Um, I’m pretty sure that guy’s racism is not unintentional.

You don’t have to understand that your actions are racist for them to be racist. That’s kind of the point.

Right! Maybe there was a time when people might genuinely not know something and it wasn’t their fault, but that time has passed. If you’re ignorant of a basic food concept today, it’s because you actively chose not to learn about it.

Most places I’ve been to do that, but this particular restaurant was very traditional and only had a few cooked options (outside of the vegetarian ones).

Yeah, the elder one has turned out okay, but the younger one is pretty messed up (anti-social, very weird and difficult to converse with, hypochondriac).

There’s a big difference between not knowing the specifics of different dishes and not knowing what an entire category of food is, especially when eating at a restaurant that only serves that category of food. Google exists.

There is actually a type of traditional scrambled egg rolls, so that’s not so weird :)

I think it hits the sweet spot of both the gaming and collecting crowds in a way nobody predicted.

My theory with Morrison is that while his stories have good bones, too often he goes off the deep end into crazy, over-complicatedness and after he leaves the baby gets thrown out with the bathwater.

Dear god, why.

God, I wish. Maybe she’d actually send money in my Christmas cards.

Yeah. The rest of my family has kind of resigned ourselves to being amused by her because there’s not much we can do to stop her. Her kids aren’t even allowed to go to parks because she thinks they’re allergic to grass.

*slow clap*

Okay, but we have Google now. And restaurants have websites. And television exists to expose people to things they may not encounter everyday.

Sea level: It really does mean what you think it means.

Many reasons. She’s just a nut. She once called them because a restaurant told her they didn’t have the space to prepare a cross-contamination-free egg-less entree (she self-diagnosed my little cousin with an egg allergy contrary to all available evidence) and she thought that allergen-free food was an American right…

Hmm, I thought sushi was the umbrella term for all sort of raw fish stuff including maki and sashimi. Learn something new every day, I guess.

I keep meaning to send you one that involves an idiot and kale, but I always get distracted by the comments here ;)

Hopefully they get their own share of wackos. I know my aunt is on their caller ID now.

What is it with sushi and stupid people? I was out to dinner this weekend at a very nice sushi place (the kind where they serve sushi and that’s it, no hibachi or noodle dishes or anything) and the two women at the table in front of us were absolute nitwits. They sat down, looked over the menu, and then started doing…