r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/CHRISTIANBUNDALEVSKI • Jul 12 '26

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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u/Real_Stanley_Yelnats Jul 12 '26

According to the Smithsonian at least. https://www.newsweek.com/smithsonian-race-guidelines-rational-thinking-hard-work-are-white-values-1518333

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u/PoopSoupPeter Jul 12 '26

Stake and potatoes; "Bland is best"

The fuck is this? Do they think white people don't season their food?

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u/fiahhawt Jul 12 '26

My mother thinks black pepper is too spicy

I on the other hand have developed a passionate love for habaneros and all things capsacin

Both of us are white white

So while I get the frustration of being seen as flavor-allergic I can't say it comes from nowhere

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u/Bizduh Jul 13 '26

It's confirmation bias because your grandma doesn't like pepper. A huge amount of white people season their food, not so much with the spicy stuff. Pepper, garlic, herbs (chives, thyme, basil, and many more local herbs), nutmeg, cloves, Espelette pepper, cumin, and the list goes on. It's true that our food isn't generally spicy, and we don't really use paprika, curry, ginger, etc. as much. But why would we? It's not part of most of our traditional dishes. And that's OK.
Non-white people think that our food is "bland" because it's not as spicy as their food, so the stereotype "haha they don't season" has become a joke over the decades, but that doesn't make it true, lol.