White Women Burrito Cart Closed Due to Appropriation

[Ericandblueboy]

Portland Mercury causes a burrito cart to shut down because white women "stole" recipes while vacationing in Mexico.

I hereby demand that the Source, Gaijin Ramen, and Tiger Fork be shut down immediately.  In addition, I demand that Maketto close half of the restaurant since Bruner-Yang is at best half Taiwanese, and it needs to stop selling Cambodian food.

Jose Andres needs to close China Chilcano, Oyamel, and Zaytina.  That guy should be limited to slinging tapas and molecular gastronomic shit.

[eta: as far as I can tell, this story is legit.]

P.S. better go to Pok Pok now before it gets accused of cultural appropriation.

[Keithstg]

11 hours ago, Ericandblueboy said:

Portland Mercury causes a burrito cart to shut down because white women "stole" recipes while vacationing in Mexico.

P.S. better go to Pok Pok now before it gets accused of cultural appropriation.

Forget Pok Pok, Rick Bayless should just move to Pluto.

We live in interesting times.

[Simul Parikh]

This can't be real... 

Portland is ludicrous. Every news story is straight out of Portlandia. 

I'm a little offended that nobody has appropriated Indian food yet. Feel like the red headed stepchild. Andy Ricker - go to Kerala or Punjab or Gujarat and make it happen!

But, seriously, WTF is wrong with that place? 

[DonRocks]

1 hour ago, Simul Parikh said:

I'm a little offended that nobody has appropriated Indian food yet. Feel like the red headed stepchild. 

Try the goat at Komi.

(I had forgotten that I messed up the "Where Did You Dine?" thread, which got interleaved with - of all things - the "Harris Crab House" thread one day when I was organizing. Sorry about that.) 

[Simul Parikh]

I've had it in ~ 2011. I don't know what you mean by Indian? Or have they changed it?

[DonRocks]

1 hour ago, Simul Parikh said:

I've had it in ~ 2011. I don't know what you mean by Indian? Or have they changed it?

It was a quasi-Indian prep when I had it; they may change it around.

[dracisk]

On 5/25/2017 at 7:43 PM, Ericandblueboy said:

[eta: as far as I can tell, this story is legit.]

I had heard about this elsewhere, but I just clicked on the link in the original post, and the original blog post has now been replaced with:

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A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR (5/31/17) Dear readers: Due to new information that has recently come to light, we have taken down our blog post, “This Week in Appropriation: Kooks Burritos and Willamette Week.” It was not factually supported, and we regret the original publication of this story.—eds.

Hmm.

[Simul Parikh]

3 hours ago, dracisk said:

I had heard about this elsewhere, but I just clicked on the link in the original post, and the original blog post has now been replaced with:

Hmm.

Was it fake news??? 

[Ericandblueboy]

Chef Jamie Oliver accused of ‘cultural appropriation’ for his Jamaican ‘Punchy Jerk Rice’, by William Booth for Wapo.

Apparently there's no such thing as jerk rice.  So when you faux jerk something that's not meant to be jerked, you get called out.