Hah! I have often wished that we could somehow make audio comments. My response to that would be the rudest of raspberries. Actually I'm pleasantly surprised by how few people I know who take part in the Hate Putin campaign. This includes the far lefties who represent the majority where I live. They don't seem to be buying into it. That or they're dissembling. It is a known fact that I am a madwoman and maybe they just don't want to rile me.
How about Wasp Waffle? That brings up a memory. I once had a royal fit at a Rite Aid store when I discovered a little machine that dispensed "Hillbilly Teeth", next to the gumball machines. Yeah, you know what I'm talking about. The cute little plastic things you set in your mouth to make you look like a methed-out orc. For kids, right? Well, I have people back in those hills and hollers. And yes, it is true that those folks are not known for their pricey orthodontics. But how disgusting that they should be mocked for it. I dressed down the manager for this display of contempt for one of the most disadvantaged socioeconomic groups in the country. "What's next??" I asked him, "Jungle Bunny lips?!?" (I was much younger then). But that was the point, you see. "Hillbillies" are white, and therefore fair game. Anyway, they did take the machine away. It's time to stand up to these people, and also give them a taste of their own medicine.
My alter ego, Anita D’Ontiste, almost… caused a rift in my marriage. I still snort in humor at the memories but my husband has hidden my “teef,” it”s been a few years, and I haven”t heard from Anita since…
The Snuffy Smith cartoon strip lives on as it makes great fun of us hillbillies who like to steal chickens, lie around and fish in 'no fishin' holes. They used to show Snuffy making and drinking moonshine but that went away because of MADD or some such. I actually like it and would never complain but us redneck whites are fair game.
I loved Snuffy Smith. And I'm happy to say that Appalachian culture is finally getting its due - having a bit of a moment, in fact. Check out the glossy Smoky Mountain Living magazine out of Waynesville, NC. And preppers are mad for vlogs put out by mountain folks - many very popular ones by Appalachian women, teaching you the finer points of making "leather britches" (air-dried green beans). As we move relentlessly closer to Depression and food scarcity, these thrifty and resourceful country ways are making a comeback.
Oh, I love those. Still have a couple of them. As well as "The Lost Ways" by Claude Davis Sr., which I would not be without, and John Seymour's classic "Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency". Originally published in 1976 - the Back To The Land movement was still going strong - it has a revised edition. And let's not forget Jethro Kloss' immortal "Back to Eden".
Do you remember during the Iraq War, troops were improvising vehicle armor, calling it "hillbilly armor". Saved many a soldier's life and limbs. A friend wrote an anti-war poem by that name.
Some white liberal gender studies gringo from Cornell complained, so we all must suffer.
How many American "foods" (I use the term loosely) are fusions of the myriad cultures that make America? Will Italian Americans complain that people put pineapple on pizza? Will Asian Americans complain when the "wrong" ingredients" are wrapped in a wonton? Will Middle Eastern Americans complain when people put tofu in a pita?
Thank you, Scott. I'm also 0% Italian but my mom grew up in an Italian neighborhood so we self-identify...what I am is a kama'aina, and we don't put pineapple on anything, and pineapple on pizza is, as you say, an abomination. Show me a pizzeria in Naples that serves it. Just one! Ah well. To each their own, right?
YESSSSSSS!!! OMG!! Mark, I can't even! On my knees, I thank you. I am from Hawai'i, and the amount of food I have been presented with that has been desecrated by, admittedly, a perfectly innocent and delicious fruit in its own right, would leave you speechless. We're talking marinara sauce on spaghetti - MARINARA SAUCE - with pineapple chunks thrown in ("I did it in your honor!"). Dear God. Longest evening of my life, choking that nastiness down. People in the Islands - locals, that is - abhor pineapple on pizza, and shudder each time we see those loathsome words, "Hawaiian Pizza". And btw guess what? The pineapple is not even native to the Islands, it was introduced in the early 1800s by a Spaniard named Don Marin.
