rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

on the whole I encourage white ppl to shop at asian supermarkets tho, its fun there are lots of cool snacks and ingredients and things to buy

'Ethnic' is such a daft word in this context. Crime section aside though, I'd let it slide.

Omg dayo so true. Lechera took me to an Asian market she frequents and I got lots of stuff. For one thing I KILLED that bag of seaweed crackers on the train.

yes seaweed crackers, also scallion crackers http://i.imgur.com/XUzWz.jpg

MOARE SEAWEED

http://www.dreamstime.com/japanese-seaweed-rice-crackers-macro-isolated-thumb13088024.jpg

I love Asian supermarkets but I've got to admit that I go in with a certain air of "whoa look at all this weird shit I don't understand, what the heck even is this" which, ok, is kind of racist, since we are on the looking for things to be racist thread

but also I come home with delicious foodstuffs often for cheap

i love shopping at the russian market. they've got some sweet fish stuffs there.

http://www.russianfoodmalta.com/sunshop/images/products/detail_16_skumbria1.jpg

mmm skumbria

mordy can you weigh in on whether you think this is racist: rolling off a molly thread 2013

i'm going to wait for the poll results before i make up my mind

I love asian supermarkets and always hit them when I travel as I can't get a lot of stuff where I live. I've had at least a couple times when people would stare at me while trying to decipher which exact type of pickled vegetable to buy, or tell me which brand of kecap manis is shitty and which to buy instead.

I've had a couple of older women at the checkouts actually get sort of mean, asking me if I knew what I was buying, why I was buying it, what I was going to do with it, and how the hell do I know how to cook Korean or Vietnamese food?

Gonna have to start combining this "Sriracha" sauce with some of my favorite foodstuffs! I love eating like an ethnic!

I like it when I see white ppl at asian supermarkets, I'm always so intrigued like what exactly are you gonna buy

― 乒乓, Thursday, 10 January 2013 23:04 (Yesterday)

is this racist?

it's true all ethnics must have sriracha sauce at every meal or else they wil die

for sure xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RovF1zsDoeM

What I bought: hazelnut oil, seaweed crackers, two cans of panang curry, a kid's toy, some chili sauce that didn't have msg on the label and the label was a cool design. I would have gotten more but the lugging, the lugging.

you probably could have gotten all that in mht ctown

i went into my local asian supermarket and was overwhelmed by all the stuff that i had no idea how to cook or eat, so i came out with a big sack of cheap rice, felt so fuckin white it wasn't funny

I know but I was on my way to Michigan!

Speaking of which though I need to go shopping in Ctown. Want to have soup DUMPLINGS! soon? I do.

yes there is a good place on mott, I'll be back in like a week and a half

You like Joe's better or the Shanghai Cafe? I like the cranky lady waitresses at the Caf.

COURSE YOU DO

God darraghmac it's like you don't even KNOW me sometimes.

I also like the neon ceiling and the (frequently) shorter line outside the door as compared to their major competition down the street.

shanghai manor!

Okay I'm sold!

that i had no idea how to cook or eat, so i came out with a big sack of cheap rice, felt so fuckin white it wasn't funny

Damn... I know you aren't playing if you were able to feel the color of the rice.

irl lol

feel like the asian-ffirmative action conversation never got off to the start it deserved

乒乓, if you see me at the grocery you can give me the token white-man high-five and I would never think you racist

I just love high-fives

the only shit i have ever gotten at any ethnic market is at the ethiopian market where the owner asked me how old my baby is and i was like i have no baby and then he told me that he assumed i had adopted an ethiopian baby
i was like nope, no baby

his wife was nice and taught me how to make misser wat (sp?)

feel like the asian-ffirmative action conversation never got off to the start it deserved

― the late great, Thursday, January 10, 2013 9:41 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you shoudl start a new thread? I'd participate

been shamelessly appropriating the cultural heritage [cheap tins of chick peas &c.] of pakistani/turkish/polish/... communities from their various shops so long that I no longer even give it a thought. I hope at least that the spices are similarly reasonably-priced in hell

i did hear a rumour that there are no pan-asian supermarkets down in hell

on the other hand it is my personal opinion that flaki may be quite readily available

^yes

"I like it when I see white ppl at asian supermarkets, I'm always so intrigued like what exactly are you gonna buy"

once saw what looked to be our middle-school teacher at an asian market? what could she be doing there? three days later we had squid dissections.

can i back us up 2 weeks?:

not black, makes doo rag work

― the late great, Wednesday, December 26, 2012 10:22 AM (2 weeks ago)

. . .

vitiligo

i'm sorry, i dont know what gets into me sometimes

Are we starting the asians-are-smart-deal-with-it thread yet?

pryde.

I guess you didn't go to school with asian kids of average intelligence

i'm sorry, i dont know what gets into me sometimes

― the late great, Monday, January 14, 2013 5:29 PM (41 minutes ago)

i'm not saying its a bad look, just asking if you're aware that yellowman is a black person with albinism?

I assumed that, but do you know for sure?

I'm a moron, it's ~the~ yellowman. going home now.

i am yellowman aware, yes

the majority of my tutoring students are asian and they seem convinced as a group that its going to hurt their chances of getting into good schools despite their diverse range of experiences

they feel as if they are competing against each other, something i certainly never felt wrt other middle middle eastern students