TraschcanOfIdeology

God I can't stand those "the perfect way to do X". It's the ultimate objectification of an inherently relational experience, the one of making, tasting and sharing food.

We covered this in class once... The reason why it's allowed in the US and forbidden in Europe is because the burden of proof works differently: in the US everything is allowed until you prove a food additive is harmful, while in Europe anything that's not been proven to be 100% safe cannot be added to food, because food policy in the EU is supposed to follow a precautionary principle.

99% of molecular cuisine "chefs" are just unimaginative hacks and nerds who think putting a science experiment without any reference to the signifiers of food, territory and taste on a plate is the height of cuisine.

These people looked at what Ferran Adrià was doing and missed the point entirely, and this is just one of the examples.

Fuck molecular cuisine, it should've died in 2009.

I ask the Juche Waterpark manager if the waterslide is creepy or wet.

The only reason I oppose orcas attacking yachts is because I don't want them to get hurt when ramming the boats, or killed in retaliation by rich yacht fucks.

I've seen soup in a cup working well, too. But I've only seen it in contexts where the people buying it are really strapped for cash, like people living in the street who really struggle putting together the few coins the cup of soup costs.

I do food studies (food justice, culture and aesthetics) research for a living lol, so it's a bit of a tangent on my usual duties.

Besides, these are the kinds of questions that unless I get a satisfactory answer they won't leave my mind.

This is largely cultural, though. Some places prefer soups over western street food, but just because the culture prefers soup overall, and eat them for almost all meals. This is not the case for the global North, in my experience.

All of south east Asia and a bunch of places in south America have street soup, even chunky ones. As far as I know many of them use polystyrene or paper containers.

It's not really a thing in the global north, but in many places in the global south you'll find street vendors selling soup and other whole ass meals.

First reason that comes to mind I think is how many (official or ersatz) public spaces to sit down and eat (you can't really eat soup on the go) exist, and also how soup-centered the local food ways are.

I'll go to my university's library to see if they have anything on the anthropology of street food, and report back.

I could go for some tortellini rn

Definitely don't need any more T I kinda hate the amount I have as it is