Shitting on Malaysian and Singaporean cuisine

Thinking French cuisine is somehow worse than the garbage the British call food

Imagine being this mentally colonized.

  • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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    1 year ago

    Its not that Italian food is bad or not good, its just the kind of food that someone who doesn't actually have many serious opinions about food will pick out if they for whatever reason feel like they need to have a food opinion.

    The exception being maybe people who are opinionated about their home food, but other than that its like French food is too fancy and pretentious, "foreign" food is also pretentious but in a different way if you decide to call it your favourite, so its basically Italian that is left.

    • Farman [any]
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      1 year ago

      So its the american idea of italian food rather. I gues they could have also said chinise or is tha too foreing?

      • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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        1 year ago

        For the specific type of guy I'm thinking of its definitely too foreign.

        If someone says Chinese food is their favourite/"the best", in my experience its more likely that they either have a really great restaurant near them and its just a food observation that they like the food there, rather than an opinion. Or they have a more deep seated reason for putting it on top, like having it as their home food, being a fanatic for it otherwise, they've decided that cuisines are the frontline of the political battle etc. Rather than it just being like a default option to pick whenever they need to declare someone the best at food.