Fancy a Chinese?

I think that pollster was comparing the use of the slur for Chinese people, not saying 'a chinese'

I haven't heard either the p or c slur used in years thankfully. They will hopefully be totally gone when the next gen grow up as they won't be used to hearing their parents say it. My mum would hang her head in shame if I used either word, as I would with my children

Might have something to do with them not used to seeing food with cancer causing ingredients and colourings which are banned around the rest of the world. The UK has much higher food safety standards compared to the US. Not to mention portion control.

I think that statement is far for racist than calling a Chinese takeaway a 'Chinese'

To be fair - the questioning of the authenticity of the food has mostly been confusion about why there’s chips.

Which must seem a bit odd if you don’t know that chips are on most menus here and that a lot of the early Chinese takeaways started in ex chip shops so they kept doing chips as well.

I will not accept culinary slander from the yanks. Home of cheese in a can

Because there are no French restaurants anywhere near here!

Probably because not many people do.

I’ve actually never been to a french restaurant, I don’t even know of any, I know some exist in the nearest city to me, but I don’t live there.

I can have food delivered from 6 Chinese places, 8 Indian places , 2 Italian restaurants and 5 chippies and one Thai place... and I live basically in a field a mile or two from any town.

Also, what style of food would that be? As in, I feel like given the proximity of France and the history of France and Britain, we’ve already appropriated a fair bit of french style stuff into just being food rather than it being something you could identify as specifically french.

Americans seem to enjoy a lot of very inauthentic Italian, Mexican, and Chinese food too!

I thought we were all quietly getting on with ordering easy fast food in the knowledge it was in no way authentic or related to its supposed country of origin.

Oh come off it, I got a slap upside the head off my mum for calling the corner shop the pki shop back in the 80s (( copied a friend saying it )) we lived in Cumbria so not a very diverse area. Same with 'chinky*. Not a term we used and I'd have felt my mums wrath if I did. They just aren't acceptable terms.

Going for a Chinese, Mexican, full English etc are just terms we use. Those aren't offensive......as an aside our Chinese food is authentic to us. And at least the chicken in our balls isn't chlorinated......cheeky twats coming for our much loved takeaways. Especially when the crab Rangoon they kept banging on like it was some sort of delicacy turned out to be crabsticks and cream cheese shoved in a wonton. The audacity !!

French restaurants are not renowned for their delivery options.

So I would say, if deciding on food cooked for us:

"Do you want a Chinese/Thai?"
"Do you want an Indian?"
"Would you like a Mexican?"
"Do you want to go to the bistro?"
"Do you want Sunday lunch?"
"Do you want an English breakfast?"
"Do you want fish and chips?"

I can't see anything inherently racist about this

Unless we're in N.Ireland, Wales or Scotland!!

Fancy a crepe?

America can fuck off with this. They have bastardised every culture & it's food for the last 200 odd years!! They still have the nerve to claim, 'I am Irish/German/Italian/Slovakian/on my Mother's side but....... on my Father's side...... '.

Nobody ever says they're going out for a French.

I remember that thread, unless there's more than one poster out there finding it offensive!

Tiktokers are not representative of an entire nation.

Surely a nation that abbreviates "shock absorbers" to "shocks" can see the grammatical similarity with abbreviating "Chinese takeaway" to "Chinese"🤔

"Pa*i shop" is in no way comparable to saying "a Chinese"

"Pa*i" is a racist slur. "Chinese" is not.

The Chinese lady I knew (parents ran a takeaway) despised this term. Chinese wasn't offensive and was accepted as shorthand for takeaway/meal

One of the reasons it blew up was a fairly big Asian American content creator questioning it because a Chinese, a Mexican etc, has been/is used in America about people as a way of dehumanising people.

She questioned whether the same would apply to Italian food or Greek food in the U.K.

But it does and referring to a person as a nationality with no noun or pronoun on the U.K. would be jarring.

Not saying racism doesn’t exist, obviously, but that particular language feature doesn’t work here.

But instead of accepting that it’s a food related language difference, she doubled down and it went viral.

Just like poor old Richard III.

Could replace that now with Charles III 🤷‍♂️

That has more in common with the term "ch*nky" and is most definitely racist. I have not heard anyone use either for many years.

Couple of points.

1. America has more professionally offended then we do

1. American language is very simple.

1. Many Americans rarely if at all venture outside of america . So the thought of things being different somewhere else is mind blowing.

Ok thank you. I’m not in the UK and have never heard of this. But will definitely try next time I’m there! 😂

I'm not sure a country that eats squirty cheese and jam with peanut butter is in any position to comment on the food anywhere else!

Substitute 'Americans' with 'Puritans' and you'll find your answer.

I cannot bare this new culture of telling other people how to think and speak.