Notices by Carson Hill 📎 (dicenbuttons@mastodon.social)

@skinnylatte

As a white dude with a man bun, I could say the man bun helps a person cook better.

I would be lying, but I could say it anyway and folks would believe me. Because I'm a white dude with a man bun.

@skinnylatte

Gotcha. So you're thinking more specifically of the "Hey I bet nobody thought of combining Chinese food with Nigerian cuisine" (or whatever, I'm picking that combo at random) sort of thing. Where each dish came from a space like "What if we put X in an egg roll" or "How about tacos, but with Y."

As opposed to more organic "fusion cuisines" that grew as a result of overlapping cultures (tex mex), international trade, military occupation (Hawaiian foods, bahn mi), etc.

@skinnylatte

I feel like "fusion" cuisine already exists between large countries, or on the borders between.

For example "Tex Mex" is American-Mexican fusion food. Hawaiian foods are sort of an American-Asian fusion. Philippino food is sort of a Latino-Asian fusion.

It's not quite the same - those countries/foods have their unique heritage and I don't want to reduce it overmuch, but I also feel like it's kinda silly to build up rules and structure around food.

Good food is for everybody.

This was the most charming tuft of #moss that I met on my walk today.

#mosstodon #nature #awalkaday

No, I'm not just focusing on small things to distract myself from the travesty that is my government. Alright, that's exactly what I'm doing. Fine.

You can't stop me.

@skinnylatte

Can relate - I drink lots of tea and recently added a decaf Earl Grey to my evening rituals. Tis a wonderful thing.

@WarnerCrocker

Turns out the shrimp did, in fact, eventually end.

@courtney

Totally agree. Alternate framings:

1. Team Patriarchy vs Team First Female President.
2. Team Old White Racist Idiot vs Team Jamaican/Indian Intellectual.
3. Team Too-old-to-be-President vs Team Lucid Adult.

The cop thing is still there, but it's easier to swallow (for me anyway) as "extended context" for any/all the above.