Comment on Dubai chocolate has to be the most obvious industry plant of all time
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
I mean, it is really yummy. Just avoid the stuff that’s branded.
Comment on Dubai chocolate has to be the most obvious industry plant of all time
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
I mean, it is really yummy. Just avoid the stuff that’s branded.
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
The top “you buy, we fry” chicken spot sells their own house made Dubai chocolate. Fucking fire.
But also, fuck Dubai. Not sure how this food is propaganda. Just don’t give money that supports the regime?
anewfox@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
it serves the same purpose as quirky 4chan screenshots: attempts to soften the image of a horrible place.
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
Does it really though? This sounds a lot like when people assign meaning to things that are simply as they appear. 9/10 people in the US don’t care about Dubai to begin with, let alone the slavery and other human rights abuses. They may have seen the vapid influencers that show off penthouse suites at staggering heights, or the $10k+ plane tickets, and go “alrighty then, anyways”.
OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org 11 hours ago
I think that is the whole point: To keep the image of Dubai up as the land of luxury. If Dubai is just some place where the world’s favorite influencers party, then an indifferent foreigner isn’t going to look closer for any human rights problems, etc. “Sure, I’ve heard of Dubai. They make chocolate, right?” is better for the rulers than “Sure, I’ve heard of Dubai. They still have slaves, right?”.
Put another way: If most of the world doesn’t care about Dubai, then people are only going to know what the current culture tells them about it. Chocolate and Lamborghinis is a simpler story to keep in the culture than human rights abuses.
insanemantis@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Not saying that it necessarily is, just that its roots seem kinda shady