{"id":290,"date":"2007-12-12T19:16:53","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T02:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=290"},"modified":"2007-12-24T10:53:50","modified_gmt":"2007-12-24T17:53:50","slug":"disgusting-ethnic-cooking-odors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"“Disgusting Ethnic Cooking Odors”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think it only fair that\u00a0bloggers read other blogger’s blogs, and I’m nothing if not fair.\u00a0 Too fair, because\u00a0sometimes I read things I’d rather not have read.\u00a0 Like this, from a blog called The View Through the Windshield<\/a>, written by a charming fellow named Joe Sherlock:<\/p>\n

While I have problems with Romney’s positions on issues and his apparent flip-flopping, I am sick and tired of people bashing him because of his religion. Mormons make pretty good neighbors – they keep up their homes, don’t throw loud parties, never blanket the air with disgusting ethnic cooking odors, don’t scream at their kids through open doorways in an incomprehensible language and have no wacko friends who show up drunk at 3:00 am, blowing their car horns until someone acknowledges their presence. And then throw up on your sidewalk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Except for the bit about disgusting ethnic cooking odors, Joe could be talking about poor white folks anywhere . . . my neighbors, or yours.\u00a0 But\u00a0he said ethnic, so it’s\u00a0clear he’s disgusted with some particular group:\u00a0Jews, Latinos, African-Americans, Asians, maybe the whole lot.<\/p>\n

Disgusting ethnic cooking odors?\u00a0 Clearly, what we have here is a good white Christian Republican, and all I have to say is I’m glad I’m not having dinner at his<\/em> house.\u00a0 Joe’s probably tucking into some Mrs. Paul’s Fish Sticks right about now, or maybe meatloaf (without ketchup, the way Jesus would eat it).<\/p>\n

I grew up in a Midwestern white-bread Southern Baptist family.\u00a0 I remember when pizza came to this country in the 1950s. I ate my first slice (pepperoni, mushroom, anchovy) shortly after reading On the Road<\/a>, thereby becoming, in my mind at least,\u00a0an authentic beatnik.\u00a0 In civics class I\u00a0watched a short titled “Mexico: Our Amigos to the South”\u00a0and dreamed of eating a taco some day.\u00a0 Eventually I married an Italian-American girl, joined the Air Force, and began\u00a0traveling around the world\u00a0. . . there’s nothing disgusting about ethnic cooking odors to me.\u00a0 It means there’s something good for dinner!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think it only fair that\u00a0bloggers read other blogger’s blogs, and I’m nothing if not fair.\u00a0 Too fair, because\u00a0sometimes I read things I’d rather not have read.\u00a0 Like this, from a blog called The View Through the Windshield, written by a charming fellow named Joe Sherlock: While I have problems with Romney’s positions on issues […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","category-culture","category-a-series-of-tubes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}