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Old Family Recipe Unnecessarily Racist (thehardtimes.net)

submitted 6 months ago by Nero@sopuli.xyz to c/theonion@midwest.social

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[–] agentshags@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

So I get the reference to Brazil nuts, but am drawing a blank on the other ingredients. Are there other foods that actually had horribly racist nicknames?

Jews, Italians, and Latinos were all represented with words I won’t repeat.

Like what foods were they referring to, or are they just being vague for the sake of humor, with Brazil nuts being the only one that actually existed with that type of nickname?

[–] addie 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"Kaffir lime leaves" are generally being renamed as "makrut lime leaves" in the shops here in the UK. No problem with the rename, obvs, although it confused me a moment the last time I wanted to buy some. The thought that any of my grandparent's old recipes having any herb or spice more unusual than black pepper is more of laugh, tho.

[–] agentshags@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

So I had to Google that. If anyone else is curious, there's a Wikipedia article on the word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaffir_%28racial_term%29?wprov=sfla1

I'm kind of morbidly curious what some other foods could be.

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