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doux-amer · 2 years ago

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I watched The Menu and loved it because it featured every single thing I hate about the food world and the arts in general. It’s brilliant because it's multilayered and multi-pronged in its satire and reducing it to just ONE aspect of its criticism (“rich people suck”) is too simplistic; even if you took away their richness, each character from the customers to Slowik and Elsa on the opposite side stands for a certain type of person who interacts with food and I hate every single one of them. :))))))

Also, it's hilarious because 2022 had The Bear and The Menu and people who work in the food industry/service industry or are have some connection to it talked about how they got stressed out by one and felt catharsis through the other. Both of them let them feel seen, but one was feeling seen in a bad way and the other one was in a good way even if you liked both fkasjflksajf.

#i don't particularly want to look at what people say about the menu #because i feel like i'm going to be benafflecksmoking.jpg about it the way i did when i saw some stuff about the bear #there are several things going on and if you just think it's about one thing you're wrong and i don't want to talk to you #like yeah rich people suck but the class and privilege satire got muddied because this is not a case of one good guy #who's a champion of service workers vs. all these rich snobs who make everything suck #but that's the point!#and it's not entirely about wealth because you can't look at someone like tyler for instance and think that's the point #and i assume people think tyler is the stand-in for obsessive foodies #when in reality all of the diners are different types of foodies all of whom are despicable and who are in fact bloodsuckers #although the way that slowik judges some of them is so binary and narrow and he's conflating everyone's sins to the same degree #and slowik is a hypocrite and a delusional egoistic bitter man but he's also not the only one perpetuating the abuse #he is culpable in contributing to the destruction of his own soul and life as well as his passion and the industry #and there are people like elsa who enable that and the way she does her job is just...EVERYONE SUCKS! THEY ALL SUCK!#the only person who's right is margot/erin for a lot of reasons #she is the only one who understood the assignment #the only one who didn't belong there yes...but as someone who's a service worker herself #she understood the fundamental basics of what a dining experience is #what providing that means and what someone is supposed to receive #and acknowledging what goes into it (her acknowledgment of the sous chef as the person who puts in the work #knowing there is a person whereas tyler couldn't give a damn)#what food is there for at the end of the day #even if someone else had gone into that room none of them were capable of coming to that conclusion #anyway i hate the culture around fine dining and i hate foodies :))))#every time i see a fellow millennial say they're a foodie or write that they love food on their ig/dating app profile/twitter bio/whatever #i roll my eyes so hard and it's HATE on sight!!!!!!!#you and everyone else in 2023 buddy!#and you can love food and i know if you love food versus....that #the bear and the menu are great in different ways and i appreciate and like them for different reasons #and i was SO interested in seeing which would stress me out. for me it was the bear (even though i enjoyed it) and the menu was fun #without any stress while the opposite was true for some people who HATED the menu (loved it but felt understood/seen/reminded of stuff)

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