This week, Ali Wong sat down with Kelly Clarkson on her discuss present, The Kelly Clarkson Show, to debate her new hit collection, Beef, which dropped on Netflix on April 6. During the phase, the 2 performed a sport known as “Kelly and Ali Can’t Stand It,” whereby Kelly presses a button that spins and randomly selects a “beef” for them to rant about.
In one spherical, Ali vented about her beef with getting Asian meals with non-Asian folks. “You are 100% talking about me,” Kelly laughed when the spinner stopped. “Do they Americanize it?”
“No, it’s just when I go — when I was living in New York, a bunch of stand-up comics would be like, ‘Well, take me to dim sum. I want to go to dim sum,'” Ali mentioned.
“Then we’d go to dim sum, and they’d be like, ‘What is that?’ ‘Ew, what is that?’ ‘What is that?'” Ali mentioned. “And they’re basically asking, ‘Why is that not a sandwich?’ It’s like, ‘You asked me to take you here!'”
“Oh, I don’t do that,” Kelly chimed in, additionally irritated by the habits.
“Also, with dim sum, it’s all pork and shrimp. Just eat it,” Ali commented. While Kelly revealed she’s allergic to shrimp, she confirmed that she does love pork.
“I’m not that person. I will generally try anything,” Kelly mentioned, to which Ali agreed, emphasizing that it is largely the extreme questions that frustrate her.
Kelly then shared that she thought Ali’s beef could be about individuals who declare to like Asian meals however solely eat essentially the most primary, Americanized model of the dish. “They’re like, ‘I love Indian food,’ and it’s like chicken tikka masala,” Kelly mentioned.
“It’s more that people are squeamish and ask a ton of questions,” Ali mentioned.
“I don’t like when people food shame either,” Kelly added. The two then agreed on their mutual dislike for folks “yucking your yum.”
“And there you go,” Kelly concluded the spherical. “That was so helpful. America, you’re welcome.”
While the venting session occurred within the context of a chat present sport, followers had been pleased that Kelly gave Ali the area to really discuss her “beef” and associated to Ali’s exhaustion and frustration with folks’s impolite reactions to Asian meals.
So, that is all to say, when you’re making an attempt meals from one other tradition, attempt to be aware and ask any well-intentioned questions respectfully reasonably than insult the tradition and your host.
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