Buzzfeed Assignment

         I watched two Buzzfeed videos: “Chinese People Try Panda Express For The First Time” and “Mexican People Try Taco Bell For The First Time.” Both videos where pretty similar in that people of one culture tried an Americanized version of foods that are considered to be typical for their culture. In the first video about Chinese people trying Panda Express, many of the participants were surprised about the food that Panda Express sold, because they never heard of it. For example, many of them did not know what an egg roll was because they do not have it back in China. One participant in the study said that Panda Express sold “White People Chinese food”. There was one older man, probably in his 70s, who liked the majority of the food that he tried, but many of the other people could barely swallow it because the tast was so different from what they were used to. For example, one person said that the Chow Mein at Panda Express smelled like stinky feet and was much worse than chow mein one would get in China. Likewise, they said that the orange chicken was “food that fools Americans” and another person said that the chicken “is sad”.  Likewise, in the video about Mexican people trying Taco Bell, almost everyone in the video hated the food, said it was not Mexican food, and that they would not recommend it to their friends. There was only one older woman, who said that she would eat it again if it was in front of her. Many of the foods that the people tried from Taco Bell were based off of Mexican food, but had a huge spin on them. For example, the tacos that were tried by people in the video where made with “Doritos” flour tortillas, and had too much cheese in them. One woman even said that the cheese looked fake. I cannot really relate to any of these people’s reactions because I never tried “real” Chinese or Mexican food.