The Chinese say of themselves that they'll "eat anything with wings except an airplane, and anything with four legs except a table!" Brenda Walker quoted that from Food Around The World in 2010.
And our John Derbyshire, who has lived in China, quoted the same thing in his 1996 novel Seeing Calvin Coolidge In A Dream, in which the Chinese narrator’s Chinese wife recycles “an old Chinese joke: The Cantonese will eat anything with four legs, except a table, and anything that flies, except a plane. It is not very funny in English, but people laughed politely.”
Is this racist? Well they say it about themselves, about each other. And they’re the same race. ...
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