I read it as like the Brit/US stereotypes of "Romance" countries (France, Italy) Good at the Finer Things in Life but not Serious Businesshttps://twitter.com/jeneelestrange/status/849477698556751873 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Protestant Work Ethic vs Catholic Leisure, they have food and wine, we have factories (Never mind making food and wine is a lot of work)
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Personally I like Japanese food (Americanized) over Chinese food (Americanized). There's something clean and clear about Japanese food.
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It's like a few ingredients at a time, where Chinese food is like How much can we throw in here at once?
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Enh that's muddled by Chinese-American cuisine being very much a working-class immigrant tradition
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That's a v common form of culinary snobbery - looking down on cuisines that are heavy on spices & sauces bc of lower quality ingredients
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Hence the stereotype "White people don't use spices"
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Or steakhouse culture vs BBQ culture
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BBQ being all about putting hours of effort into the meat while steakhouses pride themselves on "I barely touched the meat"
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I say this bc my dad, specifically, disliked/distrusted a lot of Chinese-American dishes for being designed to "disguise bad meat"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @FuckGrassley
Probably bc he'd had bad experiences in his past w actual spoiled/tainted food
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He never liked meat that was breaded and he disliked heavy sauces, especially sweet and sour
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