Idiom
potato chaser
Meaning
An Asian person with a strong inclination and attraction toward white people.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He only dates white people and is known as a potato chaser.”
“Some friends teased him for being a potato chaser because he never shows interest in anyone else.”
“While the term is often used as a casual label, some find the accusation of being a potato chaser to be quite offensive.”
Examples
simple
“He only dates white people and is known as a potato chaser.”
contextual
“Some friends teased him for being a potato chaser because he never shows interest in anyone else.”
complex
“While the term is often used as a casual label, some find the accusation of being a potato chaser to be quite offensive.”
Origin
The term originates as an allusion to the starch-heavy gastronomy characteristic of various white cuisines. It draws its logic from the culinary prominence of the potato within these traditions.
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