In Soviet Russia, you line up for free bread.
In Capitalist West, you don't even bother lining up because the bread is $17.99 and who the fuck has that money to spare?
I always found the "someone from Soviet Russia went to an American supermarket and broke down crying because the shelves were overflowing with food" trope that anticommunists used super tone deaf and hypocritical. First of all, half that food is ending up straight in the trash and dumped in a landfill, either after sitting too long in someone fridge or right in the fucking store, and for the latter they are literally legaly mandated to shred the food and pour bleach on it to prevent people from picking it out of the dumpster. Also, that person from Soviet Russia definitely passed by that homeless person sleeping by the doors, but don't feed him though, that can land you in prison! Also just the general fact that hundreds of thousands of children go to bed hungry in the richest country in the world, both in the 50s/60s all the way to now, in fact food insecurity is on the rise in modern times with all our technology. Say what you want about rations under socialism, at least you were guaranteed a ration no matter who you were.
That trope is really annoying, and also weren't supermarkets in the USSR full of food and a wide variety of stuff to? I recall seeing some images from like this image dump showing what the USSR was really like and it showed some grocery stores full of a wide variety of food stuff
It’s also infantilizing and demeaning. “DPRK has no word for love” tier
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Me. I do. It’s not like it’s $10,000 it’s a bloody 20 buck bread loaf mate. Bit pricy yeah but if I go water skiing with my mates on the river we always bring something to share for lunch and leave on my boat.
That's $28 aud for a hand sized round loaf of bread. Kind of a large roll rather than a proper loaf you can share. Each person would probably need to get their own one of these and then slap some sandwich stuff on it. Bit pricey even if you can afford a boat and use it regularly. Most Americans can't.
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A boat cost me less than my car. I probably use it more; cause I live on a river in one of those small river shacks so the boat is used as my second car, I’ve used it to go to the grocery store before. Get into it, go to the nearest town, tie it up to the dock and then walk 2 minutes to the grocery store. Pretty easy.
I think the big thing is the gimmick of using Ube plums and sweet potatoes. Even if they were using heirloom wheat flour 17 dollars is too much?
Yes but ube are a type of sweet potato, ume are the Japanese plums
I have become the gourmand
Oh dang you got me there. Thanks
Still, I kind of hate the "exotic, foreign ingredient makes our food cost exorbitant prices"
For 'straya it's not completely out there as pricing, but to me and my income, even though I'm a big suckered for good food, and try to pay a fair price for it, too... 17 bucks is too much.
The owner is a graduate of the Bay Area School of Pretentious Dish Naming.
Don’t worry, they took a break to sic their rabid readers doped up on crime wave propaganda on Honduran immigrants.
Look up “SF Chronicle Honduras Drugs” and you can see for yourself
Computer, give me a food description written by a soulless husk of a consulting firm that best caters to cracker yuppies from San Francisco
Got exposed to plenty of that as a kid. Courtesy of my asshole family. Made a post about them 3 years ago, you might stumble across it. I’m grateful every day I didn’t turn out to be a failson loser preaching the virtues of capitalism
But back to the food, when my job was flying rich guys around, I had better food from jet catering companies.
We used to have Caviar served for first class passengers for trans-pacific flights, there was always one guy who didn’t want it. The crew tried it once, I thought it tasted like nothing plus salt and it was slimy. At least I was being paid to eat it
Luckily not to me directly, but I learned plenty of rich people table manners as a kid. Did you know you’re not supposed to use the butter knife directly on the bread, but you have to smear it on the side of your dedicated bread plate? And for the 10 different utensils they give you, it’s like the rich lady from Titanic said, work your way in.
But I guess that way makes sense if you spent 2000 dollars for two spoonfuls.
It's got that telltale vibe. That "je me sais quoi" that AI generated text so often has to it.
Jeez then did they train ChatGPT solely on high end food marketing material? Because it sounded so much like AI!
Ube are so good. I miss the trucks that sell roasted ones like ice cream trucks in Japan.
Wait, people make desserts out of sweet potato? It's always been a side in my house! 😡
We call them candied yams and they usually have marshmallows baked on top of them. Its a thanksgiving thing where I am from because I think if you ate them more than one time a year you would roll over and just die.
That seems kind of weird to me, kind of like pumpkin spice stuff. Sweet potato (or yams I guess) and pumpkin feel like "savoury" things to me, so it seems kind of weird to have them be a dessert item. I'm sure it tastes good though.
I get where you are coming from. It is a mix of brown sugar and butter mainly. I think if you used those two things you can make anything into a dessert item. We also also like to drink root beer which is mainly spiced with things that most countries put in their cough syrup. If anything there are other countries that use the sweet potato in dessert type items, but they have changed in both color and flavor profile. Do a google search for ube and taro and see how they are used in Asian countries. I dont know if you have boba tea where you are at but places where I go make a killer ube boba. It looks amazing because it has this rich purple color.
Purple is one of the colors I like the most and when I first saw ube boba my mind broke. Taro is also good but its like a more pastel purple. I think the best way that I have had ube so far though is at SomiSomi in some ice cream taiyaki.
They're great baked with salt and pepper and a bit of olive oil, not the most exciting side, but really easy to just chop one up and put it in the oven. They also go pretty well with cumin and chili, or red onions and feta.
Gotta get yourself to Melbourne and get one roasted with shit in it from a spud bar. Whole new experience.
So this is a Kumara sourdough/Irish potato bread. Nice but hardly groundbreaking. Also no it's never been a dessert what are they thinking.
When you need to hit that word count limit but don’t actually have anything else to say
I can see I'm not the only one dining somewhere bougie tonight.
