Are You Cut Out for Social Media?

for a lot of reasons (the cultural imperialism of middle class white people, snobbery, the fetishization of "national cuisines") food writing often can't help but expressing simple likes and dislikes about particular foodstuffs in ways that suggest the writer's racism. there's a bit in 'simple French cooking' where Richard olney dismisses coriander, which he dislikes the taste of while noting that in any case it's only used in *Arabic* cooking. I always think of the olney example but possibly I'm at least partly projecting as he reminds me so much of (more than one) gay Islamophobic American's I know who live in the South of France.

from what I understand of the shallot thing I realise this is only tangentially relevant

i just made a dip from olive oil, balsamic, salt and in a final flourish of improvisatory inspiration coriander, and now i feel like the wokest poster on ilx

'just' = an hour ago, before that was posted. i ate it with rice cakes. saint imago

holy holy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLupxEDGqxY

you can hear them jingling their little vials of coriander

catholic cuisine tastes

srsly if u conflate those neophyte vatican scum with the old faith again i will call u an ashkenazi

re people thinking hating onions makes you a terrible person I think there's a little spoken of 'if I had that person over for dinner effect' whereby when people express food preferences at odds with how one eats and prepares food it is very easy to imagine how annoying it might be to have that person over for dinner and not know what to cook. this is despite the fact that nobody ever has anyone over for dinner and when they do they never know what to cook anyway.

― plax (ico), Friday, May 22, 2020 1:39 PM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah, I do worry about this very often -- in practice it's been less of an issue than you'd think (one time it was carbonara, another stir-fry just with different veg, etc.)

that’s a good point. as a vegan I am very familiar with that kind of anxiety!

srsly if u conflate those neophyte vatican scum with the old faith again i will call u an ashkenazi

Whoa there, pardner

I'm not at all surprised this isn't that much of an issue. I can imagine it's harder when eating out but I don't know how deep your dislike goes, like I hate hate hate eggs but for some reason egg fried rice is fine (my mother who also has eggs is repulsed by egg fried rice)

xp to Katherine

I also hate mushrooms

and freedom

it is much, much harder when eating out, and all I can do is just not think about it unless it's impossible (a few years ago I'd ordered fried mushrooms that were very obviously coated in a huge amount of onion powder, and it took me like 10 minutes in the bathroom washing my mouth out and eating a couple tangerines I was lucky enough to have taken home from work to stop being nauseated

do you hate other aliums like garlic or spring onions or is it only onions

also I would have thought Japanese food is your friend here

I could literally eat sushi for every meal if I was allowed

srsly if u conflate those neophyte vatican scum with the old faith again

cool those Cypriot fires a moment, imago. the word catholic has broader meanings than just the faith defined by the papal succession.

" I don't know what to think, and generally speaking, in situations that are framed as (quoting the Onion) "this decision will harm people"

One needn't take on the burden themself of ensuring that no one anywhere is ever harmed. Again, there's a happy medium between an inconsiderate jerk and perpetually fretting over whether your every single thought and action is harming people in any way.

also isn't there like a while Ayurvedic thing about onions, I feel like hare Krishna food has no onions for this reason, not that I really know what Ayurvedic actually means

garlic is fine, spring onions/scallions/leeks/chives are not

srsly if u conflate those neophyte vatican scum with the old faith again i will call u an ashkenazi

― imago, Friday, May 22, 2020 11:01 AM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

splitters!

also isn't there like a while Ayurvedic thing about onions, I feel like hare Krishna food has no onions for this reason, not that I really know what Ayurvedic actually means

― plax (ico), Friday, May 22, 2020 11:23 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

some buddhists don't eat alliums because they inflame the passions, get the blood flowing type thing. antithetical to divesting yourself of desire. there is also the fact that they have to be uprooted, destroying the plant, to be consumed (I might be wrong here, probably), rather than picked from a plant which keeps on living like a tomato or what have you.

Jains do not eat onions or any other root vegetable bc you have to uproot and kill the plant to get them

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yes, I've been wondering if I should point out that among some religious South Asians, onions and garlic are forbidden

afaik, it's for the reason that jim mentioned

crut is also right about Jains specifically. geez these are incompetent posts, sorry

(quoting the Onion)

well played

Didn’t the queen prohibit onions and garlic on the QE2 for years because plebe food?

no she just had mad farts

And yet she allowed leeks, although it is an oceangoing ship and leeks pose a danger of sinking. curious.

Are You a Cut Up on Social Media?

Voting something between no and very no

anyway sorry if I upset anyone

I'm upset that you're apologizing ;)

Exactly, no-one is upset.

Well somebody might be but they shouldn't be.

Rather than an apology, it would be better to hear that you have reevaluated your approach to dealing with online strife.

Yeah, ^this. No pressure, though :)

I would like to tell you my own story of improving my ability to deal with such strife, but I am afraid that if I did so my contrary nature would immediately cause me to get into a few intranetz beefs pronto.

I think most of us are just confused by why you place so much value on what these people on Twitter (or Facebook or wherever) think about minor issues.

apparently I made this at some point pic.twitter.com/xrrWeZRUQ7

— Jerry Choke (@jerrychoke) May 22, 2020

well to be fair the assault on the dignity of the person is constant and fought on all fronts simultaneously

Small pantry humiliation porn

:) sesame oil in cooking is great though, sorry to add to the off-topic discussion of food items here but I recommend buying it in small quantities and keeping it in the refrigerator, because it goes off pretty quickly otherwise

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I ended up voting 'no' after discounting ilxor.com.

Did I miss anything?

(Kidding--I never have a problem with threads taking unexpected turns. I've sent them off in that direction many times myself.)