The "real" Hawaiian pizza is also supposed to have that other " native to the Islands" topping >>> SPAM. When on the islands we were told all that at a touristy restaurant. A tradition prolly started when Monty Python visited Hawai'i.
OH my goodness no, Spam got going during WWII. Remember we didn't have air freight until well into the late 1960's/early 1970s, everything came in on barges, and there was canned meat, canned juice...I grew up with canned and frozen vegetables, rarely tasted fresh stone fruits. Canned meats were and are still very popular. Spam is truly soul food there, people who visit are shocked by the literal walls of Spam in the stores, as well as Spam cookbooks and cooking contests. My bestie's mom could stretch a can of Spam to feed six people. I've eaten my share, including Spam musubi (Spam sushi). Thankfully you can get low sodium now. It's still huge in the Islands, and on down into the Pacific, where it vies for popularity with canned corned beef in American and Western Samoa. https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/301eju/an_aisle_of_spam_in_kailua_hawaii/ Oh, and there are Spam carving contests.
Another FYI (that maybe only Canadians know) is that (according to legend) Hawaiian pizza was invented in Canada (Ontario I believe) by a guy who owned a Greek restaurant. So, super multicultural!
"Human history is a neverending story of cultural appropriation...."
..and cognitive, ideological, technological and linguistic appropriation.
But the woke don't get their panties in a twist about those because their whole world view is based on ignoring all the appropriations they've blindly accepted.
The person who attempted to school me into believing that Africans invented braided hairstyles, by telling me of 3500 yr old carvings as timeline proof, had not, apparently, known about the Venus of Willendorf.
Not too long ago, white women were schooled about “appropriation” of hoop earrings 🙄 If we’re playing that game, think of the myriad of things POCs are appropriating from cultures other than their own in every day life.
Ah, but that was a sign of their "oppression", right? Straightening hair = white supremacy. Removing every bit of self-determination. Poor, poor victims! No racists on earth come close to the far left.
I once heard a great early rap song, that went "White folks was cool once, too. They used to dye themselves blue". Referring, of course, to the Picts, who also covered themselves in tattoos.
If I'm not mistaken, a key ingredient in the theory of "cultural appropriation" is disrespect or ridicule. Another one is profit. So, if I borrow something from another culture in a way that someone perceives to be disrespectful, or if it profits me, then I'm guilty.
And I think Biden should appoint a czar of cultural appropriation to help people like me pay the price for these transgressions. That czar's judgments would be shared with the IRS so that, each time I appropriated, my federal tax bill would increase. And the additional revenue would be donated to BLM or other cultural leaders that I hurt through my act of appropriation.
For example, let's say I smoked crack in a hotel room with some prostitutes and made a video of it. But let's say it was a disrespectful video that I sold on the internet, netting $1000. When the cultural appropriation czar informs the IRS of my transgression, my federal tax liability goes up by $1000. The IRS then sends that money to Hunter Biden.
This is probably the only way we will ever create a culture of fairness and justice.
The divide between marginalization and cultural appropriation cannot be breached because it simply doesn't exist. As a person of non-color we are all eternally guilty of both sins simultaneously.
Waiting for the woke kids to get rid of their dreadlocks. Deeply offensive to many practicing Rastafarians. I have often wondered if those partying dready kids know anything at all about Rastafari. There are three distinct orders, and under them several subgroups, and the most strict and conservative hold with beliefs and practices that make Seventh-Day Adventists look like rank sinners.
Tell me about it. I'm a Hawai'i native, and I'm Sorry, folks, but rainbows belong to everybody. A friend and I made a rainbow sign to put up on our road, thanking the small army of firefighters who had saved our neighborhood from a big wildfire a few years ago. At the time, J was in her 70s, I was about 50. Oh, the fun everyone had in our small town! "About time you girls came out". We hadn't even thought of it, it never even occurred to us. "Well, at least you thanked all the gay and lesbian firefighters", was someone's comment.
stop caving in to the woke mob. look what's happening now. some very liberal women open a lesbian coffee shop (do coffee shops have sex?) and their employees demand that they give them the shop. do these idiots know what is involved in running a business? if my employees ever made such demands, they'd feel the pavement with their butts.
