My absolute hottest take is that, from a culturally relative perspective, no food is bad. None of it. It’s an expression of culture, art, history, ecology, material conditions, subjective taste. It’s all inedible pap to somebody and the taste of childhood for someone else. Americans be eating cheesed burger. Pea wet is as good as gravy in Wigan. The French eat snails and the Inuit eat seal, the Germans eat sauerkraut and the Russians drink kvass, the Inca ate cavy and the Romans ate flamingo. People around the world have been eagerly awaiting their serving of simple bread or thin porridge or fermented milk product or pickled whatever-the-fuck since we learned to cook food over fire. We all love the slop we grew up eating. Food is a reflection of millennia of culture and loving human artistic expression. Attempting to extrapolate largely harmless online food banter into actual serious comparative rankings or half-baked critical analyses of cultures based on how much you subjectively don’t like what they eat is a miserable way to live. Live a little. Peace and love on the only planet with food.
the main problem i have with america is that nothings old as hell there. i cant be so far away from a castle it damages my aura
man people really just say stuff on here huh
Noooo haha don’t spread racist ideals and colonizer propaganda by idolizing white european aesthetics above all else and denying the life and accomplishments of native peoples on their own lands
I work in postcolonial USAmerican history (museums in New England, Revolutionary through Victorian) and I constantly find myself correcting tourists who say we “don’t have anything as old as in Europe here”
they don’t usually mean anything by it; they’re just not thinking and often get a bit embarrassed when I gently say “nothing EUROPEAN that’s that old.” but I will keep saying it until I run out of breath, if necessary
(also some pueblos are still occupied! Acoma Pueblo has been continuously occupied for 2000 years! which is incredibly cool!)
I’ve lived in Maine my entire life and never knew there was a 4,000+ year old American Stonehenge just a few hours away in Salem, NH. It’s a beautifully maintained park, and one of the directional alleys points straight toward my ancestors homeland (Lebanon) 🥰🥰
when you know that the word woke is aave and refers to someone who’s informed about systemic antiblack racism all those conservative rants about “the woke mob” are that much more transparent. whether or not they know what it actually means, the effect of misusing it in the way they do is the same. most people will end up thinking it just means “the radical left” or some other nebulous and vague anti-conservative movement, and whatever topic du jour is considered “woke” ends up completely sweeping any discussions about the antiblack systems that the us is built upon under the rug
“Woke” is indeed AAE and in its original context does refer to awareness about antiblack racism, but the analysis above skips a middle step that took place around 2014-2016. In the mid-‘10s, nonblack liberals of the buzzfeed/upworthy/everyday feminism stripe started using “woke” more or less as a substitute for the previous term “PC”/“politically correct,” which had become a term no one could take seriously anymore. “Woke” broke containment when the nonblack progressive-leaning social media user speech community started saying/writing it and “woke” got more broadly applied to other oppressions. Most conservatives are responding to the escaped sense.
I think it’s important to acknowledge the middle step because it’s part of a larger phenomenon where AAE words and phrases that have existed since like the 1930s get memeified online, enter the nonblack mainstream, explode, and are then treated like last year’s internet slang by the nonblack mainstream. Remember “no cap”? It’s not online zoomer slang, it’s an idiom that’s been around since before your grandmother learned to talk.
it strikes me as odd that all this research into the “mediterranean diet” was not accompanied by equally extensive research into the “mediterannean healthcare system”
Also the original research into the Mediterranean diet was performed over Lent, did not mention this, also involves just asking people what they have eaten over the last week which is a notoriously bad method, and then also mysteriously excluded half of the countries analyzed because they didn’t fit the trendline of more fat equals more heart disease.
It’s kind of interesting that lesbians have to declare that they are not the enemy of men because they love women. I may be wrong but I don’t think gay men have to make that declaration.
