This is all while an estimated one in seven adults in the UK faces food insecurity. According to British Heritage, the royal family received £102.4 million from British taxpayers from 2021 to 2022. While the queen may have obscured some of Britain’s atrocities during her reign, very little was done to obscure the massive wealth the royal family holds. She actively tried to stop independence movements & she tried to keep newly independent colonies from leaving the commonwealth. She was an active participant in colonialism. The queen’s appearance of “imperial benevolence,” claims Jasanoff, “helped obscure a bloody history of decolonization whose proportions and legacies have yet to be adequately acknowledged.”Īs Twitter user put it, “Reminder that Queen Elizabeth is not a remnant of colonial times. Kenyans and Yemenis were literally tortured. Did we not all just listen to the Oprah-Megan Markle interview barely over a year ago? Do we not remember that the queen allegedly made shockingly racist comments about her own grandchildren? And had we not all realized that those comments were just one more example of the matriarch’s commitment to the continuation of England’s colonial project?Īccording to Maya Jasanoff, Harvard professor of history and author of the New York Times op-ed “ Mourn the Queen, Not Her Empire during the queen’s reign, British troops actively attempted to prevent anticolonial movements in Kenya, Malaya, Cyprus and Yemen. But I have been shocked at the number of people-food people included-that have had a very different reaction to the queen’s passing.

One user, tweeted the video with the caption, “rip anthony bourdain you would’ve loved september 8, 2022.” Clearly, others are expressing a similar sentiment: The word “Bourdain” was trending with over 13K tweets at the time of writing.Īs far as I’m concerned, this video is just one more reason to love Anthony Bourdain I think many of us would’ve had a similar reaction. The video is circulating on Twitter following the wake of the queen’s recent death. literally the rest of the world rn /ijVhBzJhVO

“No, I hate the aristocracy, man,” Bourdain responds. He lowers his glass slightly, looking at McMillan. To the Queen.”īourdain’s face at this point expresses first confusion, then disgust. In the clip, Bourdain is toasting fellow chefs David McMillan and Frédéric Morin with a glass of wine. The clip is taken from Season 11 Episode 3 of Bourdain’s popular food and travel show, Parts Unknown. An old video of Anthony Bourdain has resurfaced on Twitter this morning that shows the giant of the culinary world refusing to toast the late Queen Elizabeth II.

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