My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories

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• Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca ⁨48⁩ ⁨seconds⁩ ago

  Remember that episode of Enterprise with the web alien and the other aliens that didn’t eat in public?

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• Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Ah, a Dutch person

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• mavu@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  He’s british i guess.

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨43⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    British food is unironically great, and based on WW2 rationing. It’s made funnier that the people who say it comes from a country where people spray cheese from a can

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    • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I was in London for a couple of days, Ate at a hotel, a couple cafes, two pubs, a chip shop with one hell of a line. I must have missed something; flavors were low-key, under-seasoned, and under-spiced. The closest thing I got to flavor was breakfast; the sausage was decent, I think you fully understand sausage there. The beans and eggs were just kinda meh.

      Then you have places like this catering to local tastes. oldelpaso.co.uk/…/extra-mild-super-tasty-fajita-k…

      I think things are changing. People are starting to crave a little more spice. There’s no lack of curry shops with plenty of spice, but they’re not strictly British food.

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    • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world ⁨29⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      A full English breakfast is one of the best meals in the world.

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  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Brits: I like my food like I like my trousers. Beige and tasting of cotton.

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Cmon, fish & chips with vinegar is not food. That’s a snack at best.

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  • Whelks_chance@lemmy.world ⁨42⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    You need to find a better chippy

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• tflyghtz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Bro has never been to England

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  • Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Or a Presbyterian church service.

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  • buttnugget@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What about sis?

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  • TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Or is from England and cannot imagine that a good food culture can mean more than: “I like the taste of some stuff and everyone else in my country consumes food too.”

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• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Some cultures value food more than others. Pretty obvious there’s a spectrum between “we eat for sustenance” and “holy shit taste this recipe I’ve been honing for decades”. This is a shit post, not a shitpost.

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• finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  This is what I imagine elves are like.

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• ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mean, I’ve had German and British food and I can confidently say it doesn’t seem like they love food, lol.

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  • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We absolutely love our bread in germany

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    • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Very true, they’re bread (and beer) connoisseurs!

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  • groet@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Lots of Germans defending German cuisine, so as another German: you are absolutely right!

    Germany has some great food and some Germans love making good food but German culture is absolutely not about food. The food culture we have is a development of the last ~40 years. Traditional German food is supposed to make you sated so you can go back to the fields and work! And the go to the army and fight! And then go to the ruins and rebuild!

    Tasty and awesome food? Yes! A culture that tells you it loves food? No!

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    • Sergio@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Traditional German food is supposed to make you sated so you can go back to the fields and work! And the go to the army and fight! And then go to the ruins and rebuild!

      This is frickin awesome. Ima tell this to my German-American relative. They come from a family of farmers, come to think of it.

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    • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Now I want to try this brand spanking new cuisine you speak of. It has become my life mission. 👀

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  • gray@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    German food is underated. Apple strudel with vanilla sauce is amazing. Like a sweet lasagna. Genius!

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    • RidderSport@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That is more of a southern thing if not Austrian

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    • arrow74@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I accidentally ordered a wurstsalat once. I have opinions after that expirence

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    • RidderSport@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And to add on that, yes German food can be very good. If you try it out though, be aware of what is regional in the area you’re in. To familiarize yourself, just read the wikipage on German food

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  • mcforest@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Have you tried Currywurst or Spätzle or Sauerbraten or any kind of German sausage or Mettbrötchen or German bread and still think we don’t love food?

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    • Miaou@jlai.lu ⁨58⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Lol sausage and ketchup, let’s pretend you didn’t mention Currywurst.

      Spätzle might be the one exception, although the Swiss make it better.

      Sausages, I don’t get your fetishization of it here. A random merguez from the local Arab place is still better than these.

      And bread… Yeah, a billion sorts of it, still worse than a random French bakery’s baguette.

      Germans never wonder why there’s no German restaurants abroad, go figure

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    • schmorpel@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have used Mettbrötchen with success to scare foreigners away from my German food. “Yes zis bread has ze raw meat on it. Salmonella? Das ist eine possibility. Schweinepest? Worth it.”

