It's very on point that American food culture is just big corporate brands.
That is twice as large as any supermarket American section I've ever seen. So many pop-tarts!
Oh that stings a bit. Especially since 90% of the local store's ethnic aisle is also junk food, just from Japan or Mexico this time.
If anything I wish they had MORE ethnic sections.
I'd love to have a little German or French food section in the ethnic food aisle.
Nah, I get what the original post is saying. It doesn't strike me as evil, but the point is that, say, tortillas won't be with the wheat items in the grocery store, separated like everything else.
I think it is one of these things which appear perfectly normal to most people nowadays. In 20 years, people will look back at our time and be flabbergasted.
Oddly, in terms of tortillas, my job has a small section on the Hispanic aisle, then a much larger selection both with the bread and on a display by itself near the ground beef.Nah, I get what the original post is saying. It doesn't strike me as evil, but the point is that, say, tortillas won't be with the wheat items in the grocery store, separated like everything else.
It's all just mashed together in a couple aisles as "this is the ethnic food."
I've had one experience that was annoying like this. I was looking for a particular type of jam in the jam aisles, only to find out only American jams were there. What I was looking for was with the Mexican food.
And that's just annoying.
Lol, yall just pick the worst stuff for that?
It's very on point that American food culture is just big corporate brands.
I'm not sure how other stores are but my local Valli has separate aisles for a bunch of different regions. We have Mexico, Italy, Greece/Bulgaria, Poland, Middle East, India, and East Asia.I have never been a fan of "ethnic" as a catch-all adjective to lump anything non-Western/non-white together in general.
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Oddly, in terms of tortillas, my job has a small section on the Hispanic aisle, then a much larger selection both with the bread and on a display by itself near the ground beef.
I think it is one of these things which appear perfectly normal to most people nowadays. In 20 years, people will look back at our time and be flabbergasted.
I don't think having the section is such a bad thing but I'd like it if they weren't called "ethnic" or "exotic" sections anymore. "International" is fine.
Sometimes it's not international though. My store used to have beignet mix in that aisle.I don't think having the section is such a bad thing but I'd like it if they weren't called "ethnic" or "exotic" sections anymore. "International" is fine.
I have never been a fan of "ethnic" as a catch-all adjective to lump anything non-Western/non-white together in general.
The HEB's in Austin have German in the ethnic section.
Depends on your region. I've always grown up with tortillas next to the rest of the bread.
Am i culturally appropriating if i wanna make some damn curry? Seriously, you Americans make race issues out of absolutely nothing. That article reads like shit stirring of the first degree at best and downright ignorant at worst. Absurd point of view.
I have never been a fan of "ethnic" as a catch-all adjective to lump anything non-Western/non-white together in general.
It's a big stretch to find this aisle an issue. The main grocery store I go to even has a small section dedicated to British brands.
Yep.
Good place to ask this... Teriyaki sauce from local teriyaki places is sweet. But every teriyaki sauce I've bought from the store is like pure salt.
Is the sweet version more authentic, or is it Americanized?