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Snarf Zagyg

Notorious Liquefactionist
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Also also, do you ever get serious "that guy" vibes? You know, "record store guy," or "comic book guy."

Look, I'm not being a gatekeeper. If someone wants to have a REAL conversation about the most recent Spider Man comic, all they have to do is read through all the prior comics with Spider Man in them, as well as listen to my 482 part podcast, "You Tingle My Spidey Sense: A diegetic examination of the Manichean Presentment of Heteroglossia In Spider Man." Why should I care if that 12 year old snot rag just wants to buy his first comic book? This is a serious and intellectual pursuit. Good day, SIR!
 

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TwoSix

Master of the One True Way
Also also, do you ever get serious "that guy" vibes? You know, "record store guy," or "comic book guy."

Look, I'm not being a gatekeeper. If someone wants to have a REAL conversation about the most recent Spider Man comic, all they have to do is read through all the prior comics with Spider Man in them, as well as listen to my 482 part podcast, "You Tingle My Spidey Sense: A diegetic examination of the Manichean Presentment of Heteroglossia In Spider Man." Why should I care if that 12 year old snot rag just wants to buy his first comic book? This is a serious and intellectual pursuit. Good day, SIR!
All the people I know say they're definitely familiar with the vibe; weirdly, I can't say I'm familiar with it.
 




Bedrockgames

I post in the voice of Christopher Walken
I've kind of realized that getting hung up on where food originates from isn't really worth the effort for me.

Recipes and foods move with people, and are influenced by where they are, what ingredients they have, etc. General Tso's Chicken isn't from originally China, but made by Chinese immigrants, so does it make it either any less Chinese, or any less American? Tomatoes are from South America, but that didn't stop Italy from adopting them, and eventually putting a DOP designation on their own varietals.

I agree. I think no one owns cuisine and culture. Just to be clear, my point about bagels being European Jewish cuisine wasn't to say New Yorkers can't make bagels their own or do bagels in a new way. I was just bringing it up to make the point that the same recipe made in New York or Boston is going to be equally good, unless one of those places is doing something different (and having had new york bagels which are consistently very good, I can tell they were doing everything the same as we were). For example if you steam rather than boil a bagel first, you are going to get a very different end product.
 


Bedrockgames

I post in the voice of Christopher Walken
General Tso's Chicken isn't from originally China, but made by Chinese immigrants, so does it make it either any less Chinese, or any less American?

Definitely Chinese food in the states is its own thing. I am no expert on Tso's but I remember watching a documentary a few years ago on it that tried to get to the bottom of the origin, and they made the case that there is a restaurant (I think in Taiwan) where it originates from). Not sure how accurate this is, but it was an interesting watch overall (which I could recall the name of the documentary)
 

Thomas Shey

Legend
I've kind of realized that getting hung up on where food originates from isn't really worth the effort for me.

Recipes and foods move with people, and are influenced by where they are, what ingredients they have, etc. General Tso's Chicken isn't from originally China, but made by Chinese immigrants, so does it make it either any less Chinese, or any less American? Tomatoes are from South America, but that didn't stop Italy from adopting them, and eventually putting a DOP designation on their own varietals.

The example I point out is the generic sneering at TexMex you get in some circles--you know, the style that was invented by Mexican immigrant women to feed railroad workers?
 

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