EVERYTHING is appropriated from another culture. ALL land is stolen land. EVERYONE'S ancestors were at one point in history, slaves and at another point, slave owners. get over it
As I'm fond of bringing up when the woke get really disgustingly racist:
Only white europeans have neanderthal DNA (vestigial remains), and scandinavians and slavs have the most. Therefore, all non-neanderthal descendants must vacate Europe and any other areas once inhabited by our proud ancestors, so tragically subjugated and exterminated by the Cro Magnon-supremacists.
The minute Charles takes the throne, I'm reinstating my longstanding suit against the Crown, for throwing my ancestors off of their croft on the Isle of Skye. We're a group of five now, and growing. We demand restitution!
I have to wonder what strange alternative universe I've been inhabiting for starting on seven decades now that I never knew of the existence of Choco-Taco until its sudden demise.
But quite the challenge. This is, however, the hill I will absolutely die on, no matter how many packets of innocent seeds must be forced to serve my obsession.
I accept with joy, but only temporarily. This is the first year they seem to have real vigor. Of course last year, the pot contained some giant hyssop seeds (9th generation from the plants in my NYC garden apt. front yard) which soon dominated the territory and the lavender couldn't hold on. The year before that? A brief short-lived triumph.
A taco related topic? This seems right up my alley. As a Hispanic I've found choco tacos delicious the few times I've had them at my brother's house. He loves the things. I've never found any Americanization of Hispanic culture to offensive. Stupid sometimes, but not worthy of anything more than being lightly mocked. I wonder if the people concerned over this "cultural appropriation" of the choco taco are Hispanic the same way Liz Warren is Native American.
Before the pandemic, we used to host international visitors for 2 week stints at our home for a program that promoted international understanding. About 10 years ago we were hosting 2 ladies from Slovakia and Hungary. Noting that we ate Italian, Mexican, Chinese, etc food for dinner on various nights, they asked, When are we going to eat American Food? It occurred to me that A LOT of what we eat I guess could be termed 'cultural appropriation'. And could not really decide what was truly 'American' food. Considered hamburgers, bbq, hot dogs, settled on a traditional Tgiving dinner - turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole. They loved it. Point is, before all this wokism arrived, we enjoyed a variety of foods without giving any thought that buying/eating them was supposed to be offensive.
But Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, et al can culturally appropriate a white persons hair? Not that I care, just another striking example of the progressive hypocrisy.
My mind is running wild. What will happen to things back in my ol' home state of Hawai'i? Are we going to say aloha to aloha shirts? What about the Hula Bowl? And what about all those white chicks in Hayward, CA, dancing hula? Huh, what about THEM? Blond bitches have walked off with First Prize at the Merry Monarch once too often. It's white supremacy, all right.
As I understand it, "cultural appropriation" means adopting an item or practice from a culture that you were not born into.
If this is correct, then its application would require the immediate closing of U.S. borders to immigrants from non-Western countries, since by definition they weren't born into American culture. Why, they couldn't even take an airplane or motor vehicle over here, as these are American/Western invention. Planes and cars and buses may exist in their country now, but this means only that their ancestors culturally appropriated these modes of transportation, so they need to be banished in their home countries.
It remains an open question whether the consistent application of this "cultural appropriation" idea would lead progressives to stop advocating open borders... or to drop the whole ridiculous idea and be chill over cultural cross-pollination.
I don't think US truckers and heavy construction industry would like that.
Seeing as Rudolf Diesel was german.
Nah, I'm just ribbing you. Agree with what you wrote 100%. Have used exactly that line of reasoning against pomo's, PC thugs and woke-ists for 25 years.
Can they bring it back if they call it the White Trash Waffle?
they might have to deep fry it, miss margaret.
I don't see a problem with that plan.
How about renaming it “Cracker Cookie”??
