Tim Walz seems too nice, too approachable and too down-to-earth. He must be keeping a dark secret, and the Republicans have discovered it: Tim Walz has a “white man’s” tolerance for spicy food.
On Thursday, the Harris-Walz campaign team released a long video in which Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz have a one-on-one conversation about their interests, lives and previous careers – and their culinary preferences.
“For example, I have tacos for white people,” Walz tells Harris at the beginning of the conversation.
“What do you mean? Like mayonnaise and tuna?” asks Harris.
Walz makes it clear that it is essentially “minced meat and cheese.”
“Black pepper is the spice of choice in Minnesota,” he joked.
The exchange was harmless fun between two running mate candidates, but for Republicans desperate for a new line of attack against the likable Walz, the revelation that Walz isn’t a big fan of capsaicin and his description of Minnesota cuisine as spiceless was nothing short of a blatant example of anti-white racism and stereotyping. Let’s leave aside convicted felons, puppy killers and con artists. The is undoubtedly the most devastating admission by a politician in American history.
Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro wrote on X, formerly Twitter: “See folks, it’s funny that white people hate spices! Not racist at all! Just funny! (FACT CHECK: Europeans liked spices so much that they literally fought wars for several hundred years to gain control of the spice trade.)”
His colleague Matt Walsh described the exchange between Harris and Walz as “blatant racism against whites.”
“Imagine Donald Trump saying a ‘black taco’ was fried chicken and watermelon. Meltdown,” he added.
new York post Columnist Miranda Divine even described Walz as “the Uncle Tom of white country men.”
Some conservatives tried to “catch” Walz for once touting his award-winning recipe for hotdish—a typical Midwestern casserole dish—as proof that he was lying about his spice tolerance.
“Oh my goodness. I had a hunch, I thought. Hmmm, I wonder if Tim Walz is lying when he says people in Minnesota don’t season their food,” Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich wrote on X.
“He won a recipe competition in 2016.”
Walz has several award-winning hotdish recipes, but his 2016 recipe, “Tim’s Turkey Taco Tot Hotdish,” featured diced mild green chiles, medium taco sauce, and two teaspoons of chili powder. While it’s probably his most adventurous take on a hotdish, the overall result remains a decidedly mild baked concoction dominated by the traditional use of ground meat (in this case, turkey), cream of mushroom soup, potato hash browns, and cheese. Walz also has a more traditional “Turkey Trot” variation of his recipe that doesn’t include anything that could be misconstrued as spicy.
Just as Trump believes the asylum process might bear some resemblance to Hannibal Lecter, conservatives also seem to have confused the “hot” in “hotdish” with “spicy” rather than something served hot after being baked in the oven.
“There is no universe where hotdish is spicy in the traditional sense because it is mostly cream of mushroom soup,” said a Minnesota native Rolling stone. “If he puts hot sauce in it, he’s probably making it better, to be honest.”
