Comments on: Coming to terms with shame

By: A Brit Out Of Water » Blog Archive » A full and frank apology to the USA

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:20:36 +0000

[...] would like to issue a full and unreserved apology to the United States of America. In a previous post, I had revealed that an American foodstuff (albeit Italian-American) had made a personal attack on [...]

By: Brooklyn

Brooklyn — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:27:20 +0000

Dylan:

Thank you. I will not rub it in.

The matter simply confirms the reliability of NYC ethnic-occupational stereotypes.

BTW: This reminds me of a true story.

I have a very close friend who is Australian.
After I referred several times to “the Korean fruit and vegetable store” he made some comment about NY’s being free in using ethnic epithets, apparently assuming “Korean” was a generic term for Asian.” I had to tell him that it was simply descriptive, like calling residents of Tokyo “Japanese” since Korean immigrants had a virtual monopoly on those type of stores.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:27:29 +0000

Brooklyn – I come bearing news, and sadly it’s not great for me…they are indeed Korean, and I doff my cap to you. *hangs his head in shame*

Expat Mum – I should have known by now that pizza is always sodding hot. But I live in hope rather than expectation.

And IanB – it’s the truth! Just you wait until you experience it. Don’t come running to me with your pox-laden mouth looking for sympathy at that point…

By: expat mum

expat mum — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:08:33 +0000

Oooh. At least when I did that on the roof of my mouth it wasn’t visible. I just whined a lot. And it shows you’re not turning into an American – otherwise you’d have taken numerous photos, and filed a lawsuit likethe lady who got burned with a cup of coffee wedged between her thighs (while she was driving). Just kidding Americans! Seriously, tho’ you should tell them their pizza’s too hot.

By: IanB

IanB — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:13:22 +0000

That’s the most elaborate and protracted excuse to explain what is obviously a terrible case of mouth lurgy I’ve ever heard.

Everybody knows it’s the roof of a human mouth that is perfectly designed to magnetically receive molten cheese which has acquired the correct “hotter than the surface of the sun” temperature and that lips are stocially unmoved by anything other than the filling of a McDonald’s “apple pie” (actually a form of chemical weaponry).

Now go out and get your bell and hessian robes and repeat after me “unclean unclean”.

Hot pizza…yeah yeah yeah…..

By: carrie

carrie — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:29:59 +0000

Oh goodness! I laughed out loud but felt awful for you at the same time Hope you are able to show your face in public again soon.

By: Brit' Gal Sarah

Brit' Gal Sarah — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:51:02 +0000

I’m terribly sorry about this Dylan, but ROFLMAO in ‘sympathy’!

By: jinksy

jinksy — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:45:38 +0000

It would never have happened with good old English fish and chips…
Hope the pain plus embarrassment have lessened now!

By: Brooklyn

Brooklyn — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:14:23 +0000

Dylan:
There was nothing to be ashamed of. Who among hasn’t been bested by superheated melted cheese? You should have treated the blister as a badge of honor, like a Prussian dueling scar.
(Of course, I wouldn’t go back to Luigi’s or Anthony’s or whatever, and ask for the Purple Heart with Oregano Clusters Medal for wounds sustained in pizza consumption. Unfortunately the custom of awarding that civilian decoration went out of style during the ’60′s as part of the anti-Vietnam war movement and attendant anti-military sentiment. Talk about throwing out the baby with the bathwater.)

(Uhh, also: Korean vs. Chinese vs. other Asian? I can be like a dog with a bone as to these things.)