White People Food

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[j.c.jeggis]

Everyone talks shit on "white people food" until it comes time for dessert.

[awesomenokes]

I shared some Kraft Dinner with my Cambodian friend who'd never tried it. He said it "tastes like white people food"

[kenzieoakley]

in the US northern “white people food” and southern “white people food” are two distinctly different things, in my experience lol

[aliciawhite]

As a white woman who lives in Louisiana, I feel like this is less a “race” thing and more of a “culture” thing. We season everything just fine down here.

[DoritoWorldOrder]

What's funny is if you go to Central or South America, there are many expressions that equate to "white people spicy" or "white man spicy" — and it doesn't mean mild or bland, it refers to how white tourists are famous for seeking out the spiciest dishes of the local cuisine.

[lazygongfarmer]

The stereotype of "white people food" is pretty arbitrary though. For some reason, white cuisines like Cajun, Italian, German or French are not considered, i guess because all of them use lots of spices and therefore conflict with the bland English stereotype. Also, black American food like soul food is almost identical to the typical fare of white Southerners

[YouTubeWatcher]

Babe wake up

The Germans, Italians, French, Spanish, Russians, and Swedish are considered black now

[QuantumTap]

today i learned cheese is plain, as if there isnt a dozen different varieties of cheese

[tschaderdstrom]

Bread, heavy cream, cheese and potatoes are some of the best foods on this fucking planet.

[rodrigogirao]

I've seen this theory: black people in the US rarely eat food prepared by white people, except in public schools, or even prison. So the blandness of such places became generalized as the way white people eat.

[mahatmarandy]

“Soul Food” in the 60s and 70s, which was considered “Black food” was basically just “poor people food” here in the south, regardless of color. My dad grew up eating the same stuff in the depression. I asked a friend in Manhattan, and he said that during the black migration to the north, diet naturally changed for the better, but eventually after a couple generations, some people got nostalgic for the foods they ate in their childhoods, which white culture up north had never eaten, or had eaten so far in the past that all memory had been forgotten, and the white folks associated this weird stuff with black folks, considering it exotic and weird and racial. Or so he said.

[Lacucarachadefuego]

The French, Italians, and Spanish have entered the chat

[illman]

>when you're italian and everytime a black person says you don't season your food you immediately get really pissed off

[SalvatoreEscoti]

Calling potatoes "white" is really ironic, since potatoes are native American plant species!

[EzekielDeLaCroix]

French, Germans, Spaniards, Portuguese, Nordics, Italians, Balkans Greeks and Eastern Europeans be like: Guess we ain't white.

[NickAndriadze]

Honestly at this point I'd say it's a racial stereotype that ''ooh, food that white people eat is generic, '' whilst ahem, *no, * have you heard about the majority of Europe that has some of the most extravagant national dishes ever? As a Georgian (Georgians are white), we not only have traditional dishes some of which would definitely be considered exotic, but we also go above and beyond on the seasoning department too, and the signature ''svanuri marili'' (Swanian salt, to translate directly, a kind of mixture between different seasonings and salt) is the greatest seasoning I've ever tried.

Also saying cheese is bland is spitting in the face of every European cheese, including Georgian cheese as well.

[ms-vqos]

As someone from Europe I think it‘s Interesting how the US uses the term “white”. It seems to be mainly a code for Anglo-Saxon (Protestants). It might have made sense in an US context, but to think that cuisine could be summarised as “white food” seems kinda wrong. The term is sooo unspecified and quite misleading

[supergeil]

As both an Italian-American, and a Southerner, I resent the framing of "white people food as bland"

[JG-PyroTX]

As a Texan, we don't do bland. We like our home cooked food bold. I guess we can thank our Mexican brothers for that.

[VinnieMF]

How Americans racialize everything possible is yet to fail impressing me.