Holy shit, every time I'm reminded of this book and film franchise just everything about it just fills me with absolute white-hot hate. I feel like someone superglued They Live sunglasses to my head; every single person involved in writing, filming and promoting of this filth, and their circle of family and friends, gets cultural revolutioned the moment I find a way to resurrect Mao.
:agony-limitless:
I mean food culture rivalry anywhere is kinda like sports team rivalry. Like the USA didn't invent pizza yet there's New York pizza vs. Chicago deep dish pizza, etc. It's not supposed to make sense, and you're just supposed to pick a side and have fun shitting on all others.
However, Malaysian disdain for Singaporean food culture is maybe partially amplified by the brand of Singaporean hawker food culture being better / more widely marketed to Western audiences, leading to dishes common to Singapore and Malaysia being labelled in Western and Singaporean mass media as having "originated" from Singapore, even though the more "original"/"authentic"/"traditional" version of the same dish originated from Penang or KL or wherever.