The comments on this AITA post piss me off because people keep saying "oh, it's not a cultural issue, it's a smell issue!"

If that's the case then how come people eat pizzas, pastas, and salads with cheese on them during lunch? Cheese is stinky as HELL https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/jeoq1e/aita_for_playing_the_race_card_when_its_not_about/

Let's not act like how people react to smells of foods isn't implicitly rooted in their cultural biases

In-n-out burgers have the smelliest sauce on them ever and it lingers on your fingers all day but no one ever explicitly bans them from communal settings.

And let's be real - most foods SMELL. Even the most milquetoast white foods have a distinct smell. You don't think the lunchmeats and vinegar soaked pickles in your food don't smell? Like... honestly get over it?

Like there are certain foods I'd never bring to an office type setting (like 청국장 which is pretty stinky even for Koreans) but kimchi smell is about as offensive as cheese smell. White people just don't think cheese smell is bad whenever they eat something with it during lunch.