This is extremely ironic because I have never known anyone on planet Earth to eat more like absolute fucking savages than Burger Reichers. Greasy chicken wings, sloppy burgers, oily ass pizza, french fries, all eaten gleefully with their hands without a second thought. Absolutely fucking revolting.
Oh but when brown man does exactly the same thing all of a sudden it’s a problem.
This just in: hot wings must be eaten with two sets of chopsticks.
I will say eating popcorn with chopsticks is a game changer and I highly recommend it
Ever since I married my wife, and started noticing all the things she eats with chopsticks, I’ve come over to the side of chopsticks supremacy. 95% of food is best eaten with either chopsticks or a spoon. Our fork space in the silverware drawer at home is always full because they’re rarely ever used.
I use chopsticks whenever I’m eating spicy Cheetos. That way I don’t have spicey fingers.
Fun fact Cheetos are actually specifically designed to be messy as fuck because Frito Lay thinks it makes you perceive them as cheesier. This is despite everyone (I know at least) finding it extremely annoying and a downside. Truly capitalist innovation
That doesn’t surprise me at all. The “dangerously cheesy” marketing campaign was probably related to that too.
I eat popcorn with a spoon.
I can’t remember the name, but there’s some blaxploitation kung fu movie where the main character goes and watches a Bruce Lee movie in a hood movie theater and eats his popcorn with chopsticks. It was on Best of the Worst.
The Last Dragon (and it was actually a Re:View with Macaulay Culkin).
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
that better be a disability aid, otherwise kill it with fire
There was one time I’ve tried eating wings with chopsticks (I was having wings + some side dishes that I didn’t want to use my hand) and surprisingly it kind of works okay.
It’s not too bad for sure. I eat wings at my local Vietnamese place a lot, and I usually use one hand plus chopsticks for them.
Isn’t that basically a lot of Chinese chicken dishes? Boneless chicken drenched in sauce that you eat with chopsticks.
Hell, a lot of them have bones in them, they just chop right through the bones and you just put the piece in your mouth, eat the meat, and spit the bone out to grab with your chopsticks and put on a bone plate.
these are the same people that think bidets are gay and instead smear feces around their butt crack with wads of dry tissue paper.
i would much rather we didn’t shake hands here in the anglosphere and instead just did a little bow like some other parts of the world, because if i think too much about what is on these peoples’ hands at any given moment… ugh.
Remember when elbow tapping was the thing during COVID? That was kinda neat.
A simple rule of thumb in polite Western society
A simple rule of thumb in an actual polite society: don’t fuss over every little detail and learn to mind your own damn business
Yearning for the day I can cleanly call a chud out by asking them who taught them manners. Behavior like this tweet should be embarrassingly rude.
Minding other people’s business is a core tenant of western culture
im so western that i eat my burritos with a knife and a spoon
the fork is a greek devilry invented by the treacherous byzantinesthe fork is a greek devilry
sure, ill incorporate that into my worldview
ha, imagine dirtying your hands by using the utensils yourself! i’m so western i own slaves that command my other slaves to cut my food up for me and feed it to me bite by bite!
Hot take to our (legitimately) Zohran-skeptical comrades.
Slop like this makes it so worth it. He can’t be worse than the replacement level lib (at least right now) and there’s an added bonus of amazing shit like this. I fully respect every critique of his positions by our comrades, but please recognize how entertaining his election will be.
Yeah all the right people hate him. That’s not nothing.
“All the right people hate him” really set off something in my mind about how performative politics really is. There’s nothing of substance here. Anybody mad that this guy is the democratic nominee might be annoyed it’s not their guy, but this decorum shit has always been lib meat & potatoes bullshit, there’s… acceptance here. he’s being given space as a contemptible extremist, kinda like AOC tbqh
Like “All the right people hate him… but something is really off here.” is how I articulate my feelings right before I remember that yes, even this bullshit is meaningless entertainment
which makes me feel like Zohran is for sure a political dead end, with no silver lining beyond a kind of nihilistic resignation to cackling at something that still has life and death consequences just because it really is this farcical and detached from reality
I totally get this, and we shouldn’t forget how politics is not the be all end all.
However, the “entertainment” isn’t nothing – it also does serve as propaganda for our side (especially if Zohran delivers some of those things in his platform). Is he perfect? Hell no. But say he manages to implement free buses or something – it will be good for socialists more generally.
Hell no. But say he manages to implement free buses or something – it will be good for socialists more generally.
Estonia has free buses. Most of europe had free buses for Ukrainian refugees, how is this translating into support for socialism? I guess magically wishing socialism (I guess communism is too radical now) into existence, by calling cuba and Venezuela evil dictatorships when the us is closing in to invade them? By wanting to appoint Zionists into the city government, by not abolishing the NYPD??
If our enemies hate him, it’s an indication that he’s not their guy and will frustrate their plans and interests. That has real implications beyond just politics being a spectacular team sport.
That doesn’t make him our guy, I wouldn’t waste any time organizing for him or donating to him, but it’s not nothing.
If you’re on the left, your list of enemies is inclusive of everybody in this little circle, and if Zohran was a true outsider that was any kind of threat to the system instead of yet another sheep-dog liberal, he wouldn’t even be getting cast as the villain. That’s the thing I think people don’t realize. If you’re truly a threat to this system, you dont become a spectacle to root for. you dont become an underdog. Or, if you do, it won’t be on the backs of mainstream discourse. You won’t be allowed to actually be dangerous using their platforms. that villain shit is actually a valued role in society-as-theater lol.
