I won't say the word but that is actually considered racist and if you said that in a work place you'd be told off. Same with the P word to describe a corner shop.
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Dirty rice is literally called dirty rice. The food she's calling dirty has no such descriptor, which is why some people are upset about. Not remotely the same situation.
She is a UK contestant, taking part in a UK competition, with an intended audience made up of people from the UK.
Irresponsible how? What damage does talking about dirty food to an audience who knows what that means actually do?
Yeah people saying the international community is being unreasonable for not getting UK slang but when you see hashtags like #prettydirtyfood like what are you supposed to think (nevermind the history of asian food being heavily stigmatized as unhealthy/dirty)?
No, there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for this one.
By that logic, would it be okay if, say, an Asian chef used the N word or any other offensive gesture in their own Masterchef competition?
It's not acceptable in the UK to use the word "chinks", it's a derogatory term over here, your friends are just being racist and lying to you to cover their tracks
I don't think that hypothetical follows any logic.
That's a terrible comparison, and you should feel embarrassed for making it.
That's the word, tact.
I don't know if dirty matters, but UK food is trash. The worst of any country I've been to. Definition of basic bitch shit.
It'd be like "Chinky" food refined following the N word logic which is considered to be racist and generally not used by people who are civilised. The people that do use it are the kind that go "Political correctness has gone too far" Err nah, you're just a bit of a prick.
People taking offence from one possible use of a very common word is not at all the same as the n-word.
I've heard it used before. Usually for messy things. It's also used outside of food for music "dirty bass", "dirty beat", "dirty lick". It's common enough.
I didn't miss it, I've read every post in the thread. Take offense, sure. Should she use more tact? Of course.
Who are you to judge that one offensive word is not as offensive as the other? We're talking about two entirely different groups of people.
It's not a competition, but there's a weight of history and feeling behind the n-word that dirty can't even begin to match.
I know that feeling, but that just means it's sweatpants and bench press PR szn baby.
With orientalmart.co.uk being a thing, the oxford dictionary not classifying it as offensive and wikipedia saying that the word (in the UK) "can be offensive depending on context", I don't think it's that simple. Not the thread to discuss this, I think, but I was taught that the word is usable in the UK, but not in the US.
