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[-] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I like how nobody hates Italian or Spanish food

Kind of wild how it's France who hates Vietnamese food the least considering they're the ones who colonized Vietnam. I figured there'd be more residual racism

[-] Blakey@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

Not really surprising, colonialism often includes exchanging foods. Britons are racist towards Indians but curry is popular there. Rijsttafel in the Netherlands is really just nasi padang from Indonesia, and Indonesian restaurants are, I believe, popular in the Netherlands. Obviously there's a lot of French influence on contemporary Vietnamese cuisine (banh mi!) and I wouldn't be at all surprised if it also went the other way. I mean spices were a major reason that south/south east Asia were colonised in the first place.