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You haven’t had the right german food then.

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    • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The Germans love their döner kebabs, possibly even more than the British love their chicken tikka masala

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  • zout@fedia.io ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don't think I've ever had bad food in Germany. In England my limited experience is mixed, some good, some bad and some interesting lunch choices like salted peanuts.

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  • robocall@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sounds like you’ve never had Finnish food

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    • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I haven’t had the pleasure yet.

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• Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have met people in Britain who genuinely seem to hate food. They have a plain cheese sandwich, the worst imaginable bread or eat Huel every day.

  That doesn’t necessarily reflect all Britons, but I do think they genuinely care about food less on average than other cultures.

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  • Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I hate food. It’s hard to explain but it’s kinda like most food triggers my fight or flight response. It takes me a lot of willpower to eat through a regular meal. As a kid I was severely underweight because I was always avoiding food. When I moved out I took the easier approach and started eating only the stuff that was easier to eat (mostly fried and dried stuff, and some ultra processed stuff like chips and cookies). I went from one end of the BMI table to the other in ~5 years.

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    • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Yeah that’s not cultural, that actually sounds like an eating disorder.

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  • slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Would be hard to chew properly with their misaligned teeth

    Tap for spoiler

    /s

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Image

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• saimen@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I would say this holds true for the USA considering all this fast “food” they eat. A culture that loves food doesn’t do this.

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  • rhymeswithduck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Those food companies have spent decades doing chemical research on how to make that food as addictive as possible. Then of course there’s all the marketing on top of that. Most people can’t break free of it.

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    • bystander@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      A culture that doesn’t appreciate food allows it to happen slowly.

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    • MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      It’s also about making it as cheaply as possible, which is why cooking yourself is better than almost any other food.

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  • moakley@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There are large sections of the US that don’t have consistent access to great food, so crappy fast food is what they get.

    Then there are other parts of the US where the fast food is amazing. Also the other food.

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    • Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Comments like OP usually come from Europeans who just want to shit on America. I live abroad in Europe and I can tell you their food has just as much crap in it as ours. Plus fast food is everywhere in the cities. The key difference is access to healthy food and a higher standard of living. No food deserts or high cost of living to make fast food your only real option.

      If America didnt like food it wouldn’t have so many different food cultures to begin with

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Their fast “food” which is consumed all over the globe? Clearly, a lot of people in general like eating it.

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    • Miaou@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      These people eat the local version of it. I personally like to go to MacDonald’s in France. Better than any German dish I can find here. Yet I shudder when I recall what that crap tasted like in the USA

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  • Eq0@literature.cafe ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not drowns every flavor in corn syrup!

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    • essell@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t know much about corn syrup, but I assume for all the talking about it and the way it’s used that it’s basically ambrosia if the gods lived in a trailer park instead of on Mount Olympus.

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    • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Or ketchup

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• floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  For many cultures food is just nutrition, something that you have to do. This doesn’t mean you can’t appreciate good food, but it’s not the same as cultures where there is a lot of importance on both the food and the context of consuming it with others

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  • Windex007@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    People keep making this broad assertion and then not following up.

    I’m not saying you’re wrong, but if there are many cultures for whom food is merely nutrition, could you name one?

    From an anthropological standpoint, I’d be fascinated.

    Like, this thread is full of jokes about how some cultures have shitty food, but that subjective assessment is very different than the idea that food’s mere purpose is nutrition. It implies it has no ceremonial use.

    So, of the many, just even tell us one.

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    • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      There’s several mentioned in this thread. Among them, Scandinavian countries, England and the US, and I don’t disagree

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    • Miaou@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      When everyone but you thinks your food is shit, it probably is.

      See e.g. Germany

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  • skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    The Chinese for “how do you do” translates as “have you eaten yet?”

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  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And you can basically divide these cultures by latitude. Like in Europe the further north you go the less people care about gastronomy. Since these cultures were formed around food scarcity and pure survival, since they had very harsh winters ( before global warming), and the days up north are short in the winter. And before you go “but China and Japan”. Beijing is on the same latitude as Madrid and Tokyo is even further south, so that still tracks.

