#bitch pasta came from chinese people anyway

[fizzingwizard]

man why do foreign influencers in Japan come for Saizeriya so much lol. First they yap about how it's "not authentic Italian" lmao why did you think it would be...??

(spaghetti is really popular in Japan - it's a cafe food for whatever reason - and you're hard-pressed to find another other form of pasta except occasionally penne - that by itself should tip you off that it's not gonna be any more authentic than Chinese takeout orange chicken).

Then, naturally, they go for the $1 wine. hey I do get it... there are tons of people who can't wrap their minds around why this would exist, because who'd order it?? Hello *raises hand* It's me, I order it! One wine tastes pretty much the same as another to me, sorry wine elitists. Go enjoy your premium Cabernet Sauvignon from 1774 and let me sip my cheap wine that tastes like ass in peace lol

(That redhead on Facebook for some reason referred to it as juice? with quotation mark fingers. Idk if I'm not getting something, I looked at the menu but didn't see juice, they had it properly listed as wine... is it a Facebook thing where you can't mention alcohol in videos??? really not sure why she did this)

And every foreigner ever always has such Strong Opinions about corn pizza! Including me, when I first came. Honest to God corn pizza is not the travesty every westerner in Japan behaves like it is. Corn pizza tastes fine. It's not my personal taste. It doesn't offend me. Lol.

Idk man I go to saizeriya because it's cheap as fuck even now that the yen's value is so low, it serves peas, which I love and which aren't common here, and it serves fast food pizza and pasta which never hurt anyone lol. One guy bitched that his "margherita pizza" seemed like it was just a cheese pizza... but afaik Saizeriya does not sell margherita pizza. At all. I can't say for sure because sometimes menus at these chain restaurants are different depending on your region - maybe there was a margherita pizza on the menu at his place, or maybe he took the video in a year that they did just have margherita pizza... However, to my memory and experience over several years, there is no margherita pizza at Saizeriya, but there is buffalo mozzarella pizza. As in a cheese pizza lol. I think the guy misread mozzarella as margherita (the katakana doesn't really look alike but I can kinda see it especially if you're not great with マ行) and then was surprised by what he got. And redhead praised the doria because "Japan does rice well" haha. IMO Saizeriya doria tastes hardly better than like conbini doria...

Anyway the point is if you come to Japan and don't want to eat inauthentic Italian food... don't go to Saizeriya lol.

I guess I'm just over the whole "WOW look at this WEIRDO thing Japan does it's so UBER CRAY-CRAY" vibe, especially from influencers who are making a profit... like it's been done man... can we find something else to make fun of?

[being-caroline]

watch this if you wanna get real hungry and read the comments if you wanna see a bunch of white people saying “so it’s just pasta then.....”

[gimmeyoon]

Tag Game

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[alarajrogers]

Oh yeah, the same thing happened to me. And I am hoping it will happen to my child.

But you don’t have to be racist to have basically no exposure to any genuine cuisine outside of the area you live in; you just need to be an American who doesn’t live on the coasts and doesn’t live in a city. If you have no exposure to foods from other cultures, and any attempt you might make to produce a watered-down version from a recipe online hits you like a ton of bricks because the spice levels are way too high for your untrained palate... you’re not going to want to eat outside your own comfort levels. And honestly that’s fine, more for the rest of us. :-)

My mom liked to experiment and try new things, and still, the food she cooked -- which I found delicious at the time -- would probably strike me as very bland now. In fact I know it would because I wrote down her recipes to take to grad school, and now when I make them, I have to add a ton of cheese or spices to make it good. She wasn’t racist; she was surrounded by people with sensitive palates who wouldn’t eat strongly spiced food. She visited New York City often and traveled the world a few times but she never managed to live anywhere but her home town, the place she grew up. And, I mean, she watched cooking shows. She collected cookbooks. But nobody got used to spices from eating her food because everyone who regularly ate her food wouldn’t eat it if it was too spicy. Including my dad, who comes from the side of the family that the autism comes from too.

Delicate palate isn’t a racist thing, it’s a “never lived around people who cooked differently for long enough to naturally adapt, and isn’t adventurous enough to insist on trying new things anyway.” Are there racists with delicate palates? Sure. But, I mean, dill is a flavoring. Lemon is a flavoring. White people cooking has no problem with those. Mostly it’s the physical sensation of “hotness” that “white” cuisine tends to avoid... and, I mean, if your food tastes good without it, why adopt it? I didn’t learn to like hot spices until my allergies overwhelmed me and I learned that hot spice clears your sinuses and helps fight fatigue. Food tasted fine to me before I acclimated. Now some foods are boring as shit if they don’t have spices. I used to eat Popeye’s Mild Chicken. Now I eat the Spicy and find the Mild really, really dull. But the only benefit I got from that is that it increased the range of other people’s cooking I can eat and, as mentioned, hot spice fights fatigue and clears sinuses.

I guess I feel like... why are we in a position to say that white people who live in the suburbs in the middle of the US, who love mayonnaise and lemon and dill and vinegar, who think that cold pasta and mayonnaise is actually a food... why’s their cuisine objectively worse than any other cuisine? It’s the fact that they’re not worldly, that they only eat one kind of food, that makes us look down on them... but if it tastes good to them, what business do we have insisting that it’s wrong? (Cold pasta and mayonnaise is, however, objectively wrong. :-) No, I’m joking.) Yeah, the Chinese food you can get in a white suburb absolutely sucks if you’re familiar with Chinese food from a big city’s Chinatown... but I am assured by actual Chinese people that that doesn’t taste like the food in China, either.

Especially as autistic people -- we are from the group of humans that came up with the term “samefood” and made it a positive word -- I think it’s wrong of us to insult other people’s tastes in food just because they’re blander than what we like. For all I know, my kid who likes the plain meat and rice has much more sensitive taste buds than I do and is picking up delicate flavors I couldn’t possibly. And there’s no way to bitch out the white people who put pickles and ketchup on meat they cooked to death without bitching out many of our fellow autistics and “cousins”, as well.

My parents got a fancy pfaltzgraff spice rack with fancy little matching spices with the same design as their dishes printed on them, anyway they probably got it 25+ years ago and its true they never use the spices

This is so...😑