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AceClown posted:it's racism I don't know about this specific case but in general it comes up a lot as whitebread or racism for a having limited food pallet. I have travelled a fair chunk of the world and I can tell you in all cultures I have experienced, there are plenty of people that pretty much refuse to want to taste other food except to that which they are accustomed. It's not money and it's not age because this applies from five year olds to 90 year olds. Some people just only want familiar food. I really really love different foods (we cook authentic Korean, Filipino, W. African, Aussie, Vietnamese and Chinese dishes, go to restaurants for other cuisines) so it baffles and frustrates me when you (for eg) take a filipino to an awesome korean restaurant and they can only eat rice and the egg omlette or Korean BBQ (which is admittedly a good hit out anyway) and then go outside for streetfood balut to tide them over until a proper meal. Filipinos as a group are among the least racist people I have interacted with worldwide experience as a nation through their millions of overseas workers. I organised to send a Tanzanian engineer (that taught himself the local languages where we were working to get along better) to Bordeaux along with a couple of Senegalese for a conference. We organised a few thousand euros on top of the normal petty cash and the travellers amongst us coached them on how to find the best food, best places to see etc. When he got back, I asked him about the food in France and he said emphatically he just could not wait to get back to Africa to have normal food. A plane was brought down because Indians on board didn't want to eat the airplane food and were cooking their own on an open flame down the back of the 747. TL DR, limited food pallet is frustrating but not a mid west specialty or anything, despite common misconception.
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Electric Wrigglies posted:I don't know about this specific case but in general it comes up a lot as whitebread or racism for a having limited food pallet. There's a lot of stories of Chinese/Korean tourists who bring entire suitcases full of instant noodles because they don't believe they can get noodles in overseas countries.
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Mx. posted:I (22F) want to break up with my BF (25M) because he wants to be friends with his childhood friend (28M) again. He thinks it’s not a big deal. Cowslips Warren posted:AITA for taking my daughter and leaving the wedding after her stepbrother pulled her wig? Foo Diddley posted:AITA for letting my dad comment on my gfs body So many examples of "You can't judge someone by their words and actions! You don't know what's in their heart!"
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limp_cheese posted:So many examples of "You can't judge someone by their words and actions! You don't know what's in their heart!" You know what they say - you can't judge a book!
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Jul 23, 2022 19:27
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Captain Hygiene posted:AITA for blowing up my friend over her allergies before her wedding? It's probably shallow of me, but I would have boxed a baby to get to be friends with someone who could have fed me delicious homecooked Indian food when i was a kid. I grew up on hairy bacon and cabbage, terrible carbonara (we called it eggy blurk, it was so bad I used to retch when I smelled it coming home), weird casseroles involving tins of mushroom soup and breadcrumbs, and pork chops so overcooked you could have cut a guy with the edge of them.
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pentyne posted:There's a lot of stories of Chinese/Korean tourists who bring entire suitcases full of instant noodles because they don't believe they can get noodles in overseas countries. I saw a comedy band once who had a song called "Giant Illegal Stew" about such tourists going to Australia and getting fined for bringing food in.
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My region has a waystation system of mediocre chinese restaurants along rural highways that exist almost exclusively to feed chinese tour buses since they're physically incapable of eating anything else.
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Refusing to try food from other cultures is definitely not just a white people thing but it's still rooted in racism/xenophobia in most cases, I would think.
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Bobstar posted:I saw a comedy band once who had a song called "Giant Illegal Stew" about such tourists going to Australia and getting fined for bringing food in. Giant Illegal Stew is also a good name for a thrash song. Giant Illegal Stu is a good name for a large Stuart who also has impulse control problems.
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Pookah posted:It's probably shallow of me, but I would have boxed a baby to get to be friends with someone who could have fed me delicious homecooked Indian food when i was a kid. Is this, like, punching a baby until it's knocked out or more like an Omelas situation? Edit: could go for some bacon and cabbage, as to me it's different. Or maybe make some haluski...
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To clarify, I would have (gently) punched a baby to get access to that amazing homecooked Indian food. I would not have been proud to do so, but it would 100% have seemed justified. Edit: bacon and cabbage can be very nice. It's really good if you cook the cabbage in the bacony water, but hairy bacon is just plain nasty, and only hardcore boggers defend the eating of hairy bacon. If you have to shave the drat meat you may have an image problem Pookah fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Jul 23, 2022 |
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Beachcomber posted:Is this, like, punching a baby until it's knocked out or more like an Omelas situation? the ref would step in way before the baby was knocked out
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Jul 23, 2022 20:04
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What the gently caress is hairy bacon
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pentyne posted:What the gently caress is hairy bacon And why did I search for it with filters off 
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pentyne posted:What the gently caress is hairy bacon Yeah that's the big question
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As a fat lady, there is no greater turnoff than someone who won’t try new food. I understand a few squeamishness (like, strange cuts of meat or texture aversion), but if it’s “YUCKYYY I CANT PRONOUNCE THIS” nonsense, hit da bricks
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It's annoying even with people who are focused on really good food as their starting place. I know Italian-Americans who logically revel in their own cuisine, but look funny at even other Mediterranean foods like Greek/Turkish/Lebanese. Fucks sake that isn't even far away.
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run on sentience posted:Refusing to try food from other cultures is definitely not just a white people thing but it's still rooted in racism/xenophobia in most cases, I would think. Food's a very fundamental thing, and some people just can't handle flavors they didn't grow up with. A lot of Chinese people don't like chocolate, which even the pickiest white people eat, because they didn't grow up with it. Or try getting a white bread american to try some nice stinky french cheese sometime.
