every culture has a little dish that just translates to “we threw everything into that fucking pot we’re poor”
Funny enough, shrimp and grits used to be that dish, and then folks who live far from the ocean decided that shrimp was a delicacy and should be expensive and now shrimp and grits isn’t that dish any more.
Same with lobsters here. They used to be poor people’s food. People would till them into the soil for fertilizer. Not anymore.
Yup. Lobster used to be considered just a half a step above cockroaches. People facing execution would request as their last meal “anything but f***ing lobster.” But it cost money to get it inland, and rich people who didn’t live on the shore decided that it must be fancy because of the cost, and now even people living in historic lobster-fishing areas can’t always afford it.
Capitalism Ruined Good Food: A MasterPost.
Capitalism can’t take away my baked beans and hotdogs, or as my mother so eloquently called it “poverty stew”
One of those “characters get to read/watch their source material and use it to change the future” fics, except instead of the original show/book/whatever they just get handed a pile of memes, overly specific headcanons, incorrect quotes, and edits and have to try to piece together the plot from that.
Harry Potter: okay I have no idea how we defeat Voldemort, but apparently I survive long enough to give my kid a name everyone is really mad about. I think it’s Albus Severus? Maybe? I can’t actually tell– oh, this one is just a list of everyone who dies in the future! That’s something
*A bunch of Jedi sprawled around the temple with piles of datapads everywhere*
“Okay this is the twelfth joke I’ve seen about Anakin falling to the Dark Side and slaughtering younglings so I think it’s real”
“Careful, remember how many we found that claimed that Jar Jar Binks is the Sith Master? And we concluded that that one was probably a joke.”
“Are we sure? That theorist was pretty convincing”
When I was little, I didn’t know that ‘cursing’ and ‘cussing’ we’re the same thing, so whenever a book said someone was cursing, I just thought they were yelling “curse you!” at everyone
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
