Thread: Two Anglo Whites Forced to shut down Burrito shop

Originally Posted by Norton

Silly bullshit this. Using same logic, Mexicans should not be allowed to cook Mexican food because Mexican food is based on Spanish, Mayan and other Native American foods.

I agree completely.

Originally Posted by Cold Pizza

Two Anglo Whites

Not seen anything indicating they're anglo. Could be Germanic. Pretty racist statement really.

Originally Posted by fred flintstone

Originally Posted by Cold Pizza

Two Anglo Whites

Not seen anything indicating they're anglo. Could be Germanic. Pretty racist statement really.

Anglo means Anglophone, nothing racist about that.

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Anglo means Anglophone

No, the term 'Anglo' isn't as easily defined as that.

It has many connotations, mostly relating to the Angles, or the English.

Originally Posted by cyrille

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Anglo means Anglophone

No, the term 'Anglo' isn't as easily defined as that.

It has many connotations, mostly relating to the Angles, or the English.

Not in everyday usage in the USA. There it means English-speaking white people. The thread title, like the OP, is irritating in its redundancy.

Originally Posted by fred flintstone

Not seen anything indicating they're anglo. Could be Germanic. Pretty racist statement really.

I read somewhere one of the two is 1/2 Chinese.

Kooks Burritos Has Made Portland a Satire of Itself, but Questions Regarding Food and Cultural Appropriation Aren't Just a Problem Here

In Australia, there's controversy over a gay porn video where a man is being penetrated by a didgeridoo. While in South Africa, a black man has just received a white man's penis in a transplant.

By Curtis Cook | Published May 26 Updated May 26

Depending on who you ask, either two young and enthusiastic entrepreneurs decided to start a breakfast burrito pop-up inside of a food cart, or two menacing, appropriative, white capitalists stole secret tortilla recipes from helpless old ladies in a desperate attempt to get rich off the backs of working class people of color. Either way, Kooks' Burritos was forced to close after one of the whitest, most rapidly gentrifying city in America decided to take a firm stance against tortillas made by white women.

But while Kooks' story proves how quickly this city has dissolved into a satire of itself, questions and complications regarding cultural appropriation aren't just a problem in Portland.

Related: WW's Original Kooks Burritos Coverage

Recently, Pittsburgh residents expressed their frustrations at the thought of a white-owned, hip-hop-themed fried chicken restaurant opening in a gentrifying neighborhood. The worst part is that the proprietors had originally planned on calling their establishment The Coop, which means that they missed out on a golden opportunity to own a faux-soul food restaurant named GentriFried Chicken.

In Australia, a gay porno titled Didgeridoo Me was recently panned as being culturally offensive because it featured a man performing a sex act with a didgeridoo. And while that's certainly a less appetizing example of cultural appropriation, it is no less valid. (Also, I wonder if there was an apathetic Aboriginal who heard that news and thought, "Well, white guys have already figuratively fucked our culture, so it only makes sense that they'd start literally fucking our instruments.")

And just last week, I overheard a black guy with a mohawk complain about a white guy with dreadlocks, and now I have no idea which race is allowed to have what haircut.

When it comes to cultural appropriation, it's often difficult to know of who's right, what's wrong, and if there's any real difference between fusion comfort food and appropriative cuisine.

Related: My Dad Is From Mexico. I Can't Get Mad At Kooks Burritos.

Regardless, in the midst of all this hoopla, I wanted to find something that would give me hope that in a divided world, there's still hope for different races, cultures, and ethnicities to take from each other in order to create something beautiful. And after scouring the internet, I finally found the story I was searching for:

Doctors in South Africa have completed the world's third successful penis transplant.

The recipient was black man who'd lost his penis seventeen years ago in a botched circumcision. His new penis was donated by a recently deceased white man.

Ripping the dick off of a dead white dude and surgically placing it onto a black guy (who plans on tattooing his new member so that it better fits his natural skin tone) may sound like a terrifying scene from one of Mary Shelley's wet dreams, but I think it's actually a big step towards healing old wounds (both the literal wounds left from the patient's botched circumcision and the figurative wounds of a nation famously divided by racial tension). South Africa has an unfortunate history of racism and apartheid. But now, at long last, white and black South Africans have been symbolically joined in unity at the base of a man's new cock.

Overnight, that man went from being dickless to having the most metaphorical penis in all of Africa, if not the world. And that wouldn't have been possible had a black man not appropriated a white man's penis (and I'm just assuming that it counts as appropriation since he plans on tattooing the member, which means he'll be a black man with a white dick in blackface).

