rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

COOKIE-IST

i'ma go buy a thing of those oreos, unless this thread determines them to be racist

there's nothing racist about the delcious flavor of watermelon

watermelon juice, now that's what's up

i think i could probably eat an entire watermelon in one day, perhaps even one sitting... but i'd probably have to tether myself to the bathroom for at least 8 hours afterwards

Watermelon is one of those "is it worth the effort" fruits.

and the answer is almost always "YES, GOD YES"

It's too messy!

I like it when someone has cut it up and taken out the seeds though. Then it's pretty good.

Sometimes the mess is fun but it's sort of an eat it outside only fruit for me because it's just too juicy and gets everywhere. Yes, I am five.

Also, are those Oreos real?

No part of those Oreos have been within a mile of a watermelon or any part of a watermelon, until they reach a grocery store and are shelved within 100 yards of the produce dept.

watermelon oreos seriously what the everloving fuck is even happening

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/sectionfront/life/flavored-uk-kitkats-leave-nestle-with-bad-taste-440881/

Flavored KitKat bars launched in the U.K. in 2004 and 2005 and later discontinued:
-- Blood Orange
-- Christmas Pudding
-- Dark Chocolate
-- Lemon & Yogurt
-- Lime Crush
-- Mango & Passionfruit
-- Red Berry
-- Seville Orange
-- Strawberries & Cream
-- White Chocolate

Just wait for the Clamato Kit Kat Bloody Mary package.

It's too messy!

I like it when someone has cut it up and taken out the seeds though. Then it's pretty good.

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Wednesday, June 19, 2013 1:24 PM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

pro tip: watermelon slices suck, they are messy. here's what you do instead: get one of the seedless kinds, more expensive but totally worth it. cut it in half. using a long knife, make cuts so that you cross section it up, like a tic tac toe board. use a big spoon to scoop out each chunk. you end up with these huge watermelon chunks that you can eat out of a bowl and when you bite into a really juicy one (if the melon's good) it's basically like heaven

watermelons are supposed to be messy. just like ribs.

Thank you for pro-tip.

I would eat most of those Kits or at least try them. They're not even that compared to the ones in Japan. Have you see some of those?

OH MAN I NEED THESE IN MY LIFE

http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Kit-Kat-Yatsuhashi-Chocolate/dp/B00859NSHA

Would try all of these including Red Bean and Wasabit but those watermelon oreos still look gross as hell:

http://kotaku.com/5983276/15-flavors-of-japanese-kit-kats-the-snacktaku-review

Wasabi, even

my friend brought me back some green tea kit kats, they were.. . ... okay

Yeah, I've heard similar from other people. Still want to try them. Now all I can think about are the cinammon cookie ones though. Damn. Also, purple sweet potato!

Japanese Kit-Kats rule

another watermelon pro-tip: buy a smaller melon, cut in half, scoop out luscious watermelon balls with an ice cream scoop

i like putting salt on my watermelon

i like putting salt on your mom's watermelon

*giggle*

so Paula Deen

see the Paula Deen thread

Also do we need to ask if someone answering the question "have you ever used the word 'nigger'?" with "Yes, of course" is racist? Is that where we are as a society?

there's a paula deen thread?

Paula Deen appreciation thread

i was hoping that would end with a 'there's a paula deen now?'

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/06/27/196210549/MOSCATO

That's believable, especially if you listen to hip-hop. As long I can remember, some rapper has been name-dropping some type of alcohol in his or her song. For a while it was the champagne, Cristal. I distinctly remember the liquer, Hypnotiq, being big when I was in college. Ciroc vodka is trending a bit right now. But moscato has trumped them all.

dude has his finger on the pulse

https://twitter.com/DrLwyrIndnChf/status/350370398619181056

linking for the convo that tweet inspired, not the tweet itself. bc lol

imo, article is not racist. it is describing trends based on factual research.

perhaps replying with "the people of color that I talked to" was not the best way to phrase his response

nm I see that he himself is black.

without weighing in on racist/not racist, one thing we can be sure of is that it's a really really dumb fluff piece

idk about "racist" but its a good case study in how to frame a piece: "is moscato a gateway wine for poc?" raises way more "read this for racism" warning flags than "rappers boost a varietal"

"If we could build a time machine and go listen to a Drake song three, four years from now, I would be willing to bet you that he's long since moved on from moscato and he's singing to his girlfriend about Napa cabernet or burgundy or something like that."

lol @ this thought experiment

possibly worst use of a theoretical time machine ever

yes

At no point did they question whether thunderbird counts as a white wine and whether moscato is like an upscale thunderbird

This popped up my Twitter feed and I was instantly reminded of that "Kill Whitey" parties thread:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/p480x480/1005721_203495573137435_2050069488_n.jpg

"Shacklewell Arms"

Oh dear.

Shacklewell's a part of Dalston. You should go to Bristol, home of Whiteladies' Road and Blackboy Hill.

somehow that comes off a lot less bad to me than the "kill whitey" parties. I guess the fried chicken part is a little iffy, but otherwise nothing about that seems more cartoonish than "party hip-hop" itself

Suzy, we have a Black Boy Lane in Tottenham.

I photographed a sign somewhere I think in Virginia or West Virginia for a geographic feature of some kind known as "Blacks Run"