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      I always found the “someone from Soviet Russia went to an American supermarket and broke down crying because the shelves were overflowing with food” trope that anticommunists used super tone deaf and hypocritical. First of all, half that food is ending up straight in the trash and dumped in a landfill, either after sitting too long in someone fridge or right in the fucking store, and for the latter they are literally legaly mandated to shred the food and pour bleach on it to prevent people from picking it out of the dumpster. Also, that person from Soviet Russia definitely passed by that homeless person sleeping by the doors, but don’t feed him though, that can land you in prison! Also just the general fact that hundreds of thousands of children go to bed hungry in the richest country in the world, both in the 50s/60s all the way to now, in fact food insecurity is on the rise in modern times with all our technology. Say what you want about rations under socialism, at least you were guaranteed a ration no matter who you were.

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        That trope is really annoying, and also weren’t supermarkets in the USSR full of food and a wide variety of stuff to? I recall seeing some images from like this image dump showing what the USSR was really like and it showed some grocery stores full of a wide variety of food stuff

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      Me. I do. It’s not like it’s $10,000 it’s a bloody 20 buck bread loaf mate. Bit pricy yeah but if I go water skiing with my mates on the river we always bring something to share for lunch and leave on my boat.

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        The San Francisco Chronicle, for decades, had spent an increasingly large slice of its total paper volume on its wine section, and it kept growing and taking a larger percentage, like a malignant tumor of pretentiousness.

        How does it fill out that much text in that many pages? With a whole lot of pretentious nothing like the OP posted.

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          Don’t worry, they took a break to sic their rabid readers doped up on crime wave propaganda on Honduran immigrants.

          Look up “SF Chronicle Honduras Drugs” and you can see for yourself

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      Computer, give me a food description written by a soulless husk of a consulting firm that best caters to cracker yuppies from San Francisco

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        If you ever get invited to eat with cracker yuppies from the Bay Area, I hope you like bland, cold, slimy overpriced food. If you don’t, they’ll blame you for not appreciating the supposedly subtle accents/flavors/whatever of their bland cold slimy overpriced food.

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          Got exposed to plenty of that as a kid. Courtesy of my asshole family. Made a post about them 3 years ago, you might stumble across it. I’m grateful every day I didn’t turn out to be a failson loser preaching the virtues of capitalism

          But back to the food, when my job was flying rich guys around, I had better food from jet catering companies.

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            I could say something about how weird and alien western rich fucks are regarding their food preferences (caviar is disgusting and is derived from animal cruelty in the first place, and it’s a sort of rich fuck hazing ritual to eat it until one starts to supposedly like it), but I could also get carried away and write an entire book on that.

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              We used to have Caviar served for first class passengers for trans-pacific flights, there was always one guy who didn’t want it. The crew tried it once, I thought it tasted like nothing plus salt and it was slimy. At least I was being paid to eat it shrug-outta-hecks

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                Ever have a rich fuck tell you how you’re supposed to properly eat it?

                I have. He described the way you’re supposed to (CW: gross description)

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                encircle each fish egg with your practiced tongue and squeeze it until it pops and squirts, savoring each and every fish egg that way.

                The Zucc isn’t the only rich asshole that gives me the shivers.

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                  Luckily not to me directly, but I learned plenty of rich people table manners as a kid. Did you know you’re not supposed to use the butter knife directly on the bread, but you have to smear it on the side of your dedicated bread plate? And for the 10 different utensils they give you, it’s like the rich lady from Titanic said, work your way in.

                  But I guess that way makes sense if you spent 2000 dollars for two spoonfuls.

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      It’s got that telltale vibe. That “je me sais quoi” that AI generated text so often has to it.

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          You’re not wrong.

          As much as I groan at the “dae le epic bacon” fad that dragged on for so many years, it came from a reaction to snotty foodie asshole arrogance from the early 2000s which is somewhat understandable.

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          Jeez then did they train ChatGPT solely on high end food marketing material? Because it sounded so much like AI!

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    So this is a Kumara sourdough/Irish potato bread. Nice but hardly groundbreaking. Also no it’s never been a dessert what are they thinking.