Him being allowed more or less the same position AOC had tells me his job is just to keep leftist political momentum as diffuse as possible and still attached to the system electorally and monetarily as much as possible.
things dont start getting better until we divest ourselves from this system and its circuses. there’s no way through this that isn’t capitulation or assimilation/commodification otherwise.
Again, I wouldn’t waste time organizing for him or donating to him.
But, they don’t want sheepdogs in any executive positions because they will raise the contradictions within electoralism. AOC and Bernie can pretend to be socialist while doing literally nothing in the legislature, but the mayor of New York actually has access to levers of power and that comes with expectations. He had to make a lot of promises to get this popular, and every single promise he breaks or otherwise fails to fulfill is a demonstration of the limitations of electing Democrats
The only way Mamdani will be able to keep his supporters attached to the system is if he fulfills his promises after being elected, and this ruling class has not shown me that it is willing to actually give concessions to workers to maintain class peace. I’ll be legitimately shocked if they actually let him freeze the rent or establish public grocers or free child care, because the material base for social democracy does not exist in a declining empire. He will certainly be stopped from most or all his promises, and when he is, we need to be ready to lead disillusioned supporters away from the Democrat busybox and into real politics.
“All the right people” hate a lot of people, its not particularly hard to earn their ire.
He’s got red and blue MAGA joining forces to defeat him, can you think of someone else who has done this?
Osama bin Laden
Say what you will about his politics, but he did do one really funny thing.
collagen scientist
Or you could just, you know, wash your hands after eating? There’s not exactly a limit on how many times a day you are allowed to wash your hands.
How the fuck is eating biscuits or muffins then shaking someone’s hand a clean thing to do??
They’re only eating the driest least appealing biscuits and muffins ever conceived by Brits (and/or adjacent cultures). Trying to guzzle a rockcake in NMZ to run absorption potions type shit
Hold the fuck on there partner, I will not have our glorious biscuit culture besmirched by a heathen who has clearly never had a Hobnob and does not understand dunking culture.
I bet she huffs CO2.
Also has this lady never had a cheese steak? Or a burger? Or chili fries? Or nachos? Or like a million other Burgerland dishes?
Western politeness can get fucked. Utensils are bourgeoisie.
I fucking hate this take tho… So many more cultures eat with their hands and its not a politeness thing. I repeat, western “politeness” can get fucked.
I feel like this is downstream of the fall of the west. Used to be mfers critized you for “Egads, he is using the mussel knife for the lobster” and now we’ve arrived at whether finger food is good or not
They have knives just for mussels? Damn, bougies invent the wildest shit
To some degree it makes sense to have differently shaped utensils for different types of food but most of it is bullshit invented by bougies so they could show how they belonged among other rich people by A: Demonstrating how they were rich enough to afford a full set of all the utensils, and B: Demonstrating how they were cultured enough to know how to use them.
There’s oyster knives, but I’m unaware of any mussels knife. Mussels open when they’re cooked and I’ve never heard of them being eaten raw. When it comes to shucking/opening oysters, you want the specialized tool so you don’t end up with shell in your food or a knife in your hand.
On the one hand, thanks to Covid-is-Over brainworms, being forced to be in-office and using a shared bathroom with other staff gives me some sympathy for how AmeriKKKans can have hang-ups about eating with your hands. Thanks in part to IBS, I’ve unfortunately gained knowledge of nearly everyone I work with and their nasty asses. Can’t wipe, don’t flush, eat while shitting, and far too many do not even wash their hands afterward. It is truly repulsive—far worse than whatever these malding crackers are whining about with Mamdani. I try to use the gender-neutral toilet whenever it’s available because there are fewer touch points by far and the door locks because it’s single-occupancy.
On the other hand, no it fucking doesn’t, because we eat some of the messiest, greasiest slop on the planet and so much of said slop is eaten without utensils. Most people I’d wager do not wash up before or after a meal unless it’s secondary to using the bathroom (though again, see above). I’ve seen friends of mine go three knuckles-deep trying to lick off the last bit of salt and oil from the potato chips they just finished, then wipe their hands on their pants like it’s nothing. Hell, I’m guilty of doing stuff like that myself (I do tend to wash up after that because I don’t like the feeling of grime on my hands). Everyone goes back to dicking around on their phones or petting the dog or scratching their dry, bidet-starved buttholes and no one bats an eye. There’s not a single person in this cursed land who has any leg to stand on when it comes to etiquette about…fucking anything.
Also isn’t there a Fr*nch dish that people cover their faces to eat because they, using their hands,
CW: polite western food consumption practice
stuff an entire bird in their mouths and then spit out the bones? wikipedia link on the “culinary use” of Ortolan bunting
“Polite Western society” lmaooo fuck off. Just like AmeriKKKan “culture,” that shit ain’t real, it’s just rank chauvinism from pampered, ignorant bigots who feel too comfortable speaking at all.
Oh, everyone in the west is always doing important business handshake. Really gives the game away that ‘polite western society’ clearly just means business executives going to meetings that should have been emails. If the ferengi were tall these people would find them aspirational.
I know that they’re trying to do anti-Muslim racism but this is also anti-Italian racism and I will not stand for it.
Utencels: engages in resource extraction all so their hands won’t get dirty
Fingerchads: God has given them all the tools they need to grab foodTagline pls
Seconded, absolutely
Utenacels: pulls knife out of chest
Ut-incels
I don’t want to shake anyone’s hand after they’ve eaten an apple
