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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Ironically despite spaghetti westerns being a thing, cowboys ate chow mein but not spaghetti

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That is...not the type of bear I was picturing when I read that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

The thought of it on my scalp is pawsitivly un-bear-able.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

The title is actually true. The Chinese diaspora in the US preceded the Italian by decades. While the Chinese diaspora faced segregation and then mass deportation, Americanized versions of its food - and basically just enough people to run the restaurants - remained. At first, Italian food was considered exotic and vulgar by white Americans, a category that did not include Italians.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

I fully believe my grandma's hatred of garlic stemmed from this sort of racist nonsense. She was born in that era and definitely had some issues.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

it's also really funny because italians don't cook with a lot of garlic, italian-amerikkkans do, ergo this old-timey racism is even dumber.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Same with oak in wine. The French use specific oak for the barrels. Americans buy those barrels, put them through wood chippers and put the wood chips in the wine while it ferments.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I’d post anti-italian-discrimination, but honestly the less ‘American’ my culture is seen as, the better.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

sometimes the racism is so unhinged and pure that it's kinda fascinating

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

"These are first drafts?" - Salieri

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Isn't chow mein also usually done with a decent amount of garlic? If so, hilarious to call out the italians over it

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

woah, how awful! (i want one)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

I grew up near where those were invented and thank the yeast gods I never encountered one until the link you just posted.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago

I would argue that Chinese food is still more Amainican than spaghetti

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The first Chinese restaurants opened during the California gold rush, 90 years before that quote was written

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

And Joe was from Martinez, in the Bay Area. He started his playing career in San Francisco, the location of that first Chinese restaurant.