My RedState post on the Oberlin menu thing is up.

9 thoughts on “My RedState post on the Oberlin menu thing is up.”

1. The college should resurrect the menu from 1958 and start serving that. No possible cultural appropriation with mid-century middle American food.

   I expect the resulting screaming would be heard in Bangor, Maine.

   1. Except food is evolutionary in nature – everything’s problematically appropriated…
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      http://www.everythingpies.com/history-of-pie/
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      A brief history of pie makes this clear, eh?
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      Mew

   2. Heck, they could use the menus from when I was at Cornell in the mid-’70s. Mexican food? What’s that? The snowflakes would probably flip out at the veal, tho’…
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      I’m with Moe on this one: the article feels like something out of The Onion.

   3. Shhhhh!!!! Don’t give the University of Maine kids ideas. They’ve been pleasantly benign so far. Although that may have more to do with most of them being either pasty white, football players who don’t care, or international engineers who know better.

2. I had the same thought.
   But it hasn’t been debunked yet.
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   Which is really quite frightening.

3. Poe’s Law would seem to indicate that this is real unless it can be debunked.

   1. Things have sure changed in the past 20 years.
      I remember being happy when I could identify what animal the meat came from.

4. I thought the latest thing in college food service was gutting the dining hall and converting it to a mall-style “food court” – and converting the student ID to a quasi-debit-card ..
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   This, of course, doesn’t get students out of objecting to “cultural misappropriation”, but it does mean they can choose which culture they want to appropriate – Panda Express, Naf Naf Grill, Chipotle, or whatever Subway is …
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   If you’re a college administrator and reading here, I’ll *suggest* that the above has one big, huge advantage .. the *college* isn’t responsible for any misappropriation, eh?
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   Mew

5. It’s real enough. They’re entitled teenagers, Moe; wait until yours get there. Even non-entitled teenagers are a challenge. They’re just seeing what they can get away with. Plus, they gotta fight the man somehow; this is as good an option as the bulk of what is being protested these days.

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