New York University issues public apology for 'racially insensitive' meal served during Black Histor

[Right_in_Virginia]

New York University issues public apology for 'racially insensitive' meal served during Black History Month
Independent/UK, Feb 22, 2018, Chelsea Ritschel

The school maintains it was not their choice

New York University has issued a public apology and fired their director of food service after students pointed out the watermelon-flavoured water and collard greens the school was serving during Black History Month were racially insensitive.

College of Arts and Science sophomore Nia Harris noticed the offensive meal when she walked into Weinstein Passport Dining Hall - before alerting the deans of the school and NYU’s President Hamilton of the insensitive and “stereotypical” meal.

In her letter, which she also shared on Facebook, Harris wrote: “It is with great sadness and frustration that I even have to send this email.”


More:  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-york-university-apology-racially-insensitive-meal-black-history-month-a8223521.html

[Right_in_Virginia]

I can't believe they fired the guy.   

[mountaineer]

I once cooked for a campus dining service. For Black History Month we did a special meal of (I'm not kidding) fried chicken, ham hocks, greens, blackeyed peas and sweet potato pie. The black cooks took over the kitchen and used family recipes. They, the students,  and the rest of us cooks absolutely loved it, and we all had a great (and collegial) time.

I guess those days are over.

[WingNot]

I can't believe they fired the guy.   

Good thing he didn't serve them fried chicken, they might have lynched him.

[edpc]

Was the cook named Hoppin’ John?

[goatprairie]

Good thing he didn't serve them fried chicken, they might have lynched him.

It still amazes me that fried chicken is thought of as an exclusively black food. When i was growing up my favorite night of the week was when my mother made fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, and usually corn for a vegetable (although technically corn is a grain and not a vegetable.) And chocolate pudding with whipped cream on top for dessert.  Yum, yum. 
And we white kids loved watermelon in the summer. In fact, when I was a Boy Scout, on overnights the scoutmasters would purloin a melon from farms we passed by.  I can reveal that great crime now more than fifty years after it happened. Besides, my scoutmaster died a month or two ago.

[truth_seeker]

I once cooked for a campus dining service. For Black History Month we did a special meal of (I'm not kidding) fried chicken, ham hocks, greens, blackeyed peas and sweet potato pie. The black cooks took over the kitchen and used family recipes. They, the students,  and the rest of us cooks absolutely loved it, and we all had a great (and collegial) time.

I guess those days are over.

They be over, yeah.

[roamer_1]

It still amazes me that fried chicken is thought of as an exclusively black food. When i was growing up my favorite night of the week was when my mother made fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, and usually corn for a vegetable (although technically corn is a grain and not a vegetable.) And chocolate pudding with whipped cream on top for dessert.  Yum, yum. 
And we white kids loved watermelon in the summer. In fact, when I was a Boy Scout, on overnights the scoutmasters would purloin a melon from farms we passed by.  I can reveal that great crime now more than fifty years after it happened. Besides, my scoutmaster died a month or two ago.

These people are morons. All of that is plain country fare, and every bit of it likely to be on my own table... Except collard greens, which I love, but they are not to be found at all up in here.

[roamer_1]

And we white kids loved watermelon in the summer. In fact, when I was a Boy Scout, on overnights the scoutmasters would purloin a melon from farms we passed by.  I can reveal that great crime now more than fifty years after it happened. Besides, my scoutmaster died a month or two ago.

And by the way, I know exactly how that works... And I have the rock salt pockmarks to prove it.

[andy58-in-nh]

I once cooked for a campus dining service. For Black History Month we did a special meal of (I'm not kidding) fried chicken, ham hocks, greens, blackeyed peas and sweet potato pie. The black cooks took over the kitchen and used family recipes. They, the students,  and the rest of us cooks absolutely loved it, and we all had a great (and collegial) time.

I guess those days are over.

I love black southern cooking. Always have. That used be called appreciation before it became known as "appropriation", see, because back in the Dark Days we used to share our cultural heritages, not knowing that it somehow insulted people to show them that we really enjoyed their contributions to our common heritage.

