immigrant & ethnic food cultures, white ppl & appropriation, foodies

Polynesians know a damn fine root vegetable when they taste one... respect!

polynesian way-finding with those strange string maps of currents and that bottom of the boat malarkey is incredible to me

https://ny.eater.com/2019/1/18/18183973/authenticity-yelp-reviews-white-supremacy-trap

The term authenticity is everywhere. Pundits claim that millennials crave it, restaurants boast authentic dining experiences, and Foursquare asks us to make judgments about it. These claims, often used as markers of quality, are employed by diners and restaurateurs alike — often used by owners to evoke a homespun or faraway romanticism. Nowhere does that come into play more than on user-based review sites like Yelp.

I would know: I have read and studied 20,000 Yelp reviews — part of my thesis as a master’s student at New York University in the Food Studies program. I can tell you a lot about what I concluded about the depths of the internet, but I’ll start with this one: The word “authentic” in food reviews supports white supremacism, and Yelp reviews prove it.

proven by science

cc people that yelp are scumbags

I’m calling the FBI pic.twitter.com/X2jIlJmfEt

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) August 24, 2019

Seems like someone really likes cooking but really hates food. If I wasn’t vegan I would devour that though.

that is perfectly situated in the uncanny valley

Haha, I saw this thread bumped on here, and immediately knew why. What a horrific monstrosity.

It's like a clickhole video where they start with something fairly normal and just keep kicking it up a notch until it's ridiculous

^^^

The "that's gotta be the end, right?" factor is nightmarishly high.

"....The Aristocrats!"

I'd rather just eat a pizza cake. The above had a gross amount of bbq sauce.

Excuse me what

this type of sped-up stoner food cooking video is my bête noire.

i like how the fact that it’s a square video inside a square video made into a vertical widescreen reflects the nightmarish recursion of the recipe

I was somehow on board until they added the pizza ingredients

if someone served me a smaller version of the breaded and fried part as a snack at a party I’d have a few

It is pretty much that SNL Taco Town commercial.

Another thing is that this is the most unhealthy thing you could possibly eat AND YET the person responsible has used chicken breasts rather than thighs, which will make it dry and flavourless, then has drowned the meat in bbq sauce in order to make up for this, this isn't unique to this video but really wtf is the story with this stuff?

I think most reasonably sane meateaters would at least try it up until the pizzification, which is less excessive than stupid.

Seems like someone really likes cooking but really hates food. If I wasn’t vegan I would devour that though.

Exactly! Why would you devote a couple of hours to cooking, then make something that looks like it was scraped off a toilet at a Taco Bell?

Using pretty much all processed foods. I mean it's trash through and through, but why not spend an extra half hour or so and make your own BBQ sauce you lazy prick? Kraft's got enough of your money already, I'm sure.

On twitter it was outed those vidz are produced by internz looking for clix/viewz (ergo jobz).

in that case they did a good jobz

i thought it was real until it got to the pepperoni ...

It is pretty much that SNL Taco Town commercial.

― Yerac, Sunday, August 25, 2019 10:38 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

this was exactly my thought

On twitter it was outed those vidz are produced by internz looking for clix/viewz (ergo jobz).

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, August 25, 2019 12:53 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

this was obvious on the face of it. i have no idea why ppl even bother reacting to this shit.

the food of my people is being exploited for clicks

[Aimless inserts video clip of Marlon Brando's lips in extreme close up, whispering, "the horror! the horror!"]

On twitter it was outed those vidz are produced by internz looking for clix/viewz (ergo jobz).

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, August 25, 2019 12:53 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

this was obvious on the face of it. i have no idea why ppl even bother reacting to this shit.

― call all destroyer, Sunday, August 25, 2019 2:44 PM (three hours ago)

Because the difference between the intern produced "content" and "real" "content" is like the thinest slice of prosciutto ever.

ftr I would eat the shit outta this

I’ve just watched a Japanese version of this on tv here.

Take one paella pan, cover it in red pasta sauce, add one kilo of fried chicken, French fries , grilled zucchini, spaghetti and a hollowed our loaf of bread containing cheese fondue.

what did I just watch pic.twitter.com/hkPWdRCOkC

— Angie Treasure (@snark_tank) August 24, 2019

Food train wreck videos have crept into this thread like a hermit crab moving into a discarded tin can.

Thought this was a good read heading into 2020:

What happens when years of migration cause treasured family traditions to vanish?

https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/article/Death-migration-and-the-loss-of-traditions-14572327.php

a couple of threads prompted by the annual NYT piece on how shitty durian is (now with added mangosteen and rambutan!):

In international journalism, I am willing to say the single most tired Southeast Asian reporting cliche is that of DURIAN, THE FREAK SHOW FRUIT. In this @nytimes piece, “occasional disappointment” turns out to be a meta remark about the article, not the fruit. Thread: pic.twitter.com/60ZY1kBDCL

— Amirul Ruslan (@amirulruslan) June 25, 2020

The recent @nytimes "article" slagging SE Asian fruit — starring the durian — is especially bewildering because it's not new. They does it so often, even other foreign correspondents joked "the biennial durian piece has dropped". I used my NYT sub to find out how true that is. pic.twitter.com/OKsuTdfBDb

— Amirul Ruslan (@amirulruslan) June 26, 2020

lol:

Writing about US food the way the NYT covers Asian fruit: In a nation torn by racial conflict, one unlikely food unites. To those accustomed to chopsticks, the greasy parcel known as a 'burger', a sort of split bao, is crude and messy. Yet it encapsulates a nation's violent past.

— Soon-Tzu Speechley 孫子 (@speechleyish) June 25, 2020

I love that last one

Last year there was one about 'the soul of the nation bound up in the flavors of the durian... acrid and off-putting to the naive and foreign, but rich and rewarding for the (journalist), the educated, and the noble native." Always reminds me of the schoolbus bit in Altman's 'Nashville.'

I love durian and this is totally tangentially related but last weekend I bought a (frozen, but pricy) jackfruit and holy shit it was a fucking chore to uh... dissemble/extract. I was youtubing hacks and it still took the better part of 90 minutes.

Recommended if you have a passion for extracting pomegranate and pomelo fruit I guess?

mangosteen and rambutan are some of the tastiest shit ever. still have not found a way to enjoy durian. this has been kevin k from white man reports, ILX. signing off

i love all of these fruits, but i was raised by people who were into food culture and am married to someone with a broad knowledge of Asian cuisine (he's Chinese), so i am always baffled by these articles, and also baffled by how insular and boring most Americans' tastes are.

Horrible to contemplate what "Chris" has to eat at home:

https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/08/parenting-indian-food-bubble-covid-families-judgement.html

ahaha, wtf, I was at least expecting that to be about a toddler. my small children love mildly spiced dhal etc.

am now dreaming of being invited to a home-cooked Indian food feast...

people can be horrible about what they think their kids should eat

I remember when friends of my parents were shocked that we let our kids eat olives.

do we have a rolling "these people are horrible" thread for horrible people that aren't politicians or celebrities?

I think that thread is called reddit.com