If the food from your country of origin isn't delicious, you shouldn't be allowed into NYC
Summary
If the food from your country of origin isn't delicious, you shouldn't be allowed into New York City." That's the provocative take from a rider who admits he's never actually tried British food but stands by his immigration policy anyway. The conversation spirals from there. Kareem and the stranger, who's Algerian-Egyptian, trade notes on Australia's "brekie" invasion, debate whether white American women invented avocado toast or stole it from the Aussies, and land on the unifying power of chicken over rice with white sauce. The rider's logic? Even the most racist person becomes tolerant after good halal cart food. He picks Algerian cuisine over Egyptian, citing his deadbeat Egyptian dad as the tiebreaker.
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So, what's your take? I feel like if the food from your country of origin isn't delicious, you shouldn't be allowed into New York City.
100% agree. Imagine a bunch of like British people like immigrated to New York and started opening up like food trucks, restaurants. Well, this there's already an epidemic happening with Australians.
Are they really? What's their food like? Australians keep moving here. They only bring one thing. Brekie.
What is their breakfast? It's just literally egg and cheese sandwich, but they call it brekie. So, they're taking New York trying to make it theirs.
Yeah. Egg and cheese. I ain't need no Australian egg and cheese. The avocado toast. No, you can't give them avocado toast. That's white women from America.
Well, white women from America. White women invented avocados. No, they stole it from Australia. This is a wild I didn't even plan on saying none of this. This is crazy. I'll be honest. I made this take. I've never tried British food in my life. I'll be real. I just hear people talking about it.
So, you don't want British people in this country? No. I just think, look, if I'll take a single mom from Guatemala over like an art major from Manchester, you know what I mean? It's like they're both technically immigrants, but whose food would you rather eat?
What about beans and toast? That's British. That's insane. Why would you put beans on toast?
What's your favorite food? Couscous.
Couscous. That's what I'm saying. We're Arab. If like our food wasn't good, there would be none of us left in this country. There would be no Arabs in America or New York. I think in America. Oh, so we're not letting in any immigrants in into this country unless their food is good?
Yeah, cuz that's I feel like that was their criteria for us. Spices. Cuz you could really take the most racist person in America, give them chicken over rice, white sauce, a little bit of hot sauce. I feel be like, yo, maybe they are people, you know? Convert convert them. Come on in. Yeah, that's a wild time to walk in. I like those curls. Do we really bump them?
Bump curls? That's nice. What kind of North African are you from? I'm Algerian Egyptian.
Egyptian food's better than Algerian. Everyone knows that. I I mean, you're like, I don't know, bro. I mean, I'm torn. I'm actually am torn.
You're literally 50/50. Yeah, but my dad was Egyptian. I didn't really with him. So, I'm going to go with Algerian. I think Algerian food. I'm going to lock in with Algerian based on fathers.
Yeah, based on fathers. He was a dead beat of Egypt.