Some people are so narrow minded and unappreciative it’s ridiculous.
This girl used to like bringing food to class, but her weird classmate thought she was being insensitive because of the type of food she brought.
Find out what happened next!
This happened about a year ago now when I was in high school.
My calculus class was very chill.
About 20 kids who were all friendly with each other, a laid back but enthusiastic teacher, and a light enough workload that we could afford to goof off in class but still learn and do well.
She was doing it as a favor!
At some point in the year I got really into cooking. It’s my stress reliver.
My family couldn’t possibly eat the amount of food I was made so I started bringing it into school and “hosting” Friday parties in my calc class, with my teacher’s approval of course.
Now, I’m Vietnamese and I live in a predominately white town.
This is only important because it meant that most kids from town only ate American or European foods, and weren’t used to eating other ethnic foods.
She wanted to try something new…
Last year around Lunar New Year, I wanted to bring in some Vietnamese foods to celebrate.
It is a very important time of year for my family.
I ended up making a bunch of Bánh Da Lợn, a steamed layer cake and a traditional Vietnamese dessert.
Some of my friends from class found out I was going to bring in a traditional dish and brought in their own traditional dishes from their own cultures, whether they celebrated Lunar New year or not.
Everyone had a feast!
We had different Indian, Korean, Filipino, and Spanish desserts.
It was great and I was really excited that my friends wanted to celebrate with me.
Apparently this was an issue for one girl in my class.
I would say Bánh Da Lợn is an acquired taste, so when not a lot of people ate it I wasn’t offended. I knew not everybody would like it.
There was a lot of other food anyways.
This is where it gets bad…
During our lunch period one of my friends (who wasn’t in our class but knew I brought food in) overheard a girl from my class complaining about the food while on the lunch line.
Apparently she was saying really negative things about how I “forced everyone to eat weird Chinese foods.”
She was very offended by what her friend did!
Later that day I texted her just saying I heard she didn’t like the food and wanted to know why.
I don’t really care when people don’t like the food (I make it for myself and bring it in when I have extra anyways), but her calling it “weird Chinese foods” (when she knows I’m Vietnamese) didn’t sit right with me.
Welp, she texted back that it was rude of me to bring in weird ethnic foods that nobody would have liked except for me and said I should know better since most of the class was white.
She had a good point and her friend was just being mean!
I told her that I bring in food to share because I feel like it and that I don’t have an obligation to cater to her tastes.
If she has an issue with it, she literally does not have to eat it, and other people can bring in food too so if she wanted to she could bring in something more to her tastes.
After that she just told me that I shouldn’t bring in ethnic and foreign foods and stick with American foods, “because we’re in America.”
UH OH…
Excuse me??? Like??? How much you wanna bet if I brought in jambalaya, which originated in Louisiana, she would call it a “weird foreign food.”
Fine. She only wants to eat American foods? Then she can eat American foods.
The next week I brought in a bunch of Oliebol, a Dutch doughnut, and started passing them out at the beginning of class.
She was not letting this slide…
When I got to her desk I pulled out a loaf of Wonder Bread and plopped it on her desk, saying “Sorry but these are Dutch, too ethnic. Here you go, all American cuisine.”
Later she texted me asking what my problem was, so I told her that almost every single food I brought in this year was ethnic and that it made me mad she only had an issue when it wasn’t European.
She knew her friend was being biased…
She’s entitled to not liking Asian foods but if you’re going to complain about it being ethnic, then you better have that same attitude when the ethnic food is white.
And especially don’t call another person’s culture weird.
She didn’t complain about the food again.
YIKES! That’s a lot of drama!
This girl simply wanted to share her food. Why wouldn’t her classmate just respect the effort and move on?
Let’s find out what folks on Reddit think about this story.
This user shares how her town functioned when it came to food!
This user suggests the classmate learns the history of American cuisine.
This user wishes she had that in her high school!
This user doesn’t understand why the classmate was being so narrow minded.
This user thinks the classmate had some audacity to speak to everyone like that!
Nobody was forcing her to eat anything she didn’t want to eat.
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