Micro Boohoos
Loved this:
"Bonnie Tsui ... saw an 'Asian salad' on a menu and felt micro-aggressed by the micro greens" https://t.co/SXQW3cTi0V @nypost @nicolegelinas
— Amy Alkon (@amyalkon) May 1, 2017
Micro Boohoos
Loved this:
"Bonnie Tsui ... saw an 'Asian salad' on a menu and felt micro-aggressed by the micro greens" https://t.co/SXQW3cTi0V @nypost @nicolegelinas
— Amy Alkon (@amyalkon) May 1, 2017
... saw an Asian Salad on the menu and wondered, "Which Asian?"
Conan the Grammarian at May 1, 2017 6:48 AM
Are we allowed to call rugs "Persian" if they're in that style but are made by Acme Rugs instead of coming from some guy in a caftan?
Amy Alkon at May 1, 2017 7:00 AM
“Greek salad has some integrity” and can be found in Greece, but the Asian salad is a wholly American creation.
What about General Tso's chicken?
Most "ethnic" restaurants not in their home countries serve a menu that is similar to but not exactly like home. Part of the variation is to tune the dishes to the host country's palate, and some of it is to substitute hard to find ingredients with more plentiful ones.
Because no restaurateur wants to restrict their offerings to just a sliver of the local population.
I R A Darth Aggie at May 1, 2017 7:00 AM
When I worked in the oilfields 36 years ago, a welder I worked with who was an illegal immigrant from Honduras and had lived in Mexico during his childhood around 1940, told me the most authentic Mexican food he'd had since being in the U.S. was Taco Bell. He loved it and went there every day for lunch.
Ken R at May 1, 2017 7:18 PM
Ken R, that's interesting because in my experience, most authentic Mexican food is kind of bland, which is also true of most Taco Bell items. Spicing them up is something us Americans did.
Cousin Dave at May 2, 2017 7:09 AM
I used to work with a guy from Mexico. We'd go to his favorite taqueria for lunch and he'd hit the salsa bar, munching chips and salsa happily as sweat poured down his face. The mildest salsa in the place could be used as paint remover. I contented myself with un-salsa-ed chips.
He told me he didn't know what a burrito was until he got to the US.
His opinion about Taco Bell is unfit to be printed in a family newspaper.
Conan the Grammarian at May 13, 2017 7:22 AM
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