WARNING: The Surgeon General has determined that if you have the slightest sensitivity to disagreement, read no further. Whatever you do, do not quit the site.
OK: I’ve tried to be strong, I really have, but this is a foodsite and this quote is too, too delicious to resist:
I’ve never met anybody in this country who speaks in “accent-free English.” Really, has anybody here talked to somebody from Boston lately and understood them? Would this be an acceptable, or even accepted-by-you, comment if it were made when you order roast beef on the North Shore? (Our server “warmly greeted every table in his easy accent-free English”) Has anybody from Brookline talked to somebody from Brooklyn and understood them?
If there are preferences for accent-free English, why did people on this thread
obsess about the correctness of the accents, not argue that they should be absent? (Unless, of course, in your worldview, some accents are more acceptable than others.)
Many of us, including myself, have said “let’s only talk about the food”. I know that some of you will say “What are you doing now – this ain’t no [trying to affect an accent] food tawk?” I’m quite willing to talk only food if a post is only about food. I do not wander into cosmology in a discussion that’s entirely culinary. (Give me an example if I lie.) But what can I do if a post is peppered with extra-culinary matters? Be an obedient person and ignore them?
Let me go back to my original objection and ask if the OP had said
“[Jews] seem to me of the ethnic group that complains most bitterly about their own lack of quality dining options in the area.”
and, were I Jewish, how many of you (@Kennyz ?) would have asked me to “suck it up”?
I don’t think many of you would have accepted such a statement, yet you do when it’s about Indians. And as @Saregama says, it’s 2022.
Really, people, don’t condone the uncondonable.