Oh, well. I'm going to play some blues music now, or as the Leftists might say, engaging in an act of cultural appropriation by a white oppressor.

Uh oh. Did I say "Dark Days"? Here comes the mob...

[Bigun]

I can't believe they fired the guy.   

Cultural Marxism running rampant.

How in the hell can food be racially anything?

[dfwgator]

I once cooked for a campus dining service. For Black History Month we did a special meal of (I'm not kidding) fried chicken, ham hocks, greens, blackeyed peas and sweet potato pie. 

Damn, I'm getting hungry.

[The_Reader_David]

I once cooked for a campus dining service. For Black History Month we did a special meal of (I'm not kidding) fried chicken, ham hocks, greens, blackeyed peas and sweet potato pie. The black cooks took over the kitchen and used family recipes. They, the students,  and the rest of us cooks absolutely loved it, and we all had a great (and collegial) time.

I guess those days are over.

If he'd had the cover of black cooks using family recipes, he'd have probably been fine. 

[mountaineer]

I'm not going to lie: the best fried chicken I've ever had was prepared by African-American ladies on a few different occasions. They should be proud of their expertise in that area. My mother wouldn't even attempt it!

Remembering that dinner back at the college is making me hungry. I love collard greens and fried chicken.

[goatprairie]

I'm not going to lie: the best fried chicken I've ever had was prepared by African-American ladies on a few different occasions. They should be proud of their expertise in that area. My mother wouldn't even attempt it!

Remembering that dinner back at the college is making me hungry. I love collard greens and fried chicken.

I've tasted African-American prepared fried chicken, KFC and  a number of different commercial brands, and the local grocery store that makes an excellent fried chicken. My mother's fried chicken ranks with anyone's.
The weird thing is while she was great at fried chicken, she cooked the hell out of most other things, especially beef. Her hamburgers were hard as hockey pucks, and her roast beef had every last drop of moisture cooked out of it.

[LauraTXNM]

What on earth is the watermelon-flavored water about???

[WingNot]

What on earth is the watermelon-flavored water about???

The Newspaper said The stores were all sold out of Jolly Ranchers.

[edpc]

What on earth is the watermelon-flavored water about???

It was as close as they could get to sizzurp without actually serving it.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/01/23/sizzurp-cough-syrup-drug/4793865/

[dfwgator]

What on earth is the watermelon-flavored water about???

Can somebody please explain to me what's so damned racist about watermelon?  I never understood that.

[Jazzhead]

So drinking Jameson's on St. Paddy's Day is ethnically insensitive?   I though the whole point of an ethnic celebration was to eat and drink the celebrated culture's cuisine.     

Sheesh,  the petty grievance police are sure getting ridiculous.     

[WingNot]

So drinking Jameson's on St. Paddy's Day is ethnically insensitive?   I though the whole point of an ethnic celebration was to eat and drink the celebrated culture's cuisine.     

Sheesh,  the petty grievance police are sure getting ridiculous.     

Next thing you know they will ban serving Taco's and Tequila on Cinco De Mayo!  Tecate anyone?

[goatprairie]

So drinking Jameson's on St. Paddy's Day is ethnically insensitive?   I though the whole point of an ethnic celebration was to eat and drink the celebrated culture's cuisine.     

Sheesh,  the petty grievance police are sure getting ridiculous.     

  "I though the whole point of an ethnic celebration was to eat and drink the celebrated culture's cuisine."

No, that would be appropriating someone else's culture. But if you don't celebrate their culture, you are also a racist for ignoring them....got that?       

[mountaineer]

  "I though the whole point of an ethnic celebration was to eat and drink the celebrated culture's cuisine."

No, that would be appropriating someone else's culture. But if you don't celebrate their culture, you are also a racist for ignoring them....got that?       

[WingNot]

Yoda updated his meme.

There is no Do.  Do not, Nor Try to Do.