[ SECRET POST #2606 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2606 ⌋

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Comments

Hi, moron

[chardmonster]

Am I supposed to be offended by this very simple comic about how liking curry doesn't give you some kind of in depth cultural understanding you weird broken internet person

It's like when people act like they're worldly and cosmopolitan because they eat hummus and grape leaves and kebabs. Dude. It's just yummy chickpea dip.

It doesn't make you special. It doesn't even make you fancy.

Re: Hi, moron

[(Anonymous)]

No one is telling you to be offended or not offended by anything. I wish people would stop with that silliness.

Re: Hi, moron

[chardmonster]

I'm just amused that this person was trying to start some kind of SJW argument and found the one comic about food appropriation that actually has a good argument: that foodies are awful and that the idea of authenticity is shit.

Re: Hi, moron

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt but I guess the question for me is whether 'cultural appropriation' is the appropriate label for that. I mean, it seems like it's much more exoticization than appropriation, and those are in some ways almost opposite tendencies - rather than taking over a cultural phenomenon and erasing its origin, the origin in another culture is played up, to the point of absurdity.

So, yeah, I agree that foodies are dumb, but I don't think this thing is cultural appropriation, and I think talking about it in those terms is misleading and leads to kind of screwed up conclusions. In particular, I think if you're using the term cultural appropriation for eating a certain kind of food, the implication tends to be that it's simply eating the food that's somehow wrong, not some separate problem with attitude and intent, and that's all kind of messed up, cause food is tasty as heck.

Re: Hi, moron

[chardmonster]

But the cartoonist isn't talking about eating foreign food as appropriation--the comic ends with her getting Foodie Dude to just eat the soup. She's talking about the whole false quest for authenticity that completely ignores the actual day to day cuisine of her family.

I guess you could say it isn't "appropriation," but it's definitely appropriation-y. We're splitting hairs.

Re: Hi, moron

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you, I was starting to think I'd read a different comic from everyone else. Food is just food, and the comic author is right that trying to make food into some kind of cultural checklist just goes weird places fast. When I mourn that my town doesn't have a decent Afghan restaurant, it's not because I have something to prove about how much I understand Afghan culture, it's because pilau is fucking tasty and I can't get any around here. That's really it.

Re: Hi, moron

[(Anonymous)]

talking about the comments bub

Re: Hi, moron

[chardmonster]

Ah. OP doesn't make that clear, though.

Re: Hi, moron

[chardmonster]

European princesses are weird.

Re: Hi, moron

[starphotographs]

All of this hummus talk is making me hungry. D:

Re: Hi, moron

[(Anonymous)]

Have to second this.

Re: Hi, moron

[the_missing_y]

Minor thing, but you started this whole... thing off with "Hi, moron"
Could you maybe not do that? I mean, do what you gotta do, but was it really necessary to kick things off with a personal attack?

Re: Hi, moron

[(Anonymous)]

I am watching your mission as it unfolds and I really like it. I hope that it goes well for you.

Re: Hi, moron

[the_missing_y]

I have a mission?

Well, I suppose you could loosely say my ambition to eat all of the pizzas counts as a mission, but that makes your line about how you're "watching as it unfolds and really like it" really very sinister. I'm going to start closing my curtains before dinner now.