Oregon Burrito shop closes amid possible cultural appropriation

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...ions-cultural-appropriation-article-1.3192942

You've got to be joking me, right? This is the disgustingly grotesque identity politics of the left wing in full display. So... learning how to cook something, and then selling it to people is now cultural appropriation and is "profiting off the abcks of poor minorities?"

What?

 

Ignorant people doing ignorant ****. Why don't these cultural appropriation nut jobs think before they speak? How many can claim England as their "home land" if not they shouldn't be speaking English. Maybe we should talk about who has the right to the printing press or the computer, electricity, motorized transportation, indoor plumbing, etc.

The list is just to long but then I use my head for something other than a hair display.

 

More anti-Freedom from the Brownshirts of the left...

 

Wow, brother.

That is hilarious.

PC run amok.

 

Don't expect democrats to make sense.

 

So I guess we can boycott any Mexican who sells hotdogs and any Asian place allowing their staff to wear jeans, right?

The left is insane and I don't hear them crying about stealing the English language from the Brits, or vodka from the Russians, or any of that sushi crap they stuff their faces with. Using their logic, there should be no McDonalds in Mexico....or even baseball.

 

LOL. What's funny is that "food" is often one of the arguments made by the left in support of multiculturalism.

 

LMAO!

I remember as a young chef, Oregon was one of the bastions of Fusion Cusine!

Appropriation of cultures' foods & creating something wonderful from fusing them was ALL the craze....

Oh how the world has changed.....

 

By the left's standards, the only way Obama isn't a racist culture thief is if he's really a Muslim.

 

Woah now, Sushi is some good **** my man. Don't knock it.

 

Oh, I see it now. The author of the Portland Mercury article is the woman in this picture:



The article makes numerous racist statements about white people, and accuses white liberals, specifically, of racism. Very interesting. According to this black woman, certain races "own" their culture. The culture belongs to certain people. I wonder if she would get this upset if a bunch of Mexicans decided to open up a German brauhaus type restaurant? I doubt it. Whites are not allowed to own their culture, it belongs to everyone.

Very surprising that a radical black would marry a white man, though. He assumedly agrees with her worldview. The cuckness must be off the charts.

 

Will we be able to eat anything:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/portland-burrito-cart-closes-owners-171401111.html

Portland Burrito Cart Closes After Owners Are Accused Of Cultural Appropriation
Carolina Moreno,HuffPost 4 hours ago


Two Portland-based women were forced to shut down their burrito food cart over accusations of cultural appropriation and recipe stealing.

Liz “LC” Connelly and Kali Wilgus’ Kooks Burritos business was featured in the Willamette Week on May 16. During the interview, Connelly described how the duo made their own tortillas after taking a trip to Puerto Nuevo, Mexico, in December and obtaining information on the process.

The method by which the two non-Hispanic white women obtained the information on tortilla making is questionable.

“I picked the brains of every tortilla lady there in the worst broken Spanish ever, and they showed me a little of what they did,” Connelly told the Willamette Week. “They told us the basic ingredients, and we saw them moving and stretching the dough similar to how pizza makers do before rolling it out with rolling pins.”


But Connelly also noted that many of the Mexican women were hesitant to give away their methods ― a fact that didn’t stop them from trying to gather more information.

“They wouldn’t tell us too much about technique, but we were peeking into the windows of every kitchen, totally fascinated by how easy they made it look,” Connelly said. “We learned quickly it isn’t quite that easy.”

Once back in Portland, Connelly said she went to the Mexican market to buy ingredients and recreated the tortillas to the best of her ability with trial and error. The two women opened up their food cart on Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard.

Mic.com’s Jamilah King responded to the Willamette Week interview with a piece Friday calling out the women for “stealing recipes from Mexico to start a Portland business.”

“The problem, of course, is that it’s unclear whether the Mexican women who handed over their recipes ever got anything in return,” King wrote in the piece that also outlined how others had begun to accuse the women of cultural appropriation. “And now those same recipes are being sold as a delicacy in Portland.”

That same day, the Willamette Week tweeted an update that Kooks Burritos had closed.

While the food cart’s online presence quickly disappeared, the business’s Yelp page is still active (with an “active cleanup alert” that monitors comments based on the spike in activity due to news reports). Both supporters and critics have sounded off on the page.

“How would you people feel if I went and spied on your family or business recipes and took it somewhere else for my own financial benefit?” Olivia L. from Portland wrote in a Yelp review. “This is stealing.”

Supporters, however, have pointed to how common it is within the culinary world and food industry to take methods and ingredients from other countries and profit off of them.

Writer Jagger Blaec weighed in on the controversy in The Portland Mercury on Monday, saying “Portland has an appropriation problem” and breaking down how the issue is a reflection of a bigger problem within the city.

“Several of the most successful businesses in this town have been birthed as a result of curious white people going to a foreign country, or an international venture, and poaching as many trade secrets, customs, recipes as possible, and then coming back to Portland to claim it as their own and score a tidy profit,” Blaec wrote. “Now don’t get me wrong: cultural customs are meant to be shared. However, that’s not what happens in this city.”

“Because of Portland’s underlying racism, the people who rightly own these traditions and cultures that exist are already treated poorly,” the writer continues. “These appropriating businesses are erasing and exploiting their already marginalized identities for the purpose of profit and praise.”

 

You said Russians....

 

Oh yes, I'm sure that article is 100% accurate, and there can not be any other issue in play that's not being mentioned.

After all, all media can always be trusted completely to always give the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth!

 

I blame it all on the closure of state mental asylums. We used to just commit and neuter the crazies. Ah, the good ol' days. Pelosi would be prime for a frontal lobotomy ...

 

My friend of German descent has a father who owns five Italian restaurants.

Oops!

 

Wow that's just.. Wow.. The writer of that story.. Please lets not call her a journalist.. Underlying racism in Portland? Two entrepreneurs who just wanted to make some facsimile of a tasty taco got pretty much run out of town?

Cmon lefties..

 

That seems pretty silly.

 

When a liberal city stops serving southern-styled food because it is cultural appropriation, I will believe they are acting on principle. Until then, just pandering.

 

Everything from the left is silly. It's just a matter of degree.

 

Read the article and look for more sources. Seems the only people reporting on this are wingnuts looking for something to feed their faux rage.

I didn't see anywhere that anyone "forced" a closure. Could it be the ladies acted in ignorance and changed direction when they realized their error?

 

Someday you will contribute something substantive to a thread, and we will all die of shock.

 

What error?

The two young ladies closed the shop in one day, threats and intimidation. Read closer, a group showed up to verbally harass the ladies and their customers.

As to white privilege, one is bi racial and looking at the two I'm not seeing wealth. FCS they were just borrowing the truck for two days per week.

http://www.portlandmercury.com/blog...ropriation-kooks-burritos-and-willamette-week

http://www.wweek.com/uncategorized/...tortillas-out-of-a-food-cart-on-cesar-chavez/

Read the comments in the local reports.


Cheers

 

The lunch truck is a white American contraption.

Mexicans added **** roaches to the lunch truck and sold tacos from the truck giving birth to the roach coach aka taco truck..

 

Don't go dying of shock. Liberals may call it a hate crime....