Oh no! That'll never do. Needs to be "Caucasian Cookie".
https://babylonbee.com/news/cracker-jacks-changes-name-to-more-politically-correct-caucasian-jacks
But that won’t do… it’s Russia and everything is Putin’s fault, so it wouldn’t do to be seen to support him!
Hah! I have often wished that we could somehow make audio comments. My response to that would be the rudest of raspberries. Actually I'm pleasantly surprised by how few people I know who take part in the Hate Putin campaign. This includes the far lefties who represent the majority where I live. They don't seem to be buying into it. That or they're dissembling. It is a known fact that I am a madwoman and maybe they just don't want to rile me.
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My thoughts precisely. Bring that shit on.
Take my money!
In butter, like the peanut butter and banana sandwiches that Elvis so loved.
If you want to be truly authentic, in lard.
Let’s split the difference and use buttered lard.
Let's do even better and use lard and Crisco.
And butter?
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I don't know... looks pretty latinx to me, perhaps with some Castilian in the woodpile to account for the... paleness.
To be certain we need to confer with the undisputed expert in these matters, Dr. Jill Brandon.
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She's an amazing doctor. Surgeon general material for sure.
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How about Wasp Waffle? That brings up a memory. I once had a royal fit at a Rite Aid store when I discovered a little machine that dispensed "Hillbilly Teeth", next to the gumball machines. Yeah, you know what I'm talking about. The cute little plastic things you set in your mouth to make you look like a methed-out orc. For kids, right? Well, I have people back in those hills and hollers. And yes, it is true that those folks are not known for their pricey orthodontics. But how disgusting that they should be mocked for it. I dressed down the manager for this display of contempt for one of the most disadvantaged socioeconomic groups in the country. "What's next??" I asked him, "Jungle Bunny lips?!?" (I was much younger then). But that was the point, you see. "Hillbillies" are white, and therefore fair game. Anyway, they did take the machine away. It's time to stand up to these people, and also give them a taste of their own medicine.
My alter ego, Anita D’Ontiste, almost… caused a rift in my marriage. I still snort in humor at the memories but my husband has hidden my “teef,” it”s been a few years, and I haven”t heard from Anita since…
https://www.drbukk.com/funny-teeth/she-bangs-teef-2.html
Sounds like you've had your fun! LOL.
😲 I had no idea such things existed.
This was over ten years ago, but I'll bet you a buck they're still around.
They are.
WASP? That’s discriminatory against White Anglo Saxon Catholics.
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The Snuffy Smith cartoon strip lives on as it makes great fun of us hillbillies who like to steal chickens, lie around and fish in 'no fishin' holes. They used to show Snuffy making and drinking moonshine but that went away because of MADD or some such. I actually like it and would never complain but us redneck whites are fair game.
I loved Snuffy Smith. And I'm happy to say that Appalachian culture is finally getting its due - having a bit of a moment, in fact. Check out the glossy Smoky Mountain Living magazine out of Waynesville, NC. And preppers are mad for vlogs put out by mountain folks - many very popular ones by Appalachian women, teaching you the finer points of making "leather britches" (air-dried green beans). As we move relentlessly closer to Depression and food scarcity, these thrifty and resourceful country ways are making a comeback.
And go waaay back to the Foxfire books for true resourceful tips!
Oh, I love those. Still have a couple of them. As well as "The Lost Ways" by Claude Davis Sr., which I would not be without, and John Seymour's classic "Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency". Originally published in 1976 - the Back To The Land movement was still going strong - it has a revised edition. And let's not forget Jethro Kloss' immortal "Back to Eden".
Do you remember during the Iraq War, troops were improvising vehicle armor, calling it "hillbilly armor". Saved many a soldier's life and limbs. A friend wrote an anti-war poem by that name.
WASP as in white anglo saxon protestant, or wasp as in bugs?
The former. And it seems that we of the former are scheduled to start consuming the latter.
I can't find it on the nets. I was hoping to get an image of those.
Is it candy? or just plastic? (hillbilly lips)
Plastic/rubber. Type in "funny mouth hillbilly teeth". They're everywhere, including Amazon and eBay. Billy Bob is a popular brand (it would be).
