To think it’s NOT racist to not like food from another culture?

[GimmeeCaffeine]

Hi all. Just wanting to get some opinions on this!

On a Facebook group where people rate each other’s food, someone recently posted a picture of some Indian food their Indian friend had cooked. Someone commented ‘Yuk’. Another person then accused this commenter of being racist because they said the food looked disgusting.

Whilst I disagree with the commenter (I thought it looked nice!) I don’t necessarily think it’s racist to think a certain dish from another culture looks/is disgusting. I mean, I don’t like sushi but I’m certainly not racist against the Japanese.

Am I wrong here?

It’s rude to say ‘yuck’ and can have racist undertones.

Was it DFIL? It could be, because if you just don't like the taste of certain foods, you could just say that, or nothing at all. "I don't like sushi" is very different from "sushi is disgusting".

Rate my plate?

On such pages on fb if someone commented ‘yuk’ it was probably because it looked disgusting not because it was Indian.

It's rude to just say yuck or that it looks disgusting. That's completely different to just not being keen on something.

I don't think it's racist because the same could apply to saying yuck or it looks disgusting about any food but it is spectacularly rude.

I dislike lots of foods, I don't make a point of telling people food they enjoy is disgusting. It seems a bit petty to me.

I'm not sure it's racist , I make a lot of curries and I'm not "Indian" "Chinese" or whatever . If I didn't like the food it wouldn't be because I was being racist xx

Depends on why someone doesn’t like a dish.

FIL -what’s this foreign muck? = racist

Anyone else -Sorry, I don’t like this flavour, could I try something else? = personal taste

Not liking all Indian food without actually having tried all Indian food does seem a bit racist. Writing yuck on someone else's food post is childish and rude AF and I'm glad someone called them out on it.

It’s pretty borderline. Not at all racist to not like particular food. Posting “yuk” about a picture of some food they haven’t even tasted is certainly immature and amazingly rude and yes possibly racist.

@GimmeeCaffeine

Just ignore them. Of COURSE it's not rude or racist to not like food from another culture. What an incredibly stupid thing to say.

Some people just love to find offence in the most innocuous of things.

Gives them something to moan about, and wag their finger at, while they're pulling a face with a cats-bum-mouth.

What sad lives they must lead. Pity them.

Deeming another cultures food to be “yuck” can come from a place of prejudice, imo. Nothing wrong with not liking it but why deem it yuck

I agree it’s rude to say ‘yuk’, but this was posted in a Facebook group where people post pictures of their food and others rate/comment on it. The comments are often rude/harsh and people are warned of this when they post.

I suppose it could have racist undertones but simply saying a dish doesn’t look nice?

I appreciate that being White British myself means that I am very privileged and that may blinker me somewhat.

@CoolWivesClub2019 Yup it was Rate My Plate.

Person saying yuk is rude and probably a racist.
It's ok to say I don't like garlic, chillies, lentils, whatever but to dismiss something on appearance is a bit rubbish without knowing the ingredients, etc.

It’s hard to say, I think it could go both ways - I think yes it might be you’ve tried that food and you don’t like it - fine! but too be aggressively dismissive of new food because it’s unfamiliar to you and doesn’t look like the stuff you eat, I think that good have a racist aspect to it. At the very least it’s childish for an adult to say ‘yuck’ at food!

Just saying 'Yuk' does make you suspect a racist motive. Why not say nothing at all if you don't like Indian food - is it really possible not to like the whole of Indian food anyway, it's so diverse?

@Sparklesocks I definitely agree it’s childish at the very least.

Saying "yuk" is childish and rude. I don't like spicy foods because they make me vomit but I don't go around saying spicy food is "disgusting" or "yuk".

Think it’s not polite to put yuk I mean they didn’t actually need to comment it but it’s no way racist imo. Also another poster said they think it’s quite racist if someone won’t ever try Indian food. That’s bollocks. My oh won’t try anything spicy because he just doesn’t like it, doesn’t like the smell/taste. That’s upto him it’s not racism.
I on the other hand love every thing 😂

How the hell can not liking a certain food be chuffin racist ? God that card is over played, no wonder this country is going to pot

@CoolWivesClub2019 But it looks like it’s now been deleted due to an argument breaking out over the ‘racist’ comment.

It reminded me of an acquaintance's father whose son treated him to a trip to Australia (for the cricket) on SriLankan Airlines. Father was a bit miffed that it wasn't BA as he doesn't eat "mucked about food", so - as a precaution - rang SLA to check they wouldn't be serving foreign food.
I presume meals are picked up in whatever country the plane is flying from, but would have loved to have heard he been assured that there'd be no "foreign" food just a nice fish curry, roti and rice or similar.
To be fair, he doesn't eat much British food either as he's very fussy, but that struck me as a little racist because he just couldn't understand the others might see his diet as "foreign".

As to the OP, fair enough if some people don't like some national cuisines, but "Yuk" is just rude and contributes nothing.

Just seen your post and that it’s off date your plate.
I don’t think it’s being unreasonable and tbh I’m not shocked anymore at what others find racist I mean ffs it’s food! Cmon! 😂

That's incredibly mild for rate my plate.

I’ve had Indian friends say British food is bland and boring is that racism?

I don’t know really. While Italians were disparaged across areas of the United States their food was gaining popularity among those who didn’t like them. While BAME people were being racially admonished across the UK plenty of racists were enjoying a good curry.

The ability of human beings to feed their own narcissistic and hedonistic wants very often supersedes their ability to maintain consistent hate fuelled beliefs.

Perhaps the poster really dislikes chillies but equally they could be a consistent racist.