And with all that said, the actual benefit of bullshit places like this has been completely lost in a sea of butthurt attention grabbing virtue signalling clickbait bullshit.

If you hate this, you’re going to love Chipotle and Panda Express.

The complaint stuck me as a high school comic book fan trying to act as the gatekeeper to who can call themselves a fan. There are a lot of legit gripes in the article, but anger over the increasing popularity of kimchi feels way off.

“watered-down Korean food for white comfort and white taste buds.”

“Park is particularly angry to see that the same foods she was mocked for eating as a kid—kimchi, gochujang—have become trendy and profitable once they were “discovered” by white people.”

‘Authenticity’ in food is bullshit anyway. The history of humanity since the beginning has been movement across the globe, and with it the mixing of cultures and ideas and flora and fauna. So basically all food is fusion.

I think it’s Czech, technically. 

I get it. The swill Budweiser sells as “beer” is cultural appropriation of German heritage.  

Not sure if anyone noticed, but 20 million people lost their jobs this year.

I think the point about class signifiers is really important, but gelato isn’t ice cream and I will die on that hill.

In my experience polenta and grits are ground a little differently and generally polenta is cooked with dairy instead of water. That said it’s pretty easy to make either with just plain cornmeal.

I like to diffuse any possible accusations of being bourgeois by plating my charcuterie on a kid’s smiley face platter.

I live in a place where fresh bread, cured meats and cheese are considered staples, and therefore relatively cheap. I assume pickles, olives and nuts are affordable everywhere.

No mention of my favorite, special kind of mushrooms. Hmmph.

I mostly just forage in other people’s gardens. Sometimes folks put up pathetic little fences to keep me out, but I always get around ‘em.

I worked in Rural USA during that time. Several people I worked with were actively looking for reasons to hate Obama. One guy openly called him “N*gger-bama” almost daily in the office.

I am shocked, shocked I tell you. I cannot believe that some who believe rules only apply to others and only cucks exhibit common decency, would have a Trump 2020 flag flying on their boat.

You know the saying: There are old mushroom hunters and there are bold mushroom hunters but there are no old, bold, mushroom hunters.

To be honest, if it’s only a dollar it’s probably just hemp flowers.