Deceased grandmother Anita Reilly’s bereaved found a trove of family recipes, including one for a beloved, secret family soup that was also “racist as fuck.”
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?
“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.
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?
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?
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.
“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.
So I had to Google that. If anyone else is curious, there’s a Wikipedia article on the word.
I’m kind of morbidly curious what some other foods could be.
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.