Billy Bob teeth are awesome! They were just funny, that’s all.
So are you! :>)
Some white liberal gender studies gringo from Cornell complained, so we all must suffer.
How many American "foods" (I use the term loosely) are fusions of the myriad cultures that make America? Will Italian Americans complain that people put pineapple on pizza? Will Asian Americans complain when the "wrong" ingredients" are wrapped in a wonton? Will Middle Eastern Americans complain when people put tofu in a pita?
I'm sooooo tired of crazy people.
I'll say that pineapple on pizza is an abomination, and I'm 0% Italian. (Mostly German and Irish, with who knows what else mixed in, for the record.)
Thank you, Scott. I'm also 0% Italian but my mom grew up in an Italian neighborhood so we self-identify...what I am is a kama'aina, and we don't put pineapple on anything, and pineapple on pizza is, as you say, an abomination. Show me a pizzeria in Naples that serves it. Just one! Ah well. To each their own, right?
Me too. Why are they being lent any credence at all, is my question. Can't we just shrug and ignore them?
I'm happy to ignore them, but the morons who run these companies are, well, morons.
You know this wasn’t real… right?
If they spike it with Red Bull and Bud Light, definitely.
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Why can't these people cancel something truly abhorrent, like pineapple-on-pizza?
YESSSSSSS!!! OMG!! Mark, I can't even! On my knees, I thank you. I am from Hawai'i, and the amount of food I have been presented with that has been desecrated by, admittedly, a perfectly innocent and delicious fruit in its own right, would leave you speechless. We're talking marinara sauce on spaghetti - MARINARA SAUCE - with pineapple chunks thrown in ("I did it in your honor!"). Dear God. Longest evening of my life, choking that nastiness down. People in the Islands - locals, that is - abhor pineapple on pizza, and shudder each time we see those loathsome words, "Hawaiian Pizza". And btw guess what? The pineapple is not even native to the Islands, it was introduced in the early 1800s by a Spaniard named Don Marin.
The "real" Hawaiian pizza is also supposed to have that other " native to the Islands" topping >>> SPAM. When on the islands we were told all that at a touristy restaurant. A tradition prolly started when Monty Python visited Hawai'i.
OH my goodness no, Spam got going during WWII. Remember we didn't have air freight until well into the late 1960's/early 1970s, everything came in on barges, and there was canned meat, canned juice...I grew up with canned and frozen vegetables, rarely tasted fresh stone fruits. Canned meats were and are still very popular. Spam is truly soul food there, people who visit are shocked by the literal walls of Spam in the stores, as well as Spam cookbooks and cooking contests. My bestie's mom could stretch a can of Spam to feed six people. I've eaten my share, including Spam musubi (Spam sushi). Thankfully you can get low sodium now. It's still huge in the Islands, and on down into the Pacific, where it vies for popularity with canned corned beef in American and Western Samoa. https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/301eju/an_aisle_of_spam_in_kailua_hawaii/ Oh, and there are Spam carving contests.
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Hey wait a sec... that's a tradition in these parts. 🇨🇦
Another FYI (that maybe only Canadians know) is that (according to legend) Hawaiian pizza was invented in Canada (Ontario I believe) by a guy who owned a Greek restaurant. So, super multicultural!
And all this time, I thought it was invented in Hell, by Satan (who also owns a Greek restaurant, oddly enough).
So are homeless tent cities, public transit scams and drive-by shootings.
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Can’t help but think of Bill Hicks:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I1_6FlQfbho
Hicks was a prophet. Unfortunately.
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I see a business plan in your future. ;)
I see a Pulitzer Prize (not that that means anything anymore, alas ).
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LOL
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Cultural Appropriation does not exist. It is a ludicrous concept used only by the malicious and the low IQ
Human history is a neverending story of cultural appropriation. Also known as "learning cool ideas from other people".
Indeed.
"Human history is a neverending story of cultural appropriation...."
..and cognitive, ideological, technological and linguistic appropriation.
