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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/white-woman-making-improved-congee-apologizes/ar-AAMrFe6

White woman making 'improved' congee apologizes

Breakfast Cure, an Oregon-based company run by a white woman, Karen Taylor, has apologized after being accused by Asian Americans of culturally appropriating congee, a traditional Asian rice porridge.

The company, which sells pre-packaged meals it had referred to as congee, issued the apology in a statement on its website this week after it was criticized by many across social media for exoticizing the comfort food and trying to reframe the already-popular dish. It had previously claimed to have altered congee to fit “your modern palate” and “improve” a dish that’s been beloved by Asian cultures for centuries.
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Taylor, an acupuncturist and self-proclaimed “Queen of Congee,” had written a now-edited post titled, “How I discovered the miracle of congee and improved it.”
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Congee has long been a dish for commoners that is often eaten in times of need because it requires only a few ingredients. By contrast, Breakfast Cure’s slow-cook meal packs cost $14.95 per pack. Kim said that Taylor's profiting off of congee, particularly as a white woman, erases the humble nature of the dish.

“She's essentially making a large amount of money, or could potentially make a large amount of money, based on taking common people's Asian food,” Kim said. “She is claiming that congee is not good on its own, and she as a white woman has found a way to make congee much, much better, meaning that it serves a white people's palate.”

Krishnendu Ray, the chair of the Nutrition and Food Studies department at New York University, said it’s not surprising that non-Asians would be interested in East Asian cuisine. The problem comes when white people are the ones who profit from this culture and sell a “kind of a white women's version of porridge and then naming it congee because they want a cool, exotic name.”

“And when that happens, often outsiders come in, and they, in their minds, upgrade the cuisine,” Ray said.

Embellishment is not improvement/upgrading. But Westerners will never understand this because Western civilization is aesthetically inferior. Don't believe me? Here is Taylor's cultural appropriation product:



This is actual congee:



Anyone who thinks the first picture is an "improvement"/"upgrade" over the second is a Westerner.

Another article trashing Taylor:

https://nextshark.com/congee-backlash-breakfast-cure-asian-dish-western-palate/

‘Karen, Queen of Congee’ draws backlash over brand ‘improving’ ancient Asian dish for the Western palate
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There are currently 13 flavors of Breakfast Cure’s prepackaged “congee.” These include “Apple Cinnamon,” “Coconut Blueberry Bliss,” “Golden Spice,” “Karen’s Kitchari,” “Mango and Sticky Rice,” “Masala Chai Spice,” “Mega-Omega,” “Om Berry,” “Pear-Fection,” “Pineapple Paradise,” “Romano Bean Dream,” “Tangled Up in Blueberry” and “Three Treasures.”

You only have to read the names to know that this is not "improvement", but Homo Hubris flavouring.

This goes back to what was being discussed here recently:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-ugly-48/msg7612/#msg7612

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-ugly-48/msg7648/#msg7648