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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.

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

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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.

Isn't all food "ethnic" to one extent or another? It's just a question if it's from you own ethnicity or someone else's, no?

Yes. Exactly. White American is an ethnicity, and insisting it's not is just perpetuating the idea that white Americans are the only "regular," unremarkable ones and everyone else is "different." Like, I'm sure you can see the problem with telling an immigrant kid that her parents' food is "ethnic food" and OP's kid's lunch is "normal food." It's the *exact* same problem if you tell OP not to bring what her family eats.

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Anonymous wrote:Can you make pasta salad or potato salad? everybody loves that. you could just claim its english or german lol.

I’m sorry but I can’t believe there are people under 70 that like pasta or potato salad.

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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.

Isn't all food "ethnic" to one extent or another? It's just a question if it's from you own ethnicity or someone else's, no?

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Anonymous wrote:Can you make pasta salad or potato salad? everybody loves that. you could just claim its english or german lol.

I’m sorry but I can’t believe there are people under 70 that like pasta or potato salad.

Anonymous wrote:Can you make pasta salad or potato salad? everybody loves that. you could just claim its english or german lol.

Anonymous wrote:Can you make pasta salad or potato salad? everybody loves that. you could just claim its english or german lol.

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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?

Not OP, but YES PLEASE.

Anonymous wrote: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.

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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.

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.