Political Memes

Racism. Honestly. Spices were seen for peasants and came from foreign lands. Over the generations it just became normal to come from a family with bland ass food.

It’s not really true. Everyone likes flavorful food. Most Americans season their food plenty.

If a hallmark of your culture is that your people love “food, family, and fun”, your culture may not be as unique as you think.

Not all of us are that bad. I'm making tamales next week and getting gyros tomorrow

Wow, it really is a white middle class issue huh? My mom is from a rural area and could keep up with most professional chefs in the taste department. When my parents divorced, my dad got with one of the most stereotypical "Karen"s who've ever witnessed. She hated me because I refused to eat anything she had a hand in making. Ffs, I always made the deviled eggs for Thanksgiving ever since I was a child, here and her daughters said they won't eat them if I put onion and relish in them. Needles to say, they did not eat my deviled eggs.

How did bland ass food become the hallmark of cuisine for white middle-class americans? I

I'm pretty sure it didn't, it is just something people like to say on the internet.

No idea. I'm having wings and tacos on Sunday.

As someone who moved from one country to the other, Canada's food is sooooo much better than the US's by comparison

I don't know, but anecdotally, my experience is that it's mostly poorer and older folks that trend towards bland foods. It's what they grew up with and what they know, and to them a lot of the recipes are tradition / comfort food. They simply weren't exposed to a lot of spices and taste profiles growing up so they didn't develop an appreciation for it and have no desire to step out of their comfort zone.

A lot of them were from large families and families that basically only ate what they raised and grew, for generations. They might've spent money to buy a small amount of extras like white sugar, bleached flour, salt, and maybe black pepper. And then in terms of produce, most of what was grown was staple foods, and a limited selection of easy to manage herbs like mint and dill that they could grow in a season then use or preserve.

Obviously that's a bit over simplified and not every family and every body's story is exactly alike, but it generally holds true to varying degrees in most of the cases of "blandfooditis" I've encountered.

Then there's also the nature of a lot of larger families having to prepare meals for the least common denominator. Grampie can't have too much salt, Grammie can't chew cause she doesn't have any teeth, Gina is diabetic, Braxton is allergic to pepper ... so you end up with a lot of plain boiled meals simply because that's the easiest/cheapest option that everybody can have.

Maybe it's time to grab your boom box and hit the TURBO BASS.

And that was when I learned that you have to rinse the rice first.

That's a myth actually, you don't need to do it. It comes out completely fine without washing the rice. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3CHsbNkr3c

The rice cooker makes a difference though. They are pretty interesting from a technological perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSTNhvDGbYI

I have always cooked rice in a pot (family from Louisiana, they literally grow rice there) but when I met my husband he was so mystified by dry rice, he'd been using microwave bags of rice.

I rinse long grain rice, and brown rice, but soak short grain sticky rice, and for some dishes, saute dry rice in butter or olive oil before cooking it. One of my kids used to cook it like pasta in a lot of water then drain it, I don't think this is a one right way situation.

Puerto Rican food is delicious for sure. My DIL says it's "saucy not spicy".

You'll actually find rice instructions that say not to rinse the rice if you don't want to wash away some of the nutritional benefits. I've had mixed success with the rinsing, I've made near-perfect unrinsed rice and soggy clumpy nastiness from rinsed rice. I think it's more about controlling the water ratio and the heat. I'm currently on the "boil water, add to rice, and bake" train as I've had the most success with this method. However I'm also usually making rice for 60 people at a time and don't have an industrial rice cooker, you just can't do the "bring to a boil, simmer, and cover" method with that much rice. Or I can't anyway.

huh. i don't rinse the rice but i get the same "hey, no one makes rice like he does" talk around the white people water coolers. it's just following the rice:water ratios and using a little oil and salt.

are you rinsing until the water is clear or just a quick rinse? because my electric pressure cooker makes a damn good rice cooker i'm not changing that part of my method.

As a fellow cracker ass cracker, all the bags of rice I buy tell my dumbass to rinse the rice first

If you are purposefully leaving food unseasoned to experience its natural flavor, you are fine.

We are talking about people scared of a lil paprika in a situation that clearly calls for it.

Edit: all the dishes you named as unseasoned… they all have seasoning except sashimi and buttered potatoes. Soy sauce, garlic, and Sichuan pepper are seasoning/spices. And Sashimi is typically eaten with soy sauce AFAIK.

Nothing in this meme makes fun of European cuisine. It makes fun of a very specific subsection of White people in the U.S. who would watch the TPUSA halftime show instead of Bad Bunny.

Oh it's chicken!

I thought it was ranch dressing or something. Just big globs of it.

Toilet Paper USA (The propaganda network of old bleedy neck) is doing a counter show to the super bowl half time show because, well I don't actually know their verbal reasoning but I'm pretty sure it's racism or some other inane reactionary response.

The NFL also holds games in London, Berlin, and Mexico City. They are usually pretty sold out games

I'm brown from a spice-heavy ethnicity and I love bland food. I must've been a medieval monk or something in a past life...

You should probably be careful not to generalise from a single example. There are people who can't cook all over the world.