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Taco Tuesday, huh?

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  • StratDragonStratDragon Posts: 3,274
    goose_chase said:

    It's actually Jewish. The first fried fish shop was in the Goldsmith district of London. Originally you were supposed to eat the fish and discard the batter, like cornish pasties and the pastry.

    Fish on a Friday is Biblical.

    But that's not the point for the purposes of lampooning the thread, dammit. It's a disgusting anti-Britsh stereotype, and I'll throw my flat cap at my whippet if I see such insensitivity here on Daz!

    not biblical so much as Catholic, which was the dominant religion in Britain after the Celts and Romans and before King Turkey Leg or whatever his name was changed it so he could ice seven of his wives and it was cool because everyone in the Bible spoke like James Mason now. The first council Vatican instructed Catholics to eat fish on every Friday as an observance of the crucifixion, in the 1950's II Vatican changed it to a one day observance on Good Friday and we can eat Poplers! 

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604

    Well tis better than sheepish Saturday jokes, like we often get here in the Welsh valleys. Iechyd Da

  • grinch2901grinch2901 Posts: 1,247
    edited May 2016
    Joe Webb said:

    It depends on how its presented. If its a bunch of WASPs dressed up in a caricature of a Mexican bandito, when the closest they have gotten to a hispanic is their invisible maids back in the stately manner, then it is offensive.

    Its offensive because it reduces a culture to a steriotype, and through long, hard experience, demonstrates there is no intention of ever learning more. Is it an unintentional offense? Yes, and that is a bigger problem than if it was intentional. Is this politically correct? Yes - being anti-politcally correct seems to have morphed, for some (and no one here, of course), into an excuse to be racist.

    So as long as there wasn't a cartoon sombrero and fake mustace in the sets offered, its all good.

    Are these ladies Irish?  Probably not, this picture is from Spain. So they are a caricature of Irish drunken leprechauns.

    Not to mention this guy whom embodies the stereotype of the quick tempered, quick to fight irish.  

     Is anyone offended by this? I am of Irish descent and I'm not. I suppose I'll just never understand it.

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  • EtriganEtrigan Posts: 603
    edited May 2016

    I'm not sure how much of this thread is tongue-in-cheek, but I'll put my $0.02 worth in for sanity's sake. With the exception of one crude (and rare) use of the term (which is also why I'm now limited to owning "Cats") Taco Tuesday is very real, at very real Mexican restaurants. I live in Arizona; you can't swing that proverbial cat without hitting a Mexican restaurant. The attached image is from Arriba Mexican Grill in Phoenix. They're not offended, why should you be?

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  • IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,810
    StratDragon said:
    Ice Dragon Art said:

    The whole concept of politically correct is beyond idiotic.  People are offended because they choose to be offended.  Its beyond me how someone can be offended by the concept of calling food Asian when it originated on the continent of Asia.   People clearly have far too much time on their hands...

    Or they choose to have some semblance of respect after their heritage and their individually was being being put down, undermined, or trivialized by hateful people. If you want to hate, go and hate, it's your right, but no one has to put up with it.

    Once again, you are taking what I am saying and choosing to turn it into something its not.  I never once said that someone should be put down, undermined or trivialized. But many times, none of those things are being done or intended and people are not being any of those things yet some people still choose to twist it into something its not. If I call Chinese food Chinese I am not denigrating or in any way implying that the food or the people are subpar , bad or in any way inferior, I am simply stating that this food originated on the continent of China in the Chinese culture.  Nothing more, nothing less.  Yet people still choose to find offense.  THAT'S what I'm talking about.  so please, don't twist my words into something they are not.

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,704

    Everyday can be fish and chip Friday as far as I am concerned. Sadly we don't have chip stores around here and no I'm not going to fry my own. I just love fish and chips!

  • StratDragonStratDragon Posts: 3,274
    Joe Webb said:
    Are these ladies Irish?  Probably not, this picture is from Spain. So they are a caricature of Irish drunken leprechauns. Is anyone offended by this? I am of Irish descent and I'm not. I suppose I'll just never understand it.

     

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  • goose_chasegoose_chase Posts: 84

    The Welsh invented Chicken Tikka Massala. It was some mad chef playing around with exotic ingredients trying to make a sweeter curry that didn't reek of curry powder. That and drunkeness before 10am. Or was that Liverpool? Hmm, close historical call.

    Very few things turn out to be authentically a priori British. Rugby and arguably football, albeit what morphed into soccer was played out for days between rival towns as an excuse to beat each other up in drunken brawls. So... not too much has changed, I suppose. Wait a minute... that's... another stereotype... noooooooooooo. Blimey this racist stuff is difficult to navigate. Whose patreon do I have to give money to absolve my sin temporarily?

     

    StratDragon said:

    The first council Vatican instructed Catholics to eat fish on every Friday as an observance of the crucifixion, in the 1950's II Vatican changed it to a one day observance on Good Friday and we can eat Poplers! 

    I did not know that. I knew about the Poplers, obviously, but the one-day-only command change is a shocker. Probably some Cardinal who hated eating fish as a boy growing up to infiltrate the Church, slowly working his way up to the top table, getting everyone else sloshed on Communion wine, and then slipping through a new Papal See ordinance when nobody was looking. He strolls home on a Friday eating pizza in an over-exaggerated way in front of his mum holding a big fish. "Uh-uh... new rules, ma."

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,347

    Apologies to those having pure fun, but this topic is clearly and inevitably going to bring in politcal discussions so it is being locked.

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