food.
This is very offensive for several reasons. To call ethnic food “strange” is American-centric at best and racist at worst. The world does not revolve around fries, chicken fingers, green bean cassorole, dammit. Some of the food isn’t all that different from American food. Look at falafel, for example. They are very close kin to hushpuppies, but because it is a middle-eastern food it’s “strange”. On the other hand, there are foods that are indeed very different from American food. So what? People need to have an open mind and be a little adventurous.
I wish people would get their heads out their asses, and join the world.
My mother in law is like this. She thinks food comes out of cans dumped into pots and heated up. Anything other than that is “weird.” She stayed with us over the holidays. My wife made a big pot of oatmeal with dates, cranberries, figs, etc. in the slow cooker overnight so that people could help themselves when they got up. She said “it looked weird.”
She’s like a toddler when it comes to eating. Her comfort zone is one inch wide, slathered in mayo and stuck between two pieces of Wonder Bread.
You need to check your rich, economic, location privilege. Not everyone can afford to live in a metropolitan area with a diverse ethnic mixture to have these foods available to them. And even some who do live in such areas can not afford these foods.
Why are you shaming these people? This makes you an utter asshole. Just eat your durian, shrimp, vegan “beef” “chili” and shut the fuck up.
I don’t much like it when people in my neighborhood continue to goggle and jeer at my “funny-looking rustly things what’s got all them black squiggles on 'em,” even after I’ve patiently explained what books are.
I was on the fence about whether he was a troll until I read that post about power chili. That was fucking hilarious. Yeah, he’s a troll, but that was some funny trolling.
Eh, it’s OK. I don’t expect much from the PC police around here. Your lives are so hard, getting offended by things like “Happy Holidays” and “global warming is real” and so on.