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[quote=Anonymous][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]
very true, but this is also why northern Europeans hated other immigrants.    It's why the Irish in the mid 1800s out in CA hated the Chinese, because the Chinese were willing to work for less.[/quote]

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