Chinese bloggers call ‘white people food’ the ‘lunch of suffering’. Debate followed


From broccoli to boiled eggs to steamed chicken breast, people in China are cooking these ‘white people meals’ and posting the creations to their social media feeds. — Unsplash

For years, so-called “white people food” has been mocked by many for its boring, tasteless nature, but people in China have taken the jokes to a new extreme.

The idea behind the ongoing mockery started when a Chinese woman in Switzerland posted a video of a woman on a train chowing down on a head of lettuce and slices of ham, BuzzFeed reported.

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