I mean, I’m vegan, I don’t want her to eat fish tacos. But she was telling me the other day that her friend ordered some and she thought for a moment about trying it, but in the end she was afraid they would be too spicy. I told her they’re not, but she has it in her head that fish tacos are some strange foreign food that will fuck up her taste buds or something. A grown ass adult afraid to try fish tacos.
Then you have my dad. He is surprisingly cool with me being vegan, doesn’t really care. He’s never criticized or made fun. But he will never eat any vegan meal I prepare. Why? Because he won’t eat any entree that doesn’t have meat in it. He just refuses. Like an adult baby. My mom has asked him to just try eating a salad but he won’t. Absolutely zero interest in trying anything new that he thinks he won’t like.
Old white people are weird.
As an aside, I’m sitting with my dad right now. He has CNBC on and they’re talking about the new unemployment numbers and their expectations for the economy. I have a background in finance so I understand what they’re talking about. But since I’m a Marxist, it’s a bit like being an atheist and walking into a Pentecostal Sunday service where they’re talking about some literal interpretation of the Book of Revelation and then they start speaking in tongues. It’s all just so ridiculous.
How does one find a leftist accountant? I told mine I didn’t want all my $$ in a Roth IRA in case, you know, the Gulf Stream reverses or some shit and I need liquid funds to escape the desert southwest apocalypse and she looked at me like I had three heads.
Edit: she also told me TSLA was a “ecologically minded, sustainable” company when I told her I didn’t want my investments in coal or oil.
How does one find a leftist accountant?
Well technically I'm not officially an accountant because I never went on to get my CPA designation. But I've got the education and job description. I mostly went into it because I'm good with math and computers, and every business needs a bookkeeper.
I think you're more likely to find leftists among accountants than in other business-education fields because accountants have to deal with the real world. It's not like modern economics where one can make up whatever bullshit one wants in order to please one's paymasters.
I work with accountants a lot in my job so I'm kinda close to being one and I definitely agree with your second paragraph. Getting to see exactly where the money was coming from and going to in the company was extremely radicalizing, and I was a commie even before starting this.
and every business needs a bookkeeper.
Hey hi howdy. I happen to be in the process of starting a business, do you think you could share some recommendations and/or guidance on how the accounting side of a small business is done?
Also if business takes off, my #1 goal is to hire comrades and turn it into a workers' coop.
Best advice I can give is to take a formal intro-to-bookkeeping course. It's not hard to learn basic double-entry accounting but there are some subtleties to it that a self-taught approach might not prepare you for.
If you have some specific questions I bet I could handle em
I can’t think of any right this second but I will definitely take you up on this when I do ❤️
My mother would get upset if I cracked some black pepper into the mashed potatoes because it was too spicy.
Black. Pepper.
Once I added like way too much black pepper to some poached pears I was making. Shit was spiccccyyy. To be fair though I probably added like a quarter cup.
All the world's wealth are wasted on the American boomer.
These people are like perpetual children, and many of them never had to grow up because they are the dictionary definition of "dumb luck".
As one of my white friends put it: “poc learn to season from their parents. White people learn to season from their friends”
My late grandfather refused to eat pizza, because he considered it exotic foreign food.
Did he rage about Chef Boyardee's insidious canned cultural invasion coming to destroy normal culture?
When i was a little kid i thought Chili's queso dip was the best thing i'd ever tasted.
My parents never used ANY spices, and i know now that they just put a little cumin in the dip. But as a kid i kept trying to figure out what animal they could have ground up and put in there to make it taste like that.
Anyways, cumin was the first spice i learned about.
I had a similar conversation with a friend of mine. She's a mid 50s white woman who's living a seasoning free lifestyle, but she's obsessed with all the different kinds of salt. Sea salt, pink salt, black salt, ancient salt, you name it. We're eating Cuban black beans and rice and she looks at me and says "I wonder what kind of salt they use to make it taste like that?"
As a kid I went nuts for anything with vinegar in it, for similar reasons lol
I knew an early gen X dude who absolutely refused to cook his own meals.
The few times he had to cook, he would purposely sabotage his own cooking by straight up dumping entire shakers of salt on the food and then complain about it.