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  • Eq0@literature.cafe ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Absolutely. And in the less extreme variants, there are cultures for which good food is the base of socialization - you mostly meet up for dinner or similar - and others where good food is the exception, happening for big occasions and parties but not an every day occurrence.

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  • Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I live in Norway. I can confirm this. Norwegian food

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• DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I once saw a post where the guy said he was from Minnesota and he thought ketchup was too spicy.

  I wanted to burn the heretic.

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  • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s definitely too strong a (sweet) flavor for me, but I just dislike adding sweet sauce to savory things. I also find barbecue and teriyaki sauce unpleasant for the same reason.

    Chilies and spices are fine by me though, and tbf, I wouldn’t ever describe ketchup as spicy.

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  • buttnugget@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How do you know people like spicy food? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.

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    • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Implying that ketchup is spicy at all?

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    • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Yes, people in my culture often speak about the foods they enjoy.

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• Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  i mean. have you encountered soylent culture? white people get marketed to like eating sucks and all your nutrients should come in a tube

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  • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨46⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I loved that shit, saves me so much more time to do things I enjoy.

    Eating is a chore to get nutrients into my body, and I often forget to eat for large periods. A quick drink is so much better (except during winter when it’s cold).

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  • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I rely pretty heavily on meal replacement shakes (not Soylent; they taste like ass, and not the good kind). It’s part of what allows me to actually enjoy solid food. I’m sure you can imagine that force feeding yourself something that you normally enjoy would quickly make you form negative associations with that food.

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  • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is not meant to be a counter, I’m curious: have you? Cause I haven’t, and I’ve always wondered who the target audience for that stuff is. Everybody I know thinks it’s stupid, and I’ll at most use drinkable food for health reasons (as in, if they have really sore teeth and can’t chew or sth like that, or can’t keep solids down) or if they’ve misplanned and can’t have real food (like between two appointments).

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I used to make my own soylent because it was dirt cheap and I couldn’t be bothered to spend all that time in the kitchen every day. I still cooked once a week, did meal prep and whatnot, but breakfast would be a carrot, lunch would be a nap and dinner would be a cold oaty soylent most weeknights. I just enjoyed not cooking and cleaning more than I enjoyed food. And because it was diy, I could make the soylent powder the way I liked it.

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    • Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      that’s where i’m at, too, but i’ve known a few people who view their body’s need for nutrition as an impediment to their ability to be productive. they’re very sad people…

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• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The alternative to loving food is to eat as a necessity and seek to optimise it. Various combinations of industrialisation, the Protestant work ethic/disdain of unproductive hedonism, neoliberal financialisation of food production/distribution (hence the flavourless “water bomb” tomatoes that last longer in the supply chain, for example) and possibly endemic low-level depression could do this, to the point where the norm is just to get the necessary calories and a dopamine hit from some sugar/salt/fat and anything else seems suboptimal.

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• chunes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  you’ve nearly described autism

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• TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve moved to England 5 years ago. I can confirm a worrying amount of people don’t care for food at all here.

  Instead of a nice meal, when they want to enjoy a convivial moment, they burn shredded black leaves in boiling water, add milk to it to cover the terrible taste, and call that tea. And if you don’t ruin it in the exact specific way that they designed, they get angry (but they don’t understand why e.g. Italian and French people are so particular about their traditional recipes).

  Send help.

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  • CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    There was an episode of some TV show (maybe Broadchurch?) where David Tennant microwaved his tea and it genuinely upset enough people that it made the news lol.

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• gergolippai@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Kenny must be dutch.

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• aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  OP is from a country full of models.

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• tias@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  False dichotomy

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• ik5pvx@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wasn’t there some variant of christians that considered the pleasure of eating a sin thus that area has dull food?

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• MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well you guys eat tuna sandwiches for lunch. Thats not loving food.

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• ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  we have a very good traditional bread that is served with a sauce or maybe flavored oil

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• notreallyhere@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  sounds Scandinavian

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• s@piefed.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hollywood actress culture

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• halfapage@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  hell yeah corporate culture

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