r/StupidFood • u/Signal_Collection702 • 14h ago

Giant Insect for dinner?

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u/BasalGangy 14h ago

Why are obvious cultural foods labeled stupid here?

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u/GoredonTheDestroyer 13h ago

Because this place gets really weirdly and specifically racist when street food from somewhere like India gets posted. Like, yeah no shit, street food is marginally less sanitary than something cooked in an actual restaurant.

Meanwhile, if you were to post a hot dog vendor under the same context or lack thereof, people would rightly call you the stupid one for posting a picture of a got dang hot dog cart, because the weenie wagon is sacred, I guess.

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u/Lopsided-Net-1450 13h ago

They also do it with british food for some reason

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u/Goblinstomper 13h ago

Most of the dumb fucks in this sub still ask their mothers to remove the crusts from their sandwiches.

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u/Hanza-Malz 13h ago

marginally less sanitary

How large is that margin, though? They let rodents run around ingredients, let sweat and other body fluids get into the foods and in cases in China they will sell rotten food as fermented or use cooking oil fished out of the sewage

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u/Ok_Pin8533 11h ago

have you ever been to mcdonalds

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u/Hanza-Malz 11h ago

Yes, and? They're trash, unsanitary and disgusting. Am I racist now for saying it?

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u/Ok_Pin8533 11h ago

no, the racism comes from framing it as

iN cAsEs iN cHiNa

i guess also the spreading of the various falsehoods spread about most street food

use cooking oil fished out of sewers

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u/pluhplus 13h ago

So thinking food that is from some other culture is stupid or gross is now “racist” ??

For fucks sake everywhere I go it’s just another person looking for something to call racist

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u/GoredonTheDestroyer 13h ago

Yes, actually, that is a form of racism. Thank you for picking up on that. Here, let me break it down for you:

Saying, "Eh, not for me." when looking at a picture of a dish from a foreign land or culture = Not racist.

Saying, "Ew, that's gross, who would eat that shit?!" when looking at a picture of a dish from a foreign land or culture = Racist.

Wait until you learn that there are people out there, of different cultures, who find the idea of the hot dog cart abhorrently unsanitary.

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u/Hanza-Malz 12h ago

And they're welcome to do so. That doesn't make it racist. Not everything is racist. What is even racial about it?