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@skinnylatte Maybe there's also a native-environment/immigrant-environment aspect.

When *all* food is social, if your family presents the sort of stressful environment I'm talking about, maybe you go grab the street food you like with your friends, and it has a different social significance.

But if the family's dynamic is complicated by the fact that they're attempting to *preserve* a culture via food, while your friends are eating garbage at the mall food court… well I guess that's social too