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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In hindsight, all the memes about how you can tell Donald Trump is a bad person because he eats his steak well done were really obnoxious and did in fact reveal some broken shit in the liberal psyche The idea that an "adventurous palate" is a sign of decent moral character
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Like you're teaching your kid to be a tolerant, globetrotting citizen of the world by getting them started on exotic herbs and spices from a young age Whatever Let them eat chicken strips if they want
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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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Replying to @marikunin
I think my version of this is that I like my food wildly oversalted, like really really salty, and unlike with capsaicin nobody actually turned this into a "toxic masculinity" meme like "Oh he's just saying that to prove what a badass he is", so it's just weird
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But if they did and someone said some snarky thing like "You don't have to empty out your whole saltshaker to prove you're not a pussy Arthur, stop acting like a child and eat like a normal person" I'd be kind of mad
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Replying to @arthur_affect @marikunin
Yeah - and like, with some obvious exceptions around endangers species or environmental harm or whatever, "what other people like to eat" is just not that significant a question for anybody to have.
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Parenting is always contentious, so I'm less invested there, since you are the one who decides what your kid eats.
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