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How Goya brought ethnic food to white America

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Re: How Goya brought ethnic food to white America

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Post by davidw »

pubby wrote: post #28
kyllo wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha. When I was in China, one of my American friends there freaked out because he couldn't find a bottle of ranch dressing anywhere. Of all things, ranch dressing. He apparently liked to dip everything he ate in it back home. About a week before I left, they opened up the first Subway restaurant in the city. I went on the first day it was open, and there was a line of white people coming out the door. I used to take…

Ranch dressing, peanut butter, and root beer: 3 staples you might not find outside of the USA.

Here in Italy, peanut butter is actually surprisingly available. Ranch dressing can be found here and there, and root beer is of course completely unheard of because it's an acquired taste that most people who haven't grown up with it dislike.

I'm going to be back in the US in a week, and I can't wait to eat:

* Mexican

* Bagels

* Barbecue

* Thai

* Mexican

* Mexican

* Mexican

Re: How Goya brought ethnic food to white America

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Post by kaze »

pubby wrote: post #28
kyllo wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha. When I was in China, one of my American friends there freaked out because he couldn't find a bottle of ranch dressing anywhere. Of all things, ranch dressing. He apparently liked to dip everything he ate in it back home. About a week before I left, they opened up the first Subway restaurant in the city. I went on the first day it was open, and there was a line of white people coming out the door. I used to take…

Ranch dressing, peanut butter, and root beer: 3 staples you might not find outside of the USA.

You'll find the first two in some Indian cities. At least Bangalore, since I saw them on shelves in some of the bigger stores. Not sure about root beer.

Re: How Goya brought ethnic food to white America

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Post by rmc »

mynameishere wrote: post #10

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_cuisine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cuisine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_cuisine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_cuisine etc times 100. I'm sure we all appreciate Goya for helping to keep the dying Washington Post alive with their paid-for articles, but the headline is absurd on its face. I mean, I have distinct memories of eating Mexican food long before I hear…

It's a caled "othering" or "exoticification". Yes there is English, German, etc. cuisine, and all of these are 'ethnicities'. But sometimes people treat ethnicities of 'The Other'[1] as 'ethnic' or 'exotic'.

[1] Us vs. Them stuff here. Who is 'Us', and who is 'Them'/'The Other' depends on where you are.

Re: How Goya brought ethnic food to white America

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

elnate wrote: post #30
pubby wrote: post #28

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Ranch dressing, peanut butter, and root beer: 3 staples you might not find outside of the USA.

Along with freedom, democracy and the internet, right?

China is more free than the west in some areas, depends what freedom you care about. No democracy but we actually have some Internet (like hackernews).

Anyways, I just want sausage.

Re: How Goya brought ethnic food to white America

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Post by astrogirl »

mbell wrote: post #20
giardini wrote: post #17

I asked for directions from a fellow who was restocking in a local market. He deferred, explaining that he worked for Goya, not for the store. He was responsible for all the Goya products in the store (and other stores) and that the aisle we were in was dedicated solely to Goya products. I worked for a supermarket when in high school and only store employees handled goods inside the building. Here the store allowed c…

Currently hacking away on the food industry: It's common practice for a distributor to handle stocking of product in some/many locations, it's referred to as 'merchandising' in the industry, it's often limited to speciality products. Given the comment I think the interesting thing is that either Goya is doing their own distribution or has subcontracted that out or has a special distributor relationship in some way. I…

Kellogg and Nabisco often stock the shelves themselves as well. And the Asian/International aisle is stocked by the vendor sometimes as well.

Re: How Goya brought ethnic food to white America

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Post by kyllo »

davidw wrote: post #31
pubby wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ranch dressing, peanut butter, and root beer: 3 staples you might not find outside of the USA.

Here in Italy, peanut butter is actually surprisingly available. Ranch dressing can be found here and there, and root beer is of course completely unheard of because it's an acquired taste that most people who haven't grown up with it dislike. I'm going to be back in the US in a week, and I can't wait to eat: * Mexican * Bagels * Barbecue * Thai * Mexican * Mexican * Mexican

I've lived in China and Korea, and surprisingly, pretty good Mexican food was available in both places. Somewhat less surprisingly, good Thai food was also available.

Good cheeses, breads, and wines, however, were not. And if you did manage to find them somewhere, the price was double what you'd pay in the US.

Re: How Goya brought ethnic food to white America

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Post by davidw »

kyllo wrote: post #36
davidw wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here in Italy, peanut butter is actually surprisingly available. Ranch dressing can be found here and there, and root beer is of course completely unheard of because it's an acquired taste that most people who haven't grown up with it dislike. I'm going to be back in the US in a week, and I can't wait to eat: * Mexican * Bagels * Barbecue * Thai * Mexican * Mexican * Mexican

I've lived in China and Korea, and surprisingly, pretty good Mexican food was available in both places. Somewhat less surprisingly, good Thai food was also available. Good cheeses, breads, and wines, however, were not. And if you did manage to find them somewhere, the price was double what you'd pay in the US.

Heh - good cheeses and wines are already expensive in the US compared to here.
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