Fancy a Chinese?

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Now I know this is ridiculous but it might give you a laugh.

American people on tik tok have discovered that we call it ' a Chinese' rather than 'Chinese food'.
There has been so many stitches of videos from mainly English or Irish people saying things like 'I haven't had a Chinese in ages' or 'I really fancy a Chinese tonight'. There are many that are actually calling it racist which is we all know is rubbish!

They are also slating the food itself for not being authentic Chinese and having dishes like curry sauce and chips. Cant argue with that one we all know its not authentic but its bloody lovely.

Has it ever even crossed your mind that people would consider this racist?

(Search A Chinese British on tik-tok there are so many videos on this.)

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

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...... '.

Fancy a crepe?

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

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

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 !!

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.

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.

Because there are no French restaurants anywhere near here!

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

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

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 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