LupineTroubles [he/him, they/them]

An entire wikipedia article for butter on bread. I guess they will add it on UNESCO as German heritage soon too to keep the count of those equal between Germany and France and somehow either greater than India and Middle-east combined.

It is not a particularly inventive thing. Kadayif is widely used in various desserts in Middle-east and it is often serviced with pistachios. It is more Levantine than Gulf dessert, that’s why pistachios are used since pistachios grow in the area and are used commonly in and on desserts. That chocolate is just a slopified version of kadayif and is alike many of the other chocolates with filling where some sort of mush is covered by chocolate, none of which I particularly like.

Reason why it got so popular is because social media hype, obviously. Dubai is an artificial city sustained by the wealthy and influencers marketing it on social media so it proliferated quickly that city is directly connected to social media hype and glamour culture.

It is just classism and the timeless urban against rural conflict. A person who becomes one or the other gets the convert’s zeal. There will be people justifying this saying they have problematic attitudes and behaviors but I don’t put much faith in this because often the person doing the criticism have all sorts of unexamined beliefs themselves.

If someone is born into better circumstances and never question their own attitudes and behaviors they can’t be expected to have necessary perspective to evaluate the beliefs of others in more unfortunate circumstances in good faith. This of course doesn’t mean social circumstances and people in that situation cannot be examined or criticized rather it has to come with self-awareness.

I am not sure I agree with this fully, in the sense obviously Israel is a project of Western hegemony and that Israel exists and existed at behest of US and Europe as a foothold to keep the politics of the region volatile and easily influenced. So at a state level, Israel is beholden to US and the West not the other way around. However states don’t exist as some sort of supranational hivemind that dictates politics and diplomacy purely with raison d’état, a state and its institutions are composed of people who themselves have direct influence on policy that can at times go against that raison d’état or just have obvious conflicts of interests that are navigated within circumstances of policy. I don’t think at this stage anyone can deny that Israeli lobbies, chiefly AIPAC, has disproportionate influence over US politicians at legislative level, executive and judiciary is generally independent of this but house and senate seems to have reached a sort of critical mass of AIPAC-backed (directly funded and supported) candidates that essentially share a mission in Zionism and any which falls out of this line just has to fight against the establishment at very disadvantage terms.

So while I agree that the idea that Israel is somehow the ones that are pulling the strings are an antisemitic trope and ignoring the fact that Israel started as an European colonial project that was backed and supported by West for Western interests and directly tied to US policy in middle-east, and as Biden said once if it didn’t exist it’d be necessary to invent it, we can’t just ignore the undue and disproportionate influence that Israeli Zionist lobbies have in US politics especially at legislative level. Of course this is not just Israel, since there exists other lobbies such as Gulf lobby that are doing similar things and at times even seem to have more influence at executive but it is not quite at the level of AIPAC and the rest.

It does, he says بصر and بصيرة which are sight and insight. It is a fairly common word to mean insight or discernment or even vision.

What has went wrong in American cuisine and food culture that it came to a point where eating soups and stews is considered subversive and transgressive by these health enthusiasts?