• @li10@feddit.uk
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    3922 days ago

    Racism is actually the secret ingredient, doesn’t taste the same without it.

    • @Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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      1922 days ago

      My neighbor was a old racist, but hid it under a “I’m just a widdle ol lady”. And she loved to remind me and my brown skinned family that you used to be able to say like N*gger Cake and then go, "Oh my I hope I didn’t offend "

      • worldwidewave
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        321 days ago

        It didn’t help that she always screamed the N-word whenever she said it

  • @Illuminostro@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    I was raised in the Deep South of the US, and cashews were called… N+#$%r Toes.

    Edit: I talked to my 87 year old mother, and she confirmed it was referring to brazil nuts, and not cashews.

    • @feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world
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      1022 days ago

      Man, America never fails to surprise me. They’re white, as well, so it’s not even realistic. My little toe kind of does look like a cashew.

      • @scoobford@lemmy.zip
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        321 days ago

        As their edit suggests, this name actually was for Brazil nuts, where they are at least kind of the right color.

        This name also dates back to the 18th century, which best I can tell was before that word was considered a slur in those regions, if not everywhere.

          • @scoobford@lemmy.zip
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            421 days ago

            Antiquated terms can and frequently do become more offensive when they refer to a characteristic people consider undesirable. This is true of >!negro!<, >!retard!<, >!cripple(d)!<, as well as several other terms.

            You see the term “>!negro!<” used a lot in abolitionist literature, because it was a polite way to refer to a black person at the time. As we all know, that is very much not the case anymore.

            • @DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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              -321 days ago

              Just… Shut the fuck up.

              it was the era of racial chattel slavery and your dumbass is pretending it wasn’t a slur, that every interaction between the slavers and black people wasn’t an attack.

              • @KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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                It literally was not a slur. You are trying to burnish your progressive bonafides way too hard. Word meanings change over time.

                As you mentioned, there was actual slavery happening at the time. Being called a “negro” was the last thing a slave would worry about. They wouldn’t even identify as that, because they would consider themselves Ashanti or Igbo or some other West African ethnic group. It’d be like calling you “North American” (I assume).

              • @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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                018 days ago

                MLK junior literally refers to himself and other black people as “The Negro” repeatedly in his “I have a dream” speech, if you still want to imagine that it was a slur then you’re simply deluded.

  • @NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    3322 days ago

    ” I don’t even think this soup needed brazil nuts — they just added them to make it more racist.”

    Lol

  • mad_asshatter
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    3122 days ago

    The Reillys were unavailable for further comment, as they were having their Grandfather’s signed copy of Mein Kampf appraised for insurance purposes.

    Along with The Trump Bible, and their beanie babies, they’re sure to be hundredaires.

  • @ReiRose@lemmy.world
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    1121 days ago

    One of the old knitting books I have asks for two yarn colours in a pattern: cream and n***er brown.

  • agentshags
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    So I get the reference to Brazil nuts, but am drawing a blank on the other ingredients. Are there other foods that actually had horribly racist nicknames?

    Jews, Italians, and Latinos were all represented with words I won’t repeat.

    Like what foods were they referring to, or are they just being vague for the sake of humor, with Brazil nuts being the only one that actually existed with that type of nickname?

    • @sigmaklimgrindset
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      I’m realizing I don’t even know the slurs associated with those races, never mind food referring to those slurs.

      …I should really go thank my grandparents.

    • @addie@feddit.uk
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      822 days ago

      “Kaffir lime leaves” are generally being renamed as “makrut lime leaves” in the shops here in the UK. No problem with the rename, obvs, although it confused me a moment the last time I wanted to buy some. The thought that any of my grandparent’s old recipes having any herb or spice more unusual than black pepper is more of laugh, tho.

    • Clay_pidgin
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      121 days ago

      My grandma used to make Hot Dago sandwiches, basically a wet roast beef. I don’t know what the Spanish had to do with it.

  • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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    822 days ago

    Best friend’s grandad fucked with him no end. Sent his 9-yo ass down to the store to ask for “N-word toes”. To ask the black grocer. Kid had no idea it was a bad word, kinda like Archie Bunker: “That’s what we called dem nuts in dose days!”

    Another time they were watching some barn cats. “Want those kitties to really love you? Give 'em a bath and they’ll love you forever.” You can imagine.

  • @ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    421 days ago

    I have an old pyrotechnics manual from 1943 and it tells you how to make a particular firecracker called an “N-word chaser.” Fun fact this doodad was also referenced in the book The Shining.

  • @threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
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    221 days ago

    Reminds me of another recipe book, this one with (what is hopefully) an accidental typo: 5 Worst Typos of History - vlogbrothers

    Number 5, the Pasta Bible. Hank, this is a totally normal book about pasta except that it contains a typo so horrific that the publisher found every copy it could, and destroyed them. There was a recipe for tagliatelle that called for salt and ground black… people. They meant pepper. They - they wrote people.

  • @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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    118 days ago

    This stuff is wild, here in the nordics we call chocolate balls rolled in pearl sugar “N- balls” and of course a certain subset of people love to go “but you can’t say that anymore”.

    yeah no shit einstein, it’s a slur