“Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts” is a segment in the Late Late Show with James Corden. This segment is one in which the host, James Corden, invites celebrity guests and gives them the choice to either answer a question or to eat “disgusting food”.
The show usually gives a lot of Asian delicacies as the so-called “gross food”, which the guests and the host typically gag at or call bizarre.
The reaction of the participants toward the food is culturally offensive, since they are teaching others who watch the show that Asian foods are disgusting and horrific. Many of the dishes presented on the show are regularly eaten by Asians, which is insensitive, as they are supposed to push the contestants to answer difficult questions.
This segment can affect many people and influence the wrong ideas on Asian culture. The Asian community has been receiving a lot of racism due to the fact that the pandemic started in an Asian country, therefore it doesn’t help that this very popular late night show is spreading that the food and delicacies are revolting.
Some of the dishes may include balut, chicken feet, thousand-year-old eggs, bird saliva, etc. All of these are very sentimental and common meals in the Asian culture.
Many have been asking to change the segment by replacing the Asian dishes with concoctions with no cultural significance. There is a petition that you can sign at: https://www.change.org/p/james-corden-remove-spill-your-guts-segment-on-the-late-late-show-with-james-corden
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