• smh@slrpnk.net
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    9 days ago

    My old manager used to take his team out to a Szechuan Chinese place and order for us, family style. It was awesome.

    I’m white AF and it was the first time I had actually spicy Chinese food. He’d also order a few mild dishes for the pair of no-spice folk on the team.

    Thinking back, manager was a Chinese immigrant, most team mates were Indian immigrants, and the spice-free teammates were both white. (I mention immigrant because my Indian teammates with kids would complain about their American-born kids’ low spice tolerance.)

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      9 days ago

      Lmao speaking of immigrants complaining of how their kids like to eat, I have a Russian coworker who complains about how her kids only want to eat unhealthy American food and not the food she cooks.

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          9 days ago

          I was an extremely picky eater as a kid.

          removed and screaming when told I had to eat my veggies, all that stuff.

          Wasn’t until I moved out for college that I realized that a lot of that came from the fact that my moms cooking was shite.

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            My poor mother tried so hard, but yeah, combining foods into an interesting dish is not an easy thing. It didn’t help that she has never understood the joke about a wife replacing every ingredient in someone’s favorite dish and then complaining they didn’t enjoy it.

            Now as a burgeoning cook, I, too, wish I could sometimes just have the skill to properly spice dishes and mix vegetables into actual flavor instead of another weird combo that is palatable but definitely not ‘good.’

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          9 days ago

          Nope, kids like garbage. Probably designed the food to be addictive. Better off banning American processed food.

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      9 days ago

      One of my indian coworkers from a few jobs back always used to ask for Tabasco when we went out to lunch together.