Maisey Bradley & Sarah Daley
November 21, 2011
Japanese Twice-Baked Potatoes
Description of the dish: Because of a panic-stricken America, Japanese Americans
and Japanese immigrants will be separated from the rest of the mix and put into
internment camps to simmer on low heat for a while.
Ingredients:
15 cups of Japanese aggression on American beaches
2 teaspoons of fear towards another Japanese attack
2/3 cups of resentment due to unwarranted attack on Pearl Harbor
3 tablespoons of mistrust of Japanese
10 cups of Executive Order 9066
10 War Relocation Authority to intern Japanese Americans
6 cups of internment camps in 1942
A dash of loyalty testing in internment camps 1943
2 cups of Japanese reinstitution into American drafts during 1944
4 cups of bomb in Japan
15 cups of Japanese inclusion on the West Coast
3 cups of Walter-McCarran Act of 1952
5 cups compensation for losses of property in 1968
5 cups of payment from congress for survivors in 1988
Preparation and Cooking Instructions:
Important kitchen conditions—Begin with a nation struggling to decide whether or
not to take a neutral stance in the world war and fearful of attack from the Axis
Powers.
 Let America boil as we are attacked by Japan at Pearl Harbor on December 7,
1941. Turn the heat as high as possible as 20 ships and more than 200
warplanes are destroyed, and 2400 civilians are killed. With this act, we
decided to declare war on Japan.
 Combine fear, resentment, and mistrust in order to form a racist American
public towards Japanese and other minorities of German or Italian descent.
 Find a cooking utensil that will allow military commanders to separate and
isolate Japanese Americans and immigrants under Executive Order 9066,
issued by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
 Grease a glass pan to prepare for the internment of Japanese Americans
throughout the creation of the War Relocation Authority, directed by Milton
Eisenhower, who resigned when he found out that its purpose was to
permanently remove Japanese. He was then replaced by Dillon S. Myer. This
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was created by Roosevelt in order to facilitate and coordinate the removal of
the Japanese Americans in the West Coast.
Separate the potato from the skin as the Japanese were separated and
isolated. They were sent to internment camps all over the West Coast where
they lived in barracks surrounded by barbed wire. Rather than live how they
used to, they had to become accustomed to mess hall-style eating, lack of
freedom, extreme heat during the day, freezing nights, and many more
atrocities. They were treated as convicts in a place that they called home.
Mash the Japanese and question their loyalty. If they prove they are loyal,
they would be drafted into the US Army, where many of them would serve in
the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Those proving disloyal would be put
back into internment camps.
Add butter to the mashed potatoes in order to improve upon the situation. In
1944, the WRA reinstituted the draft for eligible Japanese Americans, slowly
increasing their freedoms.
Test the conditions with your finger in order to determine whether or not the
recipe is just. In the case of Hirabayashi vs. US in 1943, Congress held that it
was constitutional to institute curfews against minority groups who we were
fighting against in World War II. Korematsu vs. US in 1944 proved that
internment was constitutional because the need to protect against espionage
outweighed individual rights. Ex parte Endo was a Supreme Court decision in
1944 that decided that even if the government could exclude Japanese from
the West Coast, they couldn’t detain them if they were obviously loyal.
Drop a bomb into the mixture in order to continue the cooking process. On
August 6th and 9th of 1945, the US, under President Harry S. Trueman,
dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing Japan’s eventual
surrender on August 14th.
Put the Japanese back into the skin in order to end internment and allow
them back into American society.
Allow the potato to melt into the skin. In the Walter-McCarran Act, people of
Asian descent were allowed to become citizens of the United States.
Sprinkle bacon bits on top in order to make up for the fact that the mashed
potatoes didn’t have the best conditions while being made. In 1968, The US
government provided compensation to Japanese who lost property as a
result of internment.
To top it all off, drop a pinch of cheese to perfect the situation. In 1988,
Congress authorized the payment of $20,000 to surviving internees.
Recipe Alternative: President Franklin D. Roosevelt decided against issuing
Executive Order 9066, which would have allowed military commanders to exclude
Japanese Americans and immigrants. While there was still some racial tension, there
was no need to remove the inner ingredients from the outer layer of America, so the
potatoes would only be once-baked.
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