But the woke don't get their panties in a twist about those because their whole world view is based on ignoring all the appropriations they've blindly accepted.
The person who attempted to school me into believing that Africans invented braided hairstyles, by telling me of 3500 yr old carvings as timeline proof, had not, apparently, known about the Venus of Willendorf.
Not too long ago, white women were schooled about “appropriation” of hoop earrings 🙄 If we’re playing that game, think of the myriad of things POCs are appropriating from cultures other than their own in every day life.
Ah, but that was a sign of their "oppression", right? Straightening hair = white supremacy. Removing every bit of self-determination. Poor, poor victims! No racists on earth come close to the far left.
Yes I remember how it was stealing from Latino culture.
Always remember the bowler hats, friends, if anyone pulls *that* on you.
Semi-auto pistols for one thing. Black males use them every day, 24/7.
I once heard a great early rap song, that went "White folks was cool once, too. They used to dye themselves blue". Referring, of course, to the Picts, who also covered themselves in tattoos.
Exactly!
No kidding, but it is fine for Joy Reid to sport short straight blond hair!
If I'm not mistaken, a key ingredient in the theory of "cultural appropriation" is disrespect or ridicule. Another one is profit. So, if I borrow something from another culture in a way that someone perceives to be disrespectful, or if it profits me, then I'm guilty.
And I think Biden should appoint a czar of cultural appropriation to help people like me pay the price for these transgressions. That czar's judgments would be shared with the IRS so that, each time I appropriated, my federal tax bill would increase. And the additional revenue would be donated to BLM or other cultural leaders that I hurt through my act of appropriation.
For example, let's say I smoked crack in a hotel room with some prostitutes and made a video of it. But let's say it was a disrespectful video that I sold on the internet, netting $1000. When the cultural appropriation czar informs the IRS of my transgression, my federal tax liability goes up by $1000. The IRS then sends that money to Hunter Biden.
This is probably the only way we will ever create a culture of fairness and justice.
LOL. This has to win the thread 😂
Every time I hear that shit I like to point out how the speaker is culturally appropriating electricity, computers, etc.
Language, the latin alphabet, the Greek concepts of democracy or tyranny (more probably) etc.
The divide between marginalization and cultural appropriation cannot be breached because it simply doesn't exist. As a person of non-color we are all eternally guilty of both sins simultaneously.
Embrace the guilt and get out the checkbook.
"As a persons of non-color" Does that mean you are invisible? Cool, dood!
Did I really write "a persons of non-color"? How about a persons of non-proofreading?
Invisible would be "person of non-opacity" -- which is how the Left would prefer us to be.
edit: Person of Non-opacity = P.O.N. (vs. P.O.C.)
Waiting for the woke kids to get rid of their dreadlocks. Deeply offensive to many practicing Rastafarians. I have often wondered if those partying dready kids know anything at all about Rastafari. There are three distinct orders, and under them several subgroups, and the most strict and conservative hold with beliefs and practices that make Seventh-Day Adventists look like rank sinners.
Also the glowing pink hair has to be offensive to many species of phosphorescent fish.
Very true! And though I've never taken a survey, I am sure Leprechauns take umbrage at green hair.
and the appropriation of rainbows
Tell me about it. I'm a Hawai'i native, and I'm Sorry, folks, but rainbows belong to everybody. A friend and I made a rainbow sign to put up on our road, thanking the small army of firefighters who had saved our neighborhood from a big wildfire a few years ago. At the time, J was in her 70s, I was about 50. Oh, the fun everyone had in our small town! "About time you girls came out". We hadn't even thought of it, it never even occurred to us. "Well, at least you thanked all the gay and lesbian firefighters", was someone's comment.
Yikes! Well al I got to say is that Somewhere over the Rainbow by Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwoʻole is my absolute favorite cover of that song.
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Or a whole swath of parrots.
How about those nose rings that look like the ones that used to be put on bulls? Are cows going to be offended?
I call them shoat rings, which is how I have seen them packaged. And you're right, this issue is long overdue for redress.
