Oberlin College students are confused about a variety of things, including how to cook General Tso's chicken.

Hold onto your chef's hats, because you're going to be aghast at the culinary travesty going on at Oberlin College in Ohio. At least if you listen to Oberlin College students tell it.

While some college campuses across the country are staging protests over racial inequalities, religious freedoms, and the foundations of free speech--Oberlin students are upset over the food being served at their cafeterias. They claim the vendor in charge of feeding the student body, Bon Appétit Company, and the school itself are serving cuisine that is not only culturally insensitive, but a cultural appropriation.

Why?

According to the school newspaper, The Oberlin Review, and recounted in the New York Times, students find foods offered with an Asian bent offensive. Says the Times:

"The culinary culprits included a soggy, pulled-pork-and-coleslaw sandwich that tried to pass itself off as a traditional Vietnamese banh mi sandwich; a Chinese General Tso's chicken dish made with steamed instead of fried poultry, and some poorly prepared Japanese sushi."

One student, craving some homestyle Vietnamese food, was mortified at what Oberlin thought was a proper banh mi sandwich. "It was ridiculous," he told the Review. "How could they just throw out something completely different and label it as another country’s traditional food?"

That's what tens of millions of Italians have been saying about everything served at Pizza Hut and Domino's, but they're holding strong. THE STRUGGLE IS REAL.

But being a college student doesn't necessarily negate ignorance. See, General Tso's chicken isn't authentic Chinese food by any definition of what it means to be Chinese. That bastardization of Chinese food you're pounding back on New Year's Eve or after a bad breakup? That was created by Chinese immigrants to cater to Americans' horrible taste in fatty foods. If your General Tso's chicken comes steamed, that's not a cultural appropriation--that's a chef actually hoping not to kill you from a glob of grade-A American saturated fat.

And poorly prepared Japanese sushi? Soggy banh mi? That's just called horrible cooking. It's the societal equivalent of getting Kentucky Fried Chicken in Japan. (Of which there are 1,181 locations in Japan.)(Psst: Has anyone ever seen Colonel Sanders and General Tso in a room at the same time? The militarization of our chicken is happening before our eyes! Conspiracy theory!!)

Oberlin students seem confused by a lot of things, like how school cafeterias are supposed to work. You're supposed to be horrified by what's served to you in college, regardless of what style food it is. That way, when you graduate and can afford good food, you know what to avoid.

And that is where you get your education.