President Obama and Culinary Racism

November 1, 2011

Slate looks at an interesting, but unfortunate, trend over the past couple of years: restaurants using President Barack Obama's name and likeness in moderately to overtly racist ways. They draw attention to a Brooklyn restaurant with the name "Obama Fried Chicken" and refer to the recently opened "OFC" (also standing for Obama Fried Chicken) in China. They call such incidents "culinary racism." 

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Just Me's picture

So what. Who cares? Enjoy your hate.