I had a Vietnamese roommate in college. One time someone mentioned apples and my roommate said he could rip them in half. We all called bullshit and so he did it to shut us up. It was pretty cool. But then he claimed that "All Vietnamese people can do it." That didn't sound right.
So now whenever I meet a new Vietnamese person, I ask (in as polite and not creepy and not racist a way as I can) if they can rip an apple in half, and I'll be damned if every person I've ever asked goes "Yeah, sure!" Also, most of them follow up with "...all Vietnamese people can rip apples in half."
Then I always ask if that's just how people in Vietnam eat apples, and they always say "No, we just eat them the normal way, but all Vietnamese people can rip them in half if they want to."
I truly don't know if I'm being trolled or not. If I ask the question and have an apple, I'll always give it to the person who claims they can do this, and they always can, so there's some truth to it... but I cannot figure out why, in my experience, almost all Vietnamese people claim that all Vietnamese people can rip apples in half. That's a weird thing to claim. How are they so sure about what every other Vietnamese person can do? Are they implying that Laotians and Thai people can't do this? Is it a special trick they teach only in Vietnam? I would never claim that "All Americans can juggle" or that "All white people can juggle"... See, I don't even know if they're suggesting it's a racial trait, or a cultural skill.
Or is it that Vietnamese people are just really proud of their culture, so they like to fib about the skills everyone else has? And then when tested with an apple, all Vietnamese people are just so confident that they're awesome enough to do it that they just brute-force the apple in half?
Mason Gomez
cont.
I would welcome any data anyone else can offer on this. My sample size is admittedly small, about 8 Vietnamese people, so this could just be a statistical fluke. But when 6 people, who have almost certainly never met each other before, independently claim that all Vietnamese people have fruit powers, it makes you wonder whether it might just be true.
Mason King
bump
Easton Hughes
Its simple if enough of your race take a 556 to the chest you all get super human apple ripping strength. Everyone knows that user.
Easton Jenkins
Dad is Vietnamese, can't do it. Though to be fair he was a city person.
Caleb Reed
it was the agent orange
Gabriel Anderson
has he tried? i think confidence is the key to tearing fruit
Dominic Jackson
It’s not that hard to rip an apple in half. It’s probably just a cultural thing, probably commonly done in Vietnam
Bentley Sullivan
Bullshit, give him an apple and shoot him in the chest with an AR, he can do it he's just bluffing.
Adrian Robinson
Kek
Colton Davis
I learned how to do this too. You just shove your thumb really hard in the top and then twist/pull
Nicholas Lewis
I'm not autistic enough to ask him to try, but his side of the family is always interesting when it comes to food. Sometimes they have the most random exotic fruit in their possessions and they can split those easily, not sure about apples. In short, Vietnamese people are just good with food.
Cooper Moore
bullshit my gf is viet and her dad eats apples like a normal person
Eli Moore
Her left arm looks like a hairy dick
Aaron Young
Has your mom ever been to Vietnam user?
Landon Wood
This isn't even shitposting. Its just nonsense.
Adam Watson
Its called lesbian fisting syndrome, you cis gender fucking pig.
Eli Kelly
Maybe it's just a meme/party-trick that is particularly common in Vietnam for whatever reason, or in the region of Vietnam where most Vietnamese people tend to live.
Jace Williams
Shut the fuck up, Nigger.
Anthony Evans
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Grayson Bailey
Fuck you nigger
Jeremiah Stewart
im partly veitnamese and i can do that.
Jordan Johnson
I'm Huwhite and can rip an apple in half. I also spent a month travelling across Vietnam and never saw a single apple so this is somewhat troublesome. I do know those motherfuckers stick together so I'm thinking they have some state issued apple ripping training.. Probably mandatory night classes or something IDK.
Thomas Murphy
I need to know more about this now
Nicholas Price
You worthless fucking halfbreed.
Zachary Thomas
why tho
Carter Turner
>imagine being this retarded
Parker Collins
im not sure its just something i can do. i cant explain how or why because its an ancient Vietnamese secret
Lucas Perry
as far as why an apple, well westerners boast about tearing telphone books in half. Apples are the toughest thing they got to rip.....
Isaac Gray
im living in vietnam, i have seen it done but i never considererd it was something they learned at birth or at school
i will investigate and get back to you user
Aaron Hill
You didn't read the whole post, did you?
Jayden White
if you tell us I'll give you the antidote to agent orange
Samuel James
Found the one that can't rip an apple.
Brandon Reed
They do "bag of rice training" in Vietnam. I don't remember the specifics of it, something like picking up a coin at the bottom of a bag of rice, pulling it out and putting it back. It trains the hand muscles really well.
Austin Young
not /po/ related
Carter Murphy
This developed in the tunnels during the war. The apple was not native to their land except around some old French plantations. So when they got any supplies off ambushed GIs, they had to figure out how to eat them on their own. Food storage in the tunnels was tight, so they learned to rip the apples in half so that they could stack them more efficiently.
Benjamin Brooks
really bad joke tbqh
Camden Nelson
I thought there was a cock coming out of the glass
Andrew Reyes
This isn't politics. Fuck off and die. Everyone report. Sage grows in all fields. Mods move to /bant/
Sebastian Cook
Race mixing lunatics.
Alexander Richardson
I'm not vietcong so it doesn't surprise me desu
Connor Nguyen
so much appreciation for you if you could holy a town meeting and possibly collect data on minimum 10 viets that would be stellar
Jack Foster
Very simple data point it doesn't seem you have collected. Can you rip an apple in half?
Tyler Scott
its identity politics
Oliver Mitchell
>shillbots in iverdrive mode saged and reported for off topic.