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Yeah the British food poll also included some things that...weren't actually weird foods, just descriptions of normal foods cooked badly?

Like. "Shepherd's pie (unseasoned)" is just a really artificial way of making sure everything on the list sounded bad, which just goes to show that they couldn't think of very many actually weird/offputting foods--because shepherd's pie is a perfectly nice food and I've never known anyone who doesn't season it (maybe in the 50s people didn't, maybe a few grandparents still don't, but...).

Or "unidentifiable meat and potatoes (grey, unseasoned)" or whatever it was...that's not a "weird regional dish", that's meat and potatoes (something that you can find in one form or another in pretty much every European country, America, and other countries too) prepared by someone who can't cook and has overcooked the meat horribly?

That's the equivalent of making a poll shitting on Italian food where the options are like "pizza (burnt)", "pasta (overcooked into a limp soggy mess)", "Parma ham (years past its expiry date)" or something...

(And yeah, most of the other options were poor people foods: mushy peas, beans on toast. Both foods I dislike because of texture issues, but...still not nearly as horrific as the "ew poor people foods" memes suggest. There was ONE non-poor-people-food on there--cucumber sandwiches, which I associate with fancy afternoon teas, and which I'm not in a good position to evaluate because I hate ALL sandwiches--but the rest of the poll was entirely either working-class things or just a description of what a cartoonishly incompetent cook could do to a nice food.)

Inspired by that poll coming for British food, have an alternative.

Shout-out to @sigh-the-kraken for suggesting American delicacies I wouldn't want to touch 👍

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Should I run a bracket?

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I'm unshadowbanned!

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Conservative goths or punks are posers. This is not gatekeeping, it's just straight up facts.

Goth culture has its roots in punk culture which is inherently leftist. Pretending you're a goth while holding right-wing beliefs just doesn't add up.

You'd be just as dumb as those Trump supporters dancing to Killing in the name by Rage Against The Machine.

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book to movie adaptations generally suck, but reblog with ur exception in the tags

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also put what kind of jam in the notes, I am curious about what everyone likes! I use peach preserves or hot pepper jam

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I wrote in this post why Hogwarts Legacy is antisemitic and why playing this game, even pirated, is like printing out an antisemitic caricature and saying "I just like the art."

I was right.

If you play this game, fuck off and stay away from me.

Sorry, finding this out almost made me cry.

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@im2tired4usernames I don't know you and I'm sorry for the @ but I just looked in the notes of this post and you'd tagged it "this is a scary looking muppet" and I am LAUGHING SO HARD

Not AT you for not having seen the film (though: watch it! it's great!) and not knowing that this is a human actor in a mask (because honestly, I can see where you're coming from wrt looking like a scary muppet). It's just hilarious to see Hugo Weaving get called a "scary looking muppet".

Agent Smith? Scary muppet. Elrond? Scary muppet.

Hugo Weaving as he actually looks (i.e. nothing like most of his famous roles?)

Scary muppet. You heard it here first.

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The five deadly sins of transformative fandom:

Treating popular fanon regarding a character as authoritative, and getting angry at people whose feelings toward that character are informed by the version who appears in the actual text  

Conflating “it’s possible to construct this particular narrative from elements present in the text” with “this is the narrative the text in fact presents“  

Dismissing criticism of a particular aspect of the text on the grounds that you can imagine some hypothetical context in which the cited elements wouldn’t be problematic  

Elevating a particular body of fan-work above the actual source material, and acting like anybody whose fandom doesn’t take the former into account is missing the point  

Getting so immersed in a deep subtextual reading that you reflexively assume anyone who has an issue with the explicit text of the source material is engaging in bad faith

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The timing… omg

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I mean butter definitely *can* be used to fry things and in some cultures frequently is but like. It's definitely not essential to good cooking (other than baking) and I'm pretty sure there are more cultures out there that don't cook with butter than that do?

It just feels...very Northern-European-centric. You don't need butter and cream to cook good Japanese food, good Chinese food, good Thai food, at least not for the most part. Indian food might use ghee depending on where in India, or it might use oil...and there are curries with cream in but personally, I don't like the mild creamy curries, if I'm having a curry I want it to be actually hot. Jewish people have come up with some great food without mixing meat and dairy. Most cultures around the Mediterranean tend to cook more with olive oil than with butter. Like...it really is a pretty small minority of cultures where butter and cream are important to many savoury dishes.

This isn't me judging anyone who does like butter and cream in stuff, if your taste in food tends towards...well, Northern European food, there's some things where it really is essential and the food won't taste the same if you don't use it, and I might not enjoy many of them (seriously, I hate cream sauces so much, I've had them made by people who I know are good cooks otherwise and to me it's still just an unpleasant white gloop) but that doesn't mean they're bad (I love plenty of foods that many people hate. Like pickles.) But taste in food really is very subjective and dairy products are one of those things that a lot of people will report taste very bad if you're not used to them (even if you're not lactose intolerant)--I'm not even from a non-dairy-using culture, my family just tended to cook more with olive oil than with butter when I was growing up, and things cooked with butter won't necessarily taste REPULSIVE to me but I usually don't really see the appeal (and a lot of recipes that have "fry X in butter" just because it was written in a region where butter is the default frying-stuff substance really can use a decent oil just as well if that's what you happen to prefer the taste of), while cream in savoury things really does taste...wrong. It's not as if traditional Northern European cooking is some kind of objectively superior cuisine that all others must bow down before.

people are always like why can’t i cook restaurant level good food and the answer is always butter & cream & salt sorry. you have to accept this

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if streaming services don’t want people to skip the intro they need to start prioritizing intros that people like watch

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I hope people reblog to give us a wide sample size, also I hope people put in the tags explaining in greater detail, or mention any category I might not have thought of

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I've just started listening to this and so far I love it. Also, as someone who often finds it very hard to focus on podcasts/has to keep going back and repeating a bit of it because I missed what was said with most OTHER podcasts I try to listen to (e.g. my attempts at listening to the "making of The Good Place" podcast, which is very fun but also very much...a group of people, not all of whom are actors, chatting to each other), I find Cecil's voice MUCH, MUCH easier to focus on than any other podcast I've heard, because it is so...radio announcer. So if you usually find podcasts difficult I'd say it's still worth a try!

I'm not even that old but it's strange that wtnv is not everyone's first audio drama anymore. And even the older people I talk to aren't caught up or stopped listening a long time ago.

We need to bring wtnv back into the limelight because it did not fucking FLY for the rest of your podcasts to run.

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50% #feral scientist, 49% #wednesday netflix, 1% dumbass.