Im sorry but calling coffee a treat feels like stretching the definition of the word. Feels like an essential good to millions of people around the world (Hey its even vegan). Now a cake ? thats a treat. But coffee ? Thats a core ressource for many people. One of the things that keeps them going day in and out.

[–] Что_такое_любовь@hexbear.net 18 points 6 days ago (2 children)

If putting spices on your food is a treat, does that make white people the most ethical eaters?

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 6 days ago

The hexbear "Protestantism is evil to Protestantism is true virtuous communism" pipeline was not on my bingo card

[–] departee@hexbear.net 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Pre imperialism sure. They committed genocides to take control of and expand the spice trade.

It's kind of funny how italy gets to have the best european cuisine just by being in the imperial core so long, first during the roman empire, then during the columbian exchange. I guess the climate helped too. Compared to them northern europe took a long time to catch up. It's crazy how much the working class diet there changed so much even over the last half century

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You know tomatos arent indigenous to italy? So the italian food you think of now was mostly made with a version of mayo not tomato sauce.

[–] departee@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah that's what i was referring to with the columbian exchange. But I didn't know about the mayo lol

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 5 days ago

Good, because I have seen several variants of that take where people imagine that medieval Italians ate modern day lasagna and salsa rossa.

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