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It seems like anytime in the movies or TV where someone is having takeout its always 1. Chinese food (almost always lo mein) 2. They eat straight from the carton 3. They always use chopsticks no matter what the background of the character Yes it makes sense that a well-educated worldly person would know how to use chopsticks but I think they would take the lo mein out and put it on a plate. A blue collar person it would make sense for them to be a slob and eat from the carton but I think they would use plastic forks to eat their food. And why does nobody ever seem to get tacos, or burgers or indian food or pizza any other kind of takeout? I love chinese takeout too but I don't have it for every other meal and I definitely have pizza and fast food more often than Chinese food. But anytime anyone has a casual work meeting or they're talking on the phone or eating while watching TV it's always lo mein straight from the carton with chopsticks.
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Nov 5, 2022 04:45
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did you know you're using those takeout boxes wrong? they unfold, I saw it on buzzfeed. life hacked
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Nov 5, 2022 04:47
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Because they make a good set piece OP.
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Nov 5, 2022 04:51
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I like General Tso chicken
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Nov 5, 2022 04:53
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And they are generic and don't have any trade marked logos
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Nov 5, 2022 04:53
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the local places always give me a black plastic tub with a clear plastic snap lid. the movies did not prepare me for real life.
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Nov 5, 2022 04:58
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big ol MSG tiddies
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Nov 5, 2022 05:00
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Sophy Wackles posted:Because they make a good set piece OP.
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Nov 5, 2022 05:04
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They pick lo mein so the attractive main character can slurp the noodles and it makes the audience horny to smooch them on the mouth.
Dang It Bhabhi! fucked around with this message at 05:40 on Nov 5, 2022 |
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Nov 5, 2022 05:05
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Drexl Spivey ate his food off of a plate with chopsticks because he was a man of culture so i guess you're just a big ol' donkey brained moron OP
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Nov 5, 2022 05:12
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Poohs Packin posted:Drexl Spivey ate his food off of a plate with chopsticks because he was a man of culture so i guess you're just a big ol' donkey brained moron OP that is the epitome of Hollywood & Chinese takeout
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Nov 5, 2022 05:39
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edit: i just realized i dont care about the question i asked.
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Nov 5, 2022 05:41
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I don't see anything wrong with eating out of the carton if you're the only one eating it
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Nov 5, 2022 06:06
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OP did you just finish watching A Few Good Men
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Nov 5, 2022 06:40
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No, the new hotness is Thai food. Or Vietnamese. Or Indian. If your character is ordering Chinese food in the year 2022, they might as well be eating a Big Mac and washing it down with a cup of KFC gravy.
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Nov 5, 2022 06:54
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JediTalentAgent posted:No, the new hotness is Thai food. Or Vietnamese. Or Indian. If your character is ordering Chinese food in the year 2022, they might as well be eating a Big Mac and washing it down with a cup of KFC gravy. They could get Chinese food in modern trensy media if they very specifically declared it was dim sum
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Nov 5, 2022 06:58
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JediTalentAgent posted:No, the new hotness is Thai food. Or Vietnamese. Or Indian. If your character is ordering Chinese food in the year 2022, they might as well be eating a Big Mac and washing it down with a cup of KFC gravy. nope, chinese takeout is an evergreen classic
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Nov 5, 2022 07:00
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most sicko thing I have seen Hollywood do with food is this scene from the 1986 film "Cobra"
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Nov 5, 2022 07:23
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Karaoke top hits apply within.
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Nov 5, 2022 07:24
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I have seen people eat pizza in films
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Nov 5, 2022 07:28
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Icochet posted:I have seen people eat pizza in films no one eats pizza that way
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Nov 5, 2022 07:42
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It's probably because it's easy to pretend to eat it in a relatively convincing way compared to other things. Also it's harder to see the actual food inside. I think if you are doing multiple takes of a scene you want to just sit there and pretend to dig around with your chopsticks.
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Nov 5, 2022 08:01
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Food racism is a serious issue
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Nov 5, 2022 08:39
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Halel so many folds in this bread pastiche?
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Nov 5, 2022 08:41
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need a tarantino film where a bunch of white guys sit around one of these
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Nov 5, 2022 09:24
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Booty Pageant posted:need a tarantino film where a bunch of white guys sit around one of these 7 dishes? Pathetic
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Nov 5, 2022 09:51
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Barudak posted:7 dishes? hey that was the best gif i could find in under a minute 
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Nov 5, 2022 10:16
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Yeah you know what I would like to see is a single grain of rice on a chopstick, close up, very narrow depth of field, zooms out and pans to a 1940s disney train hobo licking his lips and rubbing his mitted hands together, while the clown holding the rice places the grain on a shiny clean plate (the soft glowing light on the plate is very over emphasized) and cuts it clean in half with a samurai sword, slow, deliberately, dramatically but with restrained passion. As they are about to share the bountiful blessing a dumptruck full of sweet and sour chicken empties on them, and as they sit up and rub the sauce out of their eyes a man driving a rickshaw slips on the sauce and tips the whole thing over and for the first time ever all three people are laughing together with no context, setup, or joke, or actually knowing each other at all. 
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Nov 5, 2022 10:46
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This is a loving lie OP. They don't allow actors to portray blue collar workers.
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Nov 5, 2022 10:59
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I’ll knock off a large pork fried rice straight out of the carton but I use a plastic fork because using chopsticks while driving is a bit much.
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Nov 5, 2022 13:09
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:
nice classism
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Nov 5, 2022 13:12
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git apologist posted:nice classism Real working class people DoorDash appetizer samplers from Beef O’ Brady’s.
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Nov 5, 2022 13:13
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JediTalentAgent posted:No, the new hotness is Thai food. Or Vietnamese. Or Indian. If your character is ordering Chinese food in the year 2022, they might as well be eating a Big Mac and washing it down with a cup of KFC gravy. perhaps in real life but in tv they will continue relentlessly picking at a carton with chopsticks like they lost their wedding ring in the noodles
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Nov 5, 2022 17:08
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Jippa posted:It's probably because it's easy to pretend to eat it in a relatively convincing way compared to other things. Also it's harder to see the actual food inside. I think if you are doing multiple takes of a scene you want to just sit there and pretend to dig around with your chopsticks. This is what came to mind with me. And you can bring up a mess of noodles, take a small bite and let the rest kind of drop and it looks better than pushing salad around on a plate while the script supervisor passes through the background of a shot they used in the show https://i.imgur.com/ZMBpEqX.mp4
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Nov 5, 2022 17:13
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pros in the know use spit buckets under the table between takes
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Nov 5, 2022 17:59
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The real pros just scarf down down the food right out of a bucket or kettle.  If you can't get a good take in the time it takes to devour the food, then that's the production unit's problem.
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Nov 5, 2022 17:59
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you're right.
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Nov 5, 2022 18:03
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Well educated intelligentsia people eat cheap Chinese food like this, crude blue collar proletariat eat cheap Chinese food like this
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Nov 5, 2022 18:05
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FreeRangeHexagon posted:most sicko thing I have seen Hollywood do with food is this scene from the 1986 film "Cobra" Who eats pizza with gloves on
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Nov 5, 2022 18:41
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Bip Roberts posted:Who eats pizza with gloves on Lt. Marion Cobretti
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