![]() The most concerning part of the incident, though, was that the Washington Post issued a correction at the top of the column, lest anyone be led astray about curry: Is Lakshmi under the impression that the Weingartens of The Bronx were descendants of a British viceroy? Or is she accusing the Weingartens of The Bronx of colonizing the United States proper, where she also lives? Or is it simply that every white American is a colonizer by historical default? Seems to me that kind of broad-brush rhetoric is far more offensive than mocking a spice blend.Īmerica’s silent majority must fight liberals killing freedom of speech The only thing he’s “colonizing” is a Washington suburb. ![]() It is also highly unlikely that most Indian Americans, a successful and confident minority, would be mortally offended by a joke about curry.īut aside from all that, who talks like this? I don’t know Weingarten personally, but his Wikipedia page informs me that he grew up in The Bronx, a son of an accountant and a schoolteacher. Much of American Jewish cuisine is garbage, and you’re not an anti-Semite for pointing out the obvious. I’m Jewish and would rather eat black pudding than a pickled herring. Leading the charge was reality-show hostess - and newly self-proclaimed spokesperson for all Indian people on Earth - Padma Lakshmi, who responded, “on behalf of 1.3 billion people, kindly f**k off.” She wondered whether this was “the type of colonizer ‘hot take’ ” the Post wanted to publish one “sardonically characterizing curry as ‘one spice’ and that all of India’s cuisine is based on it?”įirst of all, it’s exceedingly unlikely that every Indian enjoys the cuisine of their native land. Vlogger pushes to cancel the word ‘curry’ because of colonial origins But the backlash to this innocuous 125 words took the form of the laziest of all modern critiques: an inane accusation of racism. You could perhaps understand someone writing an e-mail or tweet pushing back and defending the honor of Indian food. So, as I read the piece, I silently disagreed - taste is subjective, after all - and moved on with my life. Now, my experience tells me that Indian food features a quite diverse array of ingredients and spices - “curry powder” is the rather generic, Western term for a spice mix approximating Indian flavors - and it’s delicious. He described the food as “the only ethnic cuisine in the world insanely based entirely on one spice” and joked that whether one likes it comes down to whether one likes curry: “If you think Indian curries taste like something that could knock a vulture off a meat wagon, you do not like Indian food.” One of the cuisines Weingarten mocked was Indian food - praising the subcontinent for its glorious contributions to the world but joking about his distaste for curry. (Listen, when you have weekly deadlines, you do what you must.) Weingarten wrote his column, as humorists often do, in a self-deprecating tone, casting himself as a troglodytic contrarian. scandals, betting media will play alongĮarlier this month, Washington Post humor columnist Gene Weingarten wrote a column headlined, “You can’t make me eat these foods,” about his distaste for various cuisines, products, and spices - Old Bay, balsamic vinegar, anchovies, sweet pickles, and so on. Media ‘fact checkers’ lie to defend Alvin Bragg Hunter Biden laptop letter was the real disinfo all along The hypocritical major-media plot in advance to suppress The Post’s Hunter Biden reporting
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