I think there's something to be said of the flattening of culture that has come out of this.
You have a region that's got a broccoli glut and a region that's got a quinoa glut. Historically, these local maxima of produce would inform a bunch of the habits and inclinations of the society, as they leaned into what they had in abundance. You'd have a city with a giant broccoli on their crest. You'd have "Broccoli Cookoff Season". You'd have all sorts of broccoli derivatives like seasonings and dyes/textiles and plants that produce calcium supplements from the excess, etc, etc.
Now all that excess broccoli is owned by a Mega-Corp. Nobody in town really gets to see the benefits of surplus or access a virtually free super-abundance. It either gets shipped out or destroyed and the town probably benefits more financially from a bad crop than a good one. There's relatively little pride in what the city produces, because they're all day laborers working precariously for a company that cycles them through multiple farm yards miles apart. There's very little free time to exploit the excess or to develop these cultural artifacts iconic to towns.
And, in the end, you may stop producing broccoli locally in its entirety, because real estate is owned by one family three states away and they've decided to shift marketing to a less labor/resources intensive product.
Not enjoying a carefully and lovingly prepared soup even if it has things you don't like in it is revisionism and reactionary and I'm tired of pretending its not
People with sensory issues choosing to get shot because they have a higher pain tolerance than sensory tolerance:
To be serious, canteens offer multiple choices for all parts of a meal. For drinks, usually the choice is kompot, tea or juice, for other things there will be two to three options, different each day. So it should very much be possible to make an assortment of options that will fit as many people as possible.
Yeah of course lol, the idea that people would only have one type of food under communism is silly stuff
"Gobbunism no food" not doing it for you anymore? Try the revolutionary new "Gobbunism 1 food"!
Yeah like if you put green peppers in the soup I will not be eating it
I feel like 90% of people who don’t like broccoli it’s just because their parents were terrible at cooking it
They put it in a plastic bag and microwaved it. It would soak in melted ice and its own juices and come out mushy like it was boiled
Broccoli is just not a flavor I like. I've had it prepared in tons of different ways. I'll eat it, but I never feel a meal is improved by the presence of broccoli. Weirdly enough, I love most other cruciferous vegetables, except maybe cauliflower.
Broccoli in a stir fry dish is mandatory imo and I will die on that hill defending it.
everybody likes motherfucking broccoli, it is an empirical fact
of the plain vegetable sides I prepare at work, broccoli is the only one where they'll 100% every time eat more than two pans of. They'll eat like six or seven pans of steamed broccoli versus <2 pans of anything else. Kale, corn, roasted carrots, bok choy, nappa cabbage, green beans, they don't give a shit. And yes when I make the vegetables I make them good
I don't even make the broccoli as good as I could because then it wouldn't be vegan (b/c it would be tossed in butter and garlic salt) and these fuckers would eat like 12 pans of it and I'm not about to literally go through like 10 gallons of fucking broccoli I DO NOT HAVE TIME FOR THAT
