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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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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Replying to @arthur_affect
My only issue is with people who order food that is and should be spicy, then demand a refund because it's "too spicy." That does have collateral damage: on the restaurant owner who has to eat the cost, and on consumers who then can't get food as spicy as they want anymore.
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Sure, and having special sections of the menu like a kids menu is a direct response to this problem
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