Thread by @EVYSTADIUM

a white owned trendy spot on ossington is selling bone broth across from golden turtle pho. also sexualizing “jerk” sauce and pho hot sauce and making “superfood dumplings” for profit? y’all im sick

the cultures they are taking from literally fight daily for legitimacy. the *wellness* cleansing of the food, the lack historical understanding, and the number of followers is alarming. im not tryna knock small businesses but damn, this one hurts

i legit threw out my chinese food lunches cos white kids would make fun of it all day. i bought into pizza day and dry ass turkey burgers. so did many others. and now you taking our culture and selling it? and people think it’s legit? damn

it took hella unlearning and relearning to love my identity to get over that. don’t come at me with “organic” grassfed immunity dumplings. it’s xiao long bao.

and while you’re here support your local Chinatown, Little India, Little Jamaica, Little Tibet, Koreatown, J-town and spots our aunties and uncles opened up moving here to support their family. know that they’ve had to assimilate too.

anyways this is a great time to promote my new glo ✨ pb&j that has collagen in it and makes you benjamin button. bye

OK you hate to see it but after countless people tagging them and reaching out to them about their problematic food they posted this, this morning. y’all mean white wellness energy?

also please support golden turtle on ossington. they’ve been serving up pho and Vietnamese cuisine since 1987. the history of ossington belongs to Vietnamese immigrants.

link to their Instagram: instagram.com/goldenturtleos…

wrote this for the Star 3 years ago on immigrant children throwing out lunches in school. the journey made me realize it happened often, to many, and made me feel less alone. thestar.com/life/food_wine…

UPDATE: Permission, the store that shared space the that *spot* is immediately ending the partnership.

i have not heard from the ripe.nutrition people

we also JUST talked about this on my podcast @immadein_ — white wellness and toxic positivity. if you want to listen! anchor.fm/immadein/episo…