Lol so my take on the Children's Menu Discourse is that I've always found "culinary diplomacy" kind of weirdly condescending at best -- like the best thing about other cultures is what they can sell you for you to literally consume -- and yeah people are taking it way too far
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Like the dunks on "White people never season anything" are fun but at the end of the day they're pointless and they have collateral damage You don't have to eat spicy shit if you don't want to It has absolutely no impact on anything Eat whatever the fuck you want
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(People who wildly overspice everything just to prove they're not "boring white people" are *more* ridiculous and annoying than people who demand the no-seasoning version of everything But I don't want to participate in a backlash-to-the-backlash If it makes you happy, do that)
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Like the people who pop off with hot takes that IPAs are "toxic masculinity" and "no one actually wants beer that bitter" are annoying too Shut the fuck up okay If I want my beer to take some of my taste buds off with every sip that's my own issue
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Anyway, I mean, my mom has a very sensitive palate, she has never been able to tolerate food with even very small amounts of heat -- not even black pepper -- and she also prefers it to be very lightly salted She is not, I assure you, the least bit white
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(And she's been this way since before she immigrated, and in countries without white people, nobody thinks of this as a "white thing" Some people just can't handle heat and some people just have tender stomachs It's fine)
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hear me out: chicken tendies with a spritz of cayenne powder and 'erb
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This is a pattern I see that's really hard to navigate, and comes up all over the place. I engage with it most in TTRPG spaces, so I'll swap the description there since it's also (very slightly) less fraught.
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In TTRPG spaces, there's a big push to get people to try things other than D&D, and honestly it often starts from a positive place. You're clearly not happy playing D&D, you're complaining about it vocally! The specific thing you're complaining about is fixed in this other game.
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Fuck we just want them to eat anything, (ANYTHING) my wife makes many great varied things, but we still make a huge pot of Mac and cheese on Monday that we can microwave at any time during the week when they refuse. Now go to a restaurant
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It's frustrating to be a parent with neither time, money, nor energy to cook two meals so I'm mostly limited by what my daughter will eat, but I'm not pretending that's some kind of moral failing on her part or evidence I raised her wrong. Shit happens
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