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Trouble for me is it suggests culture as singular and of one origin and static which it clearly isn’t. It also has an element of presumed racism/ oppression in many of the discussions I have seen again this creates divergence.
My hawian point which you seemed to be referencing your previous post to is a clear example, it’s really not that dissimilar to this and in many ways worse.
Perhaps it dilutes the history of culture but we’ve constantly been doing that.
GoatandTricycle-
It's like stamping a Union Jack on "traditional fish and chips" except the fish is a salmon en croute and the chips are crisps.
This is probably the best argument against it. It's also not the same as me at home cooking jerk style veggie food (I mean, I use allspice so win there too) which is fine, but the guy is taking something from somewhere, doing it all wrong and flogging it. It's a bit like protected origin stuff like champagne and parmasan abuse as much as anything else.
snottyotter
Jerk is quite a specific thing done to meats using not the things he used.
yes, i'd say that's pretty fucking disrespectful insofar as he clearly couldn't be arsed to do anything beyond take a word that has cachet, make something (not meat) a bit spicy, smash his fatuous mug on the packet and charge people for the pleasure.
imagine this idiot, but on a plate.
fuck that noise.