Multicultural Potluck- what to bring?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Agreed and I'm an immigrant. There are all sorts of things that are very American. All the peanut butter sweet foods (unfortunately a no go for allergies), apple pie (yes the original is Dutch but latticed and wetter pies are American), cookies like you said etc.

[Anonymous]

There's this weird mythos around it. I had an Irish immigrant granddad and I don't remember him ever eating traditional Irish food. He did really love Arby's, though.

[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?

Not OP, but YES PLEASE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's this weird mythos around it. I had an Irish immigrant granddad and I don't remember him ever eating traditional Irish food. He did really love Arby's, though.

You never saw him eat a potato or drink beer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's this weird mythos around it. I had an Irish immigrant granddad and I don't remember him ever eating traditional Irish food. He did really love Arby's, though.

You never saw him eat a potato or drink beer?

NP no. My Irish great grandparents weren't into potatoes or beer. They ate fried chicken on Sundays and loved to fry fish. I guess they ate mashed potatoes at holidays, but doesn't everyone?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

OP here- I hope I don't seem like I'm against any sort of ethnic food. I'm not. I LOVE ethnic food actually and go out of my way to cook it and order it. It's just that none of it is from my ancestors or my ethnicity.

DH joked that his culture made Monday- spaghetti, Tuesday- white people tacos, Wednesday- meatloaf, Thursday- pork chops, Friday- pizza. Saturday- eat out. Sunday- fried chicken.

[Anonymous]

+1 to chocolate chip cookies

Tell the judgmental planners that your family has melted into the melting pot, that chocolate chip cookies represent your family’s culture, which they are being insensitive and disrespectful toward. I’ll bet your cookies will be a hit.

[Anonymous]

I’d bring them. The organizers are tone death.

[Anonymous]

Take the cookies. Seriously these people in charge sound like Natzis!

[Anonymous]

Make them triangular and dry and call them scones.

[Anonymous]

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

A bag of Doritos? Alsona good option.

[Anonymous]

Why are you psychos imagining that the organizers are not accepting of OPs food? OP is the one who's insecure feeling that her cooking is boring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Aaaaand there it is. OP is just annoyed that she is uncomfortable that other people are different from her.

[Anonymous]

Why even have school? It's so divisive to teach things that some people don't already know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are you psychos imagining that the organizers are not accepting of OPs food? OP is the one who's insecure feeling that her cooking is boring.

Because OP said in the OP that the organizers told her not to bring the cookies.