Multicultural Potluck- what to bring?

[Anonymous]

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

Jello salads are literally the thing I most associate with my grandma (Anglo-American colonist).

The only really yummy one is canned peach halves with ginger ale and peach Jello.

The most common one was strawberry Jello with Dole fruit cocktail.

The two I could never stomach were Lime Jello with cottage cheese and Orange Jello with carrot shreds and walnuts.

Serve on lettuce leaf.

How old are you?

Gen-X. My grandma's family was English but in Maryland in the Quaker colonial days.

Gen-X ate Jello. There was a big Knox Blox craze in the 1970s.

[Anonymous]

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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.

That’s because migrants drag their culture with them and it takes awhile to assimilate. My mother was raised in Canada, French Canadian and no one wants that gross Poutine. Living rural by the ocean I know they used to hang a big fish on the back porch and rip off a slab of it for a snack. Maybe I’d bring a raw fish.

[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.

Maybe you should learn about your own heritage, and then it wouldn't be fake and inauthentic.

[Anonymous]

I went through this at my school. It was pretty annoying to feel like I had to dig deep into an irrelevant immigrant past, so I brought a Blueberry Cake because we are New Englanders.

[Anonymous]

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

white people have no culture

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

white people have no culture

But, White people can get Asian, African, South American etc foods because they did colonize these areas and exploited these people.

Just don't bring whatever you grew up eating. No one wants boiled veggies and boiled meat.

[Anonymous]

I call troll post. Schools don't turn down food offerings for the reason the OP said. Go take your white victimhood elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

What's wrong with pigs in a blanket and pasta salad?

[Anonymous]

I'd just bring the cookies.

Or soft pretzels.

My favorite was a mom who brought a foil pan of kraft mac and cheese.

[Anonymous]

Bring beanie weenies and claims they were a family tradition.

[Anonymous]

I’m frankly torn as to whether white people ought to attend these gatherings at all.

Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to center actual, multicultural, families and create space for them free of the white gaze?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m frankly torn as to whether white people ought to attend these gatherings at all.

Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to center actual, multicultural, families and create space for them free of the white gaze?

No. I don't even understand this comment. For one thing, many families are white + something else. Many whites are Jewish or European, or, or, or.... I could go on. We've had food and performances from Germany, Scotland, Poland, and many, many more at our school over the years. The point is to learn about many cultures, try new foods, and all have fun together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m frankly torn as to whether white people ought to attend these gatherings at all.

Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to center actual, multicultural, families and create space for them free of the white gaze?

No. I don't even understand this comment. For one thing, many families are white + something else. Many whites are Jewish or European, or, or, or.... I could go on. We've had food and performances from Germany, Scotland, Poland, and many, many more at our school over the years. The point is to learn about many cultures, try new foods, and all have fun together.

Judaism is a religion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m frankly torn as to whether white people ought to attend these gatherings at all.

Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to center actual, multicultural, families and create space for them free of the white gaze?

No. I don't even understand this comment. For one thing, many families are white + something else. Many whites are Jewish or European, or, or, or.... I could go on. We've had food and performances from Germany, Scotland, Poland, and many, many more at our school over the years. The point is to learn about many cultures, try new foods, and all have fun together.

Judaism is a religion.

I knew someone would say that. There are also Jewish cultural traditions and foods, and Jews who identify with those and not religious aspects per se. I see multicultural night as celebrating all of this.

[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?

Multicultural celebrations are generally intended to celebrate and center non-European cultures.

Are you sure you should be going to this event op?