Food and Racial Insults

Food is so intimately tied in to culture that it is extremely natural to associate people with what they eat. Naturally, this leads to the metonymic extension of insulting someone based on what they eat (or are presumed to eat.)

See if you can guess who these are directed at, and why. Add your own too.

• limey
  
• frog
  
• kraut
  
• peppergut/pepperbelly
  
• goulash-eater
  
• locust-eater
  
• beaner
  
• rice-eater
  
• salmon-cruncher
  
• teabags
  
• kippers
  
• tamales
  
• les rosbifs (French)
  
• froschfresser (= "frog guzzler": German)
  
• knoblauchfresser (= "garlic guzzler": German)
  
• fajfokloki (= "five 'o clock-er": Polish)
  
• csiga (= "snail": Hungarian)
  
• platanos (= "plantains": Spanish)