Red necks and their meat.
“To people who don’t know any better…”
Sometimes, it’s very funny (pardon me for showing tinges of being racist - I assure you I am not) how some uneducated white folks can deem themselves smarter than everybody else here just because they are white. Come on you’re a construction worker back home… They may earn more than the usual Asian professionals but it doesn’t prove a thing. Money can’t buy you common sense or an education at that. Well, okay the buck can go as far as paying for your books and shit BUT if you are mentally incapable of infusing your brain with solid facts - what’s the point right?
I have nothing against the color of your skin. But you can tell quick quickly how some folks were brought up by just observing the way they speak and treat other people. Okay guys don’t panic - I’m fine I wasn’t harassed or anything. But you do know me - I won’t back down but I will carry the fight to uphold the truth. How ever petty it may seem -Hahaha! Hihihi! Read on…
So a guy was giving me slack for not knowing how to cook meat properly. Uhm, if you’ve read The Undomesticated Goddess by Sophie Kinsella (if you even read at all…), you might as well have been introduced to me. Hihihi. I didn’t really care, I’ll work on my cooking skills when I need to feed people on a regular basis I guess. His opinion didn’t really matter to me… My view was enforced as our convos went on…
Out of the blue the dude said that since pork was white meat, it had to be cooked well done to get rid of Salmonella.
I corrected him. Actually, pork is red meat.
Kim, have you seen pork when its cooked? It should be white.
I laughed and replied. Whatever, I know its red meat - just like beef. I’ll even google it for you.
But he insisted and even asked we should ask his friend who likes food.
Err, was his friend a nutritionist or has even taken a basic home economics class? Come to think of it, any literate person who knows how to use a search engine can easily get the answer. Again his words had no bearing whatsoever on the topic.
It sounds pretty petty to be sooo absorbed about this. I guess it hit a nerve and I’m not afraid to blog it. Oh ew. Blogger. Hahaha!
So, after everything that we talked about, the dude still kept going back to the damn pork being white meat. He even had the nerve to say mumble something about people who don’t know better…
I was controlling myself because it was his gf’s (my good friend’s) birthday. I didn’t want to ruin the party by quarreling over nonsensical stuff.
Also, he had a comment about Romanians working in Ireland were taking all their money away from them. Err, dude they do work for the money - if they send it back to Romania - that’s their choice. It’s an equal exchange of services for goods. How silly to say that their money is being taken away from them because the Romanians are sending it back to their families. Im sure not all his countrymen think this way. It would be a sad sad thing if they all did. And if I believed that they were all the same as this roughie - what would that say about me…
So he went on to say that Ireland was poor before and blah blah blah… but they never did this. At the back of my mind, visions of a dozen Hollywood movies about Irish folks scraping a living in the US of A flashed. I know for a fact that for a time New York’s slums were jam packed of illegal Irish workers - who were actually sending money back home. Let’s not even go to the IRA. Come on even Leonardio di Caprio and Brad Pitt played leprechauns on the big screen!
Hmp. It was useless to even have a decent conversation with this dude so I just shut my mouth and drank my Bacardi to numb myself of the stupidity that he was blurting out.
Anyways we still went out and partied. He paid for my drinks and I drowned his annoying comments with alcohol and really awful music.
For those who got a lil curious - pork really is red meat. Here’s the proof… I did end up googling it.
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_meat
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4088824.stm
