#Immigrant Food

[veganfoodie]

Last night I went to the Planet Word Museum ✨🎉

It was so much fun experiencing wordplay Wednesday

I recommend checking them out if you’re in the area!

My friend and I played scrabble together and we took pictures together in the Photo Booth. It was so fun !

I also did this one word to describe myself thing:

[paulpingminho]

[dangerkeith3000x]

tfw you are eating papusas in your favorite salvadoran restaurant and "torn" by natalie imbruglia comes on

[assiraphales]

I do think it’s unfortunate that people (europeans) automatically assume that “american” style versions of foods are immediately the most bastardized version done purposefully out of lack of culture, when the reality a lot of times it’s rooted in a response of millions of poor immigrants stepping foot in a foreign land attempting to recreate beloved recipes with what few ingredients were available and affordable

[jackassdemocrats]

Illegitimate president Biden along with harris and the rest of the socialist democrat party of America already have pretty well destroyed America already. Harris and Tampon Tim will finish it off.

[jackass-democrats]

[wiisagi-maiingan]

"Ignoring or erasing how a person's racial and cultural background influences the things they create is erasing the part ethnic minorities play in history and the formation of different cultures"

and

"Saying that something isn't actually British/American/etc because it was created by an immigrant or someone in an ethnic minority group is another way of saying that immigrants and their children are not really part of the countries they immigrated to and they'll always be outsiders"

are both true statements.

[fiftysevenacademics]

I thought this might interest some of you. This little restaurant is a big slice of history. Recent research proved it's probably the oldest Chinese restaurant in the US, and to tell its story, you have to tell the story of the Chinese Exclusion Act, "paper sons," and the hardworking family that persevered.

[dieinct]

the thing about culture that's difficult for a lot of people it seems to me is that "culture" is not some ontologically coherent Blob where you can sit at the table and someone will serve it to you and you get to just sit there and Receive it. or, it's not something you can dig up and carefully extract unchanged, if you sit carefully enough at your books, and then put on your mantle to admire. i'm a motherfucker whose career is about digging things up from books so i get the appeal, and yet that's not what Culture is, because culture is what you Do. so you already have one. what food do you eat? where do you live? what rituals do you perform? do you take your shoes off when you go inside?

culture is distinct from religion and ethnicity (though obviously it's interrelated with both), and deeply related to the place you live now and its customs and foodways and norms for politeness and hospitality, and what other populations live around you in the place you live now. trying to connect to the mystical immigrant old-country past of your ancestors is unlikely to get you the results you're looking for - culture is something you do every day and i promise you already have one. and you're already doing it. which means that you can also just as easily change the things you do if you don't like them.

[eosofspades]

i am a nationalist about exactly ONE (1) thing and it's that i fucking love american food. i LOVE american beverage. i love "large" drink being a whole bucket's worth i love milkshake with the thickness of concrete i LOVE going out to a diner and taking my next three meals home with me i love leftovers. i love burger and fries i love fried chicken i love pb&j i love macaroni and cheese i love traditional pancake and scrambled egg breakfast i love apple pie i LOVE ice cream sundae. enough complaining about deep fried carnival food american food is DELICIOUS and im not taking complaints anymore

[hussyknee]

Whenever Brits are like "tea is our national drink, our culture, our personality, our mental health" I think of our hill country blanketed in a patchwork quilt of human suffering and ongoing violent colonialism and want to smash all their tea cups. Your genocidal leaf juice is nothing to be proud of. The present day tea pluckers are the descendants of the Indians you enslaved and they still live in unthinkable poverty in the line houses you built to house them like cattle. The families whose farmlands you robbed have been starving for generations. Every sip of your leaf juice is soaked in blood and you drink it like vampires.

Tea will never belong to you. It's our legacy of grief, and your shame.

Drink your tea and shut the fuck up.

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

the best part of being an American is how people will move here from other countries and build restaurants where you can eat their delicious food and there's always more people moving in and there's always more delicious food to discover. like. why do people not like immigrants. do you not want FOOD. you have never known the ecstasy of walking into a tiny hole in the wall and an iraqi mom comes out and feeds you iraqi mom food, and it shows.

[factcheckdotorg]

Biden's Numbers, October 2023 Update

Today we take a look at the most recent statistical measures of how the U.S. has changed since President Biden took office.

[thealogie]

The saddest part of good omens is that aziraphale likes food so much and yet he literally lives in London. Girl I’d get myself almost guillotined for a crepe in Paris too if I were him

[alwaysbewoke]

[twosides--samecoin]

Fellas I went full RJ mode and was so cranky tonight nothing but fried okra and hush puppies could solve it

I'm not exactly from a place where people have summers long enough to grow corn, much less okra, so one way immigrating influenced my fic was giving RJ my newfound love for southern cuisine. I don't think I would have had him so excited about sharing southern cuisine with Olivia last chapter if I hadn't experienced it