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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 04:37:09 JST Adrianna Tan

   I read someone say ‘everybody from every culture probably likes light food for breakfast’ and I laugh as I dump enough chillies and spices into my breakfast noodles to make me cry (a lot)

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 04:39:18 JST Adrianna Tan

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     Whatever light / sweet breakfast tyrants feel about my breakfast, I feel the same about theirs. Light food and sweet food at breakfast makes me deeply unhappy, dissatisfied, even icked out

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 04:47:47 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Dr. Robin Farrell :rick: :donor:

     @robinfarrell I love French food in the country. It’s much more in line with how I eat. I think the modern ‘eat a pot of yogurt and a fruit’ thing is an urban issue. Heh

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     Dr. Robin Farrell :rick: :donor: (robinfarrell@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 04:47:48 JST Dr. Robin Farrell :rick: :donor:

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     @skinnylatte Stay away from France- I agree with you.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 04:49:48 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Colman Reilly

     @Colman yeah it is 100% an urban class detached from labor, thing. I agree we should probably reduce the portions in some types of traditional hearty breakfast foods if we are not doing the same amounts of physical labor, but eat yogurt and one slice of fruit is so puzzling to me. I mean I can do that. Maybe as a joke. But I can’t do I donuts for brekkie the way many people seem to

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     Colman Reilly (colman@mastodon.ie)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 04:49:50 JST Colman Reilly

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     @skinnylatte I find the whole thing very weird. Lots of people with no idea of food culture or history.

     What culture ate light breakfasts outside of the most effete urbanites? Especially any of the cultures that produced white Americans? Bread and cheese and cold meats, fry ups and devilled kidneys and smoked or pickled fish and potatoes and beer. Eggs. Butter.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 04:55:26 JST Adrianna Tan

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     Honestly I just don’t believe there are breakfast foods. Other than idli and dosa and soy milk and you tiao.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 04:56:27 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • movation

     @movation same but it would be my relative’s wanton mee shop in red hill

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     movation (movation@fnordon.de)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 04:56:29 JST movation

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     @skinnylatte my perfect breakfast would be wonton mee @ Maxwell Road food court :)

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 04:57:55 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • G.I. Robot :bc:

     @GuyDudeman yeah. But it’s not light so it’s fine I’ll accept it

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     G.I. Robot :bc: (guydudeman@beige.party)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 04:57:56 JST G.I. Robot :bc:

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     @skinnylatte You take that back. French Toast is one of the world’s most perfect foods.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 05:00:40 JST Adrianna Tan

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     I mean I think anyone who believes that anybody else likes the same food or has the same food preferences as them.. or that everybody has the same idea of breakfast food.. probably hasn’t met very many people of different backgrounds? I don’t think I could even get 10 Chinese people to have a list of the same breakfast foods that overlap with mine.. there are so many)

     But to think that universally, everybody ever likes the same things? That’s just bizarre

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 05:25:58 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • thierry

     @thierry universally when I ask Southeast Asian friends who are in week 2 of a trip to Europe, they’re like very beautiful, etc but holy shit I need rice I can’t have bread every day (and that’s me too)

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     thierry (thierry@twit.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 05:26:00 JST thierry

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     @skinnylatte Breakfast aside, when I told some Indian colleagues I was going to Italy they both replied: Oh… You… like Italian food?

     Me: yes, I really do. I gather you are not fans?

     Them: no it’s ok. It just doesn’t have much taste.

     Great people. Different backgrounds and different tastes. This makes like interesting.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 05:40:32 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • jensilber

     @jensilber I’ve met plenty of people in Asia who are sad about the bread situation being unlike home, but the rice fiends are definitely the ones who feel it is.. existential

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     jensilber (jensilber@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 05:40:33 JST jensilber

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     @skinnylatte Oh, that's funny. I haven't been to Asia yet but I don't *think* that I would find myself needing bread and saying I can't have rice every day. Actually, maybe I would get tired of rice every day but I would never be sad about noodles every day, or even every meal of every day.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 05:52:56 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • David McMullin

     @mcmullin yes but you can dip the you tiao into congee

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     David McMullin (mcmullin@musicians.today)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 05:52:57 JST David McMullin

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     @skinnylatte
     Hmm, but isn’t you tiao getting perilously close to donut territory?

     (I know it’s different: a little crunchier and chewier, and not sweet. For the record, I think I like everything on both your lists, what you want for breakfast and what you don’t like being told you’re supposed to want for breakfast.)

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     jensilber (jensilber@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 05:58:42 JST jensilber

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     @skinnylatte Valid for them. People are quirky, right? And traveling puts everything off-kilter. Whenever we travel my husband can only go about 36 hours before he starts saying "I just need a salad, I feel like I haven't eaten any vegetables at all" even when I can name several vegetables he's already eaten.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 05:58:42 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • jensilber

     @jensilber haha the salad thing used to drive me nuts, raw vegetables very much isn’t really a thing most places I’ve lived. I now just observe people who seem to have this biological need for raw vegetables and compare it to how.. I do not, not ever.

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     Trapper (bigelow@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 06:02:27 JST Trapper

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     @skinnylatte I see all food as "what do I want and when". But that dang SOCIETY keeps getting in my way!

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 06:17:58 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • David McMullin

     @mcmullin I think even the least sweet donut in America is way too sweet

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     David McMullin (mcmullin@musicians.today)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 06:18:00 JST David McMullin

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     @skinnylatte
     If you’re adventurous you can dip anything in anything :)

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     Alexandra Magin 🏳️‍🌈 (recursive@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 06:20:43 JST Alexandra Magin 🏳️‍🌈

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     @skinnylatte soy milk and you tiao may be mild-flavored but not sweet... Or is this my bias from growing up in the US?

     Anyway it did teach me that I never want to drink sweetened soymilk like some of the milk-substitute-targeted products

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 06:24:58 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Alexandra Magin 🏳️‍🌈

     @recursive there is ultra savory soy milk for breakfast.. with soy sauce and scallions

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     Alexandra Magin 🏳️‍🌈 (recursive@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 06:43:36 JST Alexandra Magin 🏳️‍🌈

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     • jensilber

     @skinnylatte @jensilber the cultural programming around that being an essential component of health is amazingly powerful among a certain subset of folks in the US/western Europe. From a sensory issues perspective, I often just think, okay some of this is nice, but some of it is just too harsh and would be more enjoyable cooked. e.g. I only want the most tender carrots raw, and only Kale that's been grown under 70F/21C