• TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Oh my god, that’s disgusting! Naked pics online Raisins in places they don’t belong? Where? Where do they use those?

  • Thorry84@feddit.nl
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    2 months ago

    I love sauerkraut, but when you put raisins in there it’s a whole next level. For me it’s like perfecting perfection, love it!

  • Zombie@feddit.uk
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    2 months ago

    Haha racism good when we play the reverse uno card, definitely nothing wrong with that…

    How do you expect to convince white racists that racism is bad if you upvote things that are racist towards them?

      • Zombie@feddit.uk
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        2 months ago

        racism /rā′sĭz″əm/

        noun

        1. The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.
        2. Discrimination or prejudice based on race.
        3. The belief that each race has distinct and intrinsic attributes.

        I know it’s just a dumb meme but how do you think racism starts? My experience is it tends to begin as “just a joke” until it’s normalised enough that someone feels comfortable enough to take off the mask and either encourage or perform discrimination and/or violence.

        Why tolerate white racism when we don’t tolerate any other kinds?

        • Shapillon@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          I see how it could somewhat fit the third definition if you craned your neck but I don’t really think it applies.

          (I’ll see if I’m able to expand on it later)

  • Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.com
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    2 months ago

    Alright, bear with me here.

    Back in the middle ages Europeans didn’t have access to sugarcane. Because of that, they never even thought to try to breed sugary beets and process those into sugar. The same was true for tree sap or any other possible source of sugar, because why the hell would it even occur to them if they’d never seen sugar?

    If a person in the middle ages wanted to make something sweet, their choices were to add honey or to add fruit. Honey was expensive, and the vast majority of the population of Europe were peasants. Honey wasn’t something they’d have around all the time. While fruit was way easier to come by, it was only available seasonally. So how do you make a sweet cake in the middle of winter? Dried fruit!

    So here’s the big kicker about putting raisins in shit: it’s been unnecessary for four goddamned centuries. There might be an occasional dish here or there that’s been made the same way since before sugar was available, but there’s no fucking excuse for it in like 95% of dishes. We live in an age where I - a regular dude who isn’t particularly wealthy - can go to the grocery store a mile away and find a dozen kinds of produce that were shipped from the other side of the planet where they’re in season. There hasn’t been an excuse to ruin perfectly innocent cookies with raisins for hundreds of years.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      There hasn’t been an excuse to ruin perfectly innocent cookies with raisins for hundreds of years.

      Counterpoint: The Great Depression

    • trolololol@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Also your explanation doesn’t cover why those recipes now include a diabetes inducing amount of sugar on top of the dried fruits

      • Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.com
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        2 months ago

        That’s a separate issue that we (meaning humanity, not just America) is still dealing with.

        During the second world war chemists figured out how to make cheap fertilizers and pesticides from petroleum. These two innovations shot farm productivity through the roof. Food became more abundant than ever before and therefore became incredibly cheap. Virtually overnight the biggest challenge to people’s diets was having too much, not too little.

        For the first generation or two living in this historic abundance, they had no way of seeing the coming health threats. Coming off of literally the entire history of life on this planet having too little to eat instead of too much, they weren’t with a “more is more” approach. Cost of ingredients was no longer a barrier to adding more sugar, more salt, and more fat. At least in the US, there was a brief “convenience” fad in cuisine in the 11950s, but gears quickly shifted to increasing portion size and improving taste by the brute force addition of more salt and sugar.

  • Hupf@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    Think about it: anything that has raisins in it could have fit beans instead.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I once stood and watch a workmate pour boiling water into a bowl of stuffing mix, stirred it, and then just ate it wet.

    I don’t think it ever occurred to him that you’re supposed to cook it…