# What's white on the outside and brown on the inside? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 19, 2019, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-white-on-the-outside-and-brown-on-the-inside/828052 "2019-01-19T15:37:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Duality](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.duality/32/4098_2.png) [@Mr.Duality](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Duality)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-white-on-the-outside-and-brown-on-the-inside/828052/1 "2019-01-19T15:37:13Z")
A Native American whose behavior is too white is sometimes called an apple- red on the outside and white on the inside, get it? A black person who behaves like a white person is sometimes referred to as an oreo- black on the outside and white on the inside. I’ve tried hard to think of something which is white on the outside and brown on the inside, unsuccessfully. Other than myself, I mean. Can you help? ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-white-on-the-outside-and-brown-on-the-inside/828052/2 "2019-01-19T15:46:48Z")
“Eminem”, “Ali G”? Failing that, “mushroom”. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-white-on-the-outside-and-brown-on-the-inside/828052/3 "2019-01-19T15:47:43Z")
I was going to say Eminem but I was beaten. I think thats just called a wigger. No food metaphors that I’ve heard. Twinkie - yellow on the outside, white on the inside. Oreo/coconut - black on the outside, white on the inside Apple - red on the outside, white on the inside To my knowledge, I don’t think these food metaphors go in the opposite direction. We just have terms for them like weeaboo, wigger, etwc. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-white-on-the-outside-and-brown-on-the-inside/828052/4 "2019-01-19T15:48:01Z")
Some breads. Pressure-cooked eggs. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-white-on-the-outside-and-brown-on-the-inside/828052/5 "2019-01-19T15:50:55Z")
One of those yogurt covered snacks? Or a chocolate cake with white frosting of some sort? There must be one of those that has a name. Mmmm, cake. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-white-on-the-outside-and-brown-on-the-inside/828052/6 "2019-01-19T15:57:20Z")
A south Texas home with severe mold problems, or a batch of marshmallows due for recall. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-white-on-the-outside-and-brown-on-the-inside/828052/7 "2019-01-19T16:01:04Z")
> [@Mr.Duality](#): > > I’ve tried hard to think of something which is white on the outside and brown on the inside, unsuccessfully. Other than myself, I mean. Can you help? Rachel Dolezal? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-white-on-the-outside-and-brown-on-the-inside/828052/8 "2019-01-19T16:01:39Z")
A white chocolate Hershey’s Peanut Butter Cup. Kind of awkward as a slur, though. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-white-on-the-outside-and-brown-on-the-inside/828052/9 "2019-01-19T16:08:29Z")
[A Snoball.](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSX9cIPBe3YvTo3sZyblhmkq7BE8sAF-JBtY-heSO_s5_Yv-dcB) Okay, they’re white on the outside and then brown on the inside - and then white again inside the brown. And sometimes they’re [pink](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sno_Balls#/media/File:Snoball_in_Snow.JPG). It’s not a perfect metaphor. ---
**Author:** ![lingyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@lingyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lingyi)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-white-on-the-outside-and-brown-on-the-inside/828052/10 "2019-01-19T16:33:42Z")
The Egg: White Person Who Acts Asian [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9AFM77JYig](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9AFM77JYig) BTW, Ben (the white guy) was raised in Hong Kong and speaks perfect formal (Beijing) Mandarin, but poor Cantonese. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-white-on-the-outside-and-brown-on-the-inside/828052/11 "2019-01-19T17:12:34Z")
> [@Ruken](#): > > Pressure-cooked eggs. That’s wrong, sorry. The whites turn brown the shell stays whatever it started as. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-white-on-the-outside-and-brown-on-the-inside/828052/12 "2019-01-19T17:29:22Z")
😕 I pressure cook eggs often and the whites always remain white. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-white-on-the-outside-and-brown-on-the-inside/828052/13 "2019-01-19T17:45:15Z")
Banana= Asian person who acts white (yellow on the outside, white on the inside) To answer the OP, hmmmm… yogurt covered raisin, Nutella sandwhich, Milano, Corn dog ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-white-on-the-outside-and-brown-on-the-inside/828052/14 "2019-01-19T17:47:51Z")
> [@Spud](#): > > 😕 > > I pressure cook eggs often and the whites always remain white. You haven’t done it long enough for the Maillard reaction to do much. We’re talking hours. ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-white-on-the-outside-and-brown-on-the-inside/828052/15 "2019-01-19T18:23:10Z")
Cook a marshmallow in the microwave long enough and they will burn in the middle while still being white on the outside. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-white-on-the-outside-and-brown-on-the-inside/828052/16 "2019-01-19T18:40:45Z")
A golf ball. ---
**Author:** ![vperry1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ee7513/32.png) [@vperry1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vperry1)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-white-on-the-outside-and-brown-on-the-inside/828052/17 "2019-01-20T05:23:43Z")
The little heap of snow that covered my dog’s last dump. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-white-on-the-outside-and-brown-on-the-inside/828052/18 "2019-01-20T05:46:53Z")
A Marmite sandwich. Or peanut butter/ Nutella/ chocolate/ etc. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-white-on-the-outside-and-brown-on-the-inside/828052/19 "2019-01-20T06:02:38Z")
Those awesome rum cookies/balls my mom makes for Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-white-on-the-outside-and-brown-on-the-inside/828052/20 "2019-01-20T06:05:05Z")
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