# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/21 "2007-05-16T10:51:44Z")
Starbucks ---
**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, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/22 "2007-05-16T11:30:41Z")
Buttered toast? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/23 "2007-05-16T11:44:30Z")
This one probably belongs somewhere other than General Questions. Let’s try MPSIMS. **samclem** GQ moderator ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/24 "2007-05-16T11:51:50Z")
limp hot dogs. PB&J sandwiches Ritz crackers Tang Every freaking day. That’s what we got at summer camp at the YMCA once. They never counted on a seminar for latin americans happening next door and enrolling their kids in summer camp at their all white neighbourhood. We revolted. In both senses of the word. Our reward: fried chicken and watermelon. I am not making this up. ---
**Author:** ![ForumBot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee59a6/32.png) [@ForumBot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ForumBot)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/25 "2007-05-16T14:46:12Z")
Wonderbread and miracle whip sandwiches with the crust cut off. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/26 "2007-05-16T20:16:25Z")
I always associated watermelon, really any melon, as “whitey” food, but that comes from my specific upbringing. I grew up in a small town of all white people. The local black people lived in the next town over which was a racially mixed town, black, white, and american indians, it was also where the Wal-Mart was which is where we shopped so I was aware of other races, but for the most part of my young life (until 10) I was only around white people. Every year we had a watermelon festival and all the country folk came together for this weekend festival and melons of all kind were everywhere. Melon artwork, melon cook-offs and melon racing are some things I remember from the fair. One year my brother even won the melon race and his prize…a big fat watermelon. ---
**Author:** ![Words\_on\_the\_Interweb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b19c9b/32.png) [@Words\_on\_the\_Interweb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Words_on_the_Interweb)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/27 "2007-05-16T21:11:26Z")
[QUOTE=Harmonious Discord] Pizza and pop? [/QUOTE] You mean “soda” of course. 😃 On the OP - it’s so regional, it really depends on where you ask the question. And I don’t have a good answer for my region; I don’t think I know any “typical” people, hehe. ---
**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, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/28 "2007-05-16T23:31:19Z")
You’d also have to specify which white stereotype you mean. There three basic ones I guess: The white bread suburban protestant and his food has been mentioned, so has the rich white upper crust fat cats. The third is the redneck, and they eat beef jerky and pork rinds and drink lite beer. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/29 "2007-05-16T23:38:51Z")
[QUOTE=Tahssa] I always associated watermelon, really any melon, as “whitey” food, but that comes from my specific upbringing. I grew up in a small town of all white people. The local black people lived in the next town over which was a racially mixed town, black, white, and american indians, it was also where the Wal-Mart was which is where we shopped so I was aware of other races, but for the most part of my young life (until 10) I was only around white people. Every year we had a watermelon festival and all the country folk came together for this weekend festival and melons of all kind were everywhere. Melon artwork, melon cook-offs and melon racing are some things I remember from the fair. One year my brother even won the melon race and his prize…a big fat watermelon. [/QUOTE] This is probably the only time in my life where I have ever heard about white people winning the watermelon stereotype. In fact, just a picture containing a single black person and a watermelon is enough to induce protests and indignation in some areas. Don’t get me wrong, I love watermelon but I think you are oblivious to a very common stereotype and public image (watermelons came from Africa with slaves BTW.) ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/30 "2007-05-17T00:22:26Z")
That stuff seems pretty “white American” food. If you consider most of Europe to be “white people” I would say potatoes and bread. One time I wrote a humor piece about the Pope for an ezine, and someone wrote me a nasty letter saying that I must lead a very “oatmeal” life (because I’m a Protestant?) So I’ll vote for oatmeal, too 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/31 "2007-05-17T00:29:11Z")
I don’t remember seeing fried rice while in China; lots of white rice and sticky rice but no fried rice; no kung pao chicken, either. Those are “white” foods, at least in the USA although I suppose some other ethnic folks eat them. I THINK chimichangas are an American perversion of real Mexican food, although I’m not certain. I don’t think anything from Taco Bell can really be called Mexican food. Back home in Texas, watermelons were universally considered to be black food; “Ni\*\*\*\* Ice Cream” was often used to describe watermelon. Strange how many white folks couldn’t get enough watermelon, though. Incidentally, Joe Louis, the great black boxer wouldn’t eat fried chicken or watermelon in public due to the stereotyping of those things as black food. And, he loved both of them. I’m white and I’ll eat pretty near anything that’s dead, provided it hasn’t been dead all that long. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/32 "2007-05-17T00:59:42Z")
Hamburger Helper ---
**Author:** ![Auntbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/33 "2007-05-17T02:16:01Z")
Ooooh! I know! The Cracker! I’m a southerner, and all our best food could hardly be called “white food.” I’m pretty sure tuna casserole, green bean casserole and the aforementioned jello salad stuff. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/34 "2007-05-17T02:17:04Z")
[QUOTE=dalej42] Hamburger Helper [/QUOTE] As Cousin Eddie said in _National Lampoon’s Vacation_: “I don’t know why they call this stuff Hamburger Helper, it does just fine by itself”. My vote goes to bologna on white bread. With mayo. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/35 "2007-05-17T14:27:44Z")
Lemonade? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/36 "2007-05-18T17:48:50Z")
I don’t know what races prefer Buffalo wings, but I think of them as the industrial north equivalent of “soul food”, i.e. finding a use for previously unused parts of an animal. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/37 "2007-05-18T18:30:26Z")
[QUOTE=Auntbeast] Ooooh! I know! The Cracker! I’m a southerner, and all our best food could hardly be called “white food.” [/QUOTE] Right, southern poor whites and blacks ate the same foods, and rich whites ate food created by blacks. So I can’t think of a single food that’s “white southern”, if it’s southern food it’s neither white or black. So you’ve got to go north to get stereotypical white food. ---
**Author:** ![guppy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7feea3/32.png) [@guppy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guppy)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/38 "2007-05-18T18:37:30Z")
I had a friend in high school that thought it was funny that white people drank so much milk. He was convinced because of this white people farted a lot more than black people. I haven’t heard this from any other black person I have met (it’s not the kind of thing that comes up however) so I’m not sure it’s a wide spread stereotype or not. ---
**Author:** ![cherry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cherry)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/39 "2007-05-18T18:44:29Z")
What about cottage cheese and canned tuna. ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283/40 "2007-06-27T08:51:14Z")
[QUOTE=ZipperJJ] If you consider most of Europe to be “white people” I would say potatoes and bread. [/QUOTE] I would describe white people food as “meat and potatoes”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-stereotypical-food/404283.md?page=3)