twinkies vs. eggs vs. hapas

[kimpossible]

Again, ignore the 'white' in the slang references. I just don't know the words that would apply to blacks, hispanics and other who wannabe Asian or Asians who wannabe black, hispanic or other.

So what's the difference between twinkies, eggs and hapas. Are we the same in the eyes of the average Asian American?

[YuheiCarreau]

Twinkie: My roommate, who managed to spend two years in Taiwan without leaving the house much or learning any Mandarin.

Egg: Never met one. IMO they don't exist. I have a Chinese friend who is a conservative Republican, loves the US military, loves steak and heavy metal and all that other redneck stuff, and he's still Asian. I don't see how it'd be any different the other way around.

Hapa: Me. I am Tiger Woods!

[AznYam]

i thought twinkies were asians who wanted to be white. eggs were white people who wanted to be asian. hapas are just white and asian mixed people. i don't see hapas in the same boat as eggs or twinkies.

[d-boy]

Originally posted by AznYam@Apr 15 2003, 09:17 AM
i thought twinkies were asians who wanted to be white. eggs were white people who wanted to be asian. hapas are just white and asian mixed people. i don't see hapas in the same boat as eggs or twinkies.
you are correct.

[SunWuKong]

Originally posted by YuheiCarreau@Apr 15 2003, 11:21 AM
Egg: Never met one. IMO they don't exist. I have a Chinese friend who is a conservative Republican, loves the US military, loves steak and heavy metal and all that other redneck stuff, and he's still Asian. I don't see how it'd be any different the other way around.
i think by definition, an "egg" has to be a white person. there's a black equivalent of this slang. i just can't remember it right now.

[Iconoclastic]

u mean an oreo?

[SunWuKong]

Originally posted by Hello_Hapa@Apr 15 2003, 09:14 AM
So what's the difference between twinkies, eggs and hapas. Are we the same in the eyes of the average Asian American?
i try to go on a case-by-case basis on how ingrained in their ethnic culture they are. although to be honest, i've never met any "eggs", so i'm not sure how i'd react toward them. there are british people in HK who are ingrained in HK culture, but they literally grew up surrounded by it, so that may be a little different.

but really, i find that the way i treat people have little to do with race and much more to do with their culture.

[SunWuKong]

Originally posted by Iconoclastic@Apr 15 2003, 02:39 PM
u mean an oreo?
yeah but that's a black person wanting to be white. i'm talking about a black person wanting to be asian.

[Napoleon Chynamite]

Originally posted by SunWuKung@Apr 15 2003, 11:41 AM
yeah but that's a black person wanting to be white. i'm talking about a black person wanting to be asian.
how about those black egg thingies? maybe it's a chinese food...i dunno...my parents sometimes serve black eggs with obviously yellow yolk inside 'pei dan'?

[SunWuKong]

Originally posted by FrozenPizza@Apr 15 2003, 02:42 PM
how about those black egg thingies? maybe it's a chinese food...i dunno...my parents sometimes serve black eggs with obviously yellow yolk inside 'pei dan'?
pei dan is black inside also

[Napoleon Chynamite]

Originally posted by SunWuKung@Apr 15 2003, 11:43 AM
pei dan is black inside also
oh yea that's right i forgot

[SunWuKong]

Originally posted by tazadar@Apr 15 2003, 03:00 PM
what you call those stuff that you hard-boil an egg in soy source.
not sure
have to ask kasie

[Napoleon Chynamite]

Originally posted by SunWuKung@Apr 15 2003, 12:06 PM
not sure
have to ask kasie
puh

and you call urself an FOB

[SunWuKong]

Originally posted by FrozenPizza@Apr 15 2003, 03:09 PM
Originally posted by SunWuKung@Apr 15 2003, 12:06 PM
not sure
have to ask kasie
puh

and you call urself an FOB
nah, kasie's more fobby than me.

[kasia]

Originally posted by SunWuKung@Apr 15 2003, 11:41 AM
yeah but that's a black person wanting to be white. i'm talking about a black person wanting to be asian.
a chigger?

[kasia]

Originally posted by SunWuKung@Apr 15 2003, 12:06 PM
not sure
have to ask kasie
tea eggs. cha-yeep-daan.

[SunWuKong]

Originally posted by kasia@Apr 15 2003, 03:34 PM
a chigger?
no that's when an asian person wants to be black.

[kasia]

Originally posted by SunWuKung@Apr 15 2003, 12:38 PM
no that's when an asian person wants to be black.
a backwards chigger?

[SunWuKong]

Originally posted by kasia@Apr 15 2003, 03:40 PM
a backwards chigger?
a reggihc?

[kasia]

k, i'll admit. and i can get flamed for this but at least this can be a potential learning experience.

i used to think 'twinkie' whenever i met a hapa person. or 'banana'. i'm not sure if i'd do that anymore. my hapa friends right now *are* twinkies - but i don't know i assumed that of them from the start of if they just proved themselves to be. i guess most hapas are pretty sick of full-blooded asians making such assumptions about them, right?

[deez nuts]

Originally posted by tazadar@Apr 15 2003, 03:00 PM
what you call those stuff that you hard-boil an egg in soy source.
lu dan

i guess that would be a mexican or a light black person wanting to be asian? hahahaha j/k.

[537]

Ive never seen that shit.

