Are take aways cultural appropriation?

by **bigtoughralf** on Wed Sep 01, 2021 10:22 am

Is Pizza Hut not actually a nice restaurant, but rather a rotten symbol of cultural colonialism?

What about Indian takeaways?

by **riskllama** on Wed Sep 01, 2021 11:48 am

lol, Pizza Hut is not a nice restaurant in any way. if people in foreign countries want to eat there, that is their prerogative. as for take out food joints, i'd say it's just a handy convenience. perhaps if you were to figure out which culture invented the "handy convenience", you might have something...

by **BoganGod** on Wed Sep 01, 2021 12:31 pm

I own two takeaway shops. One sells pizza, pasta, ribs and wings. The other burgers, snack packs, and fried/grilled seafood.
I'm on passport number 7, I'm a dual national, and if I chose to relinquish a citizenship I would be eligible for citizenship of two other nations. I'm mixed race. I've been a chef for 27 years.
Can I appropriate from one part of myself in the service of another part? Since all my food has my individual flair and stamp on it, does that remove it far enough from it's far ancestor in a cuisine from a country other than that in which I trade? You can't reverse engineer a "modern" burger and get back to the vague german public house grilled/baked compressed mince product that is the ancestor of today's takeaway burger.

Such an important and wide ranging question. Thank you for asking.

by **DirtyDishSoap** on Wed Sep 01, 2021 1:04 pm

How good is your pizza?

by **HitRed** on Wed Sep 01, 2021 1:10 pm

Calzone

by **Dukasaur** on Wed Sep 01, 2021 5:15 pm

bigtoughralf wrote:Is Pizza Hut not actually a nice restaurant, but rather a rotten symbol of cultural colonialism?

What about Indian takeaways?

"Cultural appropriation" is an idiotic term. Cultures who come into contact with each other always borrow ideas from each other. That's pretty much the whole point of intercultural contact. Just as we have sex with others to intermingle our DNA, we also have cultural exchanges to intermingle our literatures, our cuisines, our technologies, our musics, our dances. The idea that there's something wrong with this is so completely outré that it really doesn't deserve even this simple thread.

by **bigtoughralf** on Thu Sep 02, 2021 2:54 am

There's something about you talking about intermingling DNA and cuisine in the same sentence that makes me a bit uncomfortable.

by **Dukasaur** on Thu Sep 02, 2021 4:57 am

bigtoughralf wrote:There's something about you talking about intermingling DNA and cuisine in the same sentence that makes me a bit uncomfortable.

by **2dimes** on Thu Sep 02, 2021 6:19 am

Why would appropriating that portion of the culture of New York City be a negative thing?

Pizza is tasty and take out has always been a convenient way to get it to customers homes from a location too small to have a dining room.

If you're worried grabbing a curry will upset Italian Americans, don't do it I guess.