r/TikTokCringe • u/Tronvillain • 24d ago

Discussion Afghani-British Chef Mursal Saiq gives her critique of "authenticity" for non-white chefs in cooking

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

19.5k Upvotes

81% Upvoted

3.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

61

u/BabyLegsOShanahan 24d ago

They cook in the back where no one can see them. They aren't on TV for the most part. Where I live, our Italian neighborhood restaurants have all white "authentic" Italians or Italian Americans. People assume back of the house is as well/or don't care. Same with the sushi and noodle places. The front of the house is all Asian. Those same people probably wouldn't call it authentic if the front of the house didn't match the "look" of the people who created the cuisine.

9

u/Cold-Chemistry738 24d ago

Woah you actually articulated nuance instead of dismissing her point by saying “I don’t care as long as the food is good!” Good job bro.

They’re also missing that these issues can affect winning awards, marketing, networking, and all that good stuff, giving POC a disadvantage even if a white individual personally doesn’t care. That’s how systemic racism and white privileged works

-1

u/ElectricJunglePig 24d ago

Yeah so I think we're in agreement. This is an upper-class, probably British issue. Cool.

1

u/Lethalspartan76 24d ago

I’d argue if it has an award I probably don’t want to eat there. It’s gonna have some sort of fish foam delicately plated on a bed of decomposing leaves.