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teen witch posted:As a fat lady, there is no greater turnoff than someone who won’t try new food. I understand a few squeamishness (like, strange cuts of meat or texture aversion), but if it’s “YUCKYYY I CANT PRONOUNCE THIS” nonsense, hit da bricks 
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Jul 23, 2022 20:21
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I wish I didn’t have severe texture issues because so much food smells delicious 
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Foo Diddley posted:AITA for letting my dad comment on my gfs body I don’t get it unless he thinks she’s really ugly and is doing that ironically it’s not a joke. It’s just a statement
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Kitfox88 posted:I wish I didn’t have severe texture issues because so much food smells delicious you could chuck it into a blender until it's just a delicious slurry
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Foo Diddley posted:you could chuck it into a blender until it's just a delicious slurry 
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Hairy bacon is horrible boiled lumps of salted bacon that have been so casually prepared that they are still loving hairy. The outer skin is literally still covered in hair.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:People in my family used to tell me to lighten up about the poo poo my father would say to my ex-wife, and that it was nothing to worry about. but did he get head?
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run on sentience posted:Refusing to try food from other cultures is definitely not just a white people thing but it's still rooted in racism/xenophobia in most cases, I would think. I had a college housemate who said, in tones of horror, "Plums? We never ate plums." She wasn't being racist, she just didn't want to eat things her mother hadn't cooked. Her mother, btw, had one meal she cooked for each day of the week, every week. Housemate used to make Teen Bean Bake regularly.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Housemate used to make Teen Bean Bake regularly. Oh barf. quote:3/4 cup ketchup (Hunts) ....for when any other brand just doesn't have enough sugar for your recipe.
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AITA for not giving my sister's best friend a gift for her weddingquote:My sister's best friend got married last week. My fiancé and I have attended many weddings of our loved ones this summer and we still have some upcoming ones. Due to the fact that we have to attend around 10 weddings total we obviously can't afford gifts and expenses for every single one of them so we prioritise the people we are closer to. "you're tacky", i say, as i demand a cash payment for a wedding you didn't attend
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Foo Diddley posted:AITA for not giving my sister's best friend a gift for her wedding Man, weddings generate an insane amount of really dumb drama, jesus christ. How do they know enough people for TEN loving weddings in one summer?
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Mustang posted:Man, weddings generate an insane amount of really dumb drama, jesus christ. How do they know enough people for TEN loving weddings in one summer? if they're the right age and everyone in their social circle was waiting until they could pretend that covid was over, it doesn't seem too far fetched
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If your sister is the MOH and you're invited a small token gift would probably be a good idea, not doing so is low-grade rude at worst. Asking specifically for cash is a little more rude, showing up at someone's house and demanding a gift is super duper rude. edit I wonder if bringing the bride over and the expectation of a gift was entirely the sister's doing, like she said "of course she meant to give you a gift she was going to give cash, here just come over and she'd be happy to give you cash" and just expected the OP to know that was what was going on
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Mustang posted:Man, weddings generate an insane amount of really dumb drama, jesus christ. How do they know enough people for TEN loving weddings in one summer? (covid isn't over but since everyone else is pretending it is you kinda gotta go with it)
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Motronic posted:Oh barf.
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Mustang posted:Man, weddings generate an insane amount of really dumb drama, jesus christ. How do they know enough people for TEN loving weddings in one summer? Catholics My friend’s family is Catholic, by like his mid-30s he had been to over forty weddings for his cousins
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Motronic posted:Oh barf. Also the nearly 1 full cup of brown sugar as well. That recipe requires them to sift flour, beat an egg, and chop an onion. If they can do that then they're actually capable of cooking and could branch out with significant ease compared to most inexperience home cooks.
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pentyne posted:Also the nearly 1 full cup of brown sugar as well.
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Baron von Eevl posted:If your sister is the MOH and you're invited a small token gift would probably be a good idea, not doing so is low-grade rude at worst. Asking specifically for cash is a little more rude, showing up at someone's house and demanding a gift is super duper rude. yeah it's like iffy, it might have been nice to send a card at least, but coming over and demanding some cash def flips it back the other way
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Hawkperson posted:yeah it's like iffy, it might have been nice to send a card at least, but coming over and demanding some cash def flips it back the other way Eh it's largely dependent on the relationship between the op and the friend, which here sounds pretty nonexistant, and the relationship between the op and the sister If they aren't close, who cares if their best friend is getting married. If they are close, then yeah, maybe a small token gift or a card at the most. In this case I think op was not at all an rear end in a top hat for declining the invitation and not buying a gift. I'm not at all close with my brother and if I declined a wedding invite from his best friend I'd say no and not feel bad at all for not buying a gift either.
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AITA for getting mad at my husband for choosing the “Fantasy Football Draft” over me?quote:A little of back history, I (31f) not to long ago had an accident to kept me at home over 8m by the end of that time I was spending my weekends hiking and doing little adventures with my husband (38m). At the 8m mark I was available to go back to work and start working weekends so not more fun for us at the moment. AITA for telling my girlfriend that women shouldn't bulk? quote:I'm into bodybuilding and very knowledgeable about it. My girlfriend is also interested in lifting weights and said she wants to start and also bulk up. I told her this is a terrible idea. First of all as she is, cute, petite, innocent and childlike, she's much more attractive to me.
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Pretty creepy way to describe your girlfriend, but he's technically correct that it's nearly impossible for women to gain bulky muscle the same way men do without really specific and strenuous bodybuilding routines (and steroids). Probably would have been better to treat her like an adult rather than a child, but judging by the way he describes her I guess maybe that's how he thinks of her lol
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