Take the peanut butter sandwich, a seemingly innocent example a teacher used in a lesson last school year.
“What about Somali or Hispanic students, who might not eat sandwiches?” says Gutierrez, principal at Harvey Scott K-8 School, a diverse school of 500 students in Northeast Portland’s Cully neighborhood.
“Another way would be to say: ‘Americans eat peanut butter and jelly, do you have anything like that?’ Let them tell you. Maybe they eat torta. Or pita.”
However, and for the record, there never was a time (as a kid or now) that I wouldn’t be willing to swap a PB & J sandwich for chicken and waffles or a delicious home made carnitas burrito. Does that redeem my racist love for PB &J?
Racially Acceptable Food
There are foods that I won’t eat to be racially correct (this is a partial list):
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Balut Fertile Chicken egg, buried for a month or more, exhumed and eaten. |
Chicken Feet – Chinese people love them. Me, not so much.
Fried Spam – The staple of the Philippines, Hawaii and points east — no. Not for me.
Balut – Filipino delicacy. I pass.
Sambal Rat – Indonesia says yes. I say no. Yes, I’ve tried it. I still say no.
Capybara – I’ve eaten them in Mexico, they’re a Brazilian delicacy, but they make me sick. Never again.
Racially sensitive food that I will eat to be racially correct (this is a partial list):
Durian – If you’ve never been “East” you won’t know the fruit. It’s illegal to import them into the US. They taste a bit like onions. It’s an acquired taste but I give them a thumbs-up. The Malaysians love them.
Dog – Korean’s love them and I’ve eaten dog in Korea. It’s not bad the way that they BBQ them with garlic and spices. They prefer tender puppies, and I think that’s what I ate when over there.
Cat – Not a bad meal if you make sweet-and-sour cat. The Chinese love them to eat, not as pets.
Grits – Not being from the American South, this was not a food group for me when growing up. However I do like grits and am not shy about saying so. Both Black and White like grits in the South, but Asians (racists that they are), tend to reject this anchor of Southern cooking.
Grits are OK. And PB&J.
Peanut Butter and Pepper Jelly. YUMM! Guess I'm a racist swine.
Damn, I'm a proven racist again. Please, will someone tell who put the "Dr." in front of her name?
WoFat, Pepper Jelly is the only real jelly among us swine. And then there is being raised on grits and deer jerky…
Yes you are.
I think that I'm changing your title to Dr. Woodsterman to allow you to fight the progressives on a level playing field.
Pepper jelly is our friend.
And bacon?
I also think jelly made from fresh Blue Berries is nothing to frown at.
It is no coincidence that we eat PB&J – and are the world's only Superpower….
Ye Gods… Sigh
So have you foresworn PB & J or will you still eat it?
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