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Accidentally Cannibalistic Cookbook Suggests Using “Freshly Ground Black People,” Not “Black Pepper”

by Juli Weiner
April 19, 2010, 4:15 PM

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Say good-bye to what is (hopefully!) the most offensive pasta cookbook of all time: According to the BBC, “an Australian publisher has had to pulp and reprint a cookbook after one recipe listed ‘salt and freshly ground black people’ instead of black pepper. Penguin Group Australia had to reprint 7,000 copies of Pasta Bible last week, the Sydney Morning Herald has reported.”
A Penguin employee characterized the company as “mortified,” but also noted, “Why anyone would be offended, we don’t know.” We would argue that anyone who likes pepper—or, for that matter, people—could have reasonably been a bit disturbed.
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tea party snack anyone? lawl
 
[quote name='JolietJake']Yeah why would anyone be offended.[/QUOTE]

because its australia. they dont have the same history as us. several months back there was a kfc commercial (or some other fast food joint) in australia that everyone deemed racist, and nobody in australia understood why. the commercial eventually got pulled, despite the fact that there was no racism, at least in the eyes of the target audience.

edit, heres what im talking about http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2572005/racist_australian_kfc_commercial_pulled.html?cat=2
 
I realize it's just a typo, but i'm pretty sure that "freshly ground black people" is universally offensive, regardless of where it is.

Also, the Australians have been about as cruel to black people as we have, you know there were aborigines in Australia before the British showed up.
 
Yeah, just a typo, so a bit overblown.

I can see why it's offensive--but at the end of the day it's intent that really matters and there's no intent behind a typo. I make random typos all the time with substituting wrong words like that--thankfully I haven't had one that embarrassing in a class lecture slide etc. yet!
 
there's also white pepper

if the recipe misprint was "freshly ground white people" would you be offended?

i certainly wouldn't be

just kinda funny
 
[quote name='Koggit']there's also white pepper

if the recipe misprint was "freshly ground white people" would you be offended?

i certainly wouldn't be

just kinda funny[/QUOTE]

No, but there's a double standard for a reason.
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']I can see why it's offensive--but at the end of the day it's intent that really matters and there's no intent behind a typo.[/QUOTE]

Agreed. I think a disclaimer could've saved them a lot of trouble and money. Hell, they could've print out little stickers that said "pepper" and put them over the typo.
 
Seems more like a joke than a typo. Would any reasonable person in the publishing industry replace people with pepper? You don't even type the words the same way.
 
[quote name='depascal22']Seems more like a joke than a typo. Would any reasonable person in the publishing industry replace people with pepper? You don't even type the words the same way.[/QUOTE]

When I'm typing down a mac address, I'll occasionally type 'f' when I need to type '4'. Is it a joke or a typo?
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']Yeah, just a typo, so a bit overblown.

I can see why it's offensive--but at the end of the day it's intent that really matters and there's no intent behind a typo. I make random typos all the time with substituting wrong words like that--thankfully I haven't had one that embarrassing in a class lecture slide etc. yet![/QUOTE]

Which is why this isn't really even as big of a deal as "Red Skins".
 
[quote name='JolietJake']Most likely somebody let a spell checker fix it and that's what it came up with.[/QUOTE]

Exactly.
PEoPlE
PEpPEr

Looks like something done via spell check/not paying attention.
*edit* Or, possibly, OCR. In fact, I'd almost say that's more likely.
 
[quote name='JolietJake']Most likely somebody let a spell checker fix it and that's what it came up with.[/QUOTE]

Or just a brain fart. I type random words in stuff I write pretty often--and not just words that should the same. I'd say most people who type fast do.
 
I never said it was malicious and I'm not going to picket the offices. Just that I never see typos like this in any other cookbooks. Either way it's just a silly coincidence.
 
The only thing even more sad than having to spend all the money and resources to reprint over one stupid typo is that there are people out there that would choose to get offended over one stupid typo.
 
[quote name='thrustbucket']The only thing even more sad than having to spend all the money and resources to reprint over one stupid typo is that there are people out there that would choose to get offended over one stupid typo.[/QUOTE]

I don't think you choose to get offended anymore than you choose to get hungry or choose to get nervous, you choose what relevance you ascribe to the feeling, how you interpret it, or what you want to do with it. So perhaps you want to say it's sad that anybody would choose to boycott the company for it or something like that (I don't think anybody has done that, but just for example).
 
[quote name='fatherofcaitlyn']When I'm typing down a mac address, I'll occasionally type 'f' when I need to type '4'. Is it a joke or a typo?[/QUOTE]

What would the joke be?
 
[quote name='mykevermin']Even I don't see racist intent here.[/QUOTE]

close the thread. if myke dont see it then it aint there.
 
Well I certainly wasn't trying to imply racist intent. The whole event is pretty funny, and the tea party snack thing is a joke.
 
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