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Old Family Recipe Unnecessarily Racist (thehardtimes.net)

submitted 3 months ago by Nero@sopuli.xyz to c/theonion@midwest.social

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[–] addie@feddit.uk 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Kaffir lime leaves" are generally being renamed as "makrut lime leaves" in the shops here in the UK. No problem with the rename, obvs, although it confused me a moment the last time I wanted to buy some. The thought that any of my grandparent's old recipes having any herb or spice more unusual than black pepper is more of laugh, tho.

[–] agentshags@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

So I had to Google that. If anyone else is curious, there's a Wikipedia article on the word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaffir_%28racial_term%29?wprov=sfla1

I'm kind of morbidly curious what some other foods could be.