That is oddly appropriate, since a shoat is a young pig.
Exactly. And it makes me crazy to see ravishingly pretty young women sporting them (I've known a few). Where does this self-hatred come from?
Well, not that I'm christian or ever has been or will be, but Proverbs 11:22 comes to mind.
Finally someone said it!! Thank you
The choco taco joins the Land o' Lakes Indian and Aunt Jemima in the cultural appropriation gulag.
I love the meme comparing the old and new branding for Land o' Lakes with the caption, "they got rid of the Indian and kept the land".
One of my personal favorites.
That was effing brilliant. One of the best.
When they eliminated Aunt Jemima's syrup, a resourceful African American entrepreneur stepped in to fill the market gap:
Cousin T's Buttermilk Pancake Mix
https://cousints.com/products/cousin-ts-buttermilk-gourmet-pancake-mix-2-pack
I was always a little disappointed that Aunt Fee never became a food brand.
Any day now, Betty Crocker will become a trans. And what, oh what then will become of her muffins?
Those are some expensive pancakes!
and yet they're selling like hotcakes
Ba dum dum! 😉
you're right.
but hey, when an opportunity like that presents itself, you can't *not* make the joke
I pity the fool!
Klondike pancake mix is pretty good, with the added benefit of culturally appropriating from Canada.
LOL!
I didn't even know they had their own culture. I always thought Canada was just "America Junior" plus poutine.
More like Cuba's love child
And Uncle Ben
https://babylonbee.com/news/shes-back-doritos-signs-12-year-contract-with-aunt-jemima
hahahaha!
stop caving in to the woke mob. look what's happening now. some very liberal women open a lesbian coffee shop (do coffee shops have sex?) and their employees demand that they give them the shop. do these idiots know what is involved in running a business? if my employees ever made such demands, they'd feel the pavement with their butts.
EVERYTHING is appropriated from another culture. ALL land is stolen land. EVERYONE'S ancestors were at one point in history, slaves and at another point, slave owners. get over it
As I'm fond of bringing up when the woke get really disgustingly racist:
Only white europeans have neanderthal DNA (vestigial remains), and scandinavians and slavs have the most. Therefore, all non-neanderthal descendants must vacate Europe and any other areas once inhabited by our proud ancestors, so tragically subjugated and exterminated by the Cro Magnon-supremacists.
The minute Charles takes the throne, I'm reinstating my longstanding suit against the Crown, for throwing my ancestors off of their croft on the Isle of Skye. We're a group of five now, and growing. We demand restitution!
This isn't funny. That was my go to at the icecream truck. Is nothing sacred around here?
Exactly! From my 14 year old: do you people have souls?!
You know...we haven't even brought up the topic of Eskimo Pies. I mean, shouldn't it be "Inuit Pies" - if they exist at all? So disrespectful!!
You gotta keep up; that is so 2020:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/06/business/eskimo-pie-name-change/index.html
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I have to wonder what strange alternative universe I've been inhabiting for starting on seven decades now that I never knew of the existence of Choco-Taco until its sudden demise.
I was going to say the same thing! It looks delicious, I want one, and now I can't have it!
Well, I've reached that sad stage in life where biting into ice cream is the equivalent of playing with live wires, so...
Same here! It looks good too--maybe just call it YUM!
Sounds like the darkest alternative universe to me.
Rarified air has its costs, my dear. Unfortunately. I'm laying in a lifetime supply of Woods of Windsor potpourri, and sealing up my doors.
Can't afford that no more. Growing lavender on my windowsill.
Better still.
But quite the challenge. This is, however, the hill I will absolutely die on, no matter how many packets of innocent seeds must be forced to serve my obsession.
You grow lavender from seed? I am a nurserywoman. Madam, you have my deepest respect.
I accept with joy, but only temporarily. This is the first year they seem to have real vigor. Of course last year, the pot contained some giant hyssop seeds (9th generation from the plants in my NYC garden apt. front yard) which soon dominated the territory and the lavender couldn't hold on. The year before that? A brief short-lived triumph.
