Last weekend, the X accountholder Coddled Affluent Professional, whose profile picture features Transportation Department Secretary Pete Buttigieg, released a long thread of “racist food.”
The list was impressive. It included: candy, fish, yams (or sweet potatoes, depending on your view), fried chicken and meat generally, barbecue, Coke and Pepsi, cheese, coffee, ketchup, salmon, peaches, milk, cupcakes, salad, potato salad, beer and wine, bourbon, vanilla ice cream, the food additive MSG, Lay’s potato chips, and French food.
The thread included screenshots of media headlines explaining how these foods are racist.
One headline noted that thoughts about racial justice “could be linked to your affinity for steaks and sausages.” Another claimed that the difference between yams and sweet potatoes represents “structural racism” that dates to the slave trade.
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Yet, on the other hand, perhaps one thing the headlines revealed is how anti-white racist the writers are.
One article suggested “indispensible” black cooks were left out of the history of barbecue. Another complained about the “unbearable witness” of coffee and stated “black-owned coffee companies are reclaiming American coffee culture.” Still another maintained that white people’s “potato salad isn’t to be trusted. Or sampled. Or encouraged.”
And then there was: “White people’s eating habits produce most greenhouse gases, study finds,” as well as “How beer became white, why it matters, and the movements to change it.”
Some X users chipped in. One linked to a local news report that proclaimed peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were racist.
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Another user responded: “I have prepared every single one of these things in my career as a chef, I had no idea I was a racist the whole time, at least I came by it honestly.”
Finally, one more noted, “This is hilarious…ly sad.”
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