Drama Llama Bing Bang
Sep. 21st, 2007 06:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
You would think that
food_porn would be one community free of Drama Llama infestations......
.....not so, according to this post
Basically, someone posted a list of humourous cooking definitions. (I liked the ones for Yogurt and Tongue)
But one was:
"arab coffee: Thick, black, bitter coffee, traditionally served in tiny cups at gunpoint."
Now, a) I've lived in the Middle East, b) I hate coffee, and c) I've had to drink Arab Coffee (and Turkish and Persian Coffee) when offered to me as a guest, and as a result, I read it as "because you would prefer to be forced at gunpoint to drink that industrial sludge willingly" Nothing racist, just the fact it's nasty sludge pretending to be a drink.
However, someone took that post as some racist diatribe against Arabs and stereotypes.
*face plant*
Honestly, some people would find racism in their breakfast cereal. Not to mention the general "Good Lord, the rod up that person's butt must have a rod up it's butt" factor
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.....not so, according to this post
Basically, someone posted a list of humourous cooking definitions. (I liked the ones for Yogurt and Tongue)
But one was:
"arab coffee: Thick, black, bitter coffee, traditionally served in tiny cups at gunpoint."
Now, a) I've lived in the Middle East, b) I hate coffee, and c) I've had to drink Arab Coffee (and Turkish and Persian Coffee) when offered to me as a guest, and as a result, I read it as "because you would prefer to be forced at gunpoint to drink that industrial sludge willingly" Nothing racist, just the fact it's nasty sludge pretending to be a drink.
However, someone took that post as some racist diatribe against Arabs and stereotypes.
*face plant*
Honestly, some people would find racism in their breakfast cereal. Not to mention the general "Good Lord, the rod up that person's butt must have a rod up it's butt" factor