WUT
Well, don't ask *me* to explain the strange gaps in my knowledge...
Born and raised Noo Yawkuh. I have no excuse.
😂 The Hillary memes are gold.
You people are as colorful as a Choco Taco.
- "Dr." Jill Biden
Works for me.
Uh, oh! I bet Dairy Queen is next!
Probably
What about Taco Bell?
Senor Taco?
There must be something wrong with House of Pancakes
It's offensive to homeless people
good one
IHOP is offensive to rabbits.
Cops go there. Enough said.
Holy sh-!!! Wow, now that is egregious!! Only real dairy queens should be allowed to call themselves that!!!
I always appropriated culture when eating a Choco Taco.
Fat People Culture.
A taco related topic? This seems right up my alley. As a Hispanic I've found choco tacos delicious the few times I've had them at my brother's house. He loves the things. I've never found any Americanization of Hispanic culture to offensive. Stupid sometimes, but not worthy of anything more than being lightly mocked. I wonder if the people concerned over this "cultural appropriation" of the choco taco are Hispanic the same way Liz Warren is Native American.
Before the pandemic, we used to host international visitors for 2 week stints at our home for a program that promoted international understanding. About 10 years ago we were hosting 2 ladies from Slovakia and Hungary. Noting that we ate Italian, Mexican, Chinese, etc food for dinner on various nights, they asked, When are we going to eat American Food? It occurred to me that A LOT of what we eat I guess could be termed 'cultural appropriation'. And could not really decide what was truly 'American' food. Considered hamburgers, bbq, hot dogs, settled on a traditional Tgiving dinner - turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole. They loved it. Point is, before all this wokism arrived, we enjoyed a variety of foods without giving any thought that buying/eating them was supposed to be offensive.
Aren't all of the illegal immigrants crossing the border trying to appropriate our culture?
Everyone who comes here for a better life is obviously rejecting white culture. Instead, they want to re-create their culture here.
Kind of like how CA residents move to CO and turn it into a sh*thole.
Yes, I realize this makes no sense. Welcome to 2022.
I don't think most of them care about US culture--they just want what they think they see.
I yearn for chocotacoplasmosis to infect these ejits.
But Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, et al can culturally appropriate a white persons hair? Not that I care, just another striking example of the progressive hypocrisy.
Only white people can be racist and culturally appropriate. All non-whites are completely free of social sin. Didn't you know?
Damn…I keep forgetting that
Even People is calling out the woke mob? Jump the shark moment
Another great username!
No: https://people.com/food/klondikes-choco-taco-discontinued-after-almost-40-years/
"...the Choco Taco was entirely discontinued in July due to an unprecedented spike in demand for different Klondike products"
Talk about your corporate double-speak. After a 40 year run people suddenly stop buying them?
Yes! I am shocked!!
My mind is running wild. What will happen to things back in my ol' home state of Hawai'i? Are we going to say aloha to aloha shirts? What about the Hula Bowl? And what about all those white chicks in Hayward, CA, dancing hula? Huh, what about THEM? Blond bitches have walked off with First Prize at the Merry Monarch once too often. It's white supremacy, all right.
As I understand it, "cultural appropriation" means adopting an item or practice from a culture that you were not born into.
If this is correct, then its application would require the immediate closing of U.S. borders to immigrants from non-Western countries, since by definition they weren't born into American culture. Why, they couldn't even take an airplane or motor vehicle over here, as these are American/Western invention. Planes and cars and buses may exist in their country now, but this means only that their ancestors culturally appropriated these modes of transportation, so they need to be banished in their home countries.
It remains an open question whether the consistent application of this "cultural appropriation" idea would lead progressives to stop advocating open borders... or to drop the whole ridiculous idea and be chill over cultural cross-pollination.
I don't think US truckers and heavy construction industry would like that.
Seeing as Rudolf Diesel was german.
Nah, I'm just ribbing you. Agree with what you wrote 100%. Have used exactly that line of reasoning against pomo's, PC thugs and woke-ists for 25 years.