Last week I watched this YouTube video about a 3rd gen restaurant that makes box lunches in some where Virginia. The front of the house was all white and the owners were white. The people making these labor intensive box lunches were all Black and some of the workers there were 2nd and 3rd gen workers.
Watching the video really pissed me off because the people making the food could easily make their own restaurant and the owners wouldn’t know what to do. The owners couldn’t fire the people that prepare their box lunches, not all at once anyways. When the owners said we take care of our people it made sick.
Another restaurant story that pissed me off was this cafe in Charleston S.C. The owners parents had maid to cook their meals. When the woman was getting on years owners asked their former maid to work in the kitchen and teach their chef her recipes. Don’t worry they have a picture of the woman in the restaurant.
All “good ol’ fashioned southern’ cookbooks” were stolen recipes from black women, usually with a smiling ugly racist white woman on the cover.
It’s fucking disgusting
So, a lot of people are offended by this post, and I’m honestly, truly, wholeheartedly, and deeply sorry, that you would think I would give a fuck, about your fucking opinion.
I’m just blocking to save myself from hearing your worthless opinions any further.
Basically, like it *should* be common knowledge that traditional southern cooking was created in black kitchens
Southern/Soul food is rooted in African tradition. Peanuts, also called ground-nuts, were brought to North American from Africa; you can’t stop at a gas station in the south without seeing “boiled p-nuts” for sale. We also call them goobers, which comes from the word “nguba.”
Rice known as “Carolina Gold” wouldn’t have been a cash crop without the knowledge of slaves from West Africa, who already knew how to cultivate it and were sold to plantations because of this skill.
American food traditions, especially in the south, can and should be attributed to the Africans brought here against their will who kept parts of their culture alive despite grueling hardships.
The “trans-trender” myth is so so so so fucking dangerous. Y'all are making it so hard for people to question and explore their identity. There is no such thing as an actual transtrender. They’re just trans people you don’t like, or they’re cis people who questioned their gender identity and then decided they weren’t trans.
Being trans has never, ever, ever been a “trendy” thing. Yes, trans people are becoming more well-known, but is almost always shown in a bad or misinformed light. Trans people are still getting abused, beaten, murdered, fired, kicked out, etc for being trans.
I worked with a lady that came into work one day with no hair. No one mentioned it, no one talked about it. She was wearing a bandana so we all knew she was bald.
But I have ADD, and not so great control of my impulsiveness. Finally, near the end of the night I asked. “So… can I ask, what happened to your hairs?”
She smiled and hugged me. I was the only person with the cajones to ask. “My best friend is pregnant, already has a 4 yr old, and was diagnosed with cancer, and her boyfriend left her because it was too much. So I’ve been helping her out, being supportive. And I promised her if she started losing her hair I would shave my head too.”
“Last night she called me, crying because her hair was falling out in clumps. I told her I’d be there in 10 minutes. She shaved me first, then I her.”
It’s the most supportive thing she could think to do.
so i guess activated charcoal lattes are the newest latte trend? for why? i hate to break it to y’all but unless you’ve ingested poison recently, activated charcoal has no real benefits. just stick to matcha [polyphenols/ antioxidants] and chai [antioxidants+anti-inflammatory]
also, if you’re on any important medications, and i know a lot of you are, don’t fucking drink these. charcoal doesn’t discriminate. it’ll render your meds useless and absorb them too as well as some other beneficial nutrients
^^^^ including hormonal birth control. Don’t fall for the charcoal bullshit. Stay safe.
so was anyone gonna tell me that Stuart little is literally just a fucking person that looks like a mouse or nah
“When Stuart is born to an ordinary family in New York City, he is normal in every way except that he is only just over two inches high and looks exactly like a mouse. At first the family is concerned with how Stuart will survive in a human-sized world, but by the age of seven, he speaks, thinks, and behaves on the level of a human of sixteen and shows surprising ingenuity in adapting, performing such helpful family tasks as fishing his mother’s wedding ring from a sink drain. The family’s cat, Snowbell, dislikes Stuart because while he feels a natural instinct to chase him, he is aware that Stuart is a member of the human family and thus off-limits.”
- they have something in their bio along the lines of “don’t ask me about ace discourse” (without being asexual themselves)
- they’re an ace exclusionist or gatekeeper (they don’t believe asexuals belong in lgbtq+ spaces)
- they don’t allow interactions with asexual people (you often see this on stim blogs)
- they argue with others about what constitutes asexuality, without being asexual themselves
- they talk about “mogai” identities negatively (fun fact, mogai is literally a synonym to lgbtq+, it stands for marginalized orientations, gender identities, and intersex. it was literally created to include everyone and that’s why exclusionists hate it so much)
- they use “lgbt” exclusively. there’s never any mention of the q, the +, or any other letters
- they use the term “cishet aces” to refer to all aces, no matter their romantic orientation or gender identity
- they are openly critical of minors exploring their romantic, sexual, or gender identity, especially if it’s a smaller or lesser known identity
- similarly, they may say that they “don’t want to know about your sex life” or lack of it. (oddly enough, that’s what my homophobic mom says about The Gays! strange, right?)
- they talk about asexuals being “less oppressed” than other members of the lgbtq+ community
- they are dismissive of or make fun of asexual experiences (like coming out as ace, being excluded from lgbtq+ spaces, or having non-sexual romantic or queerplatonic relationships)
- they try to equate asexuality with a medical issue (“you need to get your libido checked lolz”) or a mental health issue (“why is it that all these asexuals are depressed/autistic/insert mental health condition here”)
- “this asexual person/blog is so cringey/problematic/terrible therefore all asexuals are too”
- they reblog any of these sorts of posts without commentary (even if it’s “ironically”) and/or they won’t answer questions about these posts
- this is an incomplete list, but if you’re checking any of these boxes I would be Real Careful about that profile.
- this is not up for discussion. hate will be blocked 😌
