• Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I despise this traditional “that doesn’t go on that dish” bullshit.

    It was that way with the food where I’m from and well and now the new generation is doing whatever they want with those traditional recipes and making them modern and it’s amazing. If you don’t like pineapple on your pizza don’t have it. But shut the fuck up with your “that’s not a pizza”. You sound like my great grandma

    Edit: I’m from El Salvador and people used to freak out if you suggested that pupusas should have more variety than just pork, cheese and beans. They’d yell at you that it wasn’t traditional. Now the young generation is making pupusas with chicken, fish, shrimp, sweet potato, zucchini, and so on, and it’s amazing!

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      3 months ago

      the worst is when people are like this for a dish that was invented as a way to use the shitty limited ingredients of the area because everyone was poor and that’s all they had back then. That’s not even tradition. Or slightly less annoying is when people try your traditional dish from the country your family comes from and say its not correct in some way, but they are from one of the 6 neighboring countries with pretty much the same food but the name is spelled slightly different and have regional plants as seasoning instead.

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        3 months ago

        That’s not even tradition.

        Ehhhh, you might not like most traditions then.

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          3 months ago

          I don’t really see being poor as a tradition. I’ve seen enough people present racism as a tradititon and I don’t like that either. My dad has been facebook’d and keeps wanting to do ancient medicines because “the government took them away from us”, and has asked where to get some definitely dangerous substances. There are indeed a lot of things people call tradition that I don’t like.

          I don’t think changing a couple ingredients breaks tradition when most old recipes were just throwing whatever we had together and trying to make it at least minimally enjoyable for bonus points. I guess it’s different for wealthy people in the past much like it is now, but if it could be improved cheaply or for free when it was new either due to ingredients or skills and knowledge, everyone would have done it. Some things were probably also just good enough that nobody bothered changing it, but now most people are conditioned to really high sugar and salt or just stronger flavour in general.

          Actually one of my time travel fantasy wishes is to see people in the last eat the modern versions of their favourite food. I’d feel bad about shocking their systems with large doses (to them) of microplastics, pesticides, and who knows what else though.