I want to pay attention to the sense that the party guest had that this name was somehow banished.Īs people find the ability to deny Cancel Culture’s existence more and more absurd, we are seeing a shift in the response. Changs,” but that is not really what I want to focus on here. Say what you want about the insensitivity of his comment and the jabs he took at the “shopping mall cashew chicken of P.F. Zimmern went on an apology tour, hoping to navigate the controversy, clear his name, and get customers through the door. Especially for a white man, this was quite the party foul. The comment was seized upon by the internet and opinion pieces charging him of dismissing and denigrating the Chinese immigrant experience. Zimmern stepped on the cultural landmine and it blew up. While giving an interview to Fast Company about this endeavor he let this sentence loose: “I think I'm saving the souls of all the people from having to dine at these horses-restaurants masquerading as Chinese food that are in the Midwest.” Zimmern is a celebrity chef who was launching a new Chinese Restaurant called Lucky Cricket in a Minnesota suburb.
He asked, “MeToo? Or was it cultural appropriation?” Which sin was it again that he committed that has rendered his name vaguely tarred and feathered in my mind?Īs it turns out, it was a bit of cultural appropriation and cultural insensitivity.
One of the party guests remembered that this person was somehow on the outs with polite society but couldn’t quite remember exactly why. I was recently at a dinner gathering with some family friends when a name came up in conversation.
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