Drop that cilantro and step away from the taco bar …
Clemson University issued an apology to students on Thursday after what appears to be a small group of students were offended by an annual Mexican cuisine event put on by university dining services.
Clemson Dining’s “Maximum Mexican” night, has become a student favorite over the last several years, and this year was no different, at first.
Everything was going great. Students were loving the food and festivities. Except for two students, who took to Twitter to voice their displeasure with the school’s decision to host such a “#CUlturallyInsensitive” event. […]
Clemson senior Austin Pendergist told Campus Reformhe felt the post-event uproar was “ridiculous.”
“This is something that Clemson Dining has done for years without any sort of backlash. People love the cultural nights in the dining halls,” Pendergist said. “What’s next? Are they going to take away all potato based food as to not offend students from Irish decent? Remove the stir fry station so Asian-American students don’t feel as if they are being misrepresented? When does it end?”
The university, however, took a different position. Dr. Doug Hallenbeck, Clemson University’s Senior Associate Vice President of Student Affairs apologized for the event’s “flattened cultural view of Mexican culture.”
“It is the mission of University Housing & Dining to create supportive and challenging environments that enrich and nourish lives. We failed to live out our mission yesterday, and we sincerely apologize,” Hallenbeck said.
Dr. Hallenbeck went on to promise that the university “will continue to work closely with [its] food service provider to create dining programs that align with Clemson University’s core values.”
Just once I would like to hear the University spokeshole tell these tantrum-throwing brats to grow up or leave. But noooooo… apologies and re-education of the food service people is offered via some of the most cringe-worthy verbosity EVAH.
Yeah, that’ll placate the fucking little SJWs.
Potatoes, Irish?
Ridiculous. It would be the Peruvians who’d be grousing.
Grouse? Oh, wait a minute there.
Is that a tortilla reference??? ¡Que insensitivo!
Just once I would like to hear the University spokeshole tell these tantrum-throwing brats to grow up or leave.
The rejoinder “bugger off” is good, too.
Organic free-range GMO-free tofu for everyone!
And I had Carne Asada street truck-style tacos for lunch. I denounce myself.
[…] I’m really, really starting to hate these people. They are asinine. […]
Holy frijoles this is dumb.
i burrito in their general direction
Don’t stop thinkin’ about tamales.
“Just once I would like to hear the University [say]…”
“Sod off, swampy.”
Chocolate caliente, señor
Buckwheat
but then time was when someone yelled “Food fight!” everyone else knew exactly what was meant, and behaved accordingly
Greetings:
One of my personal great moments in film was in a Peter Fonda “biker” movie back in the late sixites when he, possibly the least physically imposing biker in the world, began a physical confrontation with a Mexican/Latino/Chicano/Hispanic biker gang by calling them “Taco-benders”.
Why it struck such a chord with me was because back in Catholic school in the Bronx of the 50s and 60s, “spaghetti-benders” was one of the terms of endearment we used when communicating with our Eye-talian brothers. Obviously, taco-benders was a lot more culinarily correct than spaghetti-benders.
Some of you may know that in South Dakota there’s a lot of rabble-rousing about how the mean ol’ palefaces stole the Black Hills from the noble red man.
So this morning I happened to look in on a webcam at Main Street in Rapid City just in time to see the Columbus Day parade.
Just looked in again and Main Street is still there…
I’m going to make and eat tacos. Anybody doesn’t like that you just come right over hear and fuck with me. When we’re done negotiating I’ll make and eat more tacos and you can hide in your shame cave until the marks heal.
Almost makes me want to talk my Granddaughter into going to another school. But then again, she’s paying her own tuition so I don’t have any say in the matter.
Ironically, she works in a Mexican restaurant close to Clemson.