Multicultural Potluck- what to bring?

[Anonymous]

If you don't have another culture, what are you bringing to the school multicultural potluck? Just a regular side dish? I tried to sign up for chocolate chip cookies and the organizers told me it should be a traditional food from my household.

I'm really trying here, but these events come up multiple times a year and there doesn't seem room for people who don't have other cultures. I mean we're mostly British and German but it's been a couple hundred years and we have no ties to any of that food. I don't even feel like we have regional foods from the US that my family regularly eats (they did not want regional US foods though). I sort of felt like chocolate chip cookies were one of my family's specialties. If we don't have one, should we just pick someone else's culture and make a dish?

[Anonymous]

Ignore the organizers and do what you want. I brought a traditional dessert recipe from the region of the country that I'm from, that featured a locally grown ingredient.

[Anonymous]

“Chocolate chip cookies are a traditional food from my household! I’m white!”

[Anonymous]

My family is only 3 generations removed from Switzerland/Germany and 5 from the Ulster Scotts, but if we didn't have another option I'd probably bring one of those dishes. We're also British, but back from the time of the Revolutionary War. I didn't grow up eating any of them and neither did my kids, but I think identifying with that background would be fun for my kids.

DH's family is Mennonite, which is a religious sub-culture more than an ethnicity (the group originally hailed from the Netherlands but that was centuries ago) and he did grow up eating their unique food and my kids are familiar with it, so that's what we'd actually do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My family is only 3 generations removed from Switzerland/Germany and 5 from the Ulster Scotts, but if we didn't have another option I'd probably bring one of those dishes. We're also British, but back from the time of the Revolutionary War. I didn't grow up eating any of them and neither did my kids, but I think identifying with that background would be fun for my kids.

DH's family is Mennonite, which is a religious sub-culture more than an ethnicity (the group originally hailed from the Netherlands but that was centuries ago) and he did grow up eating their unique food and my kids are familiar with it, so that's what we'd actually do.

I don't think you're supposed to make up a food to match some ethnicity you may have. They are intending you to bring in a food that your family eats regularly.

They should just change it to "potluck."

[Anonymous]

I'm from the US South, and for our multicultural night, I always brought 2 buckets of KFC. There was never any leftover.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm from the US South, and for our multicultural night, I always brought 2 buckets of KFC. There was never any leftover.

This is my go to as well.

[Anonymous]

Tell your school person to suck a bag of d’s and take your chocolate chip cookies!

[Anonymous]

We're Americans of Swiss descent (from the Alps) so I just bring a box of Lindt truffles lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you don't have another culture, what are you bringing to the school multicultural potluck? Just a regular side dish? I tried to sign up for chocolate chip cookies and the organizers told me it should be a traditional food from my household.

I'm really trying here, but these events come up multiple times a year and there doesn't seem room for people who don't have other cultures. I mean we're mostly British and German but it's been a couple hundred years and we have no ties to any of that food. I don't even feel like we have regional foods from the US that my family regularly eats (they did not want regional US foods though). I sort of felt like chocolate chip cookies were one of my family's specialties. If we don't have one, should we just pick someone else's culture and make a dish?

I'm from Germany. Would you like me to link some fairly easy recipes for you that are authentic and often used?

[Anonymous]

What school? I’d like to file a complaint for discrimination.

[Anonymous]

I was just watching Grey's Anatomy and Meredith brought fish sticks for multicultural day to represent Brazil.

[Anonymous]

I'm jewish. We bring chocolate covered matzo or hamantaschen or macaroons, or some other sweets from jewish culture. (Nobody in my family has ever been to Israel, and we are not from Israel.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don't have another culture, what are you bringing to the school multicultural potluck? Just a regular side dish? I tried to sign up for chocolate chip cookies and the organizers told me it should be a traditional food from my household.

I'm really trying here, but these events come up multiple times a year and there doesn't seem room for people who don't have other cultures. I mean we're mostly British and German but it's been a couple hundred years and we have no ties to any of that food. I don't even feel like we have regional foods from the US that my family regularly eats (they did not want regional US foods though). I sort of felt like chocolate chip cookies were one of my family's specialties. If we don't have one, should we just pick someone else's culture and make a dish?

I'm from Germany. Would you like me to link some fairly easy recipes for you that are authentic and often used?

OP here- no that seems fake and inauthentic to me. Why is there so much emphasis on multiculturalism in schools? I don't really see this anywhere else and it just seems divisive. Only in America is American culture not a culture. I know Europeans definitely think we have American food and our own culture.

[Anonymous]

Chocolate chip cookies is fine!! I don't know why your school has a fit about it. I'm a first generation immigrant and I try hard to find foods that I enjoy that would appeal to a wide palate.