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Because I want a place to put all this, here's a bunch of links about why complaining about Chinese food (or other Asian or "ethnic" [non-Western] food) is racist.

• Why "do Asians eat dogs?" is a racist question. abagond (2015)



• "Humans have always demonized the cuisine of 'the other' because it's the easiest way to say someone is less human." On racist Yelp restaurant reviews. Andrew Simmons for Slate (2014)



• On why calling food "ethnic" or talking about food poisoning is racist. Naomi Tomky for The Atlantic's Citylab (2015)



• Restaurant health inspectors, food handler certification manuals, and of course customer complaints are all racist, and documents for restaurant owners are difficult for non-native speakers of English to read. Joseph Erbentraut for HuffPo (2016)



• Example of a Philadelphia Chinese take-out restaurant repeatedly incorrectly ticketed by police, fitting a larger pattern of racist code violations in Philly as a whole. Joseph N. DiStefano for The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News (2017)

I will post more links as I find them, and if y'all have more to share I'd love to see them.

Also, next time you call someone out on this and they say "but it's true," remind them that something doesn't have to be false to be racist.

7:00pm: T$ declares he ate something weird for lunch, so his stomach isn't feeling quite right.
7:30pm: I ask if I should just eat leftovers, he agrees. I pick up my laptop and go through last year's physics quizzes so I can use one for tomorrow.
7:45pm: I realize I haven't put Kappa to sleep. I do so, and say "I should eat something" aloud in T$'s vicinity.
8:00pm: T$ asks me if I'm going to eat something. I say "yes" and work on the slideshow for physics.
8:10pm: I ask T$ to remind me to eat in a while.
8:15pm: T$ reminds me to eat. I say "oh yeah" and go back to work.
8:20pm: I finally get up and nuke some leftovers
8:25pm: I take them out of the nuker, put them on the table, pick up my laptop, and start elljaying.
8:30pm: T$ starts eating my leftovers because I'm not. I guess his stomach's feeling better. Why doesn't my physics textbook list AUs in meters in the front cover?

This is why I used to be 14 lbs lighter when I lived by myself - I just don't have a strong eating drive. Not that that's particularly a bad thing; I'm sure yo-yoing weight by as much as 10 lbs as I used to do wasn't good.

( Even my pea soup isn't vegetarian. )

Tomorrow morning it'll be done (after picking out bones and/or skin (if you used ham hocks)), and I will upload the before and after photos sometime. (Yeah, I'm a camera dork.) I haven't done this precise version, so how it comes out will be interesting (for example, I usually use 8 cups water but I wanted to try thicker), but every time is good. ^_^ The best part is waking up with the whole house smelling like lunch. *grin* If you do it during the day, you'll come home to the whole house smelling like dinner.

I just remembered that smoothies exist! Two scoops vanilla, 1 scoop frozen raspberries, 2 scoops OJ, and 5-10 seconds in the blender on low later, and I've got one glassfull of yummy goodness. ^_^