I'll never understand what's with white people and how they think durian and kimchi smell? I mean I like to eat neither of those but to think it smells is just kinda weird.
I don't mean this as a personal preference. Just this weird trope that comes into existence in white people media.
@IrisKalmia
I mean US yts mostly doesn't use or know all that much about spice other than bland ass shit.
@danishcookies mmmnnhm, a lot of what we recognize as culinary spices greatly favor tropical climates.
I find the reduction of 'spice' to just capsaicin-hot kinda... idk, really reductive to everything else used? Cinnamon in not-sweets is goood.
@IrisKalmia
I definitely did not reduce "spice" to that. I mean any type of flavor or smell that has not been thoroughly marketed to people as "American food"
@danishcookies It's a common trend I've seen in language lately I was griping about, sorry for the confusion!
I could probably get a lot of good ranting going about american food, but a summary of "It as a concept was invented wholesale by several industries, many high off the military-induced profits brought by WWII desperate to keep that train rolling with no regard for anyone but their bottom line" probably does it
@IrisKalmia
*whispers* "It's orientalism and racism."
@danishcookies Smells people are used to I guess.
Kimchi is weird tho, given it's basically just sourkraut which nobody complains about????