The Food Network has a headline “What is kefir?” I was outraged. That is the term used by the racist apartheid whites in South Africa for blacks and is the equivalent of the n – word. Consider this definition from the web:
Any Black African — a disparaging and offensive term used by white South Africans
I was totally outraged until I noticed that the Food Network said “kefir” not “kaffir”. Seems like “kefir” is a “tangy, yogurt-like fermented drink that’s made from dairy milk or water and kefir grains, a type of yogurt starter with a gelatinous texture and white to yellow color.”
Never mind.
Recall the posting to my old blog (haroldblack.blogspot.com) on India Hicks.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2011
In the Wall Street Journal’s weekend edition for April 23-24 was an article entitled “India Hicks”. I was expecting
1. seeing a woman in a sari smoking a corncob pipe
2. guys throwing hummus cans out of pickups
3. people ordering light bread pita sandwiches
4. elephants with “88” painted on their sides
5. Ravi Shankar-Dolly Parton Grand Ole Opry videos
6. trailer parks in New Delhi
7. reruns of the Mumbai Hillbillies
8. sales reports on white socks and Blue Ribbon beer in Bangalore
9. Jeff Foxworthy routines of “you might be a brown neck”.
10. cobra handling
But no. It turned out to be an article on an interior designer of that name. To quote Ruth Buzzi “never mind”.
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