I wonder how the fuck he managed to live.
generally, by being a big enough baby that the people around him probably felt the need to pick up the slack
Men won't recognize the labor that they put onto women because then they'd have to reckon with what big loser babies they are.
I’ve tried. At this point it’s almost a phobia, it’s not a rational fear so I can reason her out of it.
There is a particular phobia of spice among Boomers. I don't get it, in the unlikely event that your food is too spicy for you to eat just don't eat it again. You will not be harmed by missing one opportunity to consume a treat.
Besides that, though, there are unique American brainworms about nutrition. But they are complex because half of the country is convinced fat will kill them, and many more are convinced sugar will kill them, and nobody seems to agree that you can eat almost anything as long as it's in moderation and part of a varied diet.
Besides that, though, there are unique American brainworms about nutrition. But they are complex because half of the country is convinced fat will kill them, and many more are convinced sugar will kill them, and nobody seems to agree that you can eat almost anything as long as it's in moderation and part of a varied diet.
Yeah, like there's corn syrup in practically everything, just absurd amounts of it absolutely everywhere for no reason, and they'll happily eat mountains of that and wash it all down with a big mug of even more corn syrup, then balk at putting small amounts of sugar in places it actually belongs. Like someone will drink 200 calories of corn syrup without thinking then imagine adding 5 calories of table sugar to a meal will make it "unhealthy."
there was a literal conspiracy by the sugar industry and scientists to spread the whole "low fat" thing
It's like the fish from fish in chips, with mayo, on a flat piece of bread. It's basically British food.
But there's gasp lime juice and p-p-pico d-d-de g-g-guy-oh faint
I know you're shit posting but that stuff all brings acidity to the fish which cuts down on the overt fishiness and brings out other flavors in it.
It's the same idea behind why they serve vinegar with Fish and Chips: it's bland af without it.
crispy fish tacos: yes, good, please
grilled fish tacos: could we get back to talking about crispy fish tacos
I have a lot of extremely fussy eating friends. It is beyond frustrating to try and cook anything for them. "I don't like the texture" seems to be the prevailing excuse for not wanting to eat something like a mushroom or lentils or whatever. Just eat it you fussy child!
Are they neurodiverse? Cause like, thats an actual thing with us (and being told to "Grow up" over it is really unhelpful).
Like if they're NT and they're like that sure but there's a reason I dont like that rhetoric (even though I personally am not that much of a picky eater).
There's a subgroup of people in the United States that aren't just openly (and sometimes violently) ableist, but are terrified of the thought of getting diagnosed with anything so they hold onto the magical thinking that if they never get checked for anything, they are normal and that's that.
That leads to a fuzzy boundary for me where maybe there's something neurodiverse about some such people but they outright refuse to even entertain the possibility.
Friends I couldn’t cook for wouldn’t stay my friends for long tbh… I love the experience of cooking & eating too much
I'm opening a taco restaurant with some buddies in a couple months. As long as you clean yourself up before coming in, we'll hook you up.
Asking me to wash my dirt off is violence
I'll be telling everyone about this on YelpThat's my trick to never give comrades free tacos.
JK, come around the back no cleaning needed.
Do this post again and everyone agree that fish tacos are too spicy and counterrevolutionary, then show her the commies supporting her.
My dad is a literal professional chef and will try almost any kind of food. He’s also a relatively international person who is open to new experiences and cultures (although he’s a fuckin’ lib). My mom would be satisfied watching the same handful of old movies over and over again in her house with her German shepherd while eating nothing except ham and potatoes for the rest of her life. (She’s also a lib but took her sweet time switching from Warren to Bernie, unlike my dad, who claimed that he supported Bernie before it was cool.)
Then there’s me, a death-to-amerikkka communist. I ate snails in Korea but couldn’t eat the live baby octopus or the still-moving chopped-up tentacles. I would be a vegetarian all the time if not for family pressure, but I do go for days sometimes without eating meat.
My grandparents were hog farmers who rarely ate anything grown outside the parish they lived in. Once they came over for dinner and and my grandfather's reaction to finding out we were having lasagna was "What? We're not having any potatoes?". He ate the lasagna and liked it but the idea of a dinner without potatoes was completely outlandish to him.
My family in Czechia is like this but with locally grown berries and berry alcohol. Basically sacrilege to not have some with every meal
