Why the FUCK does food get placed on such a high cultural pedestal?
>to learn about a culture you must experience their food >eating different food makes you more cultured >you aren't really travelling unless you eat local authentic food
etc etc. Why do people seem to think that shoving food into your mouth teaches you anything at all? One good book, even a fictional one, can teach me so much more about a culture than any meal.
People have a tradition of using ingredients that are local to them but not local to me? Crazy! Some people don't use knives and forks? Knowing this makes me educated! You ate an obscure dish from a foreign land? Damn bro, teach me your ways.
If you're studying archaeology/history/anthropology/similar, then sure, food is part of the wider puzzle. But that's it.
On a similar note, why do third worlders practically cum in their pants when traditional foods are brought up? I used to think that this probably used to be the norm for everyone and it was a case of the West losing their way but on further examination I have concluded that there is some relationship. The French and Italians love their food, but it doesn't get them laughing and screaming like it does with Africans. One mention of jollof rice and they're away.
Please don't think I'm some "food is just fuel" autist. I like a good meal as much as anyone else. I like variety. But I don't get the obsession.
At the risk of answering my own question - is it just normies being normies? They don't have anything of more substance to discuss?
Sharing a meal with someone is a ritual so ingrained in the human psyche that is has religious connotations. Sharing the "meal" of another country is a way to begin to understand it in that context. You are eating more than just the food.
Julian Cooper
Literally your entire life revolves around food You wouldn't understand because mummy's been feeding you toast sandwiches your entire life
>The French and Italians love their food, but it doesn't get them laughing and screaming like it does with Africans True for the French. As for Italians, you should check literally any recipe video about Italian food. They're very chauvinistic when it comes to cooking.
Lincoln Bell
You are what you eat.
John Thomas
food is for fucking faggots and brainlets, smoking a pack of cigarettes a day and drinking coffee in the morning + tea in the afternoon enables you to go all day without eating, then a quick meal at night and you're good to go voilà
Jose Nelson
Are you a HIV-infected druggy alcoholic by any chance?
>typical septic post
Predictable as always.
So third-world spiritual woowoo mentality. Epic.
>yank says life revolves around food
Fuck me.
I also piss, shit and sleep too. If I shit in the field a la Mr Patel am I cultured?
I mean normal everyday people. Europeans treat cooking like an art but for Africans and select others act like it's a spiritual experience.
Zachary Phillips
Eating together is sacred since ancient times. In a sense if a bunch of people are eating together they become one (group/family).
Food has such a huge impact on human psychology and physiology that its logistics have been the most primary concern of virtually every form of human organization in existence. Just watch a documentary on how much time and resources NASA invests to provide its astronauts with food. Why did civilization develop? Because advanced agricultural methods allowed for excess food and this the devision of labor. What is the spice trade etc.
Hunter Moore
soy: the thread based OP
Thomas Harris
wtf I'm hungry now.
Jeremiah Bennett
This OP
John Johnson
That is not a "third world thing". It's a "non-anglo thing". Everywhere in the world where humans have settled, food has developed creatively. Except for Anglo countries. You guys are just awful.
Jordan Collins
People aren't really addressing the question. The act of eating together is the same no matter what you're eating. How does going to a new restaurant in town make me more cultured? Why do people get so obsessed?
I also don't understand the assumption that I must be some kind of skelly. 6ft, 210lbs, 34 waist. Come at me.
"Development" (lol) of food is a different issue to the attitudes towards it. Brainlet subhuman.
Andrew Moore
Of courses you haven't developed an attitude towards food if your country has the lamest food on earth.
Xavier Richardson
London alone has more world-class restaurants than your cunt ever will.
Tyler Nelson
Too bad you have to visit a world class restaurant to experience decent food in your own country.
Angel Martinez
Nobody ever said that though.
There are ethnic stores all over my city. I can pick up ingredients anytime I want and cook myself if I feel the need.
Imagine trying to mog people online over food of all things. Go boil your head.
Jaxon Harris
>Imagine trying to mog people online over food of all things. Jeez user I agree, truly pathetic.
Hudson Wood
So why do you do it?
John King
>and it was a case of the West losing their way lmao this nigger
Kevin Martinez
You got angry and called me names after I spoke ill of your national food. Then argued how quality food is easier to find in London than here. Basically you do exactly what you criticise: you have passionate attitude towards food and "mog" others over it.
Hudson Butler
>One good book, even a fictional one, can teach me so much more about a culture than any meal.
It’s all about the experience, you can’t get from a book. You sound like a proper little Englander “I don’t eat that foreign muck”
Nathan Anderson
I don't get it either. I subsist on chicken and rice.
Jaxson Perry
this and only this
Luke Parker
its about the big picture. it's easier to immerse into a foreign culture if you eat and drink like they do while you enjoy your stay checking out their art, plays and literature. why needlessly handicap yourself?
