Kurtofan posted:

lol the people complaining in the article aren't even American, what are yall on about.

Here's my foreign food complaints: Spanish pains au chocolat are huge sugar filled abominations compared to proper French pains au chocolat.

Nooner posted:

Suck my drat balls

Edgar posted:

I imagine these folks willbe butt hurt like the euro fags who whine that California call it's champagne, champagne when its not from that french backwater.

WitchFetish posted:

Actually we're 100% fine with you guys selling your garbage sprinkly fracking-water flavored mexican harvested wine, just don't call it "Champagne".

Just like any company wouldn't like it if someone was to start selling counterfeit products under their name.

WitchFetish posted:

Actually we're 100% fine with you guys selling your garbage sprinkly fracking-water flavored mexican harvested wine, just don't call it "Champagne".

Just like any company wouldn't like it if someone was to start selling counterfeit products under their name.

Shaquin posted:

As a gay man seeing LGBTQIA+ used with sincerity and seriousness in one of those articles makes me real loving mad because good god that looks like such a loving joke. The struggle against adversity is about finding common ground and working seriously and maturely against it not being bogged down in the minutia and specificity of labeling and safe space accommodation.

Whiskey Sours posted:

A bahn mi served on a ciabatta bun with coleslaw is offensive for reasons having nothing to do with cultural appropriation.

WitchFetish posted:

Actually we're 100% fine with you guys selling your garbage sprinkly fracking-water flavored mexican harvested wine, just don't call it "Champagne".

Just like any company wouldn't like it if someone was to start selling counterfeit products under their name.

AugmentedVision posted:

lmfao how does it feel to not live in the only superpower in the world

Y-Hat posted:

doesn't look that much worse than your average college newspaper tbh

quote:

Rather than Sunday dinner, student diners at Afrikan Heritage House were met with protestors blocking the entrances.

According to members of Oberlin’s Black student union, ABUSUA, as well as other students, the protest was their response to Campus Dining Services’ failure to address their concerns outlined in a petition submitted to the College in late November.

A petition protesting both the quality and selection of food options served at Lord-Saunders Dining Hall began circulating on Wednesday, Nov. 18. Students called for CDS to adhere to more traditional meals, including making fried chicken a permanent feature on the Sunday night menu and providing more vegan and vegetarian options.

“The food quality at Afrikan Heritage House has decreased dramatically,” wrote Kendra Farrakhan, College senior and one of the authors of the petition, in an email to the Review. “Residents and other students have complained in the past through comment cards, etc., but no improvements were made. The protest on Sunday was a response to CDS and Bon Appétit’s dismissive response to our petition. The petition received almost 500 signatures, yet the administrative response shows that they don’t take us seriously.”

The petition also outlines a list of proposed meals, offering authentic food ideas, recommendations on how to properly prepare food and reduce the amount of cream used in dishes because, as stated in the petition, “Black American food doesn’t have much cream in it.”

While food quality and preparation were major concerns, students also called for better treatment of CDS staff, saying that they wanted “a guaranteed 40 hour work week, benefits for part-time workers, personal days, funding for job training and increased wages.”

The students also want to maintain the house’s orientation toward the community and promote greater benevolence and humanity for CDS workers.

“Bon Appétit is owned by Compass Group, which is a huge international organization that has received food violations in numerous countries,” Farrakhan wrote to the Review. “Until you’ve worked [ for] CDS, you don’t realize how rude, condescending and overbearing the managers are. And you don’t realize how much food gets thrown away. I would like to see Bon Appétit fired and replaced by something other than an international corporation. I would like to see the chefs have the respect and autonomy to cook the food they love.”

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Director of Business Operations and Dining Services Michele Gross, one of the main administrators students want to open a dialogue with, responded to the incident this past Sunday.

“We see dining at Lord- Saunders as critically important and support Black students as they make their voices heard and concerns known,” Gross wrote in an email to the Review. “We began making initial changes over the past couple of weeks. We will be providing a detailed response including specific action steps and a precise timeline that will address each concern in order to assure students that we will make this program a great dining experience.”

Gross presented initial feedback to the Africana community at a meeting on Thursday at 4:30 p.m. in Lord lounge. While Gross claims that CDS is working to meet the demands stated in the petition, many students are still concerned with the integrity and intention of Afrikan Heritage House’s space.

“We students are concerned about our safety,” said Gloria Lewis, College sophomore. “And so beyond that, it’s about having a safe space. So it’s not just the dining hall. It’s everything. It’s the posts on Yik Yak. It’s the micro-aggressions.”

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Beyond the concerns of Afrikan Heritage House, Lewis said that she would like to see more oppression training held by faculty and staff on campus. She also expressed a wish for more Black faculty and administrators to help meet the students’ demands.

Ape Has Killed Ape posted:

so do these people just start vomiting whenever they get within a certain radius of a panda express or what?

i mean i do that too but for different reasons

Wizchine posted:

Easy solution: stop serving food. Get your grub off-campus, dipshits, or go to the market and learn how to cook.

Helical Nightmares posted:

I want to take the time here to thank the creators of YikYak for facilitating comedy.

quote:

The College owns roughly $200 million of property and pays no tax on the majority of it. Some student activists want that fact to change.

Woden posted:

So colleges in the US also have really poo poo food because they have tight budgets and tart it up with a cool name? Cool.

quote:

The College owns roughly $200 million of property and pays no tax on the majority of it. Some student activists want that fact to change.

Prepare for your food to be even shittier Oberlin.

Shaquin posted:

As a gay man seeing LGBTQIA+ used with sincerity and seriousness in one of those articles makes me real loving mad because good god that looks like such a loving joke. The struggle against adversity is about finding common ground and working seriously and maturely against it not being bogged down in the minutia and specificity of labeling and safe space accommodation.

New Division posted:

The Black Student Union at Oberlin is demanding that fried chicken is a permanent part of the weekly menu? Before you know it they'll be demanding culturally appropriate malt liquor and watermelon be provided as well.

etalian posted:

Repo Man posted:

Sheep-Goats posted:

She a fat ho but at she'll gently caress anything wet or warm and mostly white

Repo Man posted:

That's fine, but this redefinition of the word beautiful into an antonym for sexually attractive is confusing to me.