[deez nuts]

Originally posted by 537@May 2 2003, 12:41 PM
Ive never seen that shit.
seen what? a lu dan?

they sometimes put one in your nu ro mein.

[himura-dono]

i've never had a lu dan put in my niu rou mein...maybe they don't cause they think whiteboi won't like it. <_<

[VV o n g B a]

Originally posted by himura-dono@May 2 2003, 04:16 PM
i've never had a lu dan put in my niu rou mein...maybe they don't cause they think whiteboi won't like it. <_<
yup. i offered my coworker one of those dark eggs and he flipped out. wouldn't touch it for nothing.

[himura-dono]

Originally posted by VV o n g B a@May 3 2003, 01:08 AM
yup. i offered my coworker one of those dark eggs and he flipped out. wouldn't touch it for nothing.
for the record, i've had those eggs soaked in soy sauce, and i've had preserved duck egg. the soy sauce egg wasn't bad. the preserved egg didn't sit well in my stomach. :blink:

but, i doubt i wouldn't like lu dan, but would definitely try it.

[deez nuts]

Originally posted by himura-dono@May 3 2003, 04:43 AM
for the record, i've had those eggs soaked in soy sauce, and i've had preserved duck egg. the soy sauce egg wasn't bad. the preserved egg didn't sit well in my stomach. :blink:

but, i doubt i wouldn't like lu dan, but would definitely try it.
i think you would like lu dan, HD. i, too, hate pei dan, too. i can't stand the stuff. some put the lu dan in the nu ro mein. some don't. just like some places put xian (salty) tzai (i think it's called mustard greens in english?) in it also. the lu dan normally comes with the nu ro mein that comes with the xian tzai.

[Faithless]

Originally posted by YuheiCarreau@Apr 15 2003, 08:21 AM
Egg: Never met one. IMO they don't exist.
They might if you consider those EGGish guys or gals who date or are married to Asians. Actually, don't even have to be. There are those whites that think they know more of an Asian language than you (which is not hard in my case), and love to flaunt it. :angry:

[YuheiCarreau]

Originally posted by DoggieBreath@May 4 2003, 10:33 AM
They might if you consider those EGGish guys or gals who date or are married to Asians. Actually, don't even have to be. There are those whites that think they know more of an Asian language than you (which is not hard in my case), and love to flaunt it. :angry:
I've met people like that, but I mean they still act White. My mom doesn't bow to every person she meets, just the Japanese ones. Being married to an Asian is certainly gonna make you pick up some Asian habits and behaviors, but I don't think it makes that person start thinking in an Asian way. You are what you are.

[AngryABCGirl]

Originally posted by DoggieBreath@May 4 2003, 08:33 AM
They might if you consider those EGGish guys or gals who date or are married to Asians. Actually, don't even have to be. There are those whites that think they know more of an Asian language than you (which is not hard in my case), and love to flaunt it. :angry:
This white guy lived in my neighborhood all his life and went to school with Asian kids and was friends with Asian kids up tilll he graduated from high school and knew where all the Shau May's were in a 10 mile radius.

When he went to college at a tech school in engineering and still made friends with Asians... the same thing happened in grad school, and now he lives with Asian housemates and is marrying an Asian woman in the fall.

At some point in all of this, he's started to pick up Chinese here and there and doesn't like white people.

I don't know how more eggish you can get.

[YuheiCarreau]

Originally posted by YuheiCarreau@May 4 2003, 12:15 PM
I've met people like that, but I mean they still act White. My mom doesn't bow to every person she meets, just the Japanese ones. Being married to an Asian is certainly gonna make you pick up some Asian habits and behaviors, but I don't think it makes that person start thinking in an Asian way. You are what you are.
I should clarify my original statement, what I meant to say was "I don't think it makes that person think they are Asian", not "think in an Asian way".

[Green_Jade]

i dont think i'm white, and know i'm not, yet in many ways i am a twinkie... or i dont even know if that makes sense, I'd like to think I took good things from both sides to make me who i am... but i guess, in certain situations, i act white? hmm confusion glore.

mostly due to the fact i grew up in 99.9% italian/jewish neighborhood, my college is again, mostly white. The only other korean kids i see at my univ. are international students... I've previously been treated terribly by a korean girl that moved to the stats in high school that i was trying to help...ever since i've been exteremly cautious to approach other asians that didn't grow up here...which led me to interact with around 5 asians total in my time here..sad, i know... my point here is some of us have not had the opportunity to be exposed to our own culture like-wise...some white americans have been exposed to the minority culture... i think the terms twinkie..egg ect should be used in caution,.. think about where that person came from.... that's my two cents...meow.

[Faithless]

Originally posted by AzNBuffGrL@May 4 2003, 11:58 AM
This white guy lived in my neighborhood all his life and went to school with Asian kids and was friends with Asian kids up tilll he graduated from high school and knew where all the Shau May's were in a 10 mile radius.

When he went to college at a tech school in engineering and still made friends with Asians... the same thing happened in grad school, and now he lives with Asian housemates and is marrying an Asian woman in the fall.

At some point in all of this, he's started to pick up Chinese here and there and doesn't like white people.

I don't know how more eggish you can get.
He seemed cool-enough except for the white-hating part.

Are there enough EGGS for a Jerry Springer show?

[Napoleon Chynamite]

true eggs would be most likely people of european ethnicity born and raised in an east asian society