Look, it's impossible to deny that there are vicious people out there who actively exploit oppressed cultures. And you have to admit that there are plenty of people online who act out mock outraged for no discernible reason. But at the end of the day I think we can all agree on two things: 1.) You can cross any racial divide if you need a penis bad enough, and 2.) If you want a really good tortilla, it doesn't matter if it was made by a white woman or a woman of color. Just so long as it was made by a woman—AM I RIGHT?!

Kooks Burritos Has Made Portland a Satire of Itself, but Questions Regarding Food and Cultural Appropriation Aren't Just a Problem Here - Willamette Week

Originally Posted by misskit

Originally Posted by fred flintstone

Not seen anything indicating they're anglo. Could be Germanic. Pretty racist statement really.

I read somewhere one of the two is 1/2 Chinese.

These are the ladies in question...

Originally Posted by fred flintstone

Originally Posted by Cold Pizza

Two Anglo Whites

Not seen anything indicating they're anglo. Could be Germanic. Pretty racist statement really.

Anglos are not a race.

The term "Anglo" came from one of the articles I read.

Yes, it could be a misnomer.

noun, plural Anglos.
1.
a white American of non-Hispanic descent, as distinguished especially from an American of Mexican or Spanish descent.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/anglo?s=t

Is Chorizo not Luigiville tucker ?

Originally Posted by Cold Pizza

Yes, it could be a misnomer.

Some kind of over the top PC way of not saying white people.

Originally Posted by fred flintstone

Originally Posted by Cold Pizza

Yes, it could be a misnomer.

Some kind of over the top PC way of not saying white people.

No, not really.

"Caucasian whites" would be more accurate, IMO.

Ell Bent Crackers

Originally Posted by redhaze

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

And in today's news:

'Mis(Leading) Headline Ensures White People, The One and True Victims of Racism, Whine More About Being Victimized'.

More to follow at 6 o'clock.

Is there not anything that we can we all just come together to say that "yes, this is stupid". No qualification, no left versus right little box to throw it in. Just full stop, "this is dumb".

Don't you think its a little weird that everything is political? Like your post just feeds back the same dumb right wing mindset that makes this about oppressed white people. You're just using their interpretation to apply an equally silly one of your own.

This situation isn't about any of that nonsense. The fact that these two women were ran out of business is newsworthy and a story worth telling. And that story is about the pure dumb unadulterated pig headed indefesible and laughable ignorance of people who would turn making burritos into some type of political statement about race or culture or anything else whatsoever.

Its almost like that mindset that turns every little tiny thing into something political could be used to say...oh I don't know...maybe run a couple of people out of town with pitchforks for making burritos.

I mean, just generally speaking or whatever....

Melodrama much?

Near as I can tell they chose to close their pop-up (it wasn't even a store). There is no story here unless you put a subjective spin on it - exactly as you've done whilst accusing others of doing the same oddly enough.

My post was in response to the OP who is always posting this kind of thing in furtherance of his persecuted white man complex.

Placing any bets soon Ant ?

Of course anyone should be able to cook and sell whatever style of food they want.
Unless you're in Thailand, then you shouldn't sell somtam or pad Thai. Ice cream or donuts and pizza, ok, just not Thai food.

According to follow up articles they were getting death threats Ant. Don't you think "chose" is kind of an odd way to put it?

You sound like you would have been one of the people railroading these two girls

DJ Pat may have an opinion to share.

No expats hurting themselves here, so his classic "zero sympathy" moniker may or may not apply

Originally Posted by redhaze

According to follow up articles they were getting death threats Ant. Don't you think "chose" is kind of an odd way to put it?

You sound like you would have been one of the people railroading these two girls

Ant is one of the untouchables Haze.

Originally Posted by redhaze

You sound like you would have been one of the people railroading these two girls

That's. Just. Dumb.

Originally Posted by Mike Watson

Placing any bets soon Ant ?

12Call,

Your attempts to come off as all esoteric don't really work. You just end up coming off as creepy.

No flies on you Ant.

I have already stated on here that Mike is 12Call you muppet.

It was obvious even before you had.

And what, you want a cookie or something for being an 'honest' multinicking fucktard as opposed to continuing with the charade??

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

My post was in response to the OP who is always posting this kind of thing in furtherance of his persecuted white man complex.

I rarely post the things you mention in your above quote - if this the first time? - and it's not even a case of "white persecution complex."

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

It was obvious even before you had.

And what, you want a cookie or something for being an 'honest' multinicking fucktard as opposed to continuing with the charade??

I'd rather a Series 7 License