If you think about it, diversity is truly beautiful. The differences among us all culminate to form the extraordinary experience of being human. And every difference should be accepted—whetherfoodpreference or a person’s identity—with love because the world becomes so much better with acceptance.
But Reddit userMakesS**tGoodfaced heat from their girlfriend’s racist parents when they said that everything, including garlic, was spicy at their Mexican restaurant. The original poster (OP) was dumbfounded as they had themselves customized the spice levels as per the girlfriend’s parents’ preference.
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The poster of this story is a non-binary Mexican-American who invited their white girlfriend’s parents to their Mexican restaurant
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They alerted the restaurant accordingly and were aware about which food items didn’t have any spice in them, as her parents’ spice tolerance was not too high
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The parents arrived 30 minutes late and didn’t apologize for it, but the poster also realized their transphobia after the father’s derogatory statement
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The mom also refused to eat anything else after stating that she found the garlic in the food spicy while the dad said that he was not going to pay for it
The father ordered a “gringo burger” at the Mexican restaurant and kept raving about how good it was
The poster was dumbfounded as even the burger had garlic when initially they thought garlic was spicy
Later, the elderly couple called their daughter andbeggedher to find a “white guy”, completely exposing their racism and homophobia
Today’s story throws a light on how a non-binary restaurant owner faced bigotry from their girlfriend’s racistparents. OP told us that they own a Mexican restaurant and invited their girlfriend, Emily’s, parents over there to meet for the first time. As they are white and OP is a Mexican-American, they alerted the restaurant staff about it and made every recipe to match the elderly couple’s spice preferences.
They started shooting questions about OP’s gender identity but the poster didn’t mind explaining it to them. Then herdadbrought up how men have been beating women at the Olympics. The poster tried their best to explain the baseless rumors, but the father was of a firm opinion that it was all a “ploy to set back women’s rights”. It all sounds really infuriating, to be honest!
But the worst was yet to come, for things just unraveled after the food came. They found everything to be spicy, even the food items that didn’t have any spice in them. The father declared that he was not going to pay for this, which sounds ridiculous as it was OP’srestaurantand they had invited them.
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According toVerywell Mind, “When people hold prejudicial attitudes toward others, they tend to view everyone who fits into a certain group as being ‘all the same.’ They paint every individual who holds particular characteristics or beliefs with a very broad brush and fail to really look at each person as a unique individual.” Seems like that’s just what the couple did.
People online also mocked the couple for finding garlic spicy, and they stated that the couple didn’t understand the difference between spice and flavor. To get some culinary expertise,Bored Pandainterviewed Sakshi Kulkarni, who’s a chef at the 5-star restaurantSoho Housein Mumbai. Apart from Indian food, she also has experience cooking Mexican and Italian cuisine.
She said, “Every culture has a different type of spice tolerance. It is important to inform the guest beforehand about the spice level according to the dish being served.” In the poster’s situation, though, it seems that they were pretty considerate with the recipes for the couple’s spice levels.
When we asked Sakshi about how her restaurant deals with unhappy customers, she said, “We first understand what problem they found with a food item and make changes accordingly. But if a customer hasdecidedthat they are not going to like the food, there’s not much a chef or even the restaurant owner can do about it.”
The Redditors empathized with the poster and claimed that the couple had decided that the food was spicy even before they came to the restaurant
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