Jamie Oliver's 'jerk rice' accused of "cultural appropriation" - Sensationalist Headlines

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote Alternative Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-45246009 Lol what a clown show People should certainly fight racism and there is still more fighting to be done, but this "cultural appreciation" lark is a load of shit. IMO this over zealousness just leaves people fatigued or worse barking stuff like "everything is racist these days"

Reminds me of this https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/916/361/988.jpg

this is a complete waste of time, jamie oliver stole our turkey twizzlers and nobody batted an eye but theyre hung up on this???

I made Piri Piri chicken like 12 times this summer, I'm basically a KKK grand dragon wizard now

I think the issue is that he's using the cachet of jerk for something that isn't jerk I honestly don't care much either way, but cos I'm a dick and think Jamie Oliver is an even bigger dick I'm going to agree with them

tbh there's no point complaining.. you can let him sell it and laugh. putting a big fuss because he misused the name is pointless. the fact an MP started this race war over rice is quite sad.

What will they do when they find out he's not Italian...

Didn't he do the same thing with Jollof rice a while back? There's nothing wrong with making dishes of varying ethnic origins, but you have to actually make the food that you're referring to.

shove a turkey twizzler up his ass?

Apparently problem was that it's pretty much nothing like the actual jerk rice. And its marketed as authentic cuisine. It is more like an insult to the culture and people. Think of your favorite national dish, then some asswipe makes a super shit version of it and markets it as good as the real deal and then puts it into a tv-dinner, And makes it vegan for no reason.

We've had the same thing for italian and indian for years. It doesn't make it """"""cultural appropriation""""" at very worst it's just ignorance - which isn't anything to get outraged over.

I actually saw him on telly last night (I couldn't find the remote), he seemed to be pretending to talk Italian

This has been happening, people pass it off or do their own twists to it. The solution to the problem is pretty simple to me. People need to quit making big deals out of the stupidest shit. If you don't want to buy it then don't buy it.

You mean like how American Pizza looks nothing like Italian Pizza? You mean like how people put bolognese with spaghetti instead of tagliatelle. You mean that thing people have been doing for fucking centuries and nobody cared?

Inside it tortured the Italians - to the point where it's actually responsible for Italy's role in WW2 on the axis side. If American's hadn't been passing off deep pan cheese breads as pizza, Mussolini would have never risen to power. If people hadn't culturally appropriated Italian cuisine ww2 would have been over before hitler even entered Germany and millions of lives would have been saved. Let that sink in for a minute.

You can get get Italian pizza in America, it's called Margherita pizza, just nobody likes it

In which case you could just say their version was shit as opposed to acting like they were actively trying to erase a culture.

I dunno how I feel about this. On one hand, accusing him of cultural appropriation seems extreme and honestly who cares. But on the other hand, he calls it something that its not. Sure, foods change over the years to a form that is vastly different to it, but if you order a burrito, you expect a burrito in some form. If you label something as Jerk but don't actually use the jerk sauce, then that's false advertising and should be complained about. Again, I understand foods change, but at least include some parts of the original recipe. Its a grey area and I'm certain people will have their own examples of a food being butchered but that doesn't make it right.

It was apparently missing 2 spices, so it's not completely off

Who gives a damn? Everyone acts as if cultures outta be exclusive to one race of people, yet they ignore the fact that civilizations have actively attempted to spread their culture and religions through imperialism. Countries such as Brazil and Mexico wouldn't speak Portuguese or Spanish if it wasn't for the Spanish or Portuguese Empires. Louisiana wouldn't be so unique if the French hadn't actively used it as a port city. Plus, most modern cultures are an amalgamation of different cultures anyway. Hell, most of the modern English language originates from the multiple times England invaded France for the hell of it. Point being - people shouldn't be complaining about people mixing two random things from two random cultures. It's been happening since the beginning of time, since the first two Native tribes began to interact with each other. If these people really cared about "appropriation of cultures", they'd protest the education system. I mean, they teach Spanish in an American school! Oh, the humanity!

well two things really. First the article says a major backlash was over the fact that apparently 'jerk rice' doesnt exist period. Which is kind of stupid to say because you can do fucking anything with food. Secondly, I'm from Philadelphia and while it is annoying to see 'philly steaks' everywhere and done completely incorrect i really dont care and it doesnt even concern me. I can choose to not eat it and people can go ahead and eat it and say it tastes awful ect ect, that doesnt concern or hurt or insult me. It's just food. Whenever they want they can come to philadelphia and get a proper steak and see how different and better it is, or not, because its just food. Food is a essential part of cultural identity but i live in america where we just adapted practically all of the worlds cuisine and did our own thing because thats what culture does, culture changes. Shit like pepperoni for instance, hell even pizza as we know it, those are american spins on italian foods/dishes and exist cause someone changed something.

Panda Express must cause an existential crisis for these people

Way to be outraged over a non-issue. Reminds me of this gem: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2015/08/04/commentary/japan-commentary/kimono-cultural-appropriation/ Then something off-script occurred. A small group of young protesters, mostly Asian-Americans, came to the first Kimono Wednesday event with placards to protest its “Orientalism,” “racism” and “cultural appropriation” which they claimed was victimizing Asian-Americans. The protesters created a Facebook page, “Stand Against Yellowface,” and posted sophomoric manifestos on Tumblr featuring tone-deaf karaoke of their hero: the Palestinian scholar Edward Said, author of “Orientalism,” a central text for postcolonial theory syllabuses in American liberal arts faculties. A social media battle ensued. Twitter hashtags appeared — or, like #whitesupremacykills — were appropriated, provoking widespread derision, while the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Facebook page was inundated with accusations about the exhibition’s “racism” and “Orientalism.” On July 7th the museum canceled the kimono try-ons and restricted patron access on Kimono Wednesdays to touching the uchikake. International media coverage by the BBC and the New York Times gave the protests a wide audience. Japanese-Americans, Japanese residents in the United States and their supporters counter-protested at the museum and on social media in vain. Counter-protesters pointed out that very few of the protesters were Japanese, and that they had no right to dictate what counted as racism or cultural appropriation against Japanese or Japanese-Americans. They complained that the protesters had chosen the wrong event to protest against with their parochial identity politics agenda. Cultural appropriation arguments like this usually boils down to "WHITE PEOPLE! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

Yes, yes, we all agree that deep dish "pizza" is as bad as, if not worse than, the holocaust, but I'd like to point out that deep dish pizza lovers are a small group of braindead imbeciles with room temperature IQs known as "the midwest".

Boy i sure do wish this would just stop.

Deep-dish pizza is a chicago thing, but I've never met a single person from Chicago who even remotely likes it. It's not bad, but it's not really "pizza".

American food's basically based off this shit. French Fries aren't French, Chinese Food isn't Chinese, Spanish Rice is Mexican, Italian Dressing isn't even a thing in Italy.

Modern Mexicans are Spanish. Source: I'm Mexican.

lol this reminds me of the two southern California Women who decided they wanted to start a burrito food truck only to be told they are racists... whelp I guess none of the accusers know that burritos are an american dish

Ayo these idiots don't even realize they're playing right into their enemies game I'll be very happy when such troglodytes who have nothing better to do than perpetuate mass inferiority complexes and scream about stupid shit are taken care of