{"id":83,"date":"2007-03-10T01:52:39","date_gmt":"2007-03-10T08:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2007\/03\/10\/murphys-food-of-lesser-peoples-restaura"},"modified":"2007-03-10T01:52:39","modified_gmt":"2007-03-10T08:52:39","slug":"murphys-food-of-lesser-peoples-restaurant-principle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2007\/03\/10\/murphys-food-of-lesser-peoples-restaurant-principle\/","title":{"rendered":"Murphy’s Food of Lesser Peoples Restaurant Principle"},"content":{"rendered":"

This principle states that an ‘ethnic’ restaurant offering foods of two nearby countries will always be operated by people from the less-well-known of the two. Thus, “Indian and Bangladeshi Food” means an Indian restaurant operated by Bangladeshis and “Mexican and Salvadoran Food” means Salvadorans running a restaurant that may or may not serve Mexican food.<\/p>\n

No Indian is going to say their restaurant serves Bangladeshi food, but the inverse is true because, they correctly assume, no one in the US knows what Bangladeshi food is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This principle states that an ‘ethnic’ restaurant offering foods of two nearby countries will always be operated by people from the less-well-known of the two. Thus, “Indian and Bangladeshi Food” means an Indian restaurant operated by Bangladeshis and “Mexican and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jQA6-1l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}