Ask Code Switch: You Are What You Eat

Code Switch

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4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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This week, we tackle reader questions on vegetarianism, the specter of grocery store Columbuses, and the quiet opprobrium directed at "smelly ethnic foods" in the workplace.

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0:00.0	What's good y'all? This is Code Switch. I'm Gene Demby and something in for Shireen this week is the phenomenal Karen Grisby-Bates. Hey KGB.
0:06.4	Hey Gene.
0:07.3	Alright so before we get into this episode, I want to establish something very important.
0:11.2	Okay.
0:12.9	I don't know if you know this about me, Karen, but I just spies mayonnaise. It's disgusting. I hate it. I will fight somebody.
0:21.0	I like, I can't stand it.
0:24.1	It's such an innocuous food.
0:26.4	It's disgusting.
0:29.6	Oh my god. It's just...
0:31.6	And of course, black folk is being black folk is like, when I say that, like I don't eat mayonnaise, it's like,
0:37.3	so how do you put it in a salad? I'm like, I don't eat potato salad.
0:40.8	That sound I hear is your card getting yanked.
0:45.6	Listen, if this is the thing that will get me disinvited from the better folk hooker.
0:49.6	From the cook-out.
0:50.4	And listen, I'm just not going to have to be on the outside looking in.
0:52.9	You and Clarence Thomas.
0:54.3	Okay.
0:55.6	Can you be with them, don't you eat?
0:56.9	Lama beans.
0:58.1	When I was seeing silence of the lambs for the first time.
1:02.9	A census taken once tried to test me.
1:05.6	And Hannibal lectured with saying, yes, I ate his liver with a plate of fava beans and a nice candy.
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