Can Rice Be Cultural Appropriated ?

[webbo3]

Can rice be cultural appropriated ?, labour mp Dawn Butler thinks so.
https://twitter.com/DawnButlerBrent/status/1030741609984548864

[dannyk13]

Pity that she has nothing more appropriate to moan about.Tripe.

[Mamyalynne]

Oi! Tripe is more my neck of the woods;-)

[dannyk13]

Lynne, there was a pie and pea shop selling tripe (lovely) in Bradford when I was youngster.

[mushroom25]

the comments on that twitter feed are just like AB - less than halfway down the page and the thread gets hijacked by Brexit..... :-)

[Prudie]

Thank heavens she's not Indian

[dannyk13]

Or Chinese.

[kvalidir]

No of course it can't, however, what she's clumsily trying to say is that a white English person is profiting from a traditional Jamaican dish when many Jamaica chefs can't get a platform to do so, that's what appropriation means in this instance, and technically that's true, he is, however if you stop Jamie Oliver selling Jerk Rice it's not going to help Jamaican cuisine and by extension it's chefs get a better platform, so it's just moaning and pc'ing when it's totally unnecessary, everyone already knows Jamie Oliver's dishes are not authentic.

[Buenchico]

As I see it, Ms Butler's complaint is really about the ignorance displayed by Jamie Oliver (or his marketing company) in the use of the word 'jerk'. It's a style of cooking ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerk_(cooking) ) and most definitely NOT simply a synonym for 'spicy'.

Jamie Oliver is, indeed, being a bit of a jerk.

[dannyk13]

Chris, the dish Jerk chicken certainly involves the use of many spices.

[Peter Pedant]

If anyone should make a point about Rice

bear in mind that the doubling of rice yields is down to Norman Borlaug ( bor-lock).... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug


"Between 1965 and 1970, wheat yields nearly doubled in Pakistan and India, greatly improving the food security in those nations.[4]
Borlaug was often called "the father of the Green Revolution", wiki

Father of the second agrarian revolution - the first being 10 000BC.
as for cultural appropriation - what a load of horse-sh.....

[dannyk13]

The only jerk here is Dawn Butler. Storm in a teacup.

[dannyk13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerk_(cooking)

[woofgang]

Jamie Oliver is deffo a jerk....he's the sleb gob behind the sugar tax and as such should be slow cooked jerk style himself.

[Prudie]

Just cause wiki calls it a style, it's not a style but specific spices and flavours.

[Old_Geezer]

And who's is being deprived of their culture ?

[andy-hughes]

webbo, You need to remember, using the phrase 'cultural appropriation' is the same as using the term 'gender neutral' - it's shorthand for the rather more lengthy, but far more accurate phrase

- "I am an over-thinking egotistical idiot with more time than sense and I believe that my opinions are more important than anyone else's, even though it is a reasonable bet that every time I open my mouth, some new-age pointless time-wasting right-on garbage will pour out. Please ignore me, I am a waste of your valuable time."

[fender62]

i like jerk chicken n rice, plantain is also nice done right

[webbo3]

Jerk rice, so spicy rice then.