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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WaPo ran articles on this a few years back. The term 'cheap eats' is offensive, because everyone knows you're talking about immigrant foods 95% of the time.

There's simply less premium placed on other cultures' (i.e. outside of Europe) foods due to ingrained ethnocentrism.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/restaurants/my-columns-name-does-a-disservice-to-the-immigrants-whose-food-i-celebrate-so-im-dropping-it/2018/12/31/101a28de-07c8-11e9-85b6-41c0fe0c5b8f_story.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/22/the-great-ethnic-food-lie/

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That’s absurd. [b]It’s simple economics[/b]- places like the bahn mi shops in Virfinja are “cheap eats” because the ingredients are affordable and its a sandwich shop setting in a mall, not a high-rent fancy restaurant in downtown DC with waiters and sommeliers etc. The entire business model is [b]immigrants providing cheap eats[/b] to other immigrants. And of course fine dining is incredibly diverse in this area these days, with “immigrant” cuisine regularly included [/quote]

Immigrants are willing to work (both themselves and their children) at below-market wages to gain upward mobility.  A tale as old as time.  Cheap Italian food followed the early 20th century Italian immigration wave that included my great-grandparents.  But the U.S. is not experiencing economic migration from poor Europeans right now; ergo, no cheap European ethnic food.[/quote]

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