# White stereotypical food **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 16, 2007, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283 "2007-05-16T03:39:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Thinktank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Thinktank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thinktank)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/1 "2007-05-16T03:39:05Z")
Yeah, I left my brain on too long again… hehe My question is racial in nature, but think about it- as stereotypes go Black folks are claimed to be fried chicken, collard greens and watermelon eaters. Hispanic (specifically Mexicans) are claimed to be big bean eaters, people I guess you can associate most mexican food with them: tacos, burritos, chimichungas. Asians: well first thing that comes to mind is fried rice, chung pao chicken, pu pu platter. I guess whatever sounds funny and derogatory to the antagonist. Now I know I left out Indians and mixed people, but I’m sticking with hardline stereotypes. So, my question is: What is a stereotypical “White” food? When people make fun on white people what foods are associated with them? Crackers? Captain’s Wafers? _snicker_ white bread maybe? Need your sterotyping help folks, what’s the word on white people? ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/2 "2007-05-16T03:41:38Z")
Jell-O in a ring-shaped mold, with lots of fruit cocktail inside. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/3 "2007-05-16T03:42:28Z")
White bread and bologna sandwich. With yellow mustard. Potato chips. Twinkies? (I’m assuming the “white trash” diet.) ---
**Author:** ![MerryMagdalen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@MerryMagdalen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MerryMagdalen)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/4 "2007-05-16T03:43:14Z")
Mayonnaise. ---
**Author:** ![desdinova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8baadc/32.png) [@desdinova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/desdinova)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/5 "2007-05-16T03:51:10Z")
I don’t think it gets much more white than a cucumber sandwich. ---
**Author:** ![R.P.McMurphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/6 "2007-05-16T03:56:18Z")
McDonalds? Hot dogs? ---
**Author:** ![neorxnawange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f4b2a3/32.png) [@neorxnawange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neorxnawange)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/7 "2007-05-16T03:58:21Z")
I second Mayo. As Joel Fleischman said to Maggie’s family on Northern Exposure, _“Is there anything you people don’t put mayo in?”_ ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/8 "2007-05-16T03:58:26Z")
A ham bun. Mayo. Tang. Mountain Dew. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/9 "2007-05-16T04:00:21Z")
Tuna noodle casserole? (It goes well with the molded Jello salad.) ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/10 "2007-05-16T04:01:41Z")
Potatoes, I’d say. I haven’t done a survey, but I don’t think of other ethnic groups eating potatoes as the standard starch. I also haven’t anything with which to back up that assertion. ---
**Author:** ![neorxnawange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f4b2a3/32.png) [@neorxnawange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neorxnawange)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/11 "2007-05-16T04:02:51Z")
Also maybe fois gras, caviar, cucumber sandwiches, brie. You know, the type of food they serve at those rich white dude clubs that Mortimer and Randolph Duke attend. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/12 "2007-05-16T04:12:36Z")
The essayist and food writer Calvin Trillin used to joke about upper-class white Anglo-Saxon Protestants (such as his mythical prep-school roommate, Hatcher Baxter Thatcher III, and his sister Baxter Hatcher Thatcher) eating the most boring, un-culinary food in the world. Velveeta cheese slices on day-old Wonder bread with the crusts cut off. Chicken a la king. Iceberg lettuce with Green Goddess dressing. The fancier the party and the more socially elite the guests, the worse the food. ---
**Author:** ![desdinova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8baadc/32.png) [@desdinova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/desdinova)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/13 "2007-05-16T04:16:21Z")
[QUOTE=neorxnawange] Also maybe fois gras, caviar, cucumber sandwiches, brie. You know, the type of food they serve at those rich white dude clubs that Mortimer and Randolph Duke attend. [/QUOTE] The Duke brothers? I haven’t heard of them since the FCOJ bust back in the mid 1980s… ---
**Author:** ![BlakeTyner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@BlakeTyner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlakeTyner)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/14 "2007-05-16T04:43:27Z")
[QUOTE=Dave Chappelle] I kinda know what you eat…vegetables. But I know what you drink. Surprise! You didn’t think I knew, but I’ve been following white people. I’m writing a paper. Not for school or nothin’, just to do it. White people love some juice. Black people don’t have juice, we have “drink.” Grape drink. It’s purple. These are the ingredients: water, sugar, and of course, purple. "I want some apple drink. It’s green. [/QUOTE] So, my vote has to be for veggies and juice. Now, where’s my peach drink? It’s pink. ---
**Author:** ![Crescend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Crescend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crescend)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/15 "2007-05-16T04:47:33Z")
[QUOTE=desdinova] The Duke brothers? I haven’t heard of them since the FCOJ bust back in the mid 1980s… [/QUOTE] I heard that they made a comeback after that Zamunda royalty affair in '88. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/16 "2007-05-16T04:56:50Z")
My vote would be for Lutheran food; casseroles, covered-plate dishes, pot roast, potato salad, and Jello. Really, food that looks like it’s out of a 1950s cookbook. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/17 "2007-05-16T05:06:55Z")
Meatloaf! ---
**Author:** ![Cillasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@Cillasi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cillasi)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/18 "2007-05-16T05:26:11Z")
mac & cheese - as a meal!!! ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/19 "2007-05-16T06:53:17Z")
This says it all: [http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/](http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/) ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/20 "2007-05-16T10:46:09Z")
Pizza and pop? Like this question has an actual answer. No mater what you pick it’s just random picks. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283.md?page=2)