- the employees are feeding fries to a possum on the counter. you didn’t know possums grew that big.
- the person who walks up to claim your food order as their own looks almost, but not quite, exactly like you. you wish the employees would stop spelling your name wrong.
- the floor is very, very sticky. it sticks to your shoes and underneath the peeling tile is a flat grayness. you drop a chicken nugget in one of the gray spaces and don’t hear it hit the bottom.
- you laugh at the “children must take corporeal form to enter the playspace” sign but the attendant seems pretty serious about it.
- you can drink more soda out of the cardboard cups than seems spatially possible. after a while it doesn’t taste like soda anymore.
- contrary to popular belief, it’s totally safe to eat the meat. it’s just some of the customers have a broader definition of “meat” than you’re accustomed to.
“They said that my call to abandon anti-Black appropriation forces them to either 1.) be White or 2.) play into model minority or orientalist “kung fu” stereotypes. It didn’t even occur to them that there is another cultural space to inhabit, that we could form a distinct culture that is not Asian, not White, not Black—but Asian American.“
