Jokes About Asians Eating Animals

[Tripe]

That's actually bottles of a certain kind of milk.

[MartyS (Gromit)]

Edit: Nevermind, just looked it up, it really IS pink!

[Thrifty Version II]

Edit: Nevermind, just looked it up, it really IS pink!

I like pink milk... provided it's strawberry milk.  Dunno how I'd feel about milk that was naturally pink.

When I was a kid, we had milk all the time.  It was there because we always had cereal for breakfast.  Occasionally, Mom would get Quik powder and we'd make chocolate milk.  Rarely, we would get the pre-made chocolate milk, which was much better because it was, like, mixed by professionals and didn't have all that chocolate sludge at the bottom that our home brewed stuff had.  On very rare occasions we got the even more exotic strawberry milk, which wasn't as sweet but was still a nice treat.

I'm getting a nostalgic lump in my throat thinking about it.

[MartyS (Gromit)]

Wow, I probably haven't had strawberry milk since I was 10, so it was a really long time ago, now I'm trying to remember where the hell it was.  Don't think my mom ever bought it so it must have been out somewhere....

Heck the last time I bought one of those 3 flavor containers of ice cream (chocolate, vanilla, strawberry) was probably in the 90's.

[Tripe]

See even before I developed the allergy to Strawberries I preferred the other three flavour ice cream

And, hey, today is the national day of that ice cream.

[Thrifty Version II]

See even before I developed the allergy to Strawberries I preferred the other three flavour ice cream

I hope you didn't just go and make a joke about Italians eating spumoni!  Sir, as a man of Polish/Italian descent you have insulted my honor! 

[Tripe]

Lots of diverse sausage growing up for you, no?

[MartyS (Gromit)]

Don't think I've heard of spumoni before.
My grandparents were from opposite ends of Italy so that stuff must be from the middle. 
(BTW, very different food in that house depending on if grandpa or grandma were cooking)

[Tripe]

That's very true, in fact what most people think of "Italian" is really just, bugger I'm now unsure, Northern? All tomatoes and gloopy stuff for the most part?

And you can thank Ettore Boiardi for that to a great extent.


Ann's got a bit of Sicilian and a ton of Polish Jewish in her so her family's traditions tend along those lines.

[MartyS (Gromit)]

I'm pretty sure all the tomato paste based stuff in this country is Americanized southern Italian food.

My grandfather's family was from southern Italy and his sauces never had tomato paste in them, he used tomatoes but never cooked down into a thick sauce, even his pizza was mostly cheese and meats with hardly any sauce.

My grandmother was from a town in the far north, she used more potatoes and white sauces.  Her potato gnocchi was amazing, and watching her roll out the dough and quickly chop it into pieces was also amazing.  The key to the quality was how fast it goes from cooked potato to ball of dough to pieces in boiling water.  If you let the dough cool too much the gnocchi get tough, pretty much the way store bought gnocchi is.  I've only been to one restaurant that made anything close, Fellini's Cafe in Media, PA.

[TheUnabeefer]

I for one am tired of jokes about pedophiles or creepy older guys perving on young girls. As a creepy older guy who is really into (and I do mean "into") incredibly young girls (I really dig fetuses, provided they eventually become female) I take personal offence and would like to stamp out any and all jokes filled with hatred towards my sick twisted fantasies.

[Thrifty Version II]

Lots of diverse sausage growing up for you, no?

Dad would sometimes make kielbasa from a small shop in Wilmington called "Johnny's Market".  These days, sliced kielbasas with toothpicks in them often accompany the oar-dyurves (I can't come close to figuring out how to spell that so I'm just gonna go phonetic) at holidays.  He uses Italian sausage on the homemade pizzas he makes every week.  Every Christmas, dad makes a big bunch of kolatchkes (a butter cookie with jelly in the center).

I was thinking back to the original point of this topic and I suddenly thought of The Simpsons.  Luigi is literally nothing but a pile of Italian stereotypes.  That's his entire character.  Groundskeeper Willie is Scottish, and they play a lot of Scottish stereotypes into his character (violent, quick to anger, heavy drinker, cheap).  I wonder if Italians and Scots get offended by these?

[Tripe]

I've read articles about people being offended by Apu.

I was trying to find a great article about how Americans make assumptions written by a Canadian with Jamaican ancestry talking about how weird it was watching a Jill Scott concert where Scott seemed to assume everyone who's black has an identical experience to Americans who are black. It's a fun and interesting read.

[Tripe]

I'm pretty sure all the tomato paste based stuff in this country is Americanized southern Italian food.

Oh yeah it is, it was a mechanization thing. Boiardi was Northern then but adapted Southern cuisine to make it mass producible, he's a fascinating figure in culinary history really.

[MartyS (Gromit)]

I'm pretty sure all the tomato paste based stuff in this country is Americanized southern Italian food.

Oh yeah it is, it was a mechanization thing. Boiardi was Northern then but adapted Southern cuisine to make it mass producible, he's a fascinating figure in culinary history really.

Just read his Wikipedia page, interesting.  I had always assumed that name was a made up marketing thing, not a real person.