Bitter (AAPI Heritage Month)
Added 2021-05-06 06:42:00 +0000 UTCI remember the good old days when the things I ate were always questioned because they were different. Fried rice smelled weird, Boba was not even popular, and seaweed was gross. Despite my classmates' commentary on my food back in elementary-middle school, I still preferred Asian food over American food no matter how much I tried to mold my diet to more American. Then all of a sudden, everything that once made me and other Asians "weird" became popular and trendy. Boba chains emerged everywhere, seaweed snacks popped up in American grocery stores, and Asian food overall grew in popularity. Everything that you were made fun of for before is now cool. It makes you feel a little bitter initially, but then you realize that all along, you just wanted others to love what you love too. It sucks that some people couldn't understand better in the past, but any progress made to being